Lesson Plan: Amusement Park Area and Perimeter

This was a super fun little project that I used as my evaluation for area and perimeter when I was teaching a 6/7 split. I found that even in grade 7 some of my students were having trouble remembering the difference between area and perimeter so making them do both really helped solidify. The 7's …

Review: PBIS world

PBIS world is a site that feeds you behaviour management strategies based on the kinds of behaviour you're seeing in your classroom. It's a really interesting read and there are a mix of interesting new strategies, tried and true classics, and some that are a bit shaky. For example: Student A is a name calling …

This week in our Classrooms: Reading Non-Fiction

There is SO MUCH learning to be had from books and reading - and in our tech crazy world, sometimes we forget that. We've all had students who would only read non-fiction for a project or paper. There have been students who would refuse or groan at the idea of reading non-fiction, but sometimes (if …

Hotter than hot

Today was a SCORCHER it is September 25th and it is 32 C but with humidity feels like 38 and let me tell you my classroom is not a cool one. By the end of the day today it was 28 in the room. Today was a lesson in not pushing. Did I spend my …

Review: Teaching Student Centered Math

If you teach math to students from k- 8 this is the only book you need. It is SO GOOD. I was lucky enough to be given a full set of these books by a math specialist I was working with in London, but it was another year before I realized just what a gem …