Class is back in session and we are ready to play – and experiment with letters, words and all things typographical. Jessica Hische offers up this morphology on how to decorate a letter, using the basic skeletal structure of the letter A as a great example.
The arrival of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was celebrated by hundreds of excited fans as they touched down in Australia today.
Mini-Calliope Organ: Introduction Hello Everyone, First, I would like to thank you for viewing my instructable. And, if you enjoyed it, please give me a vote! Thanks.... Although the project seems complicated, many of the parts and components are identical, so laying…
The amount of content to scroll through online can be overwhelming. A new breed of artists drew simple sketches to offer some relief. Take a look.
Mini-Calliope Organ: Introduction Hello Everyone, First, I would like to thank you for viewing my instructable. And, if you enjoyed it, please give me a vote! Thanks.... Although the project seems complicated, many of the parts and components are identical, so laying…
In a teaching tailspin? These four research-based principles of instruction will help you focus on what really moves the needle.
Well, I thought I'd be the next to post about my classroom and give a tour. Please note that some of the things posted in my classroom are ...
A quick little tutorial on lining a sleeveless bodice, an easy technique that gives a nice clean finish. This is the technique used to make the bodice of Valentine's little dress.
Michelle over at Teach123 wrote a post about children who like to argue. As my comment on her blog seemed to be turning into a mini-blog post, I thought it would be helpful to share how I handle arguing, complaining, and tattling with my students. Children who argue, complain, and tattle can disrupt the classroom and leave you feeling exhausted. It can be tempting to take the child's actions personally. You might ask yourself, 'What am I doing that's causing this?' 'Why do they always want to argue about everything I say?' You know...those questions we ask ourselves as we reflect back on our
Some say, challenging more generally accepted ideas about the provenance, that tiramisu was invented in a casa chiusa (a house of ill repute) to give the working girls a pick-me-up, as the name (tira-mi-su) suggests. Whatever its inception, this one reverts to the original formulation - although in dinkier format. This is not because I am a huge fan of the cute — you know that — but because it means you have a tiramisu worth making for fewer people (you don't need a partyful), and in less time. By which I mean very much less time, since, unlike the big, trifle-style tiramisu, these tiramisini — think coffee-soaked Savoiardi sponge fingers, topped with the familiar, whipped Marsala-spiked mascarpone in small-portioned martini glasses — don't even need to sit overnight before being ready to eat. And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Nonna Lietta represents an ethical line of knitwear designed in Athens, Greece and knitted with care in Spain. ”Nonna” stands for grandmother in Italian, and since designer, Lietta is half greek half italian, her name and brand is inspired and dedicated to her beloved gr
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Mini-Calliope Organ: Introduction Hello Everyone, First, I would like to thank you for viewing my instructable. And, if you enjoyed it, please give me a vote! Thanks.... Although the project seems complicated, many of the parts and components are identical, so laying…
To master this craft, we need to choose our words carefully. This mini-makeover shows how revising our language in common classroom scenarios can send a completely different message.
Mochi bread (麻波波糬), is a no-flour type of bread, made with glutinous rice and tapioca starch, which give them a chewy bouncy texture. There are a lot of version, some flavored with cheese, chocolate, green tea and some stuffed with dried berries and fruits. My favourite is definitely the cheese mochi bread. Any type of grated cheese can be used instead of parmesan. To get the best quality and taste for these mochi breads, I used a block of parmigiano reggiano and finely grated them. This post is linked to Cook and Celebrate: Christmas 2015 organised by Yen from GoodyFoodies Diana from Domestic Goddess Wannabe and Zoe from Bake for Happy Kids. This post is part of the monthly link up party Our Growing Edge. This event aims to connect food bloggers and inspire us to try new things. This month is hosted by Jazz at Dash of Jazz. Adapted from beanpanda You'll need: 110g glutinous rice flour 15g tapioca starch 30g grated parmesan cheese 1/2 tsp salt 1 egg 35g melted butter 60ml whole milk How to make mochi bread: Preheat oven to 170C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, sift together glutinous rice flour and tapioca starch. Combine with grated cheese and salt. Set aside. In a mixing bowl, whisk egg, melted butter and milk. Gently fold in flour mixture using a spatula. Divide into equal pieces, shape into rounds and place on prepared baking sheet spacing each apart. Bake in 160C for 20 minutes, or until puffed up and golden brown. Let sit on wire rack to cool completely. With all my love <3
Inspired by a Seattle-based artist who created a free little art gallery of their own, Meredith Sexton says she wanted to bring a unique experience to her community, while making art accessible to everyone — especially as many museums were closed for more than a year.
The Hydraulic Machines 4-in-1 Pack brings four wooden machines to life with hydraulic power. Build a platform lifter, scissor lift, cherry picker & excavator.
Learning to write is much more complicated than we think. After all, most people can write so what is so difficult about it? It's second nature to most of us, yet take some time to look at yourself when you write. What muscles are you using? Switch hands and see if you can manage writing with your other hand. This may give you some idea of the level of control required to make meaningful marks on paper. Building muscle strength and learning to control those muscles is an integral part of children learning to write. Core muscles, the large arm muscles and the small muscles in the hand and wrist all need strengthening and developing in order for children to be able to gain control of a pencil or crayon. In addition to strengthening and controlling muscles, refining depth perception and visual tracking skills are important. Hand-eye coordination is essential as the hands and eyes have to work together to enable children to form letters and write across the page. While your child's first writing experiences may look like scribbles to you, if you ask them what they have drawn you may get a very complex story. Children recreate and make sense of their world first through their drawing and later through their writing. This takes time to develop and develops alongside their language. When a child can tell you all about their drawing and you can record that for them, they are learning that their words are valued and can be represented. When children begin to understand that symbols have meaning, they are on their way to being motivated to record these symbols for themselves. Their first efforts at writing recognisable letters will possibly begin with them writing their names between four and five years old. It's vital that children see their name written and have opportunities to write their names independently. This is their signature, it's not a copy or tracing of an adult's writing. Children who can write their names are very proud of this and this achievement needs to be celebrated, whatever the writing looks like, so they will be enthusiastic about writing. When their child is beginning to write, parents should not worry about letters that are not properly formed, letters that are back wards and that their child may have missed out letters. This is a natural part of children developing their writing style. They get plenty of practise at forming letters later on, the early years is a time for children to experiment as they develop the brain connectors needed to control their hand eye coordination and make writing on the lines possible. Source: Words their way Children need experiences to write about so exploration and interaction with the world around them and other people is essential. Children learn to express themselves through their writing when they have opportunities to: à draw, paint and create and a collage à practise their skills in a variety of contexts through different experiences à strengthen their muscles through manipulating materials during play à develop their coordination through physical activity à interact with their peers and adults Ideas to develop muscles and hand-eye coordination include: à playing outside, swinging, running, pouring sand and water, playing tag, swimming, riding a bike à exploring and experimenting with a variety of materials such as sand, water, glue, tweezers and tongs, boxes and puzzles à finger painting and gloop à working with playdough The more children are engaged in purposeful play; the more opportunities they have for interactions with others; the more they are positively encouraged; the stronger their foundations for both writing and reading will be and the more rewarding their progress will be for them as you celebrate each success together. Some examples of emergent writing
Although threats and detection software have some impact, the best way to prevent plagiarism is to teach students how to avoid it in the first place.
If you are the kind of person who hates to waste anything that comes from your home, then you will just love this article. And then if you want to inculcate
I received a handout at a workshop I recently attended on different factors coaches can look for in classroom observations. Collecting quality evidence during observations and presenting it in a clear manner to teachers is such an important piece of improving teacher practice and student achievement…so this handout really got me thinking about what I look […]
Minilessons are actually really easy to plan, and fun to teach. What? You don’t believe me? Let me show you, right now, how to do it.
I love a book about slugs! That's right, slugs. Which is strange because slugs totally freak me out in real life, but not this guy! Every so often, I like to share a picture book that has worked for me in a mini-lesson and is a hit with my 5th grade friends. Today, I want to share with you a little paperback picture book, Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards. This is the story of a cute, YES! CUTE!, little slug that sees a slope he wants to climb. As he climbs the slope, several different critters warn him to stop. He keeps on his path to a very surprising end. I'll tell you more about the end of the book later in this post. Here are some of the ways I have used this book with my friends in the past: Teaching Alliteration This is perhaps the most obvious lesson for this book. Every single page, almost every single word focuses on the alliteration of S. Honestly, the first time I read this book, I was amazed that you could write a cohesive, entertaining story using almost all S words. Here's a sample page: "Slowly the slug started up the steep surface, stringing behind it scribble sparkling like silk." Teaching Variety of Dialog Verbs You would think that a book so focused on the alliteration of S would use said as a dialog verb at least once. Not this book! Some Smug Slug does not use said at all. Instead, there is a great variety of dialog verbs used such as: screamed shrieked sighed snickered squealed It's also a good book for just teaching action verbs. The slug and other animals shift, shudder, sway, swing, slumber, and there are many more S verbs used. Teaching Surprise Endings in Writing Through the entire book, we follow this cute little slug as he finally climbs the slope. Well, that slope turns out to be a salamander that promptly eats the slug! It's an unexpected surprise at the end that gets my friends every time. Now, my 5th graders totally find the humor in the slug being eaten, but I don't know how that would go over with a younger set. You'll have to make that call. The surprise ending is something my friends are always eager to try right away in their writer's notebook. It's a fun technique to use in spooky stories for Halloween. Foreshadowing Now that you know the slug is eaten in the end, you realize that all those animals that were warning the slug to stop knew it was a salamander and not a slope. While you read the book aloud, you can model your thinking aloud, wondering why the animals keep warning the slug. Your friends can make predictions as to why they think the animals would be saying those things to the slug. I promise you when you get to the end of the book, your friends will be all, "That's why the animals were warning him!" It's a nice simple lesson on foreshadowing. This book is also just plain fun. The illustrations, by Henry Cole, are so well done. While they have different illustrators, these remind me of the illustrations in The Great Kapok Tree. Also, there is a hidden S in every picture. To be honest, I never remember where they are and I never find them all when I search, but my friends are able to find them all every time. In case you want to preview the book, I found a video on YouTube that I embedded below. It's a reading of the book that shows each page, so you can take a look and decide if it's good for you. I should mention that I ran to Barnes & Nobel to pick up another copy of this book on Sunday. As I paid for the book, the clerk said sarcastically, "A book about slugs? Nice." If only she knew just how nice! (By the way, did you catch it? "said sarcastically" This S alliteration thing is catchy! I know, I'm a total cornball sometimes!) The reason I purchased another copy is that I am going to include it as one of the prizes in my little thank you give-away, which I will be posting about on Wednesday. So, come back on Wednesday to enter the give-away and possibly win a copy of Some Smug Slug for yourself! *By the way, this is just me sharing an opinion of a book I like. Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole, and the publishers of Some Smug Slug don't even know I exist or that I can read! ;-)
This is my sixth post in my eight post series about implementing book clubs into your classroom. Last week, I wrote about accountability with book clubs, which you can read more about HERE. Today, I am writing specifically about student-led conversations in book clubs. Let’s first identify some characteristics of student-led conversations with book clubs: 1. […]
These mini cinnamon wreaths are perfect for the holidays. Easy and so extremely delicious. Make them this December or any time of the year!
Looking for an amazing STEM activity that's exciting for the whole class? These STEM straw bridges will spark creativity in your little engineers!
