Silly In Second

Make it easier on yourself and your Guest Teacher on a last-minute sick day. Use this product to create a resource for your grade-level team. This product was created with the struggling district in mind. The teacher shortage is especially hard in regards to our Guest Teachers. We are in a profession that requires more work for a sick day and I hope this product will help my fellow teachers with that. In my last district we discussed creating a system where a full day’s work of lesson

Mondays are "Math Monday" in my classroom and we practice gathering data within our class by answering a question and making a tally. After we have collected all our data we construct a bar graph. I created this because our Math Curriculum does not allow for much practice with creating and interpreting graphs so we spend up to 15 minutes each Monday morning as "Graphing Guys and Gals". The arrows on the first page of each question are facing the right because the graphs are to be copied doubl

For those of you familiar with my Guided Math FAME structure, this fits under the “M - Measurement & Data” How were you feeling on the first day of school? A great activity to discuss feelings with the whole class. Students need to be able to identify their own feelings and understand where their peers are coming from and this simple graph activity can help start the year off right! For ActivBoard users - this can easily be imported into ActiveInspire and be used on the board. Students can pr

Making Guided Math a little bit easier! That's what I was thinking of when I created this product. After playing around with Guided Math in my own classroom I have polished up one of my ideas for others to try. In our Math Workshop the students participate in Standards-Based centers or rotations three days a week. In an effort to better communicate with my students the WHY of what they are doing I have organized my Math Workshop into my FAME structure. F - Fact Fluency (CCSS - Operations an