It's been a year since the Pandemic officially started. Our province shut down during Spring Break 2020, which will be our one year anniversary, in a couple days. Though our government made education "optional", many teachers had to make the jump to online learning and fast. With the continuation of online learning, I began … [Read more...]
Teach Your Primary Students Finances
Teaching students about finances is huge. If you didn't get a chance to read the previous post, you can check it out here. In this post we are going to break down what aspect of finances we can teach and also look at developing an economy system for your class.Components of Financial LiteracyIf you spend time on Google™, … [Read more...]
Why Financial Literacy is Important for Students
Why is Financial Literacy important to teach to our students? Whether you are teaching younger or older students, financial literacy is important because finances are part of our existence. Teaching is my second career, banking was my first. I worked in a financial institution for twenty years (the last 4-5 years during … [Read more...]
What is Composing And Decomposing Numbers
In many of our curriculum standards, teachers are required to teach composing and decomposing numbers. But what does that mean? Is it really important in the younger grades? Let's find out!The Foundation of Composing & Decomposing NumbersIt all begins with Number Sense. Numbers are about relationships, patterns, sets, and if … [Read more...]
Teaching How to Find the Unknown Number
Teaching how to find the unknown number takes time. It's a concept that you will need to re-visit throughout the school year if you want students to be proficient with it. As a new teacher I think I spent a couple weeks (in total) with it and my students struggle. But now, it's "know better, do better!"To Find the Unknown, … [Read more...]
Handwriting Numbers – 5 Tips To Help Your Students
Follow my blog with BloglovinHandwriting numbers for young students is harder than it appears. Did you really want to hear that? As teachers, we really don't know what our students have been taught prior to coming into our classroom. What does their pencil grip look like? Have they already formed opinions regarding … [Read more...]
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