As far back as student teaching, my weakness was wrapping up my lessons. I felt like I always floundered with the “well we’ll stop there for today” line or asking a few wrap up/review questions and then that was it. I wasn’t doing the material justice, and I […]
One of my go-to projects is for my students to make a collage reflecting what they learned during a given unit. I probably assign them twice a semester. I love assigning collages for the following 3 main reasons. 1. Students practice research skills. This includes learning about reliable and accurate internet […]
In the first few weeks of World History I’m not going to lie, there are some less than thrilling topics we have to cover which means I dread lesson planning those topics during the summer (which yes I’m trudging through right now). But in the midst of “blah” […]
It’s no secret that having open ones of communication with parents or guardians in high school is more than a little difficult. I always send a letter home to parents with students on the first day of school to open the lines of communication. I try to email […]
Well in honor of it being my 5 year wedding anniversary week, I thought it fitting that Traveling Tuesday be about our honeymoon. We went to a town in Germany called Garmisch-Partenkirchen. That was our home base for 12 days. We took a tour bringing us to Switzerland (most […]
I started something new this last school year to try to keep my students’ spelling and grammar mistakes to a minimum. Not so much typos, but straight up mistakes such as writing bear instead of bare. I started by including the list of my biggest pet peeves at the […]
What do you want to be when you grow up? EVERY kid is asked that question hundreds of times. Until I was in high school I would tell people I wanted to be a dolphin trainer. I have a probably unhealthy love (cough cough obsession cough cough) of […]
My students love a good history meme, and courtesy of the internet this one is perfect for 4th of July! The plan today is just a family bbq with hot dogs, chips, bbq chicken, and potato salad. However you plan to celebrate (wearing patriotic colors, watching fireworks, binge […]
This is beyond a blog in progress. I am still reading everything I can get my hands on about actually setting up/designing/customizing/fully utilizing this platform. So is it going to be the prettiest, no. Is it going to have all the awesome features that you see on other […]
Well, after what was probably way too much internal debating and asking for outside opinions, I finally started a blog. At first my thought process was since I don’t have a classroom right now, what would I write about?! Well, my fellow TpT’ers shared the types of things they […]
