Dr. Seuss Day

March 2 is Dr. Seuss Day. Who could ever forget those crazy rhyming books? I think my favorite has been One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. My favorite movie is How The Grinch Stole Christmas. What are some of your favorites?Here are some resources for teaching about Dr. Seuss on Dr. Seuss day:BrainPOP Jr. has a movie of the week on Dr. Seuss.  Wonder of the day # 150 asks "Who was Theodor Geisel?" Find out more information about Dr. Seuss...

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Are You Ready for Leap Day?

As we approach the end of February, I started thinking about finding resources to share next month. I went to the calendar pages of Thinkfinity, and something caught my eye: classroom activities, websites, and resources for Leap Day!Here are some of the suggested websites:Leap CentralThis site explains things about Leap Year that are not common knowledge to most, has resources for party planning, and also includes a list of Leap Day books.The...

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Are you looking for some Science?

Serving as both the 5th/6th grade Gifted Education teacher and the Grades 3-5 Science Specialist at an elementary school, Jayne Grubbs has a hectic schedule but loves every minute of it! She uses the information and questions from Wonderopolis in some pretty interesting ways. In class, Jayne distributes “Curiosity Questions” to her students. Students can earn “bugs” for thinking about and exploring possible answers to those questions … most...

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What is guiding your technology use?

This may or may not come as as surprise to you:I enjoy sharing the ideas, lessons, and resources I find with others. Recently I have been using twitter to share those things .... a bunch!!So in my email one day this week, I got a message from a high school teacher with this in the subject: Thanks for your Tweets!That subject line made me wonder what the message would say:Thanks for tweeting all of the things you do.  On Friday, you...

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Are you addicted yet?

My name is Marlo Gaddis. I am addicted to Pinterest.Pinterest is the latest tool for organizing and sharing content on the web. Visualize a large corkboard where you can collect ideas, plan events, or find inspiration. Now make it digital so that you can browse the ideas of others. Add a dash of collaboration and you have Pinterest.By connecting with your social media accounts in Facebook and Twitter, you can easily find your friends, family and...

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As lovely as ....

Similes ....How do you teach similies?What resources do you use?One evening recently on twitter, this message came to me:I am currently working with 4 grade and trying to come up with a lesson on similes. Any suggestions??Since this request came from a future elementary educator, I wanted to find some things to share with her. I began searching through my blog posts, my diigo bookmarks, and some former lessons to see what I could find. That...

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TPACK And The Common Core Webinar

This Saturday at Noon I will be a guest of the Classroom 2.0 Show where I will be talking about the relationship between the Common Core and TPACK. If you haven't heard a lot about TPACK or you want to learn more about it, this is a very fun format to join in the learning.It will take place online, in a Blackboard Collaborate room. It's totally free and if you can't make it, it will be archived.To join go here on Saturday morning.Speaking of archives,...

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Writing in Math?

Why do we have to write in Math?As I was sitting in a Kindergarten meeting this week, the teachers were talking about Math Journals. I hadn't really heard of Math Journals before, especially for Kindergarten. So, the first things I did was to ask my co-worker Melissa Edwards if she had any resources for Math Journals and I went on Twitter to ask for help from my Twitter PLN. I wanted to share some blog posts about Math Journals and what a couple...

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Safer Internet Day 2012

Teaching students how to use online resources effectively and appropriately should be an everyday occurrence. All members of the education community (students, teachers, administrators, parents, community) are responsible. So understanding what that responsibility means is a first step.Today is Safer Internet Day 2012. Organized in Europe it has become a world-wide event to raise awareness and promote education for effective use of internet resources. Here is a short video to explain a little more. As you can see, the theme...

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Great Teachers Make Master Gurus

This past Monday I had the opportunity to visit J F Kennedy High to share some information about our new email system.  In between sessions I had the opportunity to visit a few classes.  There are incredible things going on at JFK.  The first thing you notice when talking to any faculty member there is the positive attitude they have towards their students.  This attitude in conversation was also evident in their classrooms...

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