After a lot of debate and turmoil since early October, rising Covid case numbers finally led my county to officially decide to remain virtual through January. Now that I can officially plan virtual Thanksgiving activities for my fourth graders, I’m ready to share what we’re doing! 2021 Update: Even
Virtual learning is a new thing for our students. In the spring, we were *mostly* making it all up as we go. At least I was. The good part was that I was doing all of that with students I already had relationships with. We spent the previous seven months
Building relationships is a huge part of being a successful teacher. How does this work when I can’t have a community meeting on the carpet? Or I can’t greet my students at the doorway because we have to be socially distant? Or because we’re not even in school? How do
Often when I see posts and activities about growth mindset, they usually include some amazing picture books. While I love picture books, novels are a huge part of my classroom. My yearlong curriculum is based completely on using novels (with some additional resources, especially for non-fiction). This is when I
Teaching writing can be very tricky because there are so many different kinds. There’s narrative, informative, persuasive, and poetic writings. How can you handle all of that?? This blog series is going to go over different parts of teaching writing and how we can truly reach our students. Our first
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