S17: Blog 15: Inquiry!
Most of this past year, I have been engaged in an inquiry, where I found something that I was wondering about my classroom and my...
S17: Blog 14: Review and New
This past week, my students took their last end of the unit test for math! It makes my head spin to think about the 11 chapters worth of...
S17: Blog 13: Black Bears, Alligators, and Observations- Oh My!
What a week! There have been some weeks this school year that have been as peaceful as you can get when you work at an elementary school...
S17: Blog 12: Decimal Division
This past Friday I was the substitute in my classroom while my CT was out and thus had the opportunity to kick off our final math unit of...
S17: Blog 11: Full Speed Ahead!
This past week we certainly jumped right back in after Spring Break! With the countdown to testing on we are moving at full speed when it...
S17: Blog 9: Emojis and Math
This past week I got the opportunity to plan a math lesson to introduce my 5th graders to finding and plotting points on a coordinate...
S17: Blog 8: Room Rearrangement!
This past week I spent a couple hours afterschool rearranging my classroom with the help of my PRT (partnership resource teacher aka...
Crazy Characters
This past week in ELA we focused on the standard RL.5.1.3 which states that students are able to compare and contrast characters in a...
S17: Blog 6: Cat Week
This past week in ELA was known as what my CT affectionately refers to as “Cat Week” because it’s the week where students read the text...
S17: Blog 5: Lessons from Lesson Study
This past week I participated in a lesson study with two other residents, Sara and Heather, who also teach 5th grade at my school. Our...