Interactive Notebooks Click the title to go to the website.  These interactive notebooks are HOT! They make so much sense too! Carson Dellosa is helpful with this! Their Interactive Notebook series is great! They are well organized, give tons of useful tips, have ways to get started, keeping them organized, planning them out and even grading them. The Interactive Notebook Science for kindergarten is fun! It covers Life Science, Physical Science and Earth and Space Science. It works with my curriculum. It works with my standards. They won’t be doing the same type page over and over. They mix it up! There are pockets, folds, flaps, petals and accordion folds. The book even has some templates for you to make your own if you need. Carson Dellosa has this interactive notebook thing covered! I participate in the Brand Ambassador Program from Carson-Dellosa and have received this product for free.

Keeping Track of All the Data Teachers are held accountable to the students, the parents and the school districts. We need to make sure that we are showing growth in our students. We need to be able to show this. We also need to plan what our students need to know. We need to make sure we know what we have done and where we are going. The students need to be able to see what growth they are making. They need to be able to see what they need and where they are going. Tracking data helps us. Tracking data helps the students. Tracking data proves what we are doing and where we are going. Tracking data gives us support and the students support. Data Binders or Data Notebooks whatever you call them- will help with all of this. They can be work to set them up in the beginning, but once you think it through about how you want it set up, what you will include in it, and how they will be used and stored – it will be worth it. Just like everything – planning is key to implementati