I have been using interactive math notebooks in my classroom for as long as I can remember. Math notebooks are a great place for students to take notes, record definitions and sample problems, and practice new skills. They are perfect to use for direct instruction and guided practice, in small groups or as a whole class.…
Are you looking for an effective way to organize your students' interactive writing notebooks and folders? I've used writing notebooks for several years and have made changes along the way to find the best possible way to use them. In this post, I will show you how to set
Hi Friends… I hope this post finds you well and enjoying your summer break. I just returned home from a relaxing vacation in Punta Cana! It was a ton of fun and I really needed the R & R 🙂 I actually wrote this blog post on the plane there…BUT… the flight didn’t have any … Science FUN with Interactive Notebooks! Read More »
Are you new to interactive note taking? This post shares everything you need to know about how to use interactive notebooks.
Do you need parts of speech posters for your classroom? This post has several classroom décor resources to help teachers prepare an engaging learning environment.
It's so much more than a place to take notes during class.
Science journal activities for budding scientists. Have your students keep a standards-based science journal like a true scientist.
One of my favorite changes from last school year was to make dividers for my students' interactive notebooks. The year before last, I tried using sticky
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Are you new to using Interactive Notebooks? After 6 years of trial and error, I made a list of 12 things I wish I had known that very first year. Set up 4 pages for the Table of Contents. Instead of drawing sloppy lines on the page, I just use the red lines already provided in the ... Read more
Engage your students in exciting science lessons with this interactive science notebook.
Do not let your interactive notebook setup overwhelm you. They can be set up quickly and easily for a new school year. Read for tips and must-haves.
Our Landforms Interactive Notebook is a great tool to study and learn about the world around us and learning about landforms and bodies of water.
Hi Friends….. I am REALLY EXCITED because I have been a busy little bee creating some NEW resources that I am STOKED about I have been called the Flip Flap Book Queen by many of my friends, because I have created over 100 of my flip flap books and there doesn’t seem to be an end … Math Flip Flap Books for Interactive Notebooks….YEP! Read More »
As a primary teacher, it can be very difficult fitting in grammar instruction into your day. I also have a little secret you might not know about me. I used to loathe teaching grammar. Can any of you relate? It's so difficult to even WANT to teach grammar when we have so many other things we could be doing with our day. Plus, many of us are expected to "spiral" it in with the many other subjects we are expected to teach throughout the day. Although all school districts, programs, and teachers are different, I have found something that students love doing, and that is applying new information into something called an interactive notebook!! And so I created these for grammar...and the students loved them!
From my experience, students will take a hands-on activity over a less interactive one any day, and I bet some of you would agree! Little minds wander
Why use math sorts? Discussions Differentiation Aligned to the standards No-prep FUN! 1. Discussions We constantly tell students to show their work or explain their thinking. Using math sorts weekly will give students practice in putting their thinking into words. Your students will use math vocabulary as they explain how they sorted their cards. They […]
Rocks and Minerals Interactive Notebook Activities are engaging activities for your rocks and minerals unit! This set contains 7 interactive notebook activities. Also included is a teacher’s page for each foldable, which includes colorful photos of assembled foldables and more helpful information. The following topics are included: 1. Types of Rocks Flip Book 2. Rock Cycle Flap Book 3. Properties of Minerals Flip Book 4. Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary Book 5. Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary Book (blank version) 6. Layers of the Earth booklet 7. Rocks and Minerals Venn diagram These activities are ready to print and pass out and will make learning about rocks and minerals even more fun! Teachers save 20% by purchasing the Rocks and Minerals Bundle The bundle contains this resource and the following: Rocks and Minerals - Fun Sorting Activities Rocks and Minerals Scavenger Hunt Task Cards Rocks and Minerals Photo Activity Cards ~For personal and single classroom use only.~
Here is a preview to our Interactive Notebook on the book by Jack London, White Fang. We have used the Great Illustrated Classic Collection but this unit will go well with any other edition for this story. Download Now Details Part of a Plot: Students are to write about Plot-Exposition-Rising Action-Climax-Falling Action and Resolution as well as to find these in the story. Verbs and Adjectives in the Story Story Setting Vocabulary Words Pocket and cards (empty for teacher to pick vocab) One Eye Kiche White Fang Grey Beaver Beauty Smith Comprehension Questions Cause and Effect Surviving the Wild Surviving with Humans Comparison of Life in the wild and with Humans Conflicts and Resolution Human Emotions and Animal Emotions Point out Emotions of the Main Character Life with the Indians Dog Fights The Beating Surviving in the Pack Loyalty to the Gods The Last Fight The Love Master A Heroic Act A New Life Collie and White Fang Comparison of the main character in the beginning and end of story More Photos of our Notebook Some part of the Interactive Notebook has to do with some of the chapters of the book. Other pages have to do with parts of a Plot This way your students can review this and put it to practice.
Isn’t writing challenging to teach? I think so too! To help, I worked on incorporating some writing activities into my interactive notebook pages this year, Maybe this freebie will come in handy for you and your students! You can grab this writing freebie from my Second Grade Language Arts Interactive Notebook. It will help your kiddos ... Read More about Interactive Notebook Freebie – Writing
These Place Value Worksheets provide extra practice for your first or second graders. They can be used for seat work, centers, assessments, interactive notebooks, and fast finishers. 50 pages - 5 MB - PDF
Click for Link I've joined a collaborative blog just for Virginia educators! Since Virginia does not teach the Common Core Curriculum we were in desperate need of a place where we can find resources specifically written for our standards. Hop on over to download a special freebie (seen below) and enter to win a $25 Walmart Gift Card. http://virginiaisforteachers.blogspot.com/2015/08/virginia-is-for-readers.html I'm sharing some School Themed Reading Notebook Templates. If you follow me you'd know that I created them for Christmas, Winter and Spring.
Are you new to interactive note taking? This post shares everything you need to know about how to use interactive notebooks.
We spent the last two weeks learning about animal classification. This all came about last year when we were doing our rain forest animal reports. Many of
Hey hey there! I know that many of you are enjoying long and lazy summer days. I also know that many of you are still trucking away in your classrooms and my thoughts are with you! I wanted to give you some extra insight into Rooted in Reading and especially give you an idea of how I set up my interactive notebooks with my students. If you have NO idea what I am talking about when I say "Rooted in Reading" read THIS POST here to see all about the 2nd grade version. You can also look at the Bundle or the August unit by itself. Amy did an amazing job on the previews so we hope that answers a lot of your questions! If this is your first time using interactive notebooks, having them organized from the beginning can help you avoid a lot of headaches down the line. Most 8 and 9 yr olds need the extra help with organization (goodness my 34 yr old husband needs a lot of help with organization), and I think these notebooks will be a great way to scaffold this skill! Step 1: Clearly mark the covers of your notebooks. We always had several notebooks for different subjects so this helped lessen confusions. I have included a color and black and white cover that you can print on bright paper if you would like! Step 2: Print out tab dividers on Astrobright paper AND laminate. I promise the laminating step is key to having these bad boys last! Step 3: After cutting dividers out use clear packing tape to put your dividers into your notebooks. The order I chose was Anchor Charts, Comprehension Activities, Vocabulary Words, Daily Deep Dive, and Grammar. Before doing this you will want to think about how long you want to use the notebooks. I personally liked a notebook per semester so I would put enough pages between each divider to get me through the semester! I also suggest lining up the tabs so only the bold words stick out the side- cover up the cursive word with the clear tape. If you are using a standard size composition notebook AND all five tabs, you will also need to overlap them a little! Step 4: Glue in the book list to the inside of the notebook on the first page. Either one or two copies depending on how many books you plan on covering using this book. I LOVE this addition because I think students will love looking back over the list of books that they have so lovingly studied this year. I also think the genre column is a key component for test-taking skills! You can find all the materials I used in a freebie found in my store Here! If you have other great ideas for setting up notebooks, we would love to hear them! If you are on instagram use our hashtag "RootedinReading3rd" and Amy and I will definitely check you out! Phew now that we have those kids all set up, we can talk about YOU- the teacher! My personal favorite way to store my units is in binders. I spent a couple hours one morning and printed all four weeks of August out. I went a head and laminated my anchor charts and prepped the nonfiction mini-readers so the students can see an example. Don't they look pretty?!?! We even have binder spines for each books so you can feel extra organized! You can find everything you need for organizing your teacher binders in the freebie below from Amy! Other Blog posts you may want to check out to learn more about Rooted in Reading: 2nd Grade Complete Book List and Overview 3rd Grade Complete Book List Establishing a Kind Classroom with Picture Books September Rooted in Reading October Rooted in Reading Bats! The Rough Face Girl
I was asked to present Interactive Student Notebooks at our Gulf Regional Innovative Teaching Conference. I have used them in my classroom...
Using Math Journals. Student created math journals for the entire year! These interactive math notebooks are a great way for Kinder, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade to practice math skills in an interactive way. They cover number sense, addition and subtraction, graphing, shapes, money, word problems and so much more!
science notebook setup is easy with this free interactive notebook organizer
Do you start the year by teaching about place value and rounding? It's pretty common. Lots of teachers in our teacher Facebook groups have been struggling with teaching rounding strategies. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share some of the strategies that I used in my classroom. Ditch the
Teacher-tested tips for effectively using interactive notebooks in secondary science classrooms by Getting Nerdy Science
My class really needs some extra practice with money this year. Does your class? These interactive notebook pages help my second graders and I thought you might enjoy using it with your kiddos. It includes a helpful coin reference chart and flap books for students to practice finding different coins to show money under $1.00. ... Read More about Money Interactive Notebook Activity
Hi friends! Now that I've taken a little breather in June - {we had birthday parties for both of my kids - so you know what kind of a "breather" that is ;)} I'm ready to hit the ground running for July! Teaching nouns is one of the first things we start content with in the beginning of the school year, so I put together a little packet of printables, interactive notebook pages, and games to use when we start back! Scroll all the way to the bottom for a little freebie! My teammate had a cute game like this for prepositional phrases that my kids went crazy over (I ended up laminating them and putting them in free station baskets) Click HERE or on the picture above to grab this page from the packet as a preview. I hope you enjoy!
This year I am using interactive notebooks in math, reading and social studies. I absolutely love them! It was a bit intimidating when I first started using them and I often get questions about them. Let me share a little about what I have learned.If you want more tips and ticks for interactive notebooks, be
Are you looking for an effective way to organize your students' interactive writing notebooks and folders? I've used writing notebooks for several years and have made changes along the way to find the best possible way to use them. In this post, I will show you how to set
Teach text structures with this nonfiction text structure anchor chart and FREE sorting activity! Ideal lesson for the upper elementary classroom that includes 8 free passages!
***Please not that this item is a digital download (PDF) for you to print the pages you require yourself.*** Explore the life cycle of a dragonfly with this fun, foldable science activity. Students will LOVE that they can open their finished foldout to reveal the life cycle stages inside. This printable cut and paste activity is a bit different from a standard worksheet and could be used to support a lesson on insects/bugs, habitats, or pond life. It also looks great in an interactive science notebook. This resource is an 8 page PDF containing: -Black and white template for students to color, cut, and fold -2 x black and white templates for students to color, sequence the life cycle stages, glue, and fold. -Black and white templates for students to color, sequence the life cycle stages with short descriptions, glue, and fold. -Instructions (including clear guidance for how to fold). -Full dragonfly life cycle in color to display on a screen or print as a poster. -Prep information and terms of use. Please note, this is not an editable resource. Both US and UK versions are included.
Social Studies Interactive Notebooks are a great tool to reinforce learning in any classroom. Give your students a forever resource this year by ...
Hi all!! I hope you all have enjoyed your summer as much as I have. Mine was busy, busy, busy and packed full of changes. I'll save all that for another post, but I wanted to publicly address some questions that I've recently received from several readers who are interested in starting Spanish interactive notebooks in their classes this upcoming school year. Thanks guys for inspiring me to jump back on the blog train and share what's worked for me in regards to using Spanish interactive notebooks in my classes. I'm going to tackle this Q & A style. :) Q: What is an interactive notebook? A: You'll get varied answers on this and my own definition will probably continue to evolve, but, at this point, an interactive notebook in my Spanish class is a notebook with which students can literally "interact" in order to learn a concept. I give input (generally via PowerPoint notes) to students and then the students "respond" in some sort of manner. It is NOT just a notebook with worksheets glued inside. It generally includes some sort flipable or foldable template, flip book, graphic organizer or a hands-on activity which is added directly to the notebook. Q: What do I need for INBs? A: I recommend the black (or any color cover) composition books. You can choose to have students add a cover to the composition. I have several cover choices (along with some sample templates) posted for FREE in my TpT store HERE. I find you're less likely to lose pages with a composition notebook than if you were using spiral notebooks. You also need scissors and glue sticks (or glue) for each student. I know that some teachers prefer glue over glue sticks, but I used glue sticks and never had a problem with things coming un-glued. In my opinion, there's less mess potential using glue sticks. Students also have colored pencils and highlighters to use with the notebooks. Q: How do you organize your notebook? A: I print a blank table of contents template for my students and have them attach this to the inside front cover of their notebooks. Students then number the pages of their notebooks (front and back). This all happens before we do anything else with the notebook. Each time we begin a new page, we title the page and add the title and corresponding page number to the table of contents. I am a stickler for having students keep up with the table of contents. It makes accessing previously learned info much easier as I can quickly tell them to go to page ____ for an explanation to their question. Some teachers like to follow a format of left side/right side for teacher input/student output. I may get there someday, but right now, I'm not nearly organized enough for that. Just being honest with you guys. ;) We just keep going on whatever page we leave off on. Inside the back cover we glue a rubric. More on this below. :) Last year, we began our notebooks, with a 5 Reasons to Study Spanish Assignment. You can see more about that HERE. I will definitely use that one again. Q: How do you assess your notebook? A: I will sometimes grade individual pages or activities within the notebook as daily or homework grades. At the end of each quarter, I collect notebooks and they receive a notebook grade (which assesses things like completeness, accurate table of contents, effort, etc. using a rubric). This grade counts as a quiz grade each quarter. Click the picture below to link to the table of contents and editable rubric that I use to set up and organize my notebooks that available in my TpT store. Stay tuned for Part 2 on Starting Interactive Notebooks in Spanish Classes. I'll have that posted later this week. In that post I'll talk about what goes in the notebook (and what doesn't) and how these have helped my students. UPDATE: Part 2 is now posted HERE. :) SaveSave
Raise your hand if you’ve struggled with keeping students engaged during grammar lessons… Everyone’s hands up? Yup, we’ve all been there. Younger kids
This Biography Report can be used for any historical person. It is great for a social studies biography unit or reading informational writing and research
