It has been awhile since my last entry. The past couple of months have been really exciting and exhausting! I am now a mother to a beautiful baby girl, Isabella. I just love her to pieces! My time has been consumed with Mommy duties, and I haven't had much time for my blog. Now that Izzy is starting to sleep longer, I finally have some time to…

It has been awhile since my last entry. The past couple of months have been really exciting and exhausting! I am now a mother to a beautiful baby girl, Isabella. I just love her to pieces! My time ha…

Thank you teachers for all of your hard work! As a teacher myself, I have had teachers help me grow and influence who I am today.  I try to keep their examples in mind when teaching my students. In h…

The students in my class just recently finished our unit on heat and changes in matter. As a culminating activity, I had the students pretend that they were inventors from the Lunch Box Supply Compa…

We just started our geometry unit in math. Right now, we are studying polygons. I always like to introduce polygons using Marcy Cook's book The Greedy Triangle . This book is great because it get…

I have decided that I want to start flipping my classroom. I know that this is a learning process, and it will take me awhile to get everything up and running. In my quest for knowledge, I discove…

It is that time of year again! The dreadful time when I start teaching my students how to solve math problems using elapsed time. In third grade, we are just supposed to introduce the skill to our st…

My students are currently studying measurement in math. This week we learned about the customary units of capacity and making conversions. I like using the "Big G" and "Gallon Man"…