Week Seventeen – Jan 14-18, 2013
Had a blast this week! This week was filled with many exciting things…I was asked to write a chapter or two in a new Flipped Classroom book coming out in…
Week Sixteen – Jan 8-11, 2013
I had such a blast this week! The kids came back on Tuesday and I could not have been more excited. You see, one of my New Years Resolutions was…
Week Fifteen – Dec 17-21, 2012
Another interesting week! So this week we took our first semester Math Benchmark. I was VERY nervous, for several reasons… – it was the exact same Benchmark as last fall,…
Week Fourteen – Dec 10-14, 2012
This week was…interesting. It started out very rough. There were a lot of issues at the beginning of the week with mis-communication, lack of communication, and so on and it…
Week Thirteen – Dec 3-7, 2012
Wow, talk about exhausted! So after attending the Ron Clark Academy the week before (you can check out more about my trip at http://ninjaroadtrip.blogspot.com) there were quite a few things…
Week Twelve – Nov 26-30, 2012
Another great week! We spent class time Monday working with my studnets on their new iPhone 4’s. It’s surprising to me the lack of knowledge there is with this device…
Week Eleven – Nov 12-16, 2012
This week was probably our best week by far! My team and I decided to try a new schedule. I teach 3 fifth grade math classes. Instead of having a…
Week Ten – Nov 5-Nov 9, 2012
Another good week! There are still so many holes in my student’s education that I’m having to spend A LOT of time on remedial math 🙁 Monday was more or…
Week Nine – Oct 29-Nov 2, 2012
Another fun week! Monday we had another “house cleaning” day. We went over the CBA from Thursday, did new vocabulary cards, and worked on FastMath (a program that helps students…
Week Eight – Oct 22-26, 2012
This week was interesting…. We did a really neat lesson with cheese balls. I bought three HUGE containers of cheese balls (one for each class), and we split the cheese…
Week Seven – Oct 15 – 19, 2012
This week was awesome!! On Monday we completed the prime/composite project we had begun from the week before. Then I had forgotten that I had to be out of town…
Week Six – Oct 8 – 12, 2012
I’ve officially made it through Six Weeks of Flipping! Woo Hoo! Monday Today we took our state’s MSTAR test to test algebra readiness. We’ll take it again in May, but…