Classroom Awards Make Kids Feel Special!
…titles. Invite parents to your classroom immediately before or after your school awards program. Present each award individually with great fanfare and let your students know just how special you…
…titles. Invite parents to your classroom immediately before or after your school awards program. Present each award individually with great fanfare and let your students know just how special you…
…form was a great place to start. Inspired by Thinking Maps You might be thinking that you’ve seen this graphic organizer before, and you’d be right! The folks at Thinking…
…Sticks for free right now! Also, I’ve put together an entire page on my blog just about Summer Helps. This page has videos and links to other great resources. I…
…management skills improved after I had an interactive whiteboard installed in my classroom. I discovered that the built-in Smartboard timer app was a great help, and before long I also…
September 17th is Constitution Day, and it’s a great time to integrate social studies into your literacy lessons. I discovered two outstanding informational text books to read and discuss with…
…full set of The Issy Books and shared them with her two grandchildren. She told us how excited her kindergarten grandson was to have “just right” books to read. He…
…format to display for the class and a smaller task card format to use in small groups. The questions to display for the class include the specific standard numbers right…
…is one of the principal voices in contemporary children’s poetry. Since her first highly-acclaimed book, The Great Frog Race, was published in 1997, Kristine O’Connell George’s poetry has generated excitement…
…the best “advice columns” and share them with your new class in the fall as a bit of an ice breaker activity. Again, this could make a great display for…
…completed a reflection by drawing labeled diagrams of the experiment. Was their data perfect? No. Did they get the same results? No. Were they scientists? Absolutely! This was a great…
…Teaching Resources. Showdown is a great strategy for reviewing grammar skills, too. You’ll find many Showdown task cards in my Language Arts File Cabinet including free Quotation Mark Task Cards…
…problems. Before the game, place a different task card on each student’s desk, and give each student a blank numbered worksheet. To start the game, ask everyone to solve the…
