Connect learning with real life using projects and activities in upper elementary!
Are you gearing up to teach poetry but just aren’t sure where to start?! Have no fear, here’s a list of tips and tricks to make teaching poetry an cinch, AND get your students loving it too. Yes, even the boys! Introduce poetry with poems that your students can relate to. This is huge. You have to hook students on… Read More
“I’m done. What do I do now?” Have you ever heard this phrase? Better yet, have you heard this phrase during a guided reading group or math intervention group? Aargh! One of the most important things you can do is to teach students what to do so you never have to hear that phrase. Decide what works for you with… Read More
It all starts with a question. When you teach Scientific Inquiry the essential component to enforce with your students is to question everything. All of our big discoveries, innovations, and new ideas come from someone questioning the current beliefs with hopes to gain new knowledge, make something better or different, discover something new, etc. In my classroom, that’s the most… Read More