March is a long month for me. Winter can be done and Spring break seems sooooo far away. However, each March our family sets up brackets for...

My week begins on a Tuesday...yes not Monday...Tuesday. Why? Well we are on a day one through five schedule not day of the week schedule. So...

Teaching science is such a great job! I get to create, explore, discover, build and so much more every day along with my students! One of th...

Every day that I come to school, I hear teachers frustrated with the new math and reading programs. Their canned lessons do not allow for cr...

This week, after learning about the Titanic...we did our FOSS lifeboat lesson. Why do we start it off with the Titanic? To make history con...

I don't know about you, but...I have to work on an SLO and PPG. For my PPG...proving that what I am doing is data driven and proven to i...

It's my birthday Tuesday. I am 40 something. The second number is getting way to scary. I can now round up. Yikes. I have been working...

Found a great website to use to help the students use FOSS and yet connect it to what we are learning...variables. Here is the sheet I made ...

Soooo, I was thinking. How can we make the FOSS lessons extend to really get our olders connected. How about frontloading the idea of mediev...

I needed to assess today in fifth grade so I set up a Twirly Bird Company. Our variable unit is 2/3 of the way finished so this was a great ...

Our wonderful fifth graders are learning about lifeboats in science through our FOSS science program. To make it a little more lively I hand...