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Making math engaging and fun doesn't mean eliminating rigorous content! Over the last several years, I have shared hundreds of math lessons and ideas in the blog posts below. From teaching error analysis skills to tackling multi-step problems, you are guaranteed to find an engaging math lesson in the archives.

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This FREE place value guide includes a ton of ideas, place value lessons, essential skills, book list, free activities, and more!

The Complete Guide to Place Value Lessons

Here are numerous ways to teach and reinforce factors and multiples, as well as math facts, in 4th and 5th grade

Factors, Multiples, and Math Facts… oh my!

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Math flip books are mini anchor charts, reference books, and practice activities as great alternatives to interactive notebooks.

Math Flip Books: An Engaging Way to Teach Key Math Skills

Math tips and activities to start the year strong in upper elementary. Includes ideas for morning work, centers, and review.

Math Tips To Start The Year Strong

Anchor chart, hands-on practice activities, and a free assessment for teaching mean, median, and mode in upper elementary.

Activities For Teaching Mean, Median, and Mode

Learn to play this Jeopardy-style whole class review game. It works with any task cards and is easy to set up too!

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Lessons and practice activities for teaching data and graphing skills in upper elementary. Includes anchor charts, task cards, and free quiz.

Teaching Data and Graphing

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Quick vocab tip! ✨ I always have a big stack of

Quick vocab tip! ✨ I always have a big stack of these labels printed out and write words on them as we add to our word collectors during novel studies. Students get a sticker and everyone (mostly other teachers, students outside of class, and their parents when they get home) asks them about their word all day long. They LOVE it, and it’s a great way for them to practice new vocab words!

Over the past 14 years, I’ve enjoyed adding litt

Over the past 14 years, I’ve enjoyed adding little touches to my classroom, and I always love going into classrooms and seeing the little things that make them unique. EVERY classroom has something special!

These are a few of my favorite touches that make my classroom feel special to me and my students! ❤️

THOSE ARE MY BABIES, but my babies are almost elev

I’m ALL about novel studies and think they’re

I’m ALL about novel studies and think they’re so beneficial to students. I have so many resources and ideas that apply to ANY novel to make it low prep as a teacher but engaging and meaningful for kids! ✨ Drop a comment below for a link to my blog post all about implementing novel studies AND to these amazing flip books that make planning and implementation a breeze!

It’s that time of year! 🌳 🌲 A little backg

It’s that time of year! 🌳 🌲 A little background: My school names all of our grade level areas by different house names (bobcat house, raccoon house, etc.) and since my room is lofted, it’s called the tree house! That means I start the year with a study of trees, people who are important to the study of trees, and of course, treehouses!

🌲 My first graders are doing a short reading unit on treehouses to promote creativity. I’m infusing skills like characterization, parts of speech, vocabulary, and inference as we read a variety of picture books about treehouses. You can see most of the books I use for that on the third row of the shelf. Then, they end up creating their own dream treehouse and writing about it.

🌲 After their brain unit, my third graders will be learning about significant contributors to the trees. We start with a week learning about Katherine Sessions, reading tree poetry, and other picture books relating to the trees. Then they complete their own choice project about another significant botanist and present it to the class. You can see most of the books I use for this on the second row of the shelf.

I’m so excited to add Listen to the Language of the Trees from @sourcebookskids to our lessons this year. It had beautiful illustrations and so many connections to our learning!

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I’ll admit that I might enjoy expanding sentence

I’ll admit that I might enjoy expanding sentences even more than the kids. 😂 We start by making sure our verb is vivid, our noun is specific, and then we add an adjective. It becomes a nice, totally acceptable sentence. Then we add ONE element (who, what, where, when, why) to expand it further. There’s a Junior Varsity sentence (swipe to see different levels of sentences). Finally, we add a second element, and it becomes a Varsity sentence. I usually encourage them to resist the urge to keep going, or their sentences can end up a bit excessive. How do you encourage students to expand sentences?

💡 Tip: Once you've done these together, have students practice with pictures and then bring in their own picture to use!⁣
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Topple Blocks are some of my favorite activities t

Topple Blocks are some of my favorite activities to have on hand for a quick review, station rotation, or lesson follow up! 🥳 My students agree that it’s one of their favorite review activities, too!

Here are the details:

✏️ 2-6 kids per group

✏️Everyone in the group has a recording sheet, which contains a variety of tasks that correspond to the block colors.

✏️One student rolls the dice and ALL students answer a question from that color.

✏️Students check answer together.

✏️The student who rolls the dice pulls a block.

✏️Repeat.

If you don’t have blocks, I have gameboards to use, too! I have full Topple Block activity sets available for most math, reading, and language/grammar skills. Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the games and blocks! 👏

These games were adapted from Hope King’s idea of using Jenga in the classroom, which she shared when I visited the Ron Clark Academy six years ago! 😍

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