I had a similar situation this past week with one of my 4th grade students. His father came in first thing in the A.M. as I was getting my student...
Sending child out of room Just this past week, for the first time, I sent a student out of my room to the office with a note explaining that he...
Turning similies into metaphors I had my students turn a list of similies into metaphors so that they could understand the difference between the...
What About Me? I taught my students how to do the equations they way you have outlined (doing the same thing to both sides of the equation to...
I did a timed skill drill each morning last year. One student could volunteer to lead the class in going over the problems after the time was up....
B and D's I was told that it is still with in the normal range for some fourth grade students to be confusing B's and D's in writing. If there...
Everything stops I do the heads down thing too. If the students are not quiet when I am giving instruction, or will not quiet down during...
Wasting Time When I was a student teacher, I would tell kids that when I started watching the big clock, I was counting how many minutes of my...
I am very excited this year I will be at a school with 5 other 4th grade teachers, and I will have a mentor teacher! 2 years ago I started...
I really like to use centers in my classroom. This year I think I am going to have around 30 students, so I have had to be creative in setting up...
SmartBoards are fantastic! I hope you are successful in getting one for your school. Every classroom in the school I taught at the past 2years had...
Young Teacher, I agree with you that students should have a chance to pull their back and change back up the color scale. I used a three color...
I taught 4th grade 2 years ago, looped with my class to 5th grade, and now am starting at a new district in 4th grade again. I am very excited...
