Happy Monday! As always, I hope you are happy, healthy, peaceful, and loved. I have been spending time with upper-grade students lately and I am CONCERNED. Why are so many fourth-graders…
Happy Monday! I once saw a quote that read, “Do not let the littleness in others bring out the littleness in you.” That quote is a founding practice in my…
As always I hope that you are all happy, healthy, and loved. I think the administrators out need some extra love they have been going through it. Administrators have become Covid testers,…
As always, I hope this email finds you and yours happy, healthy, and loved. I love vacations. They allow me the time to decompress, reflect on where I am and…
I hope this email finds you happy, healthy, and loved. I think this is a great week to count, count, count, count, count. I did not love counting collections when I…
I hope you are all healthy, happy, loved, and well-rested. I have been fortunate these last few weeks to work with Ms. Morales and Mrs. Aguirre. They have shown me…
I hope this email finds you and yours doing well. I want to take a moment to say I appreciate you using your valuable time to open this email and read…
Many of us understand the need for including leveled reading books in our classroom libraries so all students have access to texts. Many of us have also embraced the…
How can we get kids to move away from misconceptions and miscalculations in a timely manner, if they only get to practice once a week? Go beyond right and wrong answers and notice…
Decomposing numbers is the pathway to flexibility and fluency in all operations. Knowing how a number is made gives you the knowledge you need to add, subtract, multiply and divide with…