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 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...
S16: Blog 12: In My Opinion...
The past month or so, we’ve been doing a lot of practice on opinion writing in preparation for this week. This past week we did an ELA...
S16: Blog 10: The Biography Project Part 2
For a little over three weeks now I’ve been working on the biography project that I’ve designed for my small group of higher-level...
S16: Blog 7: The Biography Project Part 1
Recently I’ve begun a new project with one of the two small reading groups that I pull on the mornings I am in my internship classroom....
S16: Blog 6: Matters of Time and Money
Things are changing in my classroom. My CT and I have decided to try doing more parallel teaching. This means that while one of us is...
