October is a great month to do theme units or studies! Great themes such as pumpkins, spiders, and bats are a few of my favorites this month. Let’s go Batty about Bats today and let me show you a few of my favorite bat products! Stellaluna – Storylineonline.net has always been one of my favorite places for readlouds and Stellaluna is… View Post
Yep! It’s another planner post! I have been getting a ton of requests to show how I am using my Cameo Silhouette to create stickers for my planner. It’s as easy as design, print, cut, and stick! Take a look at this “How to” video to see the exact steps. One you have finished designing and know that everything… View Post
Teaching expanded form to intervention groups is tough! Have you ever had a math small group that no matter what strategies you tried to teach digit value or expanded form, they just couldn’t seem to get it? Yep, me too! This week actually with second graders during intervention block. We used base ten blocks until we saw blocks in our… View Post
You have a student in RTI and 8 weeks of interventions is up. What’s next? The dreaded parent conference meeting to decide the next step. Do you know what to bring to an RTI meeting? I know! It can be scary to look a parent in the face and say “The interventions didn’t work and your students is still getting… View Post
I know! I promised this post a week ago, but man school has been SO busy! I know you can understand and empathize with that excuse. I posted a picture a couple of weeks ago about my new Learning Targets and desktop standards stand on Instagram and it immediately became a discussion on how to make your own. As promised,… View Post