One of my goals this year was to start using interactive notebooks. I could see the benefits of students creating a notebook that they could refer to all year. I could also see benefits of students using the graphic organizers as tools to help organize, understand, and synthesize new information. I decided to start small,… Continue reading Go Digital! Digital Interactive Notebooks!
Tips for Teaching the Economy in an Elementary Classroom Use Interactive Notebooks! To teach the Economy, I focused on these skills: wants, needs, goods, services, supply, demand, consumers, producers, and scarcity. I used an online interactive notebook through Google Slides which includes anchor charts of these topics as well as interactive pages for students to… Continue reading Tips for Teaching Economy in an Elementary Classroom
To be a strong mathematician, it’s important to have fact fluency. I teach my students that fact fluency is the foundation to being able to solve more complex problems. My third graders are focused on learning their multiplication and division facts in order for them to become stronger mathematicians. In my classroom, we call this… Continue reading Innovative Fact Fluency Methods
Do you remember the last time you learned a lesson from your students? Last year I asked my students to write a petition about a change they want to see in the world. A group of my students gathered to write a petition of how we need to use less paper. They were so committed to… Continue reading Graphic Organizers on Google Slides
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