Connect learning with real life using projects and activities in upper elementary!
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
The holidays are quickly approaching…and student attention spans are quickly fading. Do you notice more behavior issues around the holiday season? Decline in attention span? Decline in engagement in activities? Kids are just so excited for the holiday season and break from school…can you blame them?! Below are a few ideas to keep kids engaged and learning all the way… Read More
Are you feeling the pressure of “teaching to the test” to ensure passing scores on those standardized tests? I was too, until I stepped outside the box, and thought, why am I not teaching word prefixes and suffixes? There is just no practical way to teach my students all of the vocabulary words they may possibly encounter when taking a… Read More