Month: July 2015

End Of The Year, Reading

Encouraging Summer Reading For Kids

*This post contains affiliate links for convenient viewing* Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know that your students were continuing to use the valuable skills they learned in class over the summer?  We can actually help to encourage valuable summer reading for kids! I recently came across “Summer reading is so different than reading for school.  Here are 3 reasons to encourage it for kids”.  It mentions 3 reasons kids should be reading throughout the summer.  The reasons are: 1. it prepares students for the upcoming school year, 2. they’ll enjoy reading more-so than they would in class and 3. kids could actually earn free books! Those are all awesome reasons for students to read over theContinue reading

Fostering Peer Collaboration, Games, Math

Probability Game Ideas – Have Fun With Math!

*This post contains affiliate links for convenient viewing* Kids love playing games in the classroom, and a probability unit is the perfect fit for incorporating fun in your math curriculum!  After introducing your class to the key concepts and terminology they’ll need to successfully discuss probability, try these probability game ideas out and have those concepts really become engrained in your students. This post is actually in celebration of my very first TPT product!  It’s a freebie of 4 recording & reflection sheets, for the following 4 games.  Please take a look.  I would love your support, so please follow my TPT profile, and rate my first product so I can improve.  Thanks! Carnival InspiredContinue reading