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!
Kahoot! is an interactive web-based program that allows you to use and create questions for your students. From the first time we used it in my classroom, my students ask me on a weekly basis, “Are we using Kahoot! today?” which, showed me as a teacher, that I can use it as an instruction/assessment tool… Continue reading Use Kahoot! For Assessment!
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
Pic Collage is a free and extremely user friendly application. Most of my students even tell me that it’s an app that they use outside of school. Here are a few engaging ways to use this app to help promote students’ reading comprehension! *Tip: Pic Collage recently came out with an App called Pic Kids… Continue reading 3 Ways To Use Pic Collage To Promote Reading
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
Mathematicians Of The Future Part 1 Launching Mathematicians of The Future: Mathematicians of The Future evolved through finding ways to make math as real-life as possible. Students are grouped into specific mathematical professions, such as the engineers, the accountants, the coders, the architects, and the statisticians. At the start of our Mathematicians of The Future… Continue reading PBL Guided Math Workshop Part 1
Word Clouds are an easy and vibrant way to spruce up your next bulletin board! Word Clouds are an internet based activity where you insert specific words into the program. Then, you can change the font, size, color, and layout of how the words look. Some sites like http://www.taxedo.com has the option to put… Continue reading Word Clouds Make Eye-Catching Bulletin Boards
Implementing and teaching 21st Century Skills into the classroom has been a hot topic in the educational profession for quite some time. According to Common Core State Standards, students as young as pre-school age are now required to indicate their knowledge of technology standards. In a day in age where technology standards are just as… Continue reading Integrating 21st Century Skills
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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