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I’ve always subscribed to the teaching philosophy that if you want kids to learn (AND stay engaged) you have to make learning fun! What better way to achieve this then through games and personal challenges? One of my favorite places to apply this teaching method is in the often monotonous prone building of sight word fluency or word automaticity. It is… Read More
So I’m more of a “teach African American history all year” type of teacher, but February is Black History Month and that makes it the perfect time to shine the spotlight on even more important African Americans who contributed to America’s history. One of my favorite ways to do that is with a research project on African American inventors. This… Read More
Ok… January is *just* around the corner! I know most of us are just trying to make it to Christmas Break, but I wanted to get this post out early so the over-achievers out there (side-eye) who actually plan BEFORE they leave for break, will have some suggestions of books to pull for the new year! January is a great time… Read More
For the past few years, on the first day back from Winter Break, I’ve had my kids work on their own New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve done this with every grade I’ve taught-including Kindergarten! That’s why I love using these easy New Year’s Resolution Tab Book for the students to write their goals in. Now, I don’t usually print these babies… Read More
Spider Unit: Using Spider Activities to Teach the Standards this October It’s October! Some of my favorite seasonal themes happen in October! Bats, pumpkins… spiders! What? This past week, we had a chance to learn more about spiders through our spider unit! By all means, I am no fan of spiders (they give me the heevy-geevies!) But here in Florida,… Read More
So there’s this notion floating around about assessment in the classroom. At some point in our educational journey, assessments became evil. A thing to pin teachers against teachers, administration against their staff, and districts against their schools. Although I can see why some assessments are placed in the same category as four letter words (Ah-Ham- Looking at you PARCC and… Read More
