Three Good Things to Start the Year
By Stephanie Farley The first six weeks of school are like starting a 1000 piece puzzle: figuring out each student’s interests, talents, and proclivities is like identifying the edge pieces,…
Low Prep Math Activities to Start the Year Off Right!
A MiddleWeb Blog This year the week before students arrived was very busy (as usual), so I needed some good first day(s) school activities that involved little to no prep.…
Start the New School Year with Super Ideas from MiddleWeb
Who will be coming in your classroom door this fall? Upper elementary kids who are still thinking concretely? Young adolescents who suddenly aren’t themselves, sometimes feeling childish and other times…
3 Ways to Lessen Back to School Overwhelm
By Julie Schmidt Hasson I have the same dream every August. I’m standing in a river with a thousand floating rubber ducks, trying to gather them and put them in…