Although I get tempted to do different activities and switch things up every week during our math warm-up and centers, I have learned to choose a few activities my students enjoy and know how to do consistently. That’s how they become successful at mastering their math skills. My goal is to spend less time giving […]
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How to Increase Math Fact Fluency
One of the topics of conversation that keeps coming up in our district when talking about math is always how to teach young children to master their addition and subtraction facts. With getting ready to begin a new math curriculum I am a bit concerned about how we are going to approach this topic moving forward. However, I have […]
5 Tips for a Calm Classroom Environment
When I first started teaching, I wanted to do ALL of the things when decorating my classroom. The new ideas I was seeing all over Pinterest, along with the creative ideas I came up with on my own to make my classroom look picture-perfect sounded great at the time. I wasn’t thinking about having a […]