Now that it is summer, it is time to relax, enjoy the time off, and gradually get ready for the upcoming school year. I have found that doing a couple things throughout the summer helps me stay organized during the mad rush of the beginning of the school year. Now that I have a new baby, I need to be more organized than ever! In a quest to stay …

Now that it is summer, it is time to relax, enjoy the time off, and gradually get ready for the upcoming school year. I have found that doing a couple things throughout the summer helps me stay organ…

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…