WHY?!?! The most intriguing question that I ask and try to have an answer for. So I was about to teach how to find area of a trapezoid, and I thought I could just teach them the formula and how to use it, but then the question hit me… Why?? Why is the formula like […]
It has been really nice covering Earth Science on Earth Day….wish I had gotten the chance to do something about Earth Day. In my 6th grade class, we are going into more depth about the layers of the Earth and starting to understand plate tectonics. This week started with me showing them a hard-boiled egg, […]
So…. after a year of waiting….I finally received my 6th grade science TE textbook. I received it last week. It has been kinda tough trying to go in blind my first year teaching 6th grade science, but I also have to admit that this year has been soooooo refreshing as well. I have taught from […]
I’ve reached my goal this weekend! In fact I have done 3 posts in 3 days!! I am so proud of myself! Since my science notebooks are set up the same way as my math ones, I wont go into detail as to how they are set up. If you want to find out how […]
So this week we started Earth Science… one of my faves!!!! My TEK stated that the students were to build a model of the layers of the earth, but when they know nothing about the earth it makes the concept of building kind of tough. So we started from square one: KWL chart, and they […]
This week I am teaching my 6th graders about speed: what is it? what changes it? how do we measure it? and how do we graph it? Today I am engaging my learners into what it is and having them make a rough sketch of what the line graph might look like. I started with […]
One of the life science TEKS I have to teach is abiotic and biotic factors, which are just fancy names for living and non living things in an ecosystem. But more importantly, I have to teach the interdependence biotic factors have on abiotic items and vice versa. There is no better way to teach this […]
My 6th graders are having a hard time with line graphs. It’s hard for them to plot ordered pairs, connect the dots and understand what they are looking at. As I was sitting on the couch looking through some books, I came across an awesome idea….AND I LOVE IT!!!! The book is called Hands-On Math! […]
This past summer I had been flipping out over teaching 6th graders. Were they going to have that dreaded “attitude”? Can I still give high-fives or will they think I am stupid? Will they still want to get on the carpet and read with me? Will they get my jokes? Could I possibly love them […]
I am OBSESSED with color. No specific color, just all of them. So logically my classroom looks like a rainbow blew up in it. And no… I am not teaching kindergarten or even elementary where this would be most appropriate. I am teaching 6th grade… I think the kids are supposed to be maturing, but […]