Whole Brain Teaching

I'm a little late to the whole brain teaching party but I think I'm going to try it next year, at least a modified version of it.  I read a little about WBT last summer on many of your blogs but I had enough on my plate with a new, very different position.  As I'm wrapping up my first year as a classroom teacher, I realized that using some of the WBT ideas may have helped eliminate some...

Mother's Day & Getting Ready for Next Year

Mother's day is tricky in my room.  Many of my students don't live with their parents.  They are in foster care or live with grandparents now.  I don't want to make a huge deal about mother's day and make any of them feel bad so I combined it with a science unit. Mid-April we planted flower seeds as a part of our plant unit.  I made these super cute clouds/castles to go along...

Free E-book

Happy Teacher Appretiation Day!   Remedia Publications is giving away a free ebook (up to a $7.99 value) with the coupon code: EBKTHX I love these Wonder Stories books.  They are full of high interest reading material written at lower levels.  Head over to rempub.com to get yours!  Offer ends at midnight tonight.   Everything in my Teachers Notebook store...

Sub Prep {Freebie}

The last few weeks I have been grading state tests and going to CSE meetings.  This means prepping for a substitute.  Since all of my students have special needs, I always end up leaving a ton of notes for my subs (medical needs, behavior plans).  I was in desperate need of a sub binder.  I looked around at different sub binders online but they all had extra info that I didn't...