Creating anchor charts and graphic organizers in the classroom (with students!!!) is a powerful learning tool and a great learning strategy. We love creating anchor charts and graphic organizers with…
Organization
Teaching is the only job where it’s more work to be absent than it is to show up. Planning for a sub can be stressful and time-consuming. And with the…
Our district will be starting the 2020-2021 school year virtually. We are allowed to teach from our classrooms so that is what I will be doing. I feel like this…
Let’s talk centers. Ya’ll, we love centers (or hippopotamuses as we call them). One of the key components of our centers is choice. We give the students a great day…
Classroom Design: Student Work Areas
We get lots of questions about our classroom design. Specifically, how and why of each area of the classroom. Today we’re doing to show you our student work areas and…
Classroom Design: Student Materials
We get lots of questions about our classroom design. Specifically, the how and why of each area of the classroom. Today we’re doing to show you our student materials areas…
Classroom Design: Small Group Area
We get lots of questions about our classroom design. Specifically, the how and why of each area of the classroom. Today we’re doing to show you our small group instruction…
Apparently there’s this thing in politics and government and business called a document dump. And you use it when you want to put a bunch of information out without drawing…
I admit it. Until recently I didn’t use anchor charts. True story. You see, I didn’t believe I was talented enough to to create anchor charts and I didn’t fully…
Today we are talking all about small group organization and chapter 2 of Making The Most Of Small Groups! So, show of hands….who struggles with being organized?! If you…