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Looking for a new art project to try with your students? These sunset silhouettes are not only eye-catching, but are pretty easy to do. SUNSET SILHOUETTE ART PROJECT A few years ago I was in a bookstore when a book cover caught my eye: The Day the Babies Crawled Away by Peggy Rathmann I should mention that… Read More
Our school is on a trimester system, so I write report cards three times a year. When I first started teaching I wrote them all by hand. I had to painstakingly plan out what I would write first so I wouldn’t have to second guess and use gobs of white out. I am thankful for the computerized version, even when… Read More
One of the word work games my kids enjoy playing is roll and cover. It is a lot like Bingo. I teach my students three ways to play: 1-player, 2-player, and small group. In the game, a student rolls a die. There is a chart at the top of the page that tells the student what each number means. The… Read More
We are just wrapping up our unit on Geometry. Our learning targets were directly related to 2D and 3D shapes as well as a few other skills (i.e. parallel line segments, polygons, etc.) My students needed a lot of hands-on practice with counting the faces, edges, and vertices. I am fortunate to have access to a set of Giant Geosolids… Read More
You know how they say no two snowflakes are alike? My students took on that challenge and have created some amazing pieces. I call it a Rainbow Blizzard. A Rainbow Blizzard We were tired of winter weather, so cold and wet and gray. We talked to Winter’s Wizard. He made it snow a Rainbow Blizzard! Here is what we do… Read More
Have you seen this book? I found a copy of the book online written as a poem. We have been using it for some choral reading and fluency practice. At first, I simply told my students that the poem was a picture book, but I wasn’t going to show it to them. I wanted them to use their schema about penguins and think about… Read More
