Top Notch Teaching

I came across this cool website a few weeks back and really wanted to share it with you.  Jigsaw Planet, is a site where you can upload a photo/picture and then it scrambles the image into jigsaw pieces.  You’re able to select how many pieces you would like for the puzzle, from 35 – 300.  [...]

I truly believe that if I encourage social skills and values in my students, then I will be able to promote a positive, caring classroom community. Recently I wrote a little bit about this in my article, The Top 5 Behaviour Management Strategies That Have Worked For Me.  I spoke a bit about establishing a [...]

(Read on for a FREEBIE at the end ) Well it’s only one more sleep until the London 2012 Olympic Games are here (27 July – 12 August, 2012).  I love watching the Olympics and really get into the spirit of the Games.  I have always used the Olympics as a platform to inspire my [...]

So I’ve been working hard on creating a super cute freebie for you all.  Let me set the scene a bit more so as to tempt you . The freebie is a series of 5 posters.  The posters are in full colour with extremely cute graphics.  They are most suitable for the junior primary grades, [...]

This investigation of floating and sinking is ideal for junior primary students.  Students look at the objects provided and predict if they think that object will float or sink.  Students then test if their predictions are correct by performing the investigation. The attached worksheet (see link at the end of the post) can be used [...]

Since I’ve been part of the TpT community I have connected with some really great teachers and have been part of some great initiatives. One such initiative was instigated by Mrs O’s Rockin Resources who wanted to compile a list of many of the free teaching resources on TpT. She put the word out there [...]

Continued from Tales From A First Year Teacher: Will I Ever Get A Job? What the…..are you for real…..this can’t be right can it…..is this where I’m meant to spend the whole year…..I can feel my whole world crashing down around me…..This wasn’t part of the picture I had painted in my head….. This isn’t [...]

I have produced a worksheet you can use when teaching graphing skills.  It is suited to the junior and middle primary years. The worksheet focuses on students reading a bar graph, making sense of the information presented and then answering questions about the graph. The graph includes the conventions students will need to know so [...]