The DIY Frame Have you seen these frames floating around Pinterest? I was inspired by these two frames to create my own for the 1st day of school. I went to Hobby Lobby and bought an open frame, the pre-painted glitter letters, the pre-painted wood cut outs,
One of the concepts I was surprised some of my students struggled with last year was fact and opinion. I realized we needed a concrete way to experience and discuss it. I found some cool pictures, printed them and glued them onto pieces of butcher paper. I placed them around
Next to my bump games, the favorite game of my students last year was Spiral Multiplication. I first found it through Pinterest, and I do not want to take credit for the idea in anyway, but the creator of the website has asked for me to remove their link from
Quite a few years ago when I was getting my first training on GT kids, the presenter shared the idea of having a “the answer is…” bulletin board. The idea is that the teacher provides the answer, and the students come up with the question. I’ve always loved the idea
Last summer I created this planter to go along with my “Patton’s Patch” garden theme in my classroom. It was rather simple to make. I bought a planter, styrofoam, cute wooden cut outs from Hobby Lobby, clothespins, moss from the dollar store, and dowel rods. I glued the wooden cut
To make perimeter and area just a little bit more fun, one of my sweet colleagues came up with the idea of taping the walls with interesting shapes. We had seen the original idea of taping the floor, but since we have tile walls, it seemed like it would stay
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and a happy new year! I’m back and very excited about sharing my ideas, lessons, freebies, and technology tidbits. As a start, here’s one for you! With my Dual Language 3rd graders, I’ve noticed how helpful it is to have
Has the year been flying by for anyone else? I feel like I just blinked and we are already at the 7th week of school! Our school is doing a book study on the book called Making Differentiation a Habit by Diane Heacox. It really is an easy read with
For the past few weeks, we have been practicing place value up to the 100,000s. My students wrote numbers in word form, standard form, expanded form and with base-ten blocks. Here is an anchor chart I found on Pinterest and recreated for my kiddos: One day, I
Today I had a chance to get back in my room and I started working on the bulletin boards. (It’s a new room to me, so I had nothing up yet… less than two weeks until day one!) After looking at some different ideas online, I decided I could add
