I am super excited to review an app from Bright World eBooks. Bright World eBooks offers non-fiction eBook apps for iPads that offer a variety of nonfiction reading for our primary learners. As you know from my blog, I LOVE technology. I love using laptops for Google Classroom, and iPads for all the various apps […]
SO I know that most people are either in the midst of summer break or just started their break, but in case you are getting the planning jitters, take a peek at Fraction Puzzlers! In my classroom, fractions are by far the hardest thing we do all year (well…. except for long division…. that is […]
WOW. Yesterday was an exhausting day – physically and emotionally. Half the class cried as we said good-bye. Those were truly an amazing and inspiring group of children, and it saddens me to know we will never all be together again. My drive home was a mixture of sadness and pure relief. The last two […]
WOOP WOOP! I love getting my BirchBox every month. Do you do BirchBox or a similar subscription box? My sweet boyfriend gets me a subscription every year. It is so fun to get something in the mail once a month. I have found some awesome makeup through it. For example, I now live by the […]
ONE WEEK OF SCHOOL LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m not excited at all… oh wait. I AM WAY TOO EXCITED! I love my kiddos and think that this may be my favorite class ever this year, but I still am over the moon about summer break. This last few weeks of school is always super busy yet drags […]
Oh my goodness…we are on to our last unit of the year- economics! I remember when I first started teaching, I was perplexed that I had to teach econ to children. I remembered bits and pieces from high school, but the thought of teaching those graphs I studied for week to the students led me […]
For a lot of people, the end-of-the-year at school is a whirlwind of things to get done. I find that this is when I actually have the most downtime. Besides the usual data needs like grading writing prompts, administering DRA’s, finishing math performance tasks, and completing all the standardized testing, our schedule is pretty empty […]
I am participating again in the You Oughta Know Blog Hop. This blog hop rocks because it is a plethora of great ideas for classroom tips, management ideas, organization, and apps. Def check out the links on the bottom to hop over to another classroom idea by some fabulous teachers 🙂 For this month’s “You […]
I am already getting excited about next year! Well… an excitement for the summer mostly. However, my favorite part of each new school year is the decorating process. To make life easier on myself in September, I like to have everything ready to go by the end of the prior school year. This means buying […]
I wanted to share a fun freebie that may help your classroom out with test prep! It is a multiplication fact game called Evil Dragon vs. Pegasus. Yes, it sounds ridiculous. But I have learned that the more ridiculous something is… the more that third-graders LOVE it! The dragon cracks me up. How silly is […]
Summer is just around the corner….I am so excited I cannot stand it! Something I have done the past two years for my rising fourthies is creating a memorable end-of-year gift for each of them. There is no right or wrong way to create these! I originally got the idea from a Pin from a […]
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I hope your kiddos are appreciating and spoiling you this week 🙂 In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, I am having a sale for my store on Teachers Pay Teachers. EVERYTHING is on sale for 20%…. even big bundles that are already discounted. Save an additional 10% off with coupon code […]
My students are finishing up their graphing and data unit this week. Graphing and data is a unit that is easy to incorporate fun activities into. We found mean, median, mode, and range with goldfish crackers. Kids created line plots for the amount of red Skittles in a handful. We timed ourselves doing jumping jacks […]
It is Ancient Greece overload in my classroom this week! Here are two fun activities that my kids LOVED! I also played traditional Greek music while they did these activities in attempt to keep the noise level down. My room sounded like a Greek wedding. These activities are simple, free, and an easy display to […]
As soon as I start preparing and planning for my simple machines unit, I know the year is coming to a close. Well… we have about two more months. Which sounds like a lifetime. Testing always sneaks up on us, but then there is three weeks of kids going crazy and antsy in the classroom! […]