Well, if you have been here awhile you know I am a HUGE FAN of interactive notebooks. They are truly a lifesaver when your district doesn’t have textbooks! Heck, even if we had textbooks, I would probably still use them. I’m constantly working on new ways for my student’s to
You asked for it, it’s now here! You can fill out the form and request a Solve and Snip for any topic and any grade level! Better yet, when I create your chosen Solve and Snip, since you are the one who requested it… YOU GET IT FREE! What are
Every year there are activities that I LOVE teaching. Every year there are activities that make me want to pull my hair out. Every year their are activities that I can’t wait to have my students teach to someone else, because in the end… that shows true mastery of a
Yesterday a co-worker was needing something to do with her 5th graders for Coordinate Graphing so I sent my Groundhog Graphing Unit over to her which she (and her kids) fell in love with! Since I wanted them to also have the ability to have a resource for notes, she
Do you ever feel that there are times where your brain has all these letters just floating around? That is totally how I have felt this week as I have finished the second week of my new job. My days are filled with reviewing student’s Special Education Individualized Education Plans
Right before Thanksgiving I was contacted by a friend who wanted to see what I could put together for an upcoming Earth Science Unit on Plate Tectonics that she would be teaching to her 9th and 10th graders. Being one to never give up on a challenge, she sent me
Welcome to the FIRST “Soaring through Secondary” blog hop hosted by Jennifer Lamb of Teaching High School Math (blog) and her Teachers Pay Teachers store! Today I wanted to share with you some of the amazing things that I have done with my 7th and 8th grade Resource Math classes.
Oh my, until I started seeing my previous blog post pinned on Pinterest I had NO CLUE the images were upside down. I’ve gone in and edited them twice and it’s still that way so I guess that post has just gone CRAY-CRAY! I didn’t want to take the pics
It’s Friday and what does that mean? It’s time to focus on a FREEBIE! This week’s freebie is a math game that I made called Shapes All Around Us. I designed it to be a matching game you would play like memory once students recognized their shapes. Well, one of
This year I knew through using Interactive Notebooks that anything I could get my students manipulating with scissors and glue was a winner. This was the motivation behind creating Solve and Snips for Interactive Practice and Intervention in my classroom. Each Solve and Snip activity are aligned to TEKS (Texas
“CSCOPE is a curriculum support system that is fully aligned to the TEKS designed to provide a common language, process and structure for curriculum development,” says ESC Region 19. I have been in a district that uses CSCOPE for the past four years and definitely think that through teaching 7th
This weekend has been full of creating for me! I have had so many ideas on my list that I really made use of my time this weekend and got down to work! First up was a really cute activity for my dear friend Mrs. Becker! Her Firsties are working