It's time for my reflections on Chapter 3! I love that we are getting into the nuts and bolts of D5 now. This is the putting it all together, getting organized and making it work . . . all starting to come together little by little. So here's what I came up with while I followed along with Tammy's guiding questions:1. Establish a gathering place for brain and body breaks. (Do you call your gathering place anything special? A few of my teammates did. Annie called ... VIEW POST
Chapter 3 and Time for a Freebie!
Nine Tools For Differentiating
One of the most common questions I get about differentiating invariably involves organizing and keeping materials separate for your different tiered groups. So to keep things quick and simple for this post, I wanted to tell you about some of the best tools I have found for differentiating instruction in regards to readiness. I personally like to organize my reading and math levels by color. Sometimes I have four levels, but most often, I use three. Pink is for students who are working ... VIEW POST
8 Tips To Help Support a Kinesthetic Classroom
8 Tips to Help Support a Kinesthetic Classroom? Don't be mistaken! This is not a 'flexible seating' post. Flexible seating is part of the puzzle piece, but throwing a bunch of wobble seats and bean bags in a classroom, does not solve the problem by itself. What's the problem? The problem is that children are wired to move and even with the best intentions and understanding of that fact, I really had to work very hard to physically get my classroom ready for that. I think I have a 'kids need ... VIEW POST
Organizing and Storing Math Stations for a Quick Change Over
It’s time to change out math stations, and since I get so many questions about how I organize and store my station materials, I thought I would do a quick and dirty post of how I keep it all together for a quick change over. As I begin to breakdown stations, I remove all my materials and rubber each tier of the activity so I can keep them separate and also so that when I pull them out next year, they are already organized and ready to go. Once rubber banded, I make sure that I have the ... VIEW POST
Back To School Panic Time and Something That Could Help Your Own BTS Planning.
I am officially in panic mode for Back To School. When you walk into Office Max, Walmart, Target or wherever and this is what you see, it has a tendency to send chills right down even the most seasoned teacher. I'm raising my hand to say I'm in terror mode and need to get going on my 'to-do' list. I know none of you could possibly have this problem, but most nights I can't see the top of my kitchen table. I have 4 or 5 or 10 projects going on at one time. "Sorry boys, I know ... VIEW POST
Put It There! And A FREEBIE!!!
One of my readers, Tracy, recently contacted me about where I put all my center activities when they aren’t in use. I get this question quite a bit, and I guess it’s interesting to find out how other people solve the problem of having ‘all that stuff.’ Yes, having all those resources on hand is a great problem to have, and the fact that you now have them printed, laminated and cut is fabulous, but where can you keep them so that next year this time, you can just grab and go? ... VIEW POST
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