Jessica shares her passion for teaching and education on What I Have Learned. Jessica has 16 years of elementary teaching experience and currently homeschools her two middle school boys. She enjoys scaffolding learning for students, focusing on helping our most challenging learners achieve success in all academic areas.
If your students can solve equations but get stuck on addition and subtraction word problems, you’re not alone. Many students look for keywords, grab numbers, and guess, without really understanding…
This Goal Setting Craft helps students express the goals that they have set for themselves in an artful, creative way that becomes a beautiful bulletin board display for your classroom…
Engage students with a variety of Fraction Number Puzzles that provide practice with equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and placing fractions on a number line. These Fraction Number Puzzles are part of…
What body parts do living things have that allow them to function in their environment? How do plants and animals live and behave within their communities? Why do birds fly?…
Learning letter sounds, blending and segmenting words, and various phonics skills are foundational for early reading. However, there are just some words that can’t be sounded out. Sight words are…
The Making Waves – Wave Properties Science Stations teach about the properties of different types of sound and ocean waves. Within these stations, students learn about sound waves, construct a phone, diagram different types…
Solving word problems is difficult for students, but teaching students how to read the word problem and understand the context or situation of the world problem sets a good foundation for…
Blending Cards are a great tool to use with students who are learning to read. The Blending Cards are formatted whole-page, but you can print them in many different page configurations to meet…
When it comes to teaching students how to solve word problems, one effective approach is to help them develop an understanding of the context in which the problem is presented….
The Energy Science Stations for Fourth Grade focuses on energy transfer and conservation of energy in moving and colliding objects, light energy, and the transfer of energy from electrical to other types…
Reading and writing open and closed syllables is a foundational skill for multisyllabic decoding. Learning to read part of a word helps students break down longer words into more manageable chunks…
A fun St. Patrick’s Day I Am Lucky Craftivity that helps students reflect on what makes them lucky. The St. Patrick’s Day Craftivity includes the clover base and a prewriting graphic organizer…
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