Clock classroom ideas

I don’t have a lot of space around the clock in my classroom, but I wanted to use it as a focal point. 🕰️️ I think I made it work. 😁 I also…

Time to get creative!

This week was pre-planning and I really got almost nothing done. I just can't figure out what to do with my room. I don't like distraction and clutter and lots of stuff. Most of the other teachers have cute themes in their rooms but it's visual overload to me. So my room tends to look pretty plain and dare I say, boring, compared to everyone else's. So far this is what I've got... As you can see, I'm painting my walls light blue. (They're actually finished now.) I figure it's a nice calm…

classroom clock, focus on math

I used fairy wings and over lap the clock on top of it. It is a way to decorate the clock and the kids refer to it all the time, when they see that our class time has flied!

Well, it's four days after the storm and Connecticut is slowly getting back to normal. Many of my co-workers and neighbors are still without power and/or water and the clean-up is taking its toll on everyone's spirits a little. We've certainly seen worse storms, but this one was just so widespread that its just going to take time to get everything up and running. That apparently includes the start of school. Teachers were supposed to return to work this past Monday, and the first day of…

A recent debate between my 4 and 6 year-olds about how to tell a digital time that was showing on my phone prompted me to want to share my tips on teaching kids to tell time digitally.