Have you covered mean, median, and mode? You could have them do a research project (survey people and analyze their data) using long division for...
I had the same problem as you, my kids have a heck of a time with estimating!!! I spent two weeks on it and they were still confused and I had...
My kids are reading and re-reading the Door in the Woods series, Harry Potter (over and over and over and over), we just finished the Tale of...
I have been doing outlining as well, and started out with them helping me outline character traits of Donkey (from Shrek) on the board, then I...
Good luck and best of wishes!!
Your website is lovely!!!:woot:
Pardon my ignorance, but what is insta-snow??
I have some of those. Like, he wants his kid to have harder math but the kid is barely pulling a C...then he went on and on about how he was in...
One of the teachers on my team had the kids help her come up with gifts that the faculty would want for Christmas and put it into 'Jolly Old St....
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php is an excellent resource for creating rubrics, often you can find some generic categories that fit and...
I am not exactly sure of the law, but if she presses assault charges, it is usually a class B misdemeanor. I don't know if you can have a...
Writing is always easy and fun for kids. I have been doing writing projects with my kids using the portfolio edition of The Mysteries of Harris...
That is cute, I love the picture idea, I will have to steal...
Oh wow, I love it!! Thanks so much for posting the link to that thread, I never saw it before!:2up:
My district focuses on the 6+1 traits of writing, so I bought the 6+1 traits book...Some of the lessons are so-so, but some of them are way fun...
I do the same thing as you, but have never had a kid whine about it. Just offer to give them tests with 100 questions on them next time if they...
Ugh my math class was the same way for a while, I had a headache after math EVERY day. They weren't being overly annoying, just talking LOUDLY....
I use guided reading in my class, we just finished fiction books last term and are working on non-fiction this term. I have...
That is awesome! (The research paper, not the throwers ;-)):2up:
This is cute, thanks!! I can't believe I still have kids who don't know their times tables, it makes me sad. They drilled it in me when I was a...
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