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.
How do you teach multiplication in your classroom? There are several different concepts that students need to learn regarding multiplication, in addition to the traditional number sentence and multiplication fact….
I know I’m getting an early start on this, but since it was done, I decided to post it. This Valentine’s Day Math Pack focuses on Graphing, Fractions, Multiplication, and…
Understanding the meaning of the equal sign can be challenging for most first-grade students. They often think it simply signifies the answer, with the left side presenting an expression and…
Get a FREE Center Rotation Sequence that groups students heterogeneously. No student has the same rotation as another student. This is a fun way to easily group a whole class of students for special events and holidays.
Have you ever heard of directed cutting? I just made it up. It’s like directed drawing, but with scissors and paper. It’s a process that you lead students through to…
Want to learn a fun way to fold a booklet for students? I taught my students how to fold this little booklet to record the results of a multiplication game….
Holidays are a great time to infuse informational writing into your reading and writing curriculum. Students get to learn about animals from around the world and learn to write informational paragraphs…
Teaching fractions can feel like one of the trickier units of the year. Students need to recognize fractions in multiple ways, as numbers, as parts of a whole, and as…
I know most of us have English learners in our classrooms, but how many of you have to teach English Language Development (ELD) or ESL everyday? In California, we need…
We started a fraction unit this week and some of my second graders have been struggling to understand them. We’ve only done two days of instruction, but I can already…
As we have been doing some activities that elicit specific grammar and spelling patterns, my students have struggled to remember the names of grammar words like apostrophes, contractions, etc. Let’s…
Scaffold student writing in the content areas by providing them with word lists, a way to organize the words and sentence frames. Find out how I help my English learners and struggling writers to organize their thoughts when comparing and contrasting urban and rural environments.
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