Thursday, November 13, 2014

Need an Authentic Audience for Math? Use Twitter

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For the past couple of weeks my 2nd graders have been learning about data management.  This past week they have learned about collecting dat...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Students Show their Thinking with the Drawing Pad App

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Today in our quest to find more out about habitats.  We discussed that there are different types of habitats.  I thought we would get throug...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Using Padlet to Introduce the RAN Graphic Organizer

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We are starting a new Inquiry Unit on Animals and we are in the  "Immersion phase" of the inquiry circle.  Which means, I am invit...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Worksheets Are NOT Part Of How My Students Show Their Learning

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This past Saturday I was fortunate to listen to George Couros speak at EdCampSWO.  One thing he spoke about that really resonated with me wa...
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Not your Traditional Classroom, Not your Traditional Teacher

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Our classroom at times looks chaotic, messy and noisy.  Well, it looks this way MOST of the time.  Visitors to our school have different rea...
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Making Math Meaningful and Fun

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We all know that when kids are having fun, they are happy, excited and engaged.  I see many math classes with students sitting quietly liste...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

The Beginning Of The School Year Was Not So Easy This Year.

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As our forty students came into our room the first day of school, we had many new faces. Thirty one new faces to be exact. This was differe...
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