Place value is one of my favorite math units to teach in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade! There are so many fun, hands-on activities that you can do to teach the various place value skills and it's important to spiral review this skills throughout the year. Solve It Strips® and Math Tiles are few of my ... READ the POST

Teaching students fact and opinion in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade is so much fun! You can use fall-themed read alouds to get students brainstorming facts and opinions, or even practice fact and opinion along with a science activity. One of our favorite activities is these 3D Fact & Opinion ... READ the POST

It is so important to give students "brain breaks" or movement breaks in the elementary classroom! Students can focus better after getting their wiggles out, and these breaks make the perfect transition activity between subjects. Mimic Me is one of our favorite movement break ... READ the POST

Fact family practice in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade is so important as students are mastering their addition & subtraction facts, as well as their multiplication & division facts. Once students understand the concept of a fact family with addition and subtraction, it will help them see the same ... READ the POST

Math facts practice can be fun and engaging in the elementary classroom if you have the right tools! I want to share with you five fun math fact fluency activities and games that can be used with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. Here they are... 1. Class Vs. Teacher Class ... READ the POST

Teaching your students to follow directions and build their listening skills takes work! I couldn’t believe this when I read it, but did you know that LISTENING makes up 45% of our daily communication?!?!?!?! That blew my mind! As teachers, we spend so much time teaching reading and writing, ... READ the POST

Teaching reading strategies in the elementary years is so important, especially as students transition from learning to read, to reading to learn! Helping elementary students develop a love for reading is something that we can do as teachers, especially if we have the right tools in our reading ... READ the POST

Organizing Writer's Workshop in the elementary classroom can be simple if you have the right tools! Often, one of the hardest parts of writing workshop is helping students stay organized as they move a piece of writing through the entire writing process. That's what led me to create these awesome ... READ the POST

Math fact fluency takes a lot of practice! Learning addition facts with sums to 20 is a skill students should have mastered by the end of second grade. Yet, there are many incoming third graders that still don't know their basic facts. Developing strong number sense begins early on, and first and ... READ the POST