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Todays professional development was awesome! Several teachers at our school participate in a program called I.D.E.A. (Intensive Development in Education through the Arts) and they conducted a few short classes teaching the rest of us a few things they do in their classrooms. The first class I went to was using stretchies to teach geometry. A ...

First off, I want to apologize for the long hiatus. I took a vacation with friends and got away for the weekend, plus two school days! It was much needed and I am very refreshed! I came back to school today to a half day training by Marcia Daft. I spoke of her in a previous post about the syllabication which you can view here. Marica has been ...

For some reason, yesterdays post about Rounding numbers isn't showing up. I'll try to repost that later. Today, in Social Studies, we tried the tableau's for our Social Studies reading passages and it went awesome!! Just in case you don't remember my past post about teaching with the arts, a tableau is a frozen picture with your body that ...

We have been studying geometry in Math this week. I have been up to my eyeballs in attributes of circles, lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel, perpendicular, you-name-it! I've really enjoyed teaching these ideas and my students have had fun learning, mainly because I have taught tons of songs and played lots of Simon Says (as an ...

We have been studying geometry in Math this week. I have been up to my eyeballs in attributes of circles, lines, line segments, ray, angles, parallel, perpendicular, you-name-it! I've really enjoyed teaching these ideas and so have my students! Mainly because I have taught tons of songs and played lot's of Simon Says (As an assessment tool of ...

I am sooooo flippin' excited to share with you what I learned today!! Many of you may already have your own idea of what Arts Integration looks like, but hopefully this will give you a whole new idea on what a variety of things it can mean. When we started this professional development today, we were asked to think about what our idea of art ...