Today I want to share some fun activities that we did last week to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you can use some in your upper elementary classroom – or even with your own kiddos 🙂 We Treasure Our Classmates St. Patrick’s day felt right during our study of adjectives, so I thought this idea (adapted from activity from…
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Happy Tuesday, friends! I am linking up with my bud, Holly, from “Fourth Grade Flipper” for her Tried It Tuesday linky! Last week I began the exciting process of throwing in review for the upcoming Standardized test. We were reviewing the parts of speech and I thought I would change it up a little bit to give the students some…
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Happy Tuesday! Today I’m linking up an idea I tried with my friend, Holly, from Fourth Grade Flipper Do you send home a weekly newsletter to your parents? I always have – I think it’s a great way to keep parents updated with what’s going on in the classroom and answer general questions. At this new school I’m teaching in,…
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Hello friends! Long time no blog 🙂 It was one of those hectic weeks. Enough said. Today I’m linking up with my bud, Joanne, from “Head Over Heels for Teaching” to share an idea that MOTIVATED my kiddos this week 🙂 This is actually an idea that our P.E. teacher came up with last year during standardized testing. She wanted…
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Hello friends! Today I want to share a quick idea that I started doing with my class this year…REVIEW SHEETS! You may be thinking… “duh, tons of teachers use review sheets!” And yes, you would be correct. Many teachers hand out review sheets before test day so that the kiddos know what to focus on when preparing for the test….
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