In the theme of the month, this fun activity challenges students to write their own creative Scary story. It also falls in line with IDOE Standard 4.W.3.3 in which students are asked to establish an introduction, organize events that unfold naturally, use dialogue and descriptive detail, and employ sensory with sufficient sensory. This activity not only tests their knowledge in this area, it has help steps to guide them!!

This activity is in line with IDOE Standard 4.RV.2.4. It is simple and easy and can be easily done in a classroom, or given as a take home assignment!

In line with IDOE Standard 4.NS.5. This site provides problems that require the student to add fractions with unlike denominators. This site also has problems/activities for a variety of IDOE Mathematics standards

Starting with standard 4.NS.1. The activities in this site help students learn the place values up to 1,000,000, and beyond!!

This activity can focus on standard 4.RL.3.2. It helps the students to learn the sounds of words, then asks them to read through a poem or story and answer questions relating to different perspectives and story lines.

This is a very easy to use and effective Daily lesson plan. It has adequate spaces for each subject and is broken down so that you can sufficiently plan out your day. Also, this website is an excellent place to find tons and tons of unique and custom made lesson plans by teachers across the country.

This weekly Lesson plan has the class hours set out for each day. While I would like a lesson plan that would allow me to go into greater detail about the subject matter and objectives of each lesson, it is important to have an overview and well timed out lesson plan for each day.

This unit lesson plan is fairly basic, but it allows you the ability to plan out your key goals for each day inside your unit. Being able to state your objectives plays a key role in keeping your unit and your students on task.

The Association of American Educators (AAE) is the largest national nonunion professional teachers association, advancing the profession through teacher advocacy and professional development, as well as promoting excellence in education, so that members receive the respect, recognition and reward they deserve.

300 million+ members. This is a great networking site to connect with professionals of all kinds, and specifically teachers, principals, and administrators across the globe.

This article goes in depth about that growing use of technology in Education, and both the positive and negative effects that it is having.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Over 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

This is an awesome site for anyone that loves to collaborate and gain new ideas for the classroom from teachers around the world!