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I've been focusing a lot lately on informational texts as we move towards the Common Core adoption that is pretty much going into full s...

Ask almost any teacher what their primary growth area is, and in what area they primarily have issues in, and if they're being honest, t...

My 5th graders just finished Civil War History Webs. This little project only takes a few periods of work, and really involves creativity an...

In my previous post, I outlined many of the reasons it's a great idea to send daily mass text messages to your parents. If you're ti...

As a child, I was lucky enough to attend elementary school where my mom taught (for grades 3-5). At the time, I understood little about what...

I recently published 5th grade math unit 3: Area, Perimeter, Volume, Prisms, Pyramids, Polygons, and Circles. It's a huge unit that invo...

Recently, our students in 5th grade completed their first oral project presentation of the year, presenting their individual state posters, ...

My students are learning to love to read. I say learning because like so many other students, they don't see the joy in reading when it...

Writing is one of those skills that must be practiced time and again, especially in elementary school, where students are learning to master...

In my most recent web surfing, on Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers blog , I came across a post  called Illustrative Mathemat...

Tomorrow I have a meeting, and on Friday, registration. It's always exciting to look at the room, set up and more clean and organized th...

At student registration, my school district has parents fill out many different forms. These forms include: Registration document with to...

Two days ago I posted some advice for the beginning of the school year . It's obvious that we're almost there, tomorrow is my fin...

This animal identification game is very simple, and very effective to have 5th graders play. The concept is very simple. Each student will b...

I have a busy morning ahead, with school starting for me (six days of teacher inservice before the kids come back) in six more days, I'm...

As I've evolved my thinking on this blog a little in the five weeks I've been at it, I've started to change my own purposes for ...

When I teach my 5th grade unit on the World Wars , we discuss World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. As with each unit I teach...

My most recent update to my units is Social Studies Unit 6: World Wars . This unit includes World War I, the Great Depression, and World War...

I am constantly on the lookout for good printables. As much as I like to use technology in my classroom, and as bad of a rap as worksheets s...

I love to teach about Anne Frank every year during my unit on World War II. I just completed a list of teacher resources that I hand picked ...