Tag: homework

Homework Battles: How to end them for good!

Homework Battles: How to end them for good!

“How can I get Jake to do his homework?” If I had a dollar for every time a parent asked me this question during my teaching career, I wouldn’t be working anymore. No joke. Homework battles were the biggest problems facing most of my parents. 

Homework Caddy: How to Create One for Cheap

Homework Caddy: How to Create One for Cheap

For two years, I taught in four (yes, four) different classrooms. The school was overcapacity. As a new teacher at the school (and lowest on the totem pole) I had to move from room to room. After 12 years of always teaching in my own 

Instant Organization with a Homework Folder + video

Instant Organization with a Homework Folder + video

Let’s play a little teacher MadLibs!   “Ms. P I did my homework, but I left it at ___________ (place.)” Give me some places and my students have left homework there: home, their best friend’s house, the bus, the bus stop, grandma’s, church, work, the airplane.