Quality Resources and edTech for Grades 3-5
Multiplication Fact Fluency is ALWAYS something we are practicing in our classroom, even from early on in the school year. I have tried many things over the years, but what I always come back to is that learning multiplication fact fluency must be done THE FUN WAY! We play games, do timed-drills (yes, we still do them, and YES, they… Read More
Book raffles are an AMAZING way to engage the students in your class in the reading process, and it can be fairly easy, too! Here’s how you can get started in your class. For a few years, we have been doing book raffles in our classroom. This is the easiest thing you could ever imagine, and I promise you, the… Read More
Picture books open the door for so many of my students. They inspire students, they start discussions, they teach, and they engage my kids. Of course, I’m preaching to the choir here, as we all know the importance a good book can have on our students. For the month of March, I thought I would compile a list of books… Read More
You read that correctly…there is a fun way to have kids work on word problems in a fun and engaging way. For the last couple of year, I have been using craftivities to get my third graders engaged in solving multi-step problems. The latest in the bunch of craftivities is “New Year’s Ned.” Ned is broken into 6 pieces. Students… Read More
I know QR codes have been around for a while, but I don’t think we can discount the power of the code. There are so many awesome ideas of how we can engage students in learning using QR Codes. Check out a few ideas below. Here are a couple of things we’ve done in our classroom: We have a select… Read More
Okay, so I play Pokemon. What of it? No judging! 🙂 As I was playing last weekend, I couldn’t help but to think of all of the simple and mental math I was doing. How many more Pokemon did I need to evolve Pikachu? How many more candies did I need? There is constant basic math skills! I obviously didn’t… Read More