Preparing for the New School Year

As a student, I was always one that needed to read and write in order to learn.  Like many of my students, the more opportunities I had to manipulate the content, the more likely I was to retain the material.  With this in mind, I created anchor posters that brighten my classroom while giving students an opportunity to gaze upon the previously covered topics.  Here are examples of the posters that my students find most helpful and eye catching.  I have made a few new ones in preparation for the new school year.

My classroom website

Check out my website, used my parents and students.  I've created more posters and more pictures of my safe learning haven soon to come.

Always a teacher and student,

Frankie Mae

Passing Notes

I intercepted a note being passed between two of my students.  Typically I find this quite exhilarating; bubbling with the anticipation of reading something really juicy. It must be my inner "middle schooler" coming out to play.  The look on my student's face as I slowly unwrapped the message was one of fear and heartbreak.  He surely must have known that his participation in viewing the rest of the science movie was about to come to a bitter end.  Until, I decoded the messy, 6th grade script and read the following...........

I allowed him to watch the rest of the film from which he later got his answer, about 5 hours.   I love my little geeks!


Proud Educator,
Frankie Mae