This is my second year in third grade, and my first year in this classroom. I think as common in any new building and grade level, you are constantly reworking your organization systems to find what works best for you and for your physical space. After receiving some office supplies from Shoplet, and motivation from the growing hours of sunshine each day, I’ve started reworking some of my storage solutions and I thought I’d share
My last post showed one way I teach my students to figure out elapsed time. Today, I’m over at the Ellison Education blog showing how I introduce elapsed time in the beginning. It’s so important to start as concretely as possible, and I love giving my students clocks to do it themselves. Click the picture below to head on over and see what we did.
Students struggle with doing measurement conversions, especially when they have to work with adding and subtracting those measurements first. When my students have worked through word problems that asked for the units in a specific way, they often struggle to remember to convert between units and struggle to add and subtract correctly. When teaching elapsed time, I originally always taught it with the backwards N (which is the same as the zoom method) and with
I originally heard of Grit during a conference discussing leadership in membership organizations when someone shared this Ted Talk from Angela Lee Duckworth. I immediately thought of my students and how grit was an important part of the work we do each day as educators. As a former teacher, Duckworth wanted to see what kept students engaged and successful with school. And what she said made so much sense. In education classes in college I
For years I taught my students the same problem solving process. I wasn’t invested in it and I didn’t think it was the best. But, it was something I had found online for free. This year I spontaneously put a new twist on it, and it’s worked for my students better than ever before. As I was telling students they need to go through the steps to attack the problem, I added on that they
