By Rachel Lynette
I am so pleased to host guest blogger Michaela Almeida of Reading Royalty. Her post just may revolutionize the way you assess math! As a child my feelings toward math were lukewarm at best. My distaste for math only worsened as I continued through school, hearing from teacher after teacher that math just “wasn’t a strength of mine.” I found math boring, and I
If you sell on TpT and you are active in the forums, you no doubt know the seller Over the Moon, whose real name is Rebecca Garrabrant. Rebecca has been posting the most amazing marketing advice, which is why I asked her to come blog with me at SoS on TpT. SoS on TpT is a blog I started for new sellers a few years
I am so very pleased to host Brenda Martin from Teaching Dreaming Learning. You will add so much to your students’ time in your classroom if you use even one of her ideas. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The great teacher inspires. –William Arthur Ward As a classroom teacher, I want my students to look back on third grade with
School doesn’t end until mid-June in my neck of the woods, but I know some of you are done in May. If you are looking for ideas to help you in those last days, you have come to the right place. After you check out a few of my ideas, be sure to scroll down to the end of the page where other bloggers have
It is always a treat to have an expert blog for Minds in Bloom. Dr. Erica Warren is an educationalist specialist who focuses on multi-sensory teaching, and today she’s talking about teaching visualization. Most children have vivid imaginations, and they have no difficulty visualizing make-believe scenes and characters. However, once they enter school, concrete learning methods often leave fantasy and self-generated visuals out of the learning
Yippee, more Common Core Math Strategies! I love this post from second-career teacher Deirdre Calhoun because it is not only well researched but also so very useful. Be sure to see her four “Evil Math Wizard” spells below…and check out her blog! They don’t call me the Evil Math Wizard for nothing. For over 10 years, I’ve challenged my students to think and persevere when solving
The Business Insider did a post about the Top Ten Sellers on TpT (of which I am currently #3). You can read the whole thing here. This is Deanna Jump…she is the #1 Seller on TpT! Some of us have been discussing this in Facebook. We are of course, disgusted some of the comments from clearly ignorant people who have no idea what teachers actually
This awesome guest post tells you exactly how to use QR codes, and there is a freebie, too! I have been using QR codes in my classroom for about a year now. I know most schools don’t have tons of technology, and I am very fortunate to have iPads for my students to use. But many schools are slowly transitioning to using iPads and/or allowing
Pinterest is such an amazing resource for teachers! I am constantly amazed at all of the incredible ideas I find there. Of course, I am an active pinner with about 75 boards for education (and more than 36,000 followers), but today I would like to share just three of these boards with you. These boards are especially useful because I have opened them up to
Sometimes, we as teachers get so involved in teaching students to write poetry that we forget to teach them to love it. Rebecca Reid from Line upon Line shares some wonderful ideas, as well as a huge list of favorite poems. The perfect post for Poem in Your Pocket Day! I was a teenager before I got the point of poetry. I always thought of poetry as
This guest post from Samantha Harrell of Riveted Little Readers is a MUST READ for any teacher giving standardized tests. “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”…said no teacher EVER! State mandated testing…those words can be fighting words, I tell ya! No matter; state mandated testing is a necessary evil that we face every spring. How do we make it through this time
We all know how challenging spring can be for classroom management. Kids are getting restless as summer approaches, and the classroom routines that have been a regular part of your day all year are getting a little stale. This is a round up of posts and freebies from Minds in Bloom, Teachers Pay Teachers, and Pinterest to help you through this challenging (but also exciting)
I am so very pleased to welcome Jeanie Sulfidge from A House Called Home to Minds in Bloom. Her post is a truly heart-warming reminder on what a difference teachers can make in the lives of students whose own lives are more challenging than most of us can imagine. The short truth is: nobody. She has raised herself for the past five, seven, maybe ten years.
I am so happy to host Mrs. BBZ’s guest post because she does an incredible job of demystifying the strategies. As a child I had no idea why I “carried the 1” when doing addition. I just did it by rote. These strategies would have helped me to actually understand addition and subtraction with regrouping rather than just following the steps. And that is HUGE! When I
It’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s a great way to review. Just mix the BOOM! Cards in with another set of task cards and put them into a BOOM! bin. Players take turns drawing cards and answering them. They get to keep the cards they answer correctly. But if a player draws a BOOM! card, he must discard all of the cards he has collected.
Sarah O Shea is our resident drama expert. Her post about class performances will be a lifesaver for those of you who need to get your class (or grade level, or school) ready for that much-anticipated school musical, concert, or play. So you’ve graduated with the perfect credentials, secured your first teaching position and are thrown to the wolves. You know how to teach now
