Volleyball. The sport every class learns in PE at some point in the year. It has so many merits. So many of the sports we play are territorial (basketball, hockey, football, soccer), so giving students a chance at a net or wall game is awesome! In volleyball, the key skill is learning to be ready …
Month: May 2019
Keeping track of student’s reading can be something of a mystery to me. When I first started teaching, I had students keep a home reading log. Some kids were diligent, some struggled because they didn’t care or they lost their logs. I found that because so few of these logs got handed in, I as …
I feel like in my corner of the world, Daily Physical Activity was the catch phrase about 8 years ago. We were mandated to add a phrase to our report card that reads something like: {student name} participates in Daily Physical Activity. And we were mandated that we needed to provide at least 30 minutes …
Okay, so in reality, I don’t run Daily 5. I run Daily 2! But I aspire to add in a word work component, but it just hasn’t worked out yet…. So yes, in my class we have Daily 2 and it is AMAZING!!! I remember the summer I discovered Daily 5 and the CAFE books. …