Ok, so you know how you can make those cute little ziplock baggy water cycles? Well, I thought I would take it up a notch and create mini-water cycles using the front part of the plastic packaging you find on glue stick packs and Expo packs. The picture above is misleading because it looks pretty […]
Green in the Classroom
Monster Graph Freebie at the Organized Classroom Blog
I have a new love. Un amor muy profundo. It’s round, colorful, versatile….fun. What is it? It’s not my husband or my dog, although I love them both dearly. It’s….the….bottle cap! I love each and every one! I literally salivate (I really hate using that word, but I’m too lazy to go to thesaurus.com) at […]
Sticky Note Thank You Card
I’ve been working with a long term substitute for the past five weeks and this Friday is her last day – muy triste! She has been amazing, so to let her know how much we appreciated her, my students and I made her a thank-you card with a recycled file folder and sticky notes (I […]
Vocabulary Stickers
Do you ever feel bad throwing away those two or three extra lables that you didn’t use when printing? In my effort this year to “waste not, want not,” I cut my full-sheet sticker scraps in squares and rectangles and had my students turn them into vocabulary stickers. We’re studying the scientific method in science, […]
Bottle Cap Answer Keepers
Here is one of several activities I have created using bottle caps. For this one, all you need is any kind of bottle cap that opens and closes. For my activity, I placed subtraction and addition problems on the tops of each with labels (I also included a certain number of points for each one which […]
Learning Gems
My husband said yesterday that I am OCD, and I suppose it’s true but the object of my obsession changes on a regular basis. This year’s obsession seems to be “going green,” especially in my classroom. Every plastic container is now a possible learning manipulative, every small cereal or snack box is a possible storage […]
My Classroom, a hodgepodge of who knows what!
So, here are a few things to share in my classroom. There’s no theme and not a lot of cohesive design going on. Maybe next year I’ll work on that! Our “Pared de Palabras” You can download this for FREE at CURRCLICK or TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS. My makeshift homework wall. Trying to save some whiteboard […]