This time of year always brings about the feeling of change for me. Since I am not going to be decorating a classroom for the second year now I decided to do some “change” around with my logos and my blog! Logos and banners are already showing here on Facebook
Have you been wondering where I have been? The past two weeks have been quite up an down around here and I have been trying to recover. Sadly that didn’t involve the computer. While I was in Las Vegas I ended up coming home two days early with severe abdominal
Another week, another destination it seems this summer. As I’m writing this blog post I’m flying over Utah from Salt Lake to Vegas and I’m beyond excited! Why? Ts week I will be exhibiting at the SDE Differentiated Instruction (and I Teach Kinder and I Teach First) as well as
This week’s chapter is about building up your Guided Math time using a workshop approach. In my classroom I did a lot of workstations with my students to build on concepts that I had covered in our lessons. I can say from personal experience that having a Math Workshop time
Every day I get emails and comments asking me about Tips and Tricks to get started on Interactive Notebooks. After looking through some of my past posts I decided to pull the TOP 4 Interactive Notebook Tips and Tricks Posts that I have written over the past two years. All
I can’t believe another month has already passed and we are here again to catch up on what is Currently going on in everyone’s lives. Thanks again to Farley of Oh’ Boy 4th Grade for continuing to do this Linky Party each and every month. Listening: Yes, it is a
Only been gone since Monday and already missing my blog peeps! New Orleans has been amazing so far and I’m still here for two more days!!! Last night, after a day of sight-seeing and such we went to Emeril’s for dinner. Fabulous food and great show as we sat at the Chef’s
This week is brought to you by the letter M. M for MESS! You know how when you procrastinate long enough on something and then you always seem to want to add just one more project to make it “perfect”. Well that is how I am when I am preparing
Wow, last night’s interactive notebook webinar was AMAZING! I was floored to have over 400 of my teacher buddies register beforehand and then to have over 150 logged on when we had our network outage. Thank heavens for a quick reset and we only lost 10 minutes! I appreciate all
Chapter 4 has several different instructional strategies that will work to use Guided Math with your whole class. As we are working to reach all of our students on a daily basis we have to take time to embrace the here and now as well as look toward the
I’m excited to share with you about a new book this week that I am reading, Good Questions for Math Teaching: Why Ask Them and What to Ask in Grades 5-8 by Lainie Schuster and Nancy Canavan Anderson (link below on picture of book). Good questions make the difference in
Week three of Monday Made Its and I am still going strong! This week is full of organization and preparing for some upcoming (and most recent) conferences. Thank you so much Tara for allowing us to share all of our great creations with the education community once again! First thing