For years I've been keeping track of the math worksheets I've used and liked from Teachers Pay Teachers, for when students request traditional math practice (sometimes Montessori children really crave a worksheet!!!) or are transitioning to a more traditional school. If you're looking for summertime math practice, check out my suggestions! The Algebra resources I have there include ..read more

Completed boats, ready for transport! the lovely mermaid, Pearl the trusty lifeboat, Ever ..read more

Right now my seventh grade student is working on operations with positive and negative numbers. This math topic is often called "integers" but I think throwing this term around is confusing to children because "integers" just means positive numbers, negative numbers, and zero. Integer is a straight-up Latin word. In Latin it was an adjective that meant "intact, whole, complete." In ..read more

April 15th is the last frost date for our region, and the perfect day for the Bongos to start their new Measurement block! We are doing two real-life measurement projects outside this Spring while the weather is warm. The first is a Three Sisters Garden; we will be using Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects and Recipes for Families by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac. The second ..read more

We are once again in the path of totality, and very excited about Monday at 1:59 pm! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check the manufacturer listed on the back of your solar eclipse glasses to confirm that they are on this American Astronomical Society list of Suppliers of Safe Solar Viewers & Filters. I know that LOTS of educational videos are floating around right now... And I just want ..read more

In my Art History 2023-2024 blog post, I decided April would be Andy Goldsworthy. Here are some resources and my planning notes: Andy Goldworthy1956 - also See Think Wonder (PDF) pz.harvard.edu 24 Andy Goldsworthy Art Examples - FREE at TpT Andy Goldsworthy Fact Cards (PDF) teachingideas.co.uk ..read more

My oldest student this week is doing little mini-unit on Statistics and Probability, with a few EGG-related activities tossed in there for Easter. We began by reviewing Mean, Median, Mode, and Range and then moved on to Probability. Here are the activities from TpT I'm using. They are all FREE! Monday - Easter Egg Averages (TpT) Tuesday - Describing Probability Outcomes Task Cards ..read more

After sorting all the Board Games, the next task has been to declutter my Art Room and the Math & Science Room, where things tend to pile up. I was extremely fortunate a few months ago to receive a very large donation of math curriculum materials from the estate of Dr. Ann Karmos. She held a PhD in Educational Psychology and she spent 33 years at SIU teaching Math Teacher Preparation in the ..read more

Today is the first day of my Spring Break and I'm using it to sort through all the board games we haven't played yet this year. I'm making three piles: give away for sure, keep for sure, and test. Overall, I'm looking to see which ones go in the Board Game closet, which are antique or sentimental or I want to just be for me and Zac, which ones I want to give away, and which games I ..read more

In my Art History 2023-2024 blog post, I decided March would be Dame Zaha Hadid. Here are some resources and my planning notes: Zaha Hadid1950 - 2016 also lesson plans from Art History Kids, June 2023 Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid by Victoria Tentler-Krylov Architecture for Kids: Skill-Building Activities for Future ..read more