This year I moved up two grade levels and had to move classrooms. During the summer, while perusing Pinterest and trying to make plans for how I would decorate my new classroom, I fell upon some super cute melted crayon art. I knew I had to make it for my classroom. Without ...
To manage transitions in my classroom, I love to use songs. When I taught kinder and 1st grade, I used songs ALL the time: when it was time to clean up, when I wanted students to come to the carpet, and especially when we were getting ready to line up. Now that I am ...
I teach in a school with a very high ELL population, so teaching highly academic vocabulary is a must. I use many OCDE Project GLAD® and structured language strategies to help all students learn the words. We use poems, chants, anchor charts, ...
I am in the middle of my fraction unit and I realized that my students need more practice with ordering fractions. Finding which ones are bigger, smaller, and the same size is tricky! In addition to practicing with fraction strips, like this one from Super Teacher Worksheets ...
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I love using labels in my classroom. I label my book bins and put corresponding sticker labels on each book so the students know where to put them. I put name labels on glue sticks, so a rogue stick can be returned to it's owner quick and easy. I put labels on ...
