You never know what great ideas you will come up with out of desperation. I had some “Big Magic” type inspiration yesterday after searching through drab Power Point after Power Point about the scientific method. This history nerd has to make science creative to make it tolerable. I couldn’t find my old scientific method rap and since it is the… View Post
If you are like me, you are almost down to counting the minutes to quitting time Friday or whenever that glorious day is that your holiday break commences! I can hear my pajamas calling my name and I have my finger poised and ready to click off that alarm! Pretty sure my husband is tired of hearing that alarm go… View Post
It is no small task keeping 5th Graders occupied, engaged, and productive during the last few weeks before Winter Break! You have to dig deep into the bag of tricks! So excited to able to join in with Focused on Fifth to get some ideas to help save my sanity:)! So being an out-of-the-box history nerd, I came up with… View Post
This post was inspired from some insensitive and hurtful comments made by a student in one of the classes I taught in 2015-2016. I really went strong on to cultural diversity mission and sharing more about Teaching Tolerance, one of my favorite websites along with Flocabulary. As someone who is E.S.O.L. certified, this issue is very important to me. In… View Post
YAHOO!! I survived the last day before Thanksgiving Break!! Since I teach Science and Social Studies, I couldn’t do my usual Thanksgiving writing and math stuff. I’ve been teaching constructive and destructive forces this week and my student teacher did a super cool lab with the kids yesterday. Well, I certainly wasn’t gonna do anything crazy and do another lab…. View Post