Honoring 9/11 – A Delicate Balance

…share. 2. Discuss The Man Who Walked Between the Towers You can use the set of question cards shown below to discuss the book with your students. Because of the…

Host a Classroom Scrabble Tournament!

…this event is sure to keep your students completely engaged during the last days of school. Even if you don’t want to set up a tournament, you can still teach…

5 Ways to Help Students Become Word Collectors

…backpacks and noticed when people “cringed”. They loved it!   2. Model classroom discourse! Hearing and using rich language serves a number of purposes–from modeling sophisticated language to showing that…

Family Science Night: Hands-on, Minds-on Fun!

…http://carolwooten.weebly.com/science-night/; however, remember that the list is not cookie-cutter. It can be adapted to meet the needs of various schools. Develop a school team of interested members and delegate a…

Halting Back Talkers in Their Tracks!

…smart choices” is marvelously general, addressing every decision a child (or adult!) can make. Rule 4 can be applied to any issue not covered by the first three rules. So,…

Teaching with Dry Erase Boards

…or the rectangular ones. I love Julia’s boards because they are 2-sided and can be customized with different surfaces. You can choose between an unlined surface, handwriting lines, graph paper,…

Pumpkin Predictions Measurement Fun!

…do this activity, you’ll need a variety of pumpkins in different sizes, preferably one pumpkin per team of four or five students. If you have fewer pumpkins, you can set…