Popping in today with a list of a few favorite math apps in my 3rd grade classroom!
Monday, December 2, 2013
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Hello, blog world!
After "stalking" my favorite teacher blogs for almost two years, I decided to dive in create one of my own! I just finished my first year of teaching at a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) elementary school outside of Columbus, Ohio. I taught 2nd grade last year (student taught 2nd as well), and will be moving up to 3rd this year. So excited to hold on to some of my students from last year and mix in some newbies to create a wonderful classroom community!
I will be back in the next few days with posts about how I organize my schedule to integrate traditional language arts and math instruction with the content areas, and some organizational goodies as well. For now, here's a freebie that I put together for a recent class. I was fortunate to participate in the Ohio Writing Project and spent four weeks really dissecting the way that I teach writing, how I select my mini-lessons, and how to run effective conferences and strategy groups. As a final research project, I pulled together quotes by well-known creative thinkers - everyone from Einstein to the creator of Mario - and used their thoughts as jumping-off points for reading and writing mini-lessons. The freebie includes a chart of quotes and suggested mini lessons (and mentor texts), as well as posters featuring each creative thinker and his/her quote. I plan to hang the posters in my classroom library area, but they could also be used as a prompt in a writing center, or as a morning warm up!
I will be back in the next few days with posts about how I organize my schedule to integrate traditional language arts and math instruction with the content areas, and some organizational goodies as well. For now, here's a freebie that I put together for a recent class. I was fortunate to participate in the Ohio Writing Project and spent four weeks really dissecting the way that I teach writing, how I select my mini-lessons, and how to run effective conferences and strategy groups. As a final research project, I pulled together quotes by well-known creative thinkers - everyone from Einstein to the creator of Mario - and used their thoughts as jumping-off points for reading and writing mini-lessons. The freebie includes a chart of quotes and suggested mini lessons (and mentor texts), as well as posters featuring each creative thinker and his/her quote. I plan to hang the posters in my classroom library area, but they could also be used as a prompt in a writing center, or as a morning warm up!
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