My students are officially done with testing, YAY! I mentioned previously that my students love taking brain breaks (we call it "PEAK") that involve physical activity. We often do silly videos or dance videos, but when it comes to the BIG 2 1/2 hour tests my kiddos must endure, we turn to this ... Read More about TECHSpired Tuesday: Brain Breaks During Testing
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Organizing CAFE Strategy Group Lessons with File Folders
This year my team changed the way we are departmentalized in 4th grade. We split up language arts into reading and writing as two separate classes. We did this with thinking about Common Core and how every teacher needs to be a "reading teacher" whether they teach math, science, etc. I was ... Read More about Organizing CAFE Strategy Group Lessons with File Folders
Pinterest and Lesson Plans Unite! Visual Lesson Plans and Printing Your Pinterest Boards
Hey Pinners! Todays topic: I have an Anchor Charts board on Pinterest that have accumulated into a total of 178 pins (and counting). I'm all for spotting good ideas and telling myself, "I need to try that one day," but the problem is...I don't. They just sit there in Pinterest collecting cyber ... Read More about Pinterest and Lesson Plans Unite! Visual Lesson Plans and Printing Your Pinterest Boards
Meet The Blooms Bunch: How I Increased My Students Higher-Order Thinking Skills using Characters for Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
As a newer teacher I find myself always looking up which questions/activities fall under what level of higher-order thinking. While looking up action verbs for each level of thinking I would find repeating verbs in multiple levels and I think things like, "Ok, so is comparing ideas analyzing or ... Read More about Meet The Blooms Bunch: How I Increased My Students Higher-Order Thinking Skills using Characters for Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
Using Remind 101 to Strengthen the Home-School Connection
This is my 2nd post in my TECHspired Tuesday series in which I feature free technology I use in my classroom. This website and phone app is one I found on....[drum roll please]...Pinterest! Fortunately, I found it over the summer and was able to introduce it to my students' parents on our Back to ... Read More about Using Remind 101 to Strengthen the Home-School Connection