Building relationships when you go back to school is essential! I have found the relationship I build with a student is the best predictor of the growth that child will achieve throughout the year. This is why I spend so much time the first weeks of school building relationships with my students and giving them…
Category: Games
Easy Ways to Motivate Young Reluctant Readers
I want my students to LOVE reading! As an RTI teacher, many of my students come to me with the attitude that they are “not good at reading” or they “don’t like reading”. Some of these are first grade students! This breaks my heart. I want to motivate reluctant readers so they look forward to…
How to Engage Your Class Using Free Task Card Templates
Task cards have always been a permanent fixture in my class. Learn how to easily incorporate them into your routine with a free editable task card templates. I was using task cards before I knew they were called task cards. My first year in the classroom, I taught an amazing bunch of third graders who…
Multiplication Fact Fluency – How to Make it Stick
One of the biggest obstacles in math for many of my students is that they do not know their multiplication facts. They spend time and exert energy finding the same products over and over again. Their lack of fact fluency has a negative impact on their ability to learn new skills. For this reason, I…
Top 10 Reasons to Go Digital for Math Review Games
BINGO! As a child I loved it when my teacher would break out the class bingo sets. She would pass out cards and the dots to mark our cards. Then she would stand at the front of the room calling off the problems as we searched our boards for the answers. I never understood why…
Easy First Day of School Games and Activities
Easy relationship building games for the first day of school. Low prep games for students in upper elementary to get to know each other and get moving.