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The past few weeks we’ve been gearing up to take our Spring Math Benchmark. Being in a classroom that doesn’t use class time to teach test formatted questions and being that I refuse to do worksheets, I had to figure out some way to review the skills for the upcoming exam. A few years ago…
When I was in High School I ran for Student Council. Both my freshman and sophomore year I ran and got elected to be a representative. My mom helped me with my campaign. She came up with all my slogans. One slogan that she came up with, and was the most popular, was “Don’t get…
***** Stacey Huffine is a good friend of mine and a fellow ninja. Though she doesn’t view herself as someone who blogs, she found this AWESOME tool called “Sound Gecko” and I told her she had to write about it! So please go ahead and read through a great post by my friend, Stacey. I…
This week I got to spend some time at the annual TCEA Conference. TCEA is the Texas Computer Education Association, the largest technology conference in the nation outside of ISTE. This was my 6th year that I’ve had the to opportunity to attend and it’s always a favorite of mine. Stacey and I drove in…
I’m a teacher. I teach my students math. But I also feel it’s my job to teach them so much more than that. In the past year I’ve had to pleasure of interacting with and being inspired by Angela Maiers, Steve Mesler, Josh Sweeney, and the Classroom Champions organization. That inspiration has flowed over into…
So recently I learned about this great free app called 30 Hands. Essentially what it does is that it allows you to import images into the app and then the kids can annotate over the images and record themselves speaking. It’s very intuitive and easy to use. So with my 5th graders I had them…
I believe in the power of connection. I believe in the impact one adult can make. In my own life, I’ve seen how much someone spending time with you can make a difference. I am the product of the time that other adults have put into me. I will forever be indebted to the time…
I’ve always been extremely passionate about getting to know my students on a deeper level. But more than that I’ve kind of made it my mission as a teacher to make sure every student leaves my classroom knowing that offer something of value to the world. Knowing that they matter. This past year I had…
Part of what I have to teach in 5th grade math in Texas, is some geometry. My students need to be reminded of things they should have learned in 4th. Things like edges, faces, vertices, angles, transformations, and the names of 3D shapes. Since this concept is one that is a review skill instead of…
I’ve thought a lot about this post. Debated with myself how I wanted to write it, what to include. I mean this post is my wrap up from an entire YEAR! That’s crazy. This year, like any other, was like a roller coaster ride. There were extreme highs and some pretty deep lows. But for…
So I had heard about the #HourOfCode movement for quite a while. I even signed up a few months ago saying I would take part. Then the month of December quickly came upon me and I just had far too much on my plate to even consider “losing” a day of instruction to allow my…
As teachers we have all kinds of students. We have the ones that drive us absolutely bananas. The ones that know exactly what buttons to push at exactly what times. Sometimes they make us lose our temper, sometimes they make us want to scream, and sometimes they make us want to just flat out ignore…
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