This Spring Butterfly Craft Activity is a creative end of the school year, spring activity, or novel study for elementary students. I look forward to sharing this craft project with my students every year, and every year I’m AMAZED at my students’ creative ideas. We all know students love
((If you’d like to read Teaching Money Skills Part 1, click here!)) Part 1 takes us from the very beginning stages of teaching students to work with coins up through basic identification. If you’re reading these Teaching Money Skills Blog Posts in order, you’ll remember that we’ve gotten
Teaching Money Skills – Part 1 Students must learn how to count money. It’s a basic life skill that every student needs for independence. Teaching money skills doesn’t have to be tough! Good scaffolding and outside the box strategies to the rescue! Skip counting and working with coins can be easily
If you’re in Ohio and you’re driving to Texas, what direction are you traveling? Build map skills with easy to make overlays from transparency film! Sounds easy enough, right? Right? Hello? Map skills and map directions never really go away; the skills just keep building year after year. Students need
Students LOVE to celebrate themselves and feel special! We ALL like to be recognized and honored sometimes. In the past, I’ve had a designated “Student of the Week.” I like to keep things simple and use it more as a time for other students to get to know the
Free word problem comprehension strategy teaches students to apply reading comprehension strategies using CUBES or CUBED method – FREE! This easy-to-use CUBES word problem strategy provides your students with the tools to solve addition and subtraction word problems. This strategy works because students are given a solid, concrete method
This is a quick blog post about the amazing transformation of an ugly duckling (in this case an old beat up filing cabinet) into a beautiful swan! Ok, well, beautiful might be a stretch – but it’s at least an attractive swan! Here is the before picture: I couldn’t look
Here’s a DIY hack to improve students’ reading by using a simple, easy-to-make reading guide to assist students with their tracking! You can easily make a simple “tool” to improve students’ visual tracking during reading. And best of all – it’s so easy! My students use these nearly every single
