These point of view worksheets, lessons, and activities are a great way to introduce point of view. Even though they’re not exactly the same thing, I also introduce perspective during these lessons. I typically spend about a week teaching point of view and then circle around back to point of view a few weeks later […]
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If you’ve spent much time on my website or follow me on social media, you know that I am passionate about high quality math instruction. I’m a firm believer in balanced instruction with conceptual lessons, problem based learning, and an appropriate amount of skills practice and review. Over the years, I’ve developed third grade and fourth
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These distributive property worksheets and activities can simplify teaching the distributive property. Teaching the distributive property of multiplication can be quite challenging, but the concept is SO important for student as then begin more advance math concepts. As a third grade teacher, I often felt like my students weren’t quite developmentally ready for the distributive
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This Division Escape Room Lesson (you can find it here) is one of my favorite culminating activities to my 4th grade division unit. It incorporates so many skills and concepts into a fun and exciting format for students. I consider any lesson where students are so engaged and motivated that they don’t realize just how
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In this post, I share five common reasons for student misbehavior. No matter how strong our classroom management is or how positive our relationships with our students are, we are bound to encounter student misbehavior. As I’ve said before, I firmly believe the most important part of classroom management is our relationships with students. You
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Multiplying by multiples of ten and hundred sounds like it should be an easy concept to teach, but it’s not. In fact, many students struggle with this standard. It’s such an important concept for students to understand, because students will apply this concept in their multiplication and division standards. In this post, I share some
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Main idea worksheets and activities don’t have to be boring and full or rote learning. This challenging concept is often difficult for students to understand, so they need meaningful lessons. Over the years, I’ve learned that my main idea worksheets and activities need to be highly scaffolded in order for students to grasp this tricky
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Teaching character traits and characterization through mentor texts is always fun. After I teach basic comprehension strategies, I begin teaching story elements. You can read my post on teaching setting here. Upper elementary students are typically familiar with story elements, so they already know the basics. That greatest challenging is typically explaining their thoughts with
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Over the years, as I’ve refined my math instruction, I’ve tried to share as much as a can through blogging and videos. However it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to unpack everything through blogging and casual videos. This is the primary reason I developed Math Masterminds. I wanted to help teachers streamline their math professional
As a teacher, I felt like one of my weakest areas was dealing with what is often called “girl drama.” When I saw this as a teacher, I struggled to find the root of the issue, to have time to deal with the problem, and to know what to do about it. I was also
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