He does have an aide during lunch recess because kids last year were beating him up. She said that I should have him work on something & if he...
Hi everyone, I thought I had posted this question but I can't seem to find it on here. :( Anyhow, I have a special 4th grader who...
Hi everyone, I have been in school for one week. One thing I see I'm lacking is transitions. My kids start talking anytime we change...
Hi I'm a 4th grade teacher but I have a situation where I have a child in my class who is extremely low academically. He is barely...
I'm kinda playing devil's advocate here but...what about the side that says "they're just kids & school needs to be somewhat fun". I see both...
We request the basics: binders, dividers, pens/pencils/erasers etc, glue, crayons, etc., paper We use the binder on a daily basis. That is...
We have no text books for Science. We have FOSS kits which are usually mostly hands on so we supplement a lot. My major themes are:...
We have "Meet the Teacher" night the Thur. before school starts. I haven't seen when our Curriculum Night is but usually it's the 2nd week of...
I like the idea of an economy. I was playing around with it in my mind. My thinking is this: we come to school & do our jobs (teaching) & we get...
We have 4 including me. One is set to retire at the end of this year. Another wants out of the classroom (but still in education on the...
I do the hot air balloons too! I have the kids color the balloons to represent things they like. I make one too. Oh, they put their names on...
Well, in my district, honor reading is 45 min. so is resource reading. So even though I have 90 min. for reading, the pull out classes are only...
This is what I did: 2 days a week I held centers. Each of those days I had 2 rotations of 20 min. each. I had a total of 1 hour for Reading but...
For my reading center, I don't have the kids sit there. I actually don't have room for that. They go & get a book & come back to their seat....
Here's my 4th grade schedule: Reading 9:00-9:40 Reading 9:40-10:30 (this is when Sage/Resource go to Reading) Math 10:30-11:30 (this is when...
Thank you for your ideas. I do see that I can incorporate many into what I do now. As for homework, the kids always have 15-20 math problems...
Hi Thanks for your advice. This is grade 4. What do you do to the other assignments that you only glance at? I do that too but I still look...
Hi everyone, I have a 2 part issue. I'm kinda embarrassed to say I need help w/this since I have been teaching for 7 years...but I need some...
Oh this has made me feel so much better! A few teachers at my school have been shocked when they found out how much I work. They get to school...
Thanks for all of your tips/advice! :) I will check out Lucy Calkin's book. I think it's at school. Luckily (we are on spring break) school is...
