Have you heard of Spelling City? Chances are you have because it’s becoming so popular! If not, it’s an online spelling and vocabulary program for students. Teachers can create accounts and upload spelling or vocabulary lists for students to use. Your students can also create their own lists if you don’t have time to create…
Technology is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our classrooms. 3-6 Free Resources, another blog where I contribute, is hosting a monthly series of linky parties called Show Me Sundays. This month’s is hosted by Krista over at Stellar Students and focuses on favorite websites. I’m hoping to find lots of ideas to save…
Our school gives each grade level one curriculum day each year. It’s an entire day to meet with your team to plan units, gather materials, and look at your overall curriculum. This year, our day was focused on gathering materials to teach the Common Core standards next school year. We spent the morning surfing the…
Our school mascot is the Knight, and every Knight needs a castle, so our class decided to become castle architects. I got the initial idea from blog stalking, and it was just in time for our unit. Love it when that happens! I just realized the file I downloaded doesn’t have a copyright attached, so…
If you read my guest post over at Think, Wonder, and Teach last week, you learned a little more about my journey to love math. Math was always my favorite subject as a student until I hit high school geometry sophomore year. I’m great with numbers, but anything to do with spacial reasoning and shapes…
We have a new superintendent this year. He sends us an email every morning with an educational quote, inspiring message, or interesting article. The following is one I saved. As I was cleaning my messages out, I came across it again and wanted to share it here. I was just going to share the quote…
Spring break is flying by much faster than the school weeks usually do. Why is that? I’ve been staying busy though. I did a little spring cleaning around the house, finished some sewing projects, and organized my teacher files on the laptop too. Filing all of my great downloads into my digital file folders inspired…
I’m always on the hunt for new websites to use with my students. I’ve been specifically looking for common core and assessment resources (’tis the season, right?). Now that the applied-skills portion of our state test is over, I’m looking ahead to the multiple choice tests that come next. Prepdog.com is a website with printable…
Just in case you’ve missed it, I wanted to share Read, Write, Think classroom resources with you. You’ll find free lesson plans, calendar resources, printables, and so much more. I like browsing the calendar activities each month to look for author birthdays, relevant history events, and holiday resources too. Their Student Interactives are the best…