This eye-catching bulletin board poster is perfect for any math classroom! Help your students memorize square roots and perfect squares and add to your cute classroom decor!
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This eye-catching bulletin board poster is perfect for any math classroom! Help your students memorize square roots and perfect squares and add to your cute classroom decor!
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STEM stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math”. In education, STEM is a subject that includes mostly project-based learning where students work together to solve a pr…
Our Wrist Wraps will make acknowledging positive student behavior and achievement fun, engaging and easy-to-prep! We have carefully illustrated 10 gorgeous bands and provided them in color and blackline versions for you to simply print and cut. Wrap them around the wrists of your students and apply a piece of tape or dab of glue to secure. Included in this file so far are the following brag bands: Great work Well done I am wonderful I am a super star I am kind I am an awesome helper I worked hard today I do not give up I am amazing I did excellent work Little learners would love to color a blackline version using crayons or bright pencils before you wrap it on their wrist! In each of the 10 designs, we've provided 5 different color choices. Hop over to TpT to find this new printable in our collection!
A clever classroom trick to help children learning to write inside lines
Is it REALLY November already?! Let me just say that October flew by with work, life, and party planning! I always throw a huge Halloween party for my girls, and this year...it was awesome! Sooo, even though I have had things to post about, I truly haven't had much time to sit down. I don't know about any of you, but I'm the type of person that is a little OCD and gets lost in the details. I can't just blog about nothing, unless it's a super quick spare of the moment giveaway! Soooo, you're going to get caught up in this post that's sure to be filled with pictures and the business that is my life right now. :) WHERE DO I START?! I'll introduce you to my giant plant and animal cells I created for our hallway! I LOVED how they turned out and they always made me smile as approached my classroom. :) They accented my students' cell labeling projects. These were super simple and quick to make. I just drew them and painted them. The eyes were created from paper plates, at the suggestion of one of my coworkers...great idea! I made the arms, legs, and mouth from black construction paper, and the shoes were a group effort between myself and the same coworker that gave me the idea for the eyes. :) It's nice to have another creative mind around! Here are some samples of the student work that was around my super cell figures! Okay, let's see..what can I show you next? Let's look at what we are doing during our Daily 5 time! Which, I have to be honest...this is the first year that I started implementing Daily 5 into my classroom and I know the "sisters" would not approve! I am still ironing out the details...but for me, it's a GREAT option to incorporate into my weekly Reading routine AND the kids LOVE it!!! This is our small group time. I call up my students in groups of four and five and work with them on various Reading and Language Arts skills. I have even done this for Math, and I have to be honest...it's wonderful! Our classes are typically somewhere between 23-26 students, so to break that down and focus on individual needed skills...goooooood stuff! We also work on our Interactive Reading Journals, thanks to Nicole Shelby. :) LOVE them! Here's a look at our Daily 5 centers... You'll see that we get quite comfortable in my room. Pretty much anything goes as far as where they want to sit to work on what they're doing. These girls are PARTNER READING under my front table. I make sure that they are checking for comprehension after each page. Their discussions are really wonderful...very proud of them! Read to Self...enough said, lol. Tooo cute!! I PROMISE that I didn't make any of them pose for this...I found them like this and of course they wanted to giggle when they saw me with my camera! Love my kids. My girls are a little more serious. :) Word Work...this is done using my Interactive Writing Center. I WILL NEVER not use this! It's working out so well and has really created a great way for my kids to experiment and create so many different kinds of writing! Here's a super small sample of what comes with my center! Word Work... I use our weekly spelling words for this part of the Daily 5. My kids do SOOO much with this one! Three things that we do are use the magnetic letters to spell the words. Another thing that we do is use ABC letter beads to string the letters and create words onto pipe cleaners (this is their favorite...)!! They also have dry erase packs to write one and wipe off their words, while their partner quizzes them. I don't have my Listen to Reading center up and running yet. I'm still working on this one! (I told you it wasn't perfect. oh well! We make it work!!) I'm waiting for my students' stories to be loaded onto a disc and my classroom computers just got fixed this week. This will be coming soon!! Let's interrupt school time with a weekend at the lake... I love my family. I loved my time at the lake...we all know that as teachers, we all need a little R&R! Okay, back to work!! Let's just start by saying that I LOVE technology! There are a couple of things that I can't get enough of...my Smart Board AND my Hovercam! My kids use the Smart Board all the time to do interactive academic games. Learning has become so much fun!! No child should ever say "I don't want to go to school." School is wonderful...here are a couple of my kiddos "playing." Here are some anchor charts that I created during a mean, median, mode, and range lesson. I will be loading a great freebie activity this week that you guys can grab that went along with this. It's SO MUCH FUN!! I also have a great interactive PPT that I did, as well. Tepee TiMe!!!! During our time studying Native American tribes, my kiddos learned about Plains Indians. We talked about the nomadic Plains Indians and their use of tepees for shelter. I create a tepee each year and teach my students about Native American symbols and sign language and how these were forms of communication for each of the tribes. They get to choose a Native American symbol that they feel best represents themselves and then paint it onto the side of the tepee. They LOVE it! I use this as a reward in my classroom. They can't wait to see who gets to go into the tepee each day! We are also working on Native American calendar robes. Here's a peek at my students working on those... PROUD... I spent some time seeing two of my students doing something that they LOVE! One is an avid dirt bike racer and the other is fabulous at 4-H! It was so much fun spending time with them outside of school. I also had a girl from my class travel all the way to the Alamo in Texas to compete in a national shooting competition! Way to go, kids! I think that will be all for now! Be sure to follow me for future posts on what's going on in my classroom. :) I hope you liked my fall "catch up" post! Goodbye for now!! ONE MORE LITTLE THING FOR.....YOU!!! STOP OVER TO MY FRIEND MEG'S BLOG! You can enter an UNBELIEVABLE giveaway that I am thrilled to be a part of! It's five days of amazing opportunities to win some great prizes!
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Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers practicing prefixes and suffixes. It helps students see base words and adding prefixes/suffixes to them. The pug puppy helps my students see the separation of the base words with their prefix/suffix and they have so much fun with it! It will be approximately 32 x 24 inches, and will be a copy of my original. **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)
Photo Source: F is for First Grade Help your kiddos remember what it means to be a good listener with this super cute diagram featured over at F is for First Grade! Melissa took it a step further and put together a printable worksheet to use along with the diagram she found on First Grade Garden that will give your kiddos a chance to show everything they know about being a good listener. Check it out: Photo Source: F is for First Grade Head over to F is for First Grade to grab the FREE worksheet!
Are you looking for ways to use comprehensible input methods in your world language classroom? Check out this post on how to transition to CI methods!
Who doesn’t know that feeling when you just want to hide from reality and indulge in your dreams a little? Self-taught artist Andrés J. Colmenares created a cozy, cartoonish world where anyone can rest with their heart and soul. He posts his colorful and cute comics, that are full of humor, under the pseudonym wawawiwa.
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Today's blog post will be a quickie. I was just so excited about my latest Target find, I had to share it with my teaching friends! So let's get started with our build a sight word fun! I knew it was going to be a good trip because this was the first thing I saw when...
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Self-portrait ideas around the topic "Identity" or "Personality" but I could also work for general descriptive adjectives lesson as well.
Today's tip is a simple acronym to help your students remember the steps in traditional division. Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE to our V.I.P. exclusive newsletter for SECRET SALES and FREE printables. Note: This blog post contains resources from our TpT store and our Amazon Associate store. --------------------------------------------- Enjoy this free printable sign! Right click, then "save as." Division Acronym D - Dad (Divide) M - Mom (Multiply) S - Sister (Subtract) B - Brother (Bring Down) ------------------------------ You may also like these resources from our TpT store: You may also like this poster to use in a math center as a division anchor chart. Click HERE. ------------------------------ FREE Division Task Cards You will receive six task cards for students to review division with a one-digit divisor and 2-3 digit dividends. Task cards are a great alternative to worksheets. They allow for movement in the classroom, which brain research shows this increases achievement. Students may play SCOOT, have a scavenger hunt, or engage in other task card games. A student response division form and answer key are also provided. ------------------------------ Divisibility Rules Posters These posters may be used as anchor charts in your math centers or stations. You will receive 4 different color versions of this poster to match your classroom decor. 4th Grade Math Common Core Standard: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.OA.B.4 ------------------------------- Divisibility Rules Activity Packet ------------------------------- Divisibility Rules Task Cards Division by One-Digit Task Cards Division 2-3 Digits by 1 Digit No Remainders Task Cards Division 2-3 Digits by 1 Digit with Remainders Division 4-5 Digits by 1 Digit No Remainders Division 4-5 Digits by 1 Digit with Remainders Task Cards Division 3-4 Digits by 2 Digit Numbers Task Cards Division 3-4 Digits by 2 Digits with Remainders Task Cards Division 4-5 Digits by 2 Digits No Remainders Task Cards --------------------------- You may also like these resources from our Amazon Associate store: Math Dash Game: Multiplication and Division --------------------------- Rock 'N Learn Division Rap --------------------------- Division Practice Math Machine --------------------------- New Path Learning Multiplication and Division Bulletin Board --------------------------- Trend Enterprises Math Bingo Game Set of 6 Place Value, Telling Time, Money, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication/Division --------------------------------------------- Click HERE to view our Teachers Pay Teachers Promoting Success store. Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter for SECRET SALES and FREE printables. Click HERE to follow us on Instagram. Click HERE to follow us on Pinterest. Shelly Anton is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. ** This means there are Amazon affiliate links in these blog posts. This does not mean you pay a dime more when you purchase a product through the link. It just means I am trying to save you valuable teacher time by making it easier for you to find great resources for your students, and I earn a few cents for my research and time. Thank you for all you do for kids!
Banner to remind class of appropriate voice levels.
This idea is actually a gem that one of my students thought of years ago! This fun trick will get students as young as Kindergarten to stop chatting! It's one of my favorite classroom management tricks!
This week I taught a lesson about blends. I decided to make a large blender on posterboard as a visual for my kids. I printed out various ...
My new obsession this year has been making and using anchor charts for my lessons. Here are just some of the anchor charts I have made this year. Some of these charts are original ideas but many are ideas I have seen and used from other teachers. I am not good at drawing so I use clipart from my computer to add pictures to my anchor charts. I print them out and glue them onto the chart! It’s so much easier and looks so much better than what I could draw! I also laminate my anchor charts so I can use them year to year. By laminating the charts I can easily write and erase on them by using an Expo marker. Click HERE to download the worksheet writing templates for opinion writing, informative writing, step writing, personal narrative writing, fictional narrative writing, and postcard writing that match these anchor charts from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the files needed to make the Sequence of Events and Transitional Word Examples anchor charts from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the file needed to make the Fiction/Non-Fiction Sort anchor chart from my TpT store! Click HERE to download the words I used on these anchor charts on my TpT store!
Got a talkative class? Check out these 5 ways to quiet the chatter!
I've been trying to teach my students to use appropriate voice levels during art. One of my schools uses the voice level terms school-wide. Another school has a few teachers who use it and I never hear it mentioned from teachers at my 3rd school. So...I made up a voice level chart for each of my schools to post in the Art Room and I'm going to work on students understanding what I mean when I ask for "voice level 0 - or voice-level 1...". You can get a digital file of this Poster Here
I was reading a book on helium. I couldn't put it down!
If you follow us on Instagram or Facebook you'll see that we spent Sunday afternoon making a model of a roman amphitheatre for one of Theo's homework challenges. And he took over my Instagram stories for the day with a follow along tutorial of how he made it. It was SO fun! And I'm pretty sure we've got a future Blue Peter presenter in the making ;) So we wanted to put together a blog post tutorial too, just like our solar system one, in case it's any help when you need to make a roman amphitheatre. Because who doesn't need a roman amphitheatre in their lives?! We used: - some thick cardboard sheets - glue gun & glue - acrylic paints - a plate to draw around - a scalpel (for grown ups only) Theo did A LOT of research beforehand into exactly what type of model he wanted to make, and what he wanted his amphitheatre to look like. He LOVES this kind of thing! He started by drawing several circles around our plate on the cardboard. Luckily we have lots of these big sheets of cardboard at the studio leftover from when our wrapping paper gets delivered. But any thickish cardboard would work. We needed eight circles for our amphitheatre but you could use more or less depending on how tall you want it to be. I cut each one out using a scalpel. Theo did have a little try with the scalpel, while I held his hand, but he's a leftie and found it really difficult. So I did the tricky cutting. Once each circle was cut we made them into donut shapes with larger centre holes as we went. The bottom circle has the smallest hole and we each one about 1cm - 1.5cm bigger than the one underneath. So you want the outside of the circle to be the same size, but the inside to get smaller - hope that makes sense! These make the seats. Whilst I was cutting the circles Theo painted the base using acrylic paints. He wanted a sandy base so used yellow, orange, and cream paints, with some green splashes for grassy areas! - a top tip we found for painting sandy texture is to dab your brush onto the base rather than paint with strokes. So your dab dab dabbing to create a mottled texture. Once all of the circles were cut we got our trusty glue gun out and glued them together. Theo and Matilda are both really confident using a glue gun (all that wand making has paid off!). He started with the smallest ring at the bottom and then glued each one on top. Then he glued this whole structure to the base. To make the outer wall of the amphitheatre we cut a long strip of the same cardboard and Theo drew the shape of the wall he wanted - with one taller side. A really good tip for helping the wall to bend around your circular seats is to scalpel some vertical lines at regular intervals. Cut through about half of the depth of the cardboard, so it doesn't slice fully through. Keep the cut sides as the outside, and then you'll find it bends round really well. Theo drew some arches into the taller side of the wall and I cut them out. We thought this gave it an authentic tumbledown feel! Once they were cut we glued the wall around the outside of our circular seats. This was a little tricky and we took our time. We found gluing it in small sections worked best. We thought that the combination of the arches and the vertical slices gave a really good look to the outside wall. The slices worked really well! Theo drew some lower arch shapes around the wall to give a bit more detail and a more authentic look :) Once the amphitheatre was all put together we added a few details. A lion, of course! We just printed this and glued it onto some thin card before gluing it to the base. And Theo insisted on putting the gladiator on the steps outside of the amphitheatre - because why would he want to be inside with the lion?! Well exactly Theo! So there you have it. A pretty effective but really very simple to make roman amphitheatre. Theo absolutely loved making it and he learnt so much. Filming the process for his Instagram stories takeover worked brilliantly too, as he really thought extra hard about every step of the process so that he could explain it on camera. One of his 'grown up' career options is to be a set designer for films. I think he's off to a great start don't you?! If you have any questions do send them through - Theo is loving your messages and comments :) x ✂️ For more brilliant school project and craft ideas for children head to our Reuse & Recycle page. ✂️ Or have a browse of our Pinterest boards for even more school project, craft, and play ideas.
When I present patients and reach the “body habitus” part of the presentation, I always become a little awkward. I’m acutely aware of body-image issues and I never want to be the …
Growing up I was totally one of those kids that read early, talked early, all that jazz -- but hated math. I can't even pretend that I just strongly disliked it, as my feelings were those of straight-up loathing. If I have to place the beginning of this hate-hate relationship, I can safely say it started when I got my first B in sixth grade in algebra.
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CUTE, fun & engaging 3D shape nets! Perfect for junior years classrooms but could be used in upper grades as well. The finished product looks awesome displayed in your room after and provides a reminder of the key features. These have been designed for little hands with large fold flaps, fold li...
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