I am so blessed that we teach ratios in the Fall! Halloween and the day after Halloween are a cheap and easy way to obtain candy to turn into …
Smoothies and Ratios
This Fun Friday was a LOT of fun!! I asked the parents 2 weeks ago via Sign Up Genius to buy one food item. The parents were happy to …
Star Wars Crawl for the Classroom
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming in December!!! Why not give the students instructions on a Star Wars crawl instead of a Powerpoint presentation? Or embed this into Google …
Reward the Good Questions Not the Good Answers
I currently teach the 6th grade accelerated math (known in other schools has honors) class and gifted education. After 10 years of parenting and reflection into my prior teaching …
Brain Walks with Juliana
My daughter creates lessons and has been doing so off and on for two years. I decided that I just had to tape this one and share her “Brain Walk” …
Breakout EDU – Education’s Escape Room
Wow! I had heard of Breakout EDU before but to actually start one in class was really amazing! There are quite a few things I learned along the way and …
Certified Kind Classroom
(source: Amazon) I read “Wonder” by RJ Palaccio soon after it was released – it ended up being one of my favorite books. Then, I read it with our book …
Solar Eclipse 2017 – Activities and Resources
Wow! Of all the years to return back to teaching! We will view a solar eclipse on the THIRD day of school. How amazing is that??? I am SO excited …
Creativity
I was assigned to create a lesson using the four foundations of creativity. They are: Fluency, Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration. Since my unit plan for my final will utilize heavily …
The Quiet Majority: Introversion and Gifted Students
My paper due this week asked for a topic on Affective Needs. Among the list was “introversion” which intrigued me for several reasons. One, statistically most gifted students are introverts. …