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Some of my fifth grade friends have been hard at work, designing cube cities as a culminating activity to their study on volume. In some cases, they worked together to create entire towns! Take a peek...
Nice perspective!
A true metropolis!

A geoboard provides endless opportunities for fraction exploration. To increase your options, flip the tool over and use a dry erase marker on the back. Students can label, outline, write equations, and more!
Yesterday, I worked with a third grader who was struggling with fractions. Initially, it appeared that her greatest struggle was to understand the meaning of the numerator and denominator in relation to the parts. On a geoboard, she agreed that that...

Multiples can prove to be a challenge for students in grades 3-5. In fourth grade, we expect students to be able to determine whether a given whole number between 1-100 is a multiple of a one-digit number. Makes total sense, right? I mean, how hard could...

With summer upon us, I couldn't resist pulling out Fractured Fairy Tales, my all-time favorite unit to teach. Three excited kiddos gather with the ultimate goal of writing and producing a fractured fairy tale play. Take a peek...
Getting Started
In the first two minutes of class, students make lists of every fairy tale they can recall. The highest recorded number? Six! I tell them they'll soon have a lot more! We do a little Round-Robin story telling of the Three Little Pigs, with a pantomime...