Remember that day when you woke up at 3 am sick as a dog (or maybe it was your child) and you knew that today just wasn’t your day already? Not only were you sick but you had left your classroom in complete dissaray the day before and were planning on
Welcome to the first of a series of posts this month about Clearing Teacher Clutter. I was inspired to write this post after I was reading the most recent Real Simple magazine and it was talking about how so many of us vow to organize and clear out the clutter
Another busy week is in the books with some travel to San Antonio.. I can’t wait to share more about the Top Secret project in a few months!
Another year has begun and with the beginning of a new month means a new Currently with Oh Boy 4th Grade. Seriously this blog linky that Farley has been doing for ages now is one I look forward to each month even if I forget to actually do it. 🙂
I am SOOO excited for 2015 and I hope you are too! I have teamed up with my new friends at Upper Grade Memoirs (a new collaborative blog for Upper Grade Teachers) to bring you some AWESOME deals as well as a HUGE giveaway! Just like the picture above says,
Sometimes we as teachers just need something different in our classroom. I know that I’m one that can’t do the same thing over and over again and when I am able to find a new way to do some practice work, I’m all over it. Recently I started looking into
Recently on the 4mulaFun Facebook page, I asked everyone what math concept their students are struggling with. One stood out to me – decimals and percent increase/decrease. I immediately thought of doing a round-up of resources available online just for that concept – but with a fun “math in real
Note: Use this image to help you “hop” around. The advent calendar has a link to each day of the month HOWEVER, just like a real advent calendar, the posts do not “unlock” until 9 pm EST the night before the calendar date. ************ I can’t believe we have been
As we wrap up 2014 and head into the new year I would like to take today to give back. Today, Sunday, December 14th, 2014 I will be giving 25% of my sales to projects on Donors Choose to complete them before Christmas! This is a win-win because you will
Recently I asked on my Facebook page what teachers favorite thing to teach were and while the answers were as varied as those who responded, I got a lot of questions about why proportions were my FAVORITE thing to teach. When I began teaching middle school I was reminded of
Do you remember doing Mad Libs when you were younger? I sure do and I loved them! My good friends Mel and Gerdy over at Getting Nerdy with Mel and Gerdy have started a new weekly linky party that I am so happy to have joined in on and I
There’s two great websites for teachers that I want to make sure you all know about – Super Teacher Worksheets and Modern Chalkboard. Super Teacher Worksheets is a website with printable resources for elementary school teachers. They have over 10,000 printable activities on their website, and not just worksheets. They have hundreds of