Focused on students!
What types of small groups do you work with throughout the day? As a special educator working in an inclusion setting, small groups are my bread and butter! BUT you don’t have to have two adults in the room to be able to successfully work with students in a smaller group setting. In this […]
1,104 total views, no views today
How do you tie “real life” into everyday math learning? Our school district uses a four-point rubric for our formal teacher observations. One category teachers are assessed on is how effectively the lesson objective and it’s significance is communicated to our students. An actionable step towards achieving this is aligning the objective across the curriculum, […]
2,249 total views, no views today
How Full is Your Bucket? This time of year…after spring break with 35+ days of school left until summer, our “buckets” can start to feel pretty low. This week, my first graders took some time for bucket filling! I kick off every school year reading the fantastic book Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by […]
1,529 total views, no views today
This post is a glimpse of all the hands-on math learning my students do in small group math instruction! Thank you DeeDee from Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for gathering educators to share their math tips and tricks 🙂 I’m going to let the pictures do most of the talking in this post, but you can […]
5,319 total views, no views today
Happy Five for Friday! It’s been awhile…would you believe I lost my password for this new site?!? #truth I’m linking up with Kacey (thank you!) for: We’ve been BUSY! I know many teachers love Back to School season with clean classrooms and fresh starts, but my favorite time of the school year is right NOW. […]
2,307 total views, no views today
Snow is the word around here! We had the ENTIRE week off from school for snow!!! The enormity of it all didn’t really hit at once, as found out about each closing the night before. If I had known we had that much time, I would of hopped on a plane immediately! I’m missing my […]
3,182 total views, no views today
Snow Day or Snow Week?!? Please, oh please, don’t make me drive to school anytime soon! We already have a snow day planned for Monday. It was originally a PD day with no students, so it was an easy call. I really hope either 1) the sun gets to work on melting this snow or […]
864 total views, no views today
Oh my, an entire week flew by! Happy Five for Friday! Thank you Kacey for hosting! Before I upload my camera roll from the week, I wanted to be sure to share about this exciting giveaway! I really don’t know how I ever lived without mine. I wish everyone could win! Onto the pictures… Goodness […]
2,096 total views, 2 views today
I hope you had a fabulous week! I’m sharing my camera roll for a “wordless” addition of: Thanks Kacey for hosting us every week! The “wordless” is because I’m still in crazy-back-to-school mode…even though we’ve been back for a month! My week started like this: That’s my hard drive (school laptop)!  Luckily, it was fixed […]
1,536 total views, no views today
Happy 5 for Friday! Thank you Kacey for hosting every week! This week, we continued all of our diagnostic assessments for literacy (so many!), but had the opportunity to really dig into math. We use Eureka Math (Engage NY) 1st Grade with 99.9% fidelity…anyone else? It’s outstanding, but t-o-u-g-h!!! This is my 3rd year with […]
1,752 total views, no views today
