If you are anything like me, you probably spent the few days before Earth Day trying to find a quick and easy lesson (or set of lessons) you could do with your class that would be meaningful...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2024/04/earth-day-art-science-and-poetry.html
This year, my district began using the iReady program across all grade levels. It has been an interesting journey so far and I thought I would share a bit about the incentives we have in p...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2024/02/iready-incentive-ideas.html
Do you ever have an idea for a lesson but you don't know 100% where it is headed or how it will turn out? That is what happened this year in the days leading up to Thanksgiving Break. I k...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2022/11/art-writing-balloons-over-broadway.html
The beginning of the year is filled with lots of get to know you activities. But this year I wanted to make it a bit more academic, getting right into the nitty gritty of academic language f...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2022/10/the-best-way-i-have-ever-introduced.html
This month we have taken some time to discuss influential and important women in history. To aid in that discussion, we read the book Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris. It is a wonderful s...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2022/03/ambitious-girl-womens-history-month.html
We began the month of March diving into Women's History Month. I wanted the students to learn about the lives of influential women who have had some sort of impact upon the world. So we st...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2022/03/influential-women-in-history.html
We have been focusing a lot on character traits in class these past few months. As a reader, focusing on the traits that an author chooses to share with us about the characters in the book ...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2022/03/character-traits-and-responding-to.html
One of the units we study in 3rd grade science deals with the climate zones around the globe. We started learning about the by using the Mystery Science lesson on the very subject. It is ...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2022/03/world-climate-zones-in-3rd-grade.html
There never seems to be enough time to get everything that I want to get done completed during the day. Because of this, I have been forced to think creatively and combine different things I...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2019/12/array-community-math-and-social-studies.html
For many years I have seen Glow Day posts from teachers on Instagram showing off what they did during their day under the cover of black lights. To be honest, I never thought this type of th...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2021/10/glow-day-in-3rd-grade.html
At present in third grade, we are learning our basic multiplication facts. Rote kill and drill type activities, though having their place at times, can be become a bit monotonous for the k...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2021/10/apple-orchard-balloon-math.html
Several years ago I began using Johnny Appleseed Day, September 26, as a day to incorporate STEM and Literacy thematically in my classroom. When I taught 5th, I used lots of tech and STE...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/01/johnny-appleseed-science-twist.html
Do you ever start a lesson with the intention to do one thing and then it veers off into a tangent where you have done something totally different, but much better? That is what happened wi...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2021/09/our-kindness-garden.html
To say this year hasn't been rough so far would be a lie. It truly has been the hardest start of a teaching year that I have had in my 24 years of teaching. Coming off of a year of distanc...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2021/09/picture-book-sel-5-lessons-for-5-days.html
One of the areas that we are trying hard to focus on this year is simply being kind to one another. After a year and a half of being out of physical school, the students are having some trou...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2021/09/picture-book-sel-what-does-it-mean-to.html
We started this lesson by reading The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig, a story about a boy who feels as though no one, not even his teacher, sees him at school. While we were reading, I pau...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2021/09/picture-book-sel-invisible-boy.html
This was a really simple, fast, and effective lesson at addressing the idea that we aren't all bad or all good. That each one of us has the potential to be better than ourselves, make great choi...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2021/09/picture-book-sel-bad-seed.html
Have you ever assigned a project to the students and, when all was said and done, you fell in love? Well, that is exactly what occurred in my own classroom last month. Here is the scoop on what ...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2019/12/animal-adaptations.html
This week we spent our time on Zoom reading about snowmen and writing from their point of view. I adapted this lesson from Scholastic.com that I saw while I was searching for academic, ye...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/12/snowmen-at-night-virtual-learning-style.html
So it is Halloween Week here in my Distance Learning classroom and we are changing things up a bit. I am finding that keeping things consistent and the same, while important, can be a bit d...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/10/happy-virtual-halloween-week.html
(this post was sponsored by Logitech, though all opinions are my own) Distance learning has been tough. Trying to figure out how to replicate what it is that I usually do live, in-person wi...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/10/simple-solutions-for-distance-learning.html
This week we took a little break from learning the heavy hitting standards to venture into the world of Zentangle. I had my kids break out a piece of white copy paper (or, since not all of...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/10/our-zentangle-pumpkin-patch.html
One thing that I have been doing during distance learning is taking tried and true lessons that have worked in the past and adapting them to a new virtual version. What I am finding is that...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/10/taking-virtual-stand.html
Starting 100% virtually this year has made for some interesting lessons. The tried and true lesson that I am so used to doing just don't work the same in this digital environment. We have ...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/10/the-power-of-yet.html
I have been at this Virtual Learning thing for 7 whole days now (if you don't count the Spring) and I have settled into a schedule that I am finding to work for my students and I SO FAR. I say...
http://www.teachinginroom6.com/2020/08/my-virtual-learning-schedule.html