Manipulatives in the fall... How in the world do we do this?!?
I am right there with you. How in the world are we supposed to have our students use hands-on manipulatives in our classrooms with who knows what guidelines will be in place? How do we have students explore in mathematics when we cannot let them share manipulatives? How do we sanitize these manipulatives? If each kid gets their own, how do we store them? Do we let our students take home math tool-kits? If I do, will I ever get my stuff ...
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NEW Virtual Math Game Series
During this crazy and uncertain time, Emily and I have been trying to figure out how we can best support you and your students. We received many thank yous for the 3-week virtual math series, and that got us thinking...what else can we do virtually? Meanwhile, Emily's students were telling her how much they missed being able to play the math games they are used to playing at school. As much as this broke her heart, it made her think, well, why ...
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We Are Here for YOU!
To begin, Emily and I would sincerely like to thank SIS4Teachers for asking us to partner together to provide you an amazing at-home bank of videos over the past three weeks. It forced both of us to branch into a new chapter of creating video content to share. We have been trying to figure out how to do this for a while, and now we have finally started! Even though our three-week E-Learning Resource journey is complete, Emily and I are still ...
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E-Learning Resources
We are excited to announce a partnership with SIS4Teachers to bring you a series of math videos to use at home. During this time we will be posting 3 games/strategies/activities per day to help parents at home or teachers looking for games/activities to push out to their students. You will be able to download the game boards (if needed) and watch videos on how to play or teach the strategy. We encourage you to not only watch the video ...
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Workstations that Work
This is the time of year when many teachers begin to feel the pressure of "the test" sneaking up on them. We begin to wonder how we are we ever going to cover all the content we haven't made it to yet, and at the same time, continuously review what has already been covered. I always share with teachers I attribute a lot of my success to two key components of my day: my calendar time and my workstations. Both set the stage for me to be able to ...
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