Editable Incentive  Wristbands Today’s video comes from a question from Sheryl B. on the facebook fan page: She wants to know how to actually make the wristbands from the template and how th

This week’s Terrific Teaching Tool is actually a learning activity disguised as a game:  Blokus!  I love, love, love this game to use with my math students.  If you have never heard of it, you reall

Hi all!  So, as many of you know that are fans of my facebook fan page, I moved last weekend into a new fab house, BUT I still don’t have internet, and it’s looking like it will be Friday (keep

In honor of Memorial Day, I created a few activity pages for the kids to do on Monday in observance of the holiday.  Please enjoy the day and remember to reflect upon the meaning.  Some other ide

So, this is my first ever linky party, and I think it is really a fun idea!  Thanks to Karla from Life in Special Education for coming up with the idea!  For anyone who blogs, feel free to join up!

I am SOOOOO excited to be announcing  a giveaway - courtesy of Really Good Stuff!  You know how much I love baskets for organizing pretty much everything in my classroom, especially papers!  And t

Here us a roundup of all the 150+ End-of-the-Year Activities links that were tweeted and/or posted on the facebook fan page last week.  Perhaps you missed something?  Make sure to bookmark this pag

I absolutely adore student dry erase boards in the classroom!  Not only are we saving paper, but the students think highly of them as well and ask to get them out!  While they are a novelty for so

I absolutely love the book Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash by  Sarah Weeks.  I use it even with older kids.  You can practice reading elements such as predictions, inferencing, real vs. make-believe

Ok - so we created a Google Docs quiz in the video tutorial and blog two days ago, have gotten some answers and feedback from you, and now it is time to grade our quiz! Using Flubaroo, I show

I am reviewing the website http://www.spaceracekids.com/ this week and was quite impressed with what I have found!  Space Race is a website that has several webisodes of animated shows that give

Today’s blog entry is from guest blogger Scipi!  She mentions a couple of math trade books I also love to use in my classroom!   Many of my college students come to me without knowi

Today’s video shows you how to create a quick quiz for your students in Google Docs (which is free!) and how to customize it. After watching the video, could you please head underneath it and ta

This week’s “Terrific Teaching Tools” item is Educational Insight’s Eggspert that is wonderful for an fun game show environment in your classroom.  I was introduced to this fun game by a fellow col

I know the school year is winding down, and you have probably gotten to the point where a movie the entire last week of school sounds like a  dream come true, if for no other reason than your bra

Welcome the first ever OC Blog Contest!!! Hopefully it is the first of many to come (hint, hint major corporations that might want to give our fans free stuff)!   You can win all of the bel

Today’s video is about using Google Reader to manage all of your blog feeds.  It is sort of like the master meeting room that holds all of the new content so you don’t have to go to each blog indi

So, I am going to borrow a little something from Oprah titled “Oprah’s Favorite Things” and tweak it to fit a new feature I plan on doing every Monday called “The OC Blog’s Terrific Teaching Tool

Teacher Appreciation/Mother's Day Classroom Craft Ideas List   Here is a current list of all the TA/Mother's Day craft ideas you have seen this past week on fb and Twitter!  Feel free to visit ag

Today’s blog entry is from guest blogger Mark Aaron!  Great tips for classroom management!     Beginning teachers are often taught about lesson planning, curriculum, objectives, and assessment.

Mother’s Day crafts can get pricey and be time-consuming for many teachers. Not to mention the glue, glitter, and chaos that sometimes accompanies it! I prefer to try something different when p

So I just wanted to personally say- THANK YOU!  For everything you do, from teaching students the standards you are required to wiping runny noses to consoling those that are having a hard time w

Welcome to today’s video, which is about using a sqworl to organize your websites and electronic media in your classroom. This idea could actually piggyback off the video about File Organization fo

Today’s blog entry is from guest blogger Brandi Jordan from the Really Good Stuff Teachers’ Lounge!  A must-read to remember why we are in the classroom each and every day!   I have

Welcome to today’s video: File Organization for Teachers! This video was the most requested topic from all those who voted in the poll on our facebook fan page from last week. I explain how I k