A step-by-step tutorial geared toward teachers who want to learn how to copy part of a google slide presentation. Did you know that you can copy only selected slides of a google drive presentation?  Well...you most definitely can, and it can be a really useful tool when dealing with long Google Slides documents like our Daily Math Warm-ups. The 4th and 5th Grade Daily Math Warm-ups have ... Read More about How to Copy Part of a Google Slide Presentation

Root words have the power to decode the English language. Teaching students root words gives new English readers the ability to work through words to seek meaning rather than leaning on the dictionary (or Siri) to provide them with a quick definition. The ‘Root’ of Change In a contrast to typical ‘sit and get’ learning, contemporary education is leaning more and more toward problem-solving and ... Read More about Decoding Vocabulary Words: Teaching Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes in Upper Elementary

Teaching measurement has never been more fun when you use these 2 review activities and 8 real-world, project-based challenges with your upper elementary or middle school students. Whether you’re cooking, building, or running, measurements are an integral part of your life which makes teaching measurement in upper elementary super important. Measurements are typically taught in a sequence ... Read More about 8 Real-World Project-Based Challenges for Teaching Measurement in Upper Elementary

The holidays are buzzing and winter break is near! It’s time to start thinking about what you want the spring semester to look and feel like in your classroom.  You’ve been planning all of your pre-winter break activities. Many of which you may have even found in our blog post Holiday School Resources: Celebrate the Holidays without the Party, but with only a few days left, and a desperate need ... Read More about 5 Ways to Ease Back in After Winter Break

5+ new ideas for teaching theme in upper elementary. Use these suggestions for activities, scaffolding, projects, and review to give your students a firm foundation for identifying theme in literature. We teach our students lessons every day, but when it comes to teaching them to FIND the lesson (or theme) when they are reading, our students often struggle to see past the main ... Read More about Teaching Theme in Upper Elementary