Mobo! I'm hearing that Tennessee is also doing other things like preventing parents from bringing fast food lunches to school to give to their...
We were actually told not to use hot glue guns in our school because it pulls the paint off, BUT I have experimented with various hot glue guns...
Hi skippy! I'm teaching 3rd grade this year, and I taught title 1 for 3rd and 4th last year, so I have my word wall all set. I bought Carson...
heh, I made the mistake of taking the online survey and wanting to get 20% off of my order. All the stuff that I was going to get for FREE,...
You might want to look into your surrounding schools Title 1 programs. I worked with children this past semester who were reading 2 or 3 years...
Oh man, the one thing I WISH I HAD DONE when I student taught was take pictures of the classroooms...like all of the walls. I especially wish that...
space utilization! Rita: Wow! I love you're room! I'm scrambling around trying to figure out how I can have the most wall space as possible...
Rita, I saw " http://www.homeworkopoly.com " mentioned on a different post and am trying it out in my classroom this year. (I teach 3rd grade and...
I teach because not only do I love it, I am amazingly good at it. My parents run a small Oil Distribution Company, and though they make very...
Uh. You need to pay more attention in school. Not only do you not know why the Revolutionary War was fought, you just categorized all of Europe...
I assumed you were a girl, because you write like one of my girl scouts. All of your ideas are blended together, and you have no breaks between...
*raises an eyebrow* Reform, You seem like a girl with a lot of pent up anger. Yes, the world of education is not perfect, but it is a wheel that...
Heh, I always tell *my* embarrassing stories at the beginning of the year! [It ***really*** depends on your group.] That way anyone that...
I have two books listed on my website that I could not live without! http://valerie.ferrellweb.com/teachers/books/ Click on the "more...
There are a lot of computer activities that I do with my students that would make my life a lot easier if they could touch type (I teach 3rd...
Andrea, I'm not sure how your school is doing it, but many schools give children prizes based on the points they earn. As long as they pass the...
I think you are right about the mindless repetition. Keys should not be learned by merely typing all of the different individual letters over and...
I think that a lot of parents in my school are weak hearted little pansies!!! I really hate to say it, but it's true! Some of the teachers at our...
I just started teaching full time this year and I'm so happy all of the time. :) I love making little centers that the kids will have fun in. I...
Ooh I almost forgot about prizes. Points earned by getting passing scores on books are cummulative and should work kind of like money. The more...
