A Teacher's Life
If you’re unfamiliar with the Micro:bit, it is a small and affordable microcontroller designed by the BBC for use in teaching computer science. I highly encourage you to read more about it. You can try coding it online using their online editor and Micro:bit simulator. […]
I posted this picture up a while ago and had a lot of questions on how to recreate it. Here are the steps: Take a picture of the person against a plain wall Insert picture in powerpoint Format –> remove background Format –> mark areas […]
Parent gifts are done!! We created ornaments with student pictures and snow. Afterwards, we wrapped them up to look like reindeers. The 4×4 picture was taken against a white wall. I used two photo apps to create the background. The first app added a Santa Hat and the second app added the wreath border.
A few days ago I hosted my first Skype field trip with an educator at the Oakland Zoo. Well, I’ve been hooked ever since! My kids loved seeing different animals and having a Q&A session with a real person. I’ve had so many people ask […]
I’ve had a few requests to put up tutorials/instructions for creating graphs on Excel so here it is: Bar Graph Line Plot Picture Graph Dot Plot Histogram Box Plot Box Plot Part 2 Making Graphs With Excel – Instructions
I love teaching writing in my classroom. At our district, we don’t have a writing problem so I had to create my own materials and find articles. I love using writing checklists since it helps students organize information from different sources.
Narrative Writing Checklist:
Focus/Setting
Organization/Plot
Narrative Techniques
Language
Informative Writing Checklist:
Focus/Information
Organization
Support/Evidence
Language
Opinion Writing Checklist:
Focus/Information
Organization
Support/Evidence
Language
Coming soon:
Argumentative Writing Checklist:
Focus/Information
Organization
Support/Evidence
Language
Download Freebie HERE
If you would like to add some extra questions in the form, here is an explanation: The array “e.values” stores the responses the user submits in the Google Form. In your case, you will need to add another question to the end of the Google […]
Need a good way to hold students accountable for their homework? Try Google Forms! In my classroom, I have students fill out a Google Form when they miss a homework assignment. Then, an auto generated homework email is generated to the parents and the teacher. […]
New multiplication sheets are now available! Have students practice multiplication facts from 1-12. You can easily check for understanding by looking at the “Secret Message”. Over 900 pages!
Download the freebie HERE
Mystery words include:
Holidays:
WINTER
FOURTH OF JULY
MARTIN LUTHER KING
INAUGURATION DAY
GROUNDHOG DAY
VALENTINE’S DAY
PRESIDENTS’ DAY
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
PI DAY
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
SPRING
APRIL FOOL’S DAY
EASTER
EARTH DAY
ARBOR DAY
MOTHER’S DAY
MEMORIAL DAY
CHRISTMAS
PRESIDENTS DAY
LINCOLNS BIRTHDAY
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
LUNAR NEW YEAR
VALENTINE’S DAY
NEW YEARS
CINCO DE MAYO
THANKSGIVING
KWANZAA
FLAG DAY
FATHER’S DAY
SUMMER
SPRING BREAK
WINTER BREAK
Math:
ACUTE ANGLE
ACUTE TRIANGLE
ADDEND
ADDITION
ANALOG CLOCK
ANGLE
ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY
BAR GRAPH
BENCHMARK NUMBERS
CENTIMETER
CHANGE
CIRCLE
CLOSED SHAPE
COMBINATION
COMMUTATIVE PROPERTY
COMPARE
COMPATIBLE NUMBER
CONE
CONGRUENT
CUBE
CYLINDER
DECADE
DECAGON
DECIMAL POINT
DECIMETER
DENOMINATOR
DIAGONAL
DIFFERENCE
DIGITAL CLOCK
DIGITS
DIME
DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY
DIVIDE
DIVIDEND
DIVISION
DIVISOR
DOLLAR
EIGHTHS
ELAPSED TIME
EQUAL GROUPS
EQUAL PARTS
EQUAL SIGN
EQUAL TO
EQUATION
EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE
EQUIVALENT
EQUIVALENT FRACTION
ESTIMATE
EXPANDED FORM
EXPRESSION
FACT FAMILY
FACTOR
FIFTHS
FOURTHS
FRACTION
FREQUENCY TABLE
GALLON
GEOMETRY
GRAM
GREATER THAN
HALF DOLLAR
HALF HOUR
HALVES
HEIGHT
HEXAGON
HORIZONTAL BAR GRAPH
HOUR
HOUR HAND
IDENTITY PROPERTY
INCH
INTERSECTING LINES
INVERSE OPERATIONS
ISOSCELES TRIANGLE
KILOGRAM
KILOMETER
LENGTH
LESS THAN
LIKE FRACTIONS
LINE
LINE OF SYMMETRY
LINE PLOT
LINE SEGMENT
LITER
MEASUREMENT
METER
MIDNIGHT
MILE
MILLILITER
MILLIMETER
MINUTE
MINUTE HAND
MULTIPLE
MULTIPLY
NICKEL
NUMBER LINE
NUMBER SENTENCE
NUMERATOR
OBTUSE ANGLE
OBTUSE TRIANGLE
OCTAGON
ORDER
ORDER PROPERTY
OUNCE
PARALLEL LINES
PARALLELOGRAM
PATTERN
PATTERN UNIT
PENTAGON
PERIMETER
PERPENDICULAR LINES
PICTOGRAPH
PINT
PLACE VALUE
PLANE SHAPE
POINT
POLYGON
POUND
PRODUCT
QUADRILATERAL
QUART
QUARTER
QUARTER HOUR
QUOTIENT
RECTANGLE
RECTANGULAR PRISM
REGROUP
REGULAR POLYGON
REMAINDER
REPEATING PATTERN
RESULTS
RHOMBUS
RIGHT ANGLE
RIGHT TRIANGLE
ROUND
RULE
SCALE
SCALENE TRIANGLE
SECOND
SEQUENCE
SIDE
SIXTHS
SPHERE
SQUARE
SQUARE UNIT
SQUARE PYRAMID
STANDARD FORM
STRAIGHT ANGLE
SUBTRACTION
SURVEY
SYMMETRY
TALLY TABLE
TENTH
THIRDS
THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE
TIME LINE
TRAPEZOID
TRIANGLE
TWELFTHS
TWO DIMENSIONAL SHAPE
UNIT FRACTION
VARIABLE
VERTEX
VERTICAL BAR GRAPH
WEIGHT
WHOLE NUMBER
WIDTH
WORD FORM
YARD
YEAR
ZERO PROPERTY
Bonus:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
I’m been pretty busy this summer doing summer school, working on TPT, catching up on reading, and completing digital badges! Whenever I mention digital badges, I always get a ton of questions so I decided to make a quick blog post with some links. What […]
