It never fails each week I get the question asked of me, “Why did you choose spirals for your Interactive Notebooks?” The answer is fairly simple… I didn’t, they chose me. How you ask? I started using Interactive Notebooks in 2010 with my students and that year it was really
So it’s January and we are all trying to recharge to make sure that we can make it through the last five months of the school year. There are limited breaks in the Spring and it also is now big “state testing” time for many that are coming up. So
I warned you that I have been full of ideas lately so hear goes ANOTHER post with a NEW idea! And I will give credit because the basic idea for this came from my lovely new math friends at Kirby Middle School. As I was walking around and ideas were
It’s been awhile since I did a post for Interactive Notebooks 101 and since I just got back from presenting a workshop I have PLENTY of tips to share. Every time I am at a workshop I get asked the same question over and over in some way, shape or
Put on your dancing shoes and celebrate a milestone with me! Yes, I have reached a milestone with my Teachers Pay Teachers store and I want to give back to you! What does that mean for you? Well, you can grab the Equations Flippables, Practice and Task Cards for FREE
This week has been a blast and it all started with a workshop that I gave in San Antonio, Texas for a group of 80 middle school teachers in all content areas from Math and Science to Woodworking and Nutrition. Yep! Everyone was there. I walked in and was amazed
Almost a year ago I posted about Fraction Operations on my classroom blog and offered a FREEBIE flippable that I used with my students to review Fraction Operations. I hope that you can get some use out of this Flippable as well. Another day, another trip! Today’s trip was down
I love receiving pictures of Flippables that you create in your classroom with my Flippable Template Pack. Recently I received the following photos and I think they are just fabulous! And look how fabulous the inside is… And it didn’t stop there… She created another flippable for the Properties of
After receiving several questions lately on how I fit Interactive Notebooks into a classroom on a regular basis, I thought it would be good to repost this. I posted this back on June 15th, 2013 at All Things Upper Elementary. ************* Last month I brought up planning as what
This year I am TOTALLY into the Christmas spirit which for me (and my husband) has been a great thing. I have baked, I have wanted to decorate, we started buying some ornaments AND hubby found stockings he liked for us to actually start using yearly. Now, I know that
Every once in awhile things just need a FULL overhaul. Well, I have been slowly working on that in my store over the past few weeks to update my covers so they all flow well. Let me tell you that it is no easy task to get them done because
Here I am once again looking back at some older posts to link up with Second Grade Shenanigans and the Take Me Back Tuesday Linky Party. This time last year I had just had surgery to remove an 8mm kidney stone and was having a lot of problems because of