We finished up our first round of state testing this week, and have our next test coming up the following week. As much as I felt I had given my kids enough practice with story problems, I apparently hadn’t, because many of them did not do as well as I had expected on the math test. Of course, this was just from over the shoulder peeking, but the first thing that jumped out was that
Click the image above to go to all of my other Wednesday Website posts. It’s been a few weeks since my last WW post, but I’m back with a great one. Have you heard of GoNoodle? It’s a free site that lets you build Brain Breaks into your day. I’ve been using it the last couple weeks to make sure I’m actually doing breaks in the day, and I’ve loved it so far! They have
I’m participating in another Bright Ideas blog hop today. This time I’m sharing a different take on word walls. I started this year in a new grade, in a new building, and of course wasn’t as organized as I should be, even though I spent a ridiculous amount of hours at school this summer. Once the school year started, I could not, for the life of me, figure out where my premade Word Wall words
We began our state testing today. Dun. Dun. Duuuuuuuuuuun. It’s a big day in my world. It’s the day that leads to all those decisions on whether the kids have learned enough. On whether the kids can apply their knowledge. On whether I’m good enough. There are so many things I’d like to say in response to that. There are so many better ways to evaluate students and their progress than a very large and
I missed last week’s Wednesday Website because I was incredibly busy. I’ve also been trying to brainstorm websites I’ve used in the past so I can share them with you. We really only use the same couple sites in my class and because our computers are very old and jankity, I haven’t really researched many new ones. This website isn’t a traditional education one, but it’s not as well known as I think it
