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!
Using Color To Help You Tier Differentiated Activities.
Before I talk to you a bit about how I tier my activities by color. I always think it's important to preface things with a little review. Some of you have seen some of this so you can just skip over this first part. I never know who is going to stumble upon my differentiated ramblings without having ever seen my previous posts. So, that being said, bear with me for a moment... Why We Tier: When we tier, we are address a student's level of readiness. Readiness is ... VIEW POST
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
Differentiated Math Stations For The Beginning of The Year and A Couple Of Freebies!
One of my dear teacher reader friends, Sherry, recently wrote to me and asked me if I could put together an example of my math stations for the beginning of the year. I know I did a complete example of this in the spring when my students where already well acquainted with the Math Station routine and well after I had the opportunity to assess their readiness in the standards we were covering . . . but the beginning of the year is a completely different bird. One of the three guiding ... VIEW POST
#Colorizeyourclassroom with Astrobrights, A Freebie and a Giveaway from A Differentiated Kindergarten
Who wants to add color to their classroom without having to break the bank on color printer ink? Just about everyone. Well, Astrobrights Papers recently sent me a sweet packet of their new papers and a gift certificate to Office Depot, and I'm dying to show you what I did with them. When I talk to teachers about providing fun, engaging and interesting materials for their classroom, one of the biggest frustrations I hear is, ”I would love to print everything in color, but I just ... VIEW POST
Differentiated Math Stations . . . and a Freebie
Hands down, my favorite small group activities to happen in my class are math stations. They just run so smoothly, students are so engaged and to be honest, it's just plain fun. While I've used Debbie Diller's book, Math Work Stations to get me started, of course, I've had to tweak it a bit here and there to fit my own classroom. I use a base of nine different stations which students rotate through twice before I typically change them. Even ... VIEW POST
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