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 […]
How to Use PNG Files and a Polka Heart Freebie
Most of the emails I get through TPT or TN are asking questions about how to use PNG files. I thought I’d share this to help. Many of the items in my store are PNG files. PNG files are high quality picture files. They can not be opened in Adobe Reader. If you try to […]
Manic Made it Monday
Today I feel I have a lot to share for Tara’s linky! Last Monday I showed you the labels I made for my IKEA boxes. I wanted to make them a big cuter so I added some ribbon I found on sale at Michael’s. I’m super proud of my portable clip chart that I made. […]