Do you love seeing a cute snowman? I do! There is something cheery and friendly about every snowman I’ve ever seen. I hope you’re enjoying this holiday season with lots of friends and family. Not only do I love snowmen, but I also love this time of year! The holidays always make me stop, appreciate, and be thankful……and thankful I am. I live in such a beautiful place. It’s remote and over 8,600 feet up in the mountains. So-o-o, that means giving up a lot of conveniences. But being a Southern girl from Louisiana and then living in Houston for… Read More
3 Steps to Easily Build An Early Finisher Stash!
Do you need an early finisher stash of activities? This simple math project for engaging early finishers is quick, easy, fun, and very versatile. It’s ideal for keeping your early finishers motivated and learning by applying math vocabulary, computation, and place value as well as other skills. Having an early finisher stash on-hand will not only keep your early finishers engaged and challenged but will also help maintain your students’ interests and keep them working instead of being bored and unmotivated. But building an early finisher go-to stash of activities can take precious teacher time and can be challenging. This… Read More
Challenge Your Math High Achievers and See Their Creativity Thrive!
My second grade math high achievers were obvious. They finished everything not only quickly but also correctly. I was a beginning teacher and had no idea what to do with them. So they waited. Luckily they were all very well behaved – and bored. There were sooo many different levels of math students in my classroom. I knew I had to give my strugglers extra time. What should I do with these math high achievers? The ones who learned and understood immediately. Although not yet diagnosed as gifted, they finished all of their work before I could finish passing out… Read More
Early Finishers Solved! No More, “I’m Done!”
It happens with every assignment, in every class. Early finishers, fast finishers, the speedsters, whatever you call them, they show up. They can add so much to a classroom, but what do you do with them when they’re, “Done!”? I don’t want early finishers wasting their time just sitting. And, just giving them busy work isn’t productive. I don’t want to give them just more of the same or have them take out their library book and read. I don’t want them to finish their social studies homework now. Nope! It’s math class time and I want early finishers engaged in… Read More
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