Author: Todd Nesloney

I had such a blast this week! The kids came back on Tuesday and I could not have been more excited.  You see, one of my New Years Resolutions was to dress more professionally at school.  BUT I still needed to have some of my personality in it.  How was I dressing before?  Well I…

Another interesting week! So this week we took our first semester Math Benchmark.  I was VERY nervous, for several reasons…  – it was the exact same Benchmark as last fall, with only 2-3 questions increased for vigor. – it would be a REAL tell of how my students are doing with their first year of the…

This week was…interesting. It started out very rough.  There were a lot of issues at the beginning of the week with mis-communication, lack of communication, and so on and it caused a very rough start to the week. And my bad mood seemed to carry over several days, which was a bummer. We spent the…

Wow, talk about exhausted!  So after attending the Ron Clark Academy the week before (you can check out more about my trip at http://ninjaroadtrip.blogspot.com) there were quite a few things I wanted to do differently in my class this week.  And man did they make a difference!!! So for the first half of the week…

Another great week! We spent class time Monday working with my studnets on their new iPhone 4’s.  It’s surprising to me the lack of knowledge there is with this device.  I had assumed they kids would know what they were doing already, and they don’t!  It’s just more proof that we can’t assume kids know…

This week was probably our best week by far! My team and I decided to try a new schedule.  I teach 3 fifth grade math classes.  Instead of having a rotation where I teach all classes in one day we decided to try a schedule where on Monday I teach my homeroom Math ALL day….

Another good week! There are still so many holes in my student’s education that I’m having to spend A LOT of time on remedial math 🙁 Monday was more or less another housekeeping day.  We went over homework, passed out papers, etc.  The students are doing really good about watching their videos lately as they’ve…

Another fun week! Monday we had another “house cleaning” day.  We went over the CBA from Thursday, did new vocabulary cards, and worked on FastMath (a program that helps students memorize their multiplication facts). Tuesday I was out at ANOTHER training, but the students didn’t miss a beat.  They watched a lesson I had recorded,…

This week was interesting…. We did a really neat lesson with cheese balls.  I bought three HUGE containers of cheese balls (one for each class), and we split the cheese balls up between the students.  They then had to count their cheese balls and identify wether or not their amount was prime or composite.  If…

This week was awesome!!  On Monday we completed the prime/composite project we had begun from the week before. Then I had forgotten that I had to be out of town for two different trainings on Wednesday and Thursday, so I left a pre-recorded lesson with my sub, so it was like I wasn’t even absent!…

I’ve officially made it through Six Weeks of Flipping!  Woo Hoo! Monday Today we took our state’s MSTAR test to test algebra readiness.  We’ll take it again in May, but we took the test and I had all the students input their answers into their project share accounts. Tuesday Today we practiced patterning.  I showed…

This week was a little frustrating… Monday So I got this idea from another teacher in my district to have the students work in groups to create their own board games.  They would write about 20 questions per group for their games.  But me, being the technology minded person I am, had another idea!  I…