Teaching Rounding with Rollercoasters
Teaching rounding can be hard and monotonous, so I try to make it as fun for myself as possible because teacher fun=student fun! I’m a story teller. I love to hook my students with...
Category: Interactive Notebooks
A Test Strategy That Actually Grows Students As Readers
So often, teachers in testing grades come to a point in the year where they have to make the decision to spend valuable class time teaching students how to take a test or continue...
Is it really an Interactive Notebook? Is it? ….Really?
Hey Y’all! Can we just jump into this thing today? I am super passionate about interactive notebooks and I have some opinions that might ruffle some feathers. I promise I’m not a hater, I...
Multiplication Interactive Notebooks
I love teaching multiplication and I love interactive notebooks. The teacher part of me leaps for joy every year when this unit comes up. It definitely helps that the students are even...
Ease Into Division With Cookies
Today, we jumped into division and the kids had a blast! Equal sets is typically the first division strategy I teach, so I thought I’d kick it off with food. I started by reading...
Top Five from 2014 and a SALE!
I love the idea of ending 2014 with a look back at my year in blogging. It was been a rough road for me trying to juggle school, home, mommy-duties, church, and creating products...
Synthesis Interactive Notebook
I have been using interactive notebooks for everything these days and the kids and I are loving it! The new buzz word in my classroom is “pizazz”! One day, a student said that I...
Historical Fiction
I have been teaching third for four years (five if you count my graduate internship) and I have never explicitly taught historical fiction. Sure, I covered it as a part of genre, but that...
Interactive Math Notebooks: MISSION DIFFERENTIATION
I absolutely love interactive notebooks. I’ve used them in my room ever since I started teaching. A lot of the time I use foldables and notebook activities to review concepts at the end of...
Interactive Math NB Pages
Hey Guys! Tonight I’m stopping in for a super quick post showcasing some of my student’s interactive math notebook work. My students love to add new activities to their notebooks and they are becoming...
