International Sudoku Day
Are you ready for International Sudoku Day on September 9th? Here are some links to help you celebrate with students!
sudoku
Halloween Treats That Won’t Give You Cavities
As if American politics aren’t scary enough, the United States celebrates Halloween next Monday, which is all kind of wrong – because spending a day with students who can’t wait to trick-or-treat plus 4 more days after they fill up on sugary candy should not be required of any teacher if you are at all … Read more
Halloween Sudoku
I have a third grade student who brings a pad of sudoku puzzles out to recess each day. Any time there is a possible treat on the horizon, some of my second graders call out, “Can it be a sudoku puzzle?” So if, like my students, yours also love these logic puzzles, here is a … Read more
Leprechaun Traps and Other Shenanigans
A couple of years ago I posted about the cute idea that I’d found on several websites of having students build leprechaun traps. Since my Kinders were learning about Inventor Thinking around that time, we tried it out. They were very earnest about creating efficient traps, and I’m pretty sure at least one of … Read more
Love Doesn’t Always Defy Logic
UPDATE 1/26/2021 – Here is my up-to-date Wakelet collection of Valentine’s Day resources. I was going to title this post, “VD is Making me ADD.” Fortunately I realized that was a bad idea – for so many reasons. Well, I kind of lied. I have been saying for two days that all of my posts … Read more
Logical Ways to Survive the Weeks Before Winter Break
Full disclosure: this first week of December is going to be my busiest week this year. Therefore, I decided to cheat a bit for a few days and recycle some posts from last year. I’ve done a bit of editing to make sure they remain current but otherwise they are the same. Hopefully you still … Read more