Just a quick post today, but I thought I’d share how we used this 3D-TV in our classroom. My students are currently studying landforms. We were able to view several different landforms here on Earth, as well as on the moon in 3D! This got students thinking about what landforms they would be interested in researching more in depth. Check…
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This school year has been flooded with change. Hopefully, the quote “All great changes are preceded by chaos” is applicable to my current school year. The teachers in my district are like buzzing little bees, we are working a little tales of to meet some of the new state requirements in addition to fully implementing the Common Core. As a…
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The positive call home is nothing new, yet seems to be something that falls on the bottom of our (teachers) priority list when factoring in the kajillion other things to grade, people to meet with, and lessons to plan. This year, my team and I felt that we needed to up the ante on positivity. We decided that we would…
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I first fell in love with interactive notebooks when I was student teaching at a private international school in South America. My host sister, who was in 10th grade, brought hers home. It was an interactive notebook for her art class, so you can only imagine how colorful and creative it was! Apparently, interactive notebooks were…
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This baby has been a sad, sad little list that I’ve clutched onto year after year. I decided to glam her up & make her presentable to the world. I think almost all behavior problems in the classroom can be solved by setting up clear classroom procedures and routines at the beginning of the year and practicing and reinforcing them…
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