The Inspired Classroom

After attending a workshop with the sisters (aka Daily 5 and CAFÉ and genius teachers) last year, the thing that stayed with me the longest ...

If this link works, it has a download of the pages for my weather journal. (Not that they'd be hard to recreate, but why do it if it h...

Here is the foldable classifying cloud types by their position in the atmosphere. The info inside is kept quite simple and concise for our ...

Step 2 of preparing my students for our weather unit is ensuring they all have background knowledge of clouds, as one of our lessons has us ...

In a week, my class will be moving on from the scientific method to weather. In order to activate prior knowledge (and also to ensure all m...

I love foldables. They mean less copying for me (which also saves the school $), and the kids do ALL the work. There are no fill-in-the-bl...

January is when my grade level focuses on the scientific method. My class will do several class experiments together, practicing, but in ju...