If you've been teaching 5th grade for a long time, you know how frustrating it can be to teach math when your students aren't fluent...

Collaboration can work wonders in a classroom when we teach students what it means to work together.  One essential skill students need to l...

There are so many free resources on the internet.  The trick is figuring out which ones are worth your time. The 4th through 6th grader...

Spring is here which means the energy level goes up and the focus level can go down if we aren't careful. The easiest students to te...

As an intervention teacher, I teach K-6.  I made a poster that I thought I'd share with you.  While fifth graders SHOULD know how to cou...

Have you seen this video? One of my 5th grade classes adopted this as a theme song a couple years ago.  Honestly, I was a little shocke...

Hi, I'm Mercedes from Surfing to Success.  I'm currently a K-6 Intervention teacher.  Part of my desire to teach intervention came f...

How will I use this in real life? I asked that question all the time in school.  This activity gives the students a chance to  ...

 Have you looked at the 8 Mathematical Practices?  I'm getting ready to introduce them in my classroom and made a  freebie  to shar...

Simplifying fractions is so challenging for my students! I recently created a PowerPoint to review the vocabulary needed and teach three s...

Do your fifth graders have a bit of an attitude when you give them a warning?   Read here about how I use this phrase to deal with that and...

I'm excited to say, we have some wonderful people that have volunteered to contribute!  I look forward to seeing their posts soon. In ...