Another week around here means another set of goals. This past week my goal was to get the samples done for the first unit of one of my latest creations and I did it just by the skin of my teeth! Less than two weeks ago I released the first
Do you remember growing up and seeing the waiters and waitresses at TGI Friday’s who wore suspenders filled with flair? And then when Facebook originally started there was an app that you could add flair to each others wall? Yep, I’m a little ADDICTED to flair and I love to
Every year growing up I remember setting goals in my classes to help guide me through the school year. I don’t remember taking time to reflect on these goals often growing up but when I started with my own classroom it was the first thing that I wanted to continue.
I’m excited to be back this week to share with you more about 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). If you missed my last post covering What Are Good Questions
Today I am bringing you a guest post by a NEW blogging friend of mine. Tanya Villacis has become so excited about integrating Interactive Notebooks with her students that she has spent a great deal of time creating new flippables to make this year go so much smoother for her
It’s the first Wednesday of July which means it’s time for our monthly linky – Math IS Real Life!! If you want to see how the linky works, or just want other real world math ideas, check out our Pinterest Board of all the posts so that you can look back and find some
Not a day goes by where I am not asked about my Interactive Notebook resources being aligned to the NEW 2014-2015 Math Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). I am here to give you some GOOD news! I originally had contemplated creating all new bundles that were separate from those
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