Patterns, patterns everywhere!  I love playing with patterns and pattern blocks and my students always have too!  Do you have a stack of pattern blocks in your classroom?  They are wonderful and can

I don't know about you, but I know teaching elapsed time to third graders can be a nightmare!  It is such an abstract concept to teach anyway - and then practicing it later is like pulling teeth!  H

With class sizes these days, it can be hard getting gifts - even small ones - for all students in the classroom for holidays.  As a parent, trying to find something that is not candy-related for my

Are you convinced that cooperative learning leads to classroom chaos? Maybe you tried having your students work in teams, and it was a disaster. Perhaps students were noisy and off-task, and you later