I thought I would share with you a recent blog post I wrote for www.ethicalela.com.  The founder, Dr. Sarah Donovan, asked if I would write ...

I am happy to say that, even with one eye, I was able to upload information on Unit 4 and type this post (no comments about grammar or spell...

Yesterday, during my awesome conferences, I made a comment or two about moving students around to help with "chattiness"  and to h...

Yesterday, we began decomposing numbers using place value to help them understand that numbers can be decomposed in many ways to make it eas...

What a blast we've had the past two days presenting our first book reports!!  I am so extremely proud of how awesome the projects were. ...

What a morning we had!  We took our math lesson outside, in the cool breeze, to make a number line from 0-100.  Although students have exper...

Last week students began learning about perimeter.  Although they entered 3rd grade with a lot of knowledge about perimeter, I had to help t...

As I'm sure you've already heard, our classroom desk are set up in communities (Rural, Suburban, Urban).  The idea was to tie in our...

Last week we finished up division, using the book,  The Doorbell Rang .  I love this book and how much fun it is to teach my kiddos how to d...

We are about a month away from Parent/Teacher Conferences!  I cannot believe how quickly this school year is moving.  In case you are new to...