This week, my students will be exploring one of my favorite math units-graphing. I love teaching this unit because there are so many ways that you can incorporate math skills, real world scenarios, and opportunities for student created content into the lessons centered around graphing and collecting/organizing data. Sometimes, I have to get creative when pulling in technology resources during our graphing unit for second graders. However, that problem no longer exists because of an awesome and FREE website that is quickly becoming one of my favorite "go to" resources for technology incorporation in the classroom. Welcome to Gynzy.com! I love how this new tech tool is helping me support student learning in my classroom. We are going to be interpreting and creating graphs as well as formulating and answering questions about our graphs. I wanted a way to model how to build a bar graph with my students as well as highlight characteristics and key details of a graph with my ...
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Building and Maintaining Student Relationships
I always find myself reflecting back on each month and finding things that I can do better. This month, I realized that I had not been spending enough time "talking" with my students. Yes, we talk a lot throughout each school day. But..when I say talk..I really mean connecting and chatting. Yes! Chatting with your students is important! I talk all about it in my Monday's Moment video on my Facebook page or watch it below. Our students deserve to know that we care, and talking with them about their interests, hobbies, home lives, friend drama, and favorite books are all apart of building strong relationships with our students. As teachers, it is essential that we create, build, and maintain a strong and inviting classroom culture. It is vital that our students feel safe, valued, and important in our classrooms and that connection has to start with YOU. Make eye contact with your kiddos. Say hello. Talk to them about the little things like what they ate for breakfast ...
What’s Your Why-Part 2
My heart is seriously about to burst! You all are just the sweetest. I have had so many educators reach out to me and let me know how much they like this week's Monday's Moment about identifying your why for being a teacher. So, some of my wonderful friends asked to make it into a link party! I have never done one on my own before but what better way to start than by all of us sharing why we teach?! Before you get started, you may want to check out the video below where I share some of my favorite "why" reasons and read the original post here so that you are all caught up on the purpose of my What's Your Why? message. Anywho, I am really passionate about my career, and I know that you are, too! Spend a few minutes thinking about why you do what you do. There is a reason that you wake up every morning and walk into your classroom ready to tackle a day full of learning with your students. Here are just a few of mine! Now it is your turn! Grab the image ...
