The first two weeks of online learning were rocky. Having five people on Zooms brought our already feeble internet connection to a glacial crawl. You could have breakfast, brush your teeth, and take a shower in the time it took to log on to your Zoom. At lunch when I asked what everyon...
Ok the Bitmoji Classroom wasn’t from the spring. I wanted to make this for the fall. I have no idea how I’m going to use this. I can easily see it getting too busy with too many hyperlinks, but the idea is to have it be as streamlined as possible so I don’t have to change...
I am so impressed with what All Things E.Q. has done for New River Elementary. Not only do our 6th graders enjoy being E.Q. Ambassadors, but our office referrals have decreased dramatically this year. Which I think is due to the systemic nature of All Things E.Q. and how easy it ...
If we believe all second graders should be able to master addition and subtraction, there are so many things we will not have time to look at. Addition, subtraction, sight-words…this list of what we ‘know’ children need to know goes on an on. So recently, I have come to believe t...
We reached out to one local teacher for her advice on what parents can be doing now to ensure their kids will have a great start to school in the fall. Julianne Shaw has been teaching kindergarten and first graders in the area for the last 11 years. ...
Eighth-graders Evelyn and Allie are in trouble. Evelyn’s constant need for perfection has blown some fuses among her robotics teammates, and she’s worried nobody’s taking the upcoming competition seriously. Allie is new to school, and she’s had a history of short-circuiting on teachers ...
A colleague of min took sick, so I had to teach a couple classes on cryptography, Bitcoin and other fashionable topics. The best book about latest wave turned out not to be (as I expected) Michael Lewis’Going Infinite(he may have been a bit too close to his subject), but Zeke Faux...
with your students. I keep sneakers at my school and power walk or slow jog with my students. It’s been amazing to watch my second graders participate. Some of them need it and run hard, every day, for the entire time. Other more sedentary kids have built endurance and stopped complain...
Classifying items as living or non-living is an important lesson of kindergarten life science. Introducing pupils to the characteristics of living things helps them make sense of the world around them. Science activities based on living and non-living things also help incorporate math skills, such...
I am currently teaching idioms to my fourth graders and I realize that sending a thank you cardbeforethe holidays might seem like putting the cart before the horse, however, looking back on our journey over the last couple of years and my journey since I lost James last December, there is...