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.
Learning how to work together is SO important. Students need purposeful activities that engage them in team building and group work. Most of what the workplace requires these days is…
Creating your perfect elementary classroom schedule is a daunting task. You have the whole school day and yet you need to teach everything to everyone. As an educator, you want…
I was able to go in and get my keys yesterday. We don’t start school for two more weeks, but I have bits of things scheduled here and there, so…
An Earth Science Unit that includes a variety of activities to scaffold the content for your second-grade learners. Each standard focuses on one comprehension skill. There is a pre-reading activity to build background knowledge…
If you’re a teacher, then you know how important it is to have your students keep a writing journal. Not only does it give them a place to record their…
Do you use Whole Brain Teaching in your classroom? I experimented with using it and melded the Super Improvers Team Wall Cards with my Goal Setting routines to help students…
As an elementary teacher, how do you plan for the upcoming school year? What factors should you take into account when planning yearly, and how do you effectively translate overarching…
Teaching students how to write an expository paragraph about animals can feel tricky, especially once you move past simple facts. Students often list information without organizing their ideas or explaining…
For the past few weeks we have been reading My Father’s Dragon. It’s on the Common Core Reading List, so I thought I’d give it a try to see how it…
Teaching students to solve problems and better yet, work together to solve problems, is a key skill in elementary school. This cooperative learning resource is a structured activity where students…
We continued our work with multiplication this week! I have a fun game to show you at the end, so keep reading! We started this week building array with squares,…
As students start learning multiplication facts, modeling multiplication arrays in rows and columns is an effective strategy to visualize what is happening in the problems. Let’s explore fun and engaging…
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