Free Resource for Black History Month One of my favorite sites is www.ducksters.com for social studies and science articles for kids but it also has a section for biographies s...
Digital Vision Boards for the New Year I was in a classroom today and the students were brainstorming goals for the New Year. Later I was randomly emailed a post about students cr...
Secret Santa Goes High Tech I just noticed some schools are preparing to start their staff Secret Santa. Last year our supervisor organized our departments Secret Santa...
FREE - 2017 New Year Goal Foldable I made one of these foldables years ago when I was in the classroom and thought I would give it another try. Normally under the last flap it...
Happy Leap Day Happy Leap Day!!! Above is a really good video that explains what a leap year is. Even though it was made in 2012 I thought the information...
Snowflake Matter Activity (and Video) Click on THIS LINK to view the student video Yesterday I worked with two groups of third graders at the end of their matter unit. The teach...
Christmas Music Composition Recommendation Last night I attended a Christmas concert put on by the Marine Corps Band and it was...as always..outstanding. My favorite piece was the o...
Halloween Costume - Ms. Frizzle We have a new local children's librarian who came as a guest judge for a Book-o-Ween costume party at one of our schools. I loved her Ms...
12 Tech Days Before Christmas Break - Day 9 Use your YouTube downloader to download The Polar Express online (this is the reading of the book by an actor from Storybook Online) ( http:...
12 Tech Days Before Christmas Break - Day 8 On the eight day I sent out a Promethean flipchart to all the teachers in my school that featured a crackling fireplace. The idea was to pla...
12 Tech Days Before Christmas - Day 7 Day 7 - Social Studies Practice reading latitude and longitude lines and figure out what cities Santa will be visiting over the holidays. W...
12 Tech Days Before Christmas - Day 6 Day 6 The 12 Days of Christmas – Math Lesson Students listen to the 12 Days of Christmas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF1xcKW2e-g (you c...
12 Tech Days Before Christmas - Days 5 Day 5 Teach students how to summarize a holiday article using this GIST template (The Gist Template was modified and adapted from a lesson...