I made my first font! I’m so excited. Amanda at Teaching Maddeness wrote about a (not free) font making iPad app called ifontmaker and I had to give it a try. I’m officially addicted (after just a few minutes!!). Here is my first font: I imagine I’ll be posting more soon. 🙂 I hope you […]
Making Adjustments
Today I had a challenging lesson in Math: Finding decimals on the number line. One of the things I miss about 2nd grade is knowing exactly what they knew and didn’t know and having a clear understanding of prerequisite skills. Today, I realized while teaching my first period of math that my students didn’t have […]
Rounding Numbers and a Freebie
One thing I’m enjoying about teaching 5th grade math is seeing how the math I taught in 2nd grade is still being used. I’ll be busting out the rounding poem Monday morning, but I thought I’d go the more ‘sophisticated’ route and use one of my chevron frames rather than a cute picture poem. While […]
Editable Labels and a Freebie
I’m excited about my newest product at Teachers Notebook. I’ve created Editable Labels so people can type whatever they want. I know when I’ve labeled my classroom with things that were downloaded, I always have one weird thing that isn’t on their list. Now people can label as needed. I didn’t know which backgrounds to […]
Monday Made It and A Freebie
I’m having so much fun making clip art! Look at what I made this weekend: Over the last week I’ve made Sea Animals, Tropical Fish, and Pencil clipart as well. I have two freebies today! I’m giving away my first piece of clipart. I spend so much time on these it feels like giving a […]