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Teaching Area and Perimeter

May 15, 2022 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

I love teaching area and perimeter. There are so many ways to make the lessons engaging and relevant to students. This post if full of ideas for teaching area and perimeter. These lessons were created for my fourth grade class but can be adapted to any grade level. If you want

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Why Students Need to Play Nerdle

May 1, 2022 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

In this post I can't offer you any eye-catching graphics or fun classroom displays. But, I would feel like I was holding out if I didn't share one of our new favorite classroom games. Notice the "our". My students and I agree on this one! Typically they favor games that offer a

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Summer Themed Reading and Writing

April 17, 2022 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

As summer break quickly {but not quickly enough} approaches, it's important to find engaging and creative ways to enrich and review our reading and writing standards. One of my favorite ways to change things up is with this mini unit which is centered round five summer themed

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No More Boring Research Papers

No More Boring Research Projects

February 27, 2022 By Ashleigh 1 Comment

I certainly remember completing my fair share of boring research projects in elementary school. We go to the library to find an encyclopedia to take notes on our topic. Then, we would write a traditional five paragraph essay. Fun stuff! Maybe I'm dating myself, but the only thing

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Combining Fraction Resources

Combining Fraction Resources {Introduction Lessons}

February 13, 2022 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

After finishing division, it's time to move on to my fraction unit. With so many great resources available, it can be hard to pick and choose what works for your classroom. It can also be a challenge to determine how to incorporate all of your resources. In this series, I share

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2-22-22 Task Cards

Twos Day Activities for 2-22-22

January 23, 2022 By Ashleigh 2 Comments

In this post I am breaking one of my most important rules as a blogger and TpT author. Never share something I haven't personally used in my classroom. I've always felt like that's one of the things that makes my resources unique. They're effective because I keep fine tuning

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Lessons for Teaching Decimals

January 9, 2022 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

The best way to introduce decimals (likely to 4th graders) is to teach lessons that connect fractions to decimals. That's one of the reasons I like to immediately follow my fraction unit with my decimal unit. Like fractions, decimals are a topic that needs to be taught for

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Combining Division Resources

December 5, 2021 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

With so many great resources available, it can be hard to pick and choose what works for your classroom. It can also be a challenge to determine how to incorporate all of your resources. In this series, I share my personal lesson plans to show how I integrate my math resources. I

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Test Prep Starts Now

November 14, 2021 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

Every bone in my body wants to stick my head in the sand and pretend that I don't have to worry about state testing this year. I don't want to think about it. At all. I would much rather completely ignore testing, but I wouldn't be doing anyone any favors. If I wait until

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Teaching Multiplication Facts

November 7, 2021 By Ashleigh Leave a Comment

I surveyed more than 20,000 teachers about their biggest challenge teaching math, and the overwhelming response was that students don’t know their multiplication facts. We've all experienced it. Some students easily memorize their multiplication facts, and other students

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