Okay, it has to be posted. I've been having back-to-school nightmares for the past 3 weeks, and I /know/ I'm not the only one! If you have any...
My School is doing some in-service this week and next week. The Kids come a half day next wednesday (August 9th) and school opens full time on the...
I recently discovered that it is REALLY easy to get permanent marker (eg. Sharpies) off of laminated posters (that I laminated in the teacher...
Bathroom, attendance, lunch count, pullouts, recess, rainy day recess, students arriving late, teachers arriving late, getting a sub, student...
Maybe an I for Inattentive
back from the beach outfit Oooh, I'm going for the "back to school---from the beach look" I'm going with the coral colored tiered skirt... and...
Graphic organizers /are/ means of categorizing and classifying information. I teach this over many different lessons covering all of the basics......
The mystery math box is cute! I'm also partial to /realistic/ puzzles, and while I was at staples this past weekend I bought a wordlock (for...
I made my own calendar patterns because I didn't realize that you could buy some great ones. (The kind that comes with the Everday Counts Calendar...
I've always been told that word walls were primarily put up to help students spell frequently misspelled words. (irregular verbs, etc.) Students...
tif, Don't get down on yourself! I think that it's great that you want to teach:) [See, you even found a teacher forum to help you on your way to...
This past year I had a poster board with little library pockets glued on (one for every student). At the top of the board were 5 hooks and 5...
Meh, 5th graders are more than old enough for Harry Potter. Plus, the first book in the series doesn't average many more pages than any other...
I had a Dell laptop...got it at half the price! Oh, and it broke in half the usual time :( (2 yr) Now I have an Apple ibook, but they've turned...
Heh. Our little town is known for the "Monkey Trial" (theory of evolution). Good 'ole Dayton TN. I am a Methodist Christian, and though I...
Some of the 6th grade teachers at my school stopped reading that book because of the bad language in it. (I don't remember any, but it's been a...
Great idea GlendaLL!
Well, right now the plan is to teach a unit on brushing teeth. The most important time to brush teeth in the morning, after a meal (ching...
I feel that read aloud books should be books that your students would otherwise read if it weren't too advanced for them. You'll want to read...
Well I came up with the idea in Walmart actually. They had those giant ice containers for cylinder water bottle ice. I bought two of those so the...
