5 Ways to Disconnect From Work After School and On the Weekends
It can be hard to separate school from home for many teachers. But it's so important that we take care of ourselves and attend to our personal lives. So in this post I'm sharing 5…
7 Tips for Planning So You Can Leave School On Time
You want to leave school for the day but there's still so much to do like planning your lessons. Here's a secret... there will always be so much to do. But that doesn't mean you…
7 Grading Tips That Will Give You Back Your Time
Don’t grade everything. It’s ok to give kids things to work on that we don’t grade. The point of grading is to assess how kids are doing. Although that could also be argued because sometimes…
Hate Teaching? How to Enjoy it Once Again
Do you hate teaching? Maybe you've been in this career for a while or maybe it's one of your first years. If you do, it's okay to feel that way. I can bet that every…
The Benefits of Teaching Vocabulary Daily
You’ve got a ton on your teaching plate and hardly any time for a lunch break. Now here I am telling you that you should be teaching vocabulary daily. Ok. Yeah right. I hear you!…
Throw out the Graphing Practice Worksheets and Do This Instead
When we get to the graph skills unit in math, I notice I use a lot of graphing practice worksheets. One day I decided to create some graphs that could be used over and over.…
5 Rounding to the Nearest Hundred (and Ten!) Activities: Kid Tested
Rounding is one of those skills that kids need to learn and then practice multiple times. Below I’m sharing 5 activities you can do to help kids with rounding to the nearest ten and hundred. …
Top Questions About Math Games for 3rd Grade
Kids love to play games! So why not incorporate them into your math instruction? We often play math games for 3rd grade in my classroom because it’s such an effective way to review. In this…
7 Simple Ideas for a Successful Meet the Teacher
You want to have a successful event but can't compete with all of the meet the teacher ideas you see all over the internet. It doesn't have to be extravagant in order for it to…
Simple Activities for the First Week of School
Are you looking for some simple activities for the first week of school? Those first few days really set the tone for the year. Here are some tried and true things that I have done…