20 days… I still can’t believe it’s already September.  Highlights of this last week! 1. My students started a Silent Reading Book Club this...

I had high hopes for blogging this week. But that didn't happen.  Life happened. Here's a recap of my week. Monday: We started homew...

Backtracking a bit today... Wanted to share a few math review activities that my kids enjoyed as we were reviewing full class.  Now in a nor...

In a normal year I use Jenga blocks to review for tests all year long. I have 8 sets of blocks, enough for each group to have one as we revi...

For a while when my own boys were younger we would watch the Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader show as a family. We like those kinds of know...

I love teaching volume.  It can be so much fun.   One way is by cleaning out my pantry and recycle bin at home.  All those empty boxes, or a...

I've always loved using task cards in my classroom - I jumped on that bandwagon years ago.  I use them for intervention, for review,...

I decided to keep the politics out of my classroom during the election, but I still wanted to show the process of the electoral college t...

Happy Pi Day!  I like to celebrate math every year on this day.  :)   Here are some fun math activities we have done recently.  I lin...

We've been working on adding fractions this past week, and since I need to make fractions fun or else I was going to scream, we us...

We have had so much fun with fractions!  Wanted to share the link with you in case you need some more fraction activities  to add to yo...