Our Welcome to Kindergarten event was last week and I set up a StoryWalk for our physical literacy activity. Rosie's Walk was set up as an obstacle course. The children loved it and it gave us an opportunity to observe that children need a physical outlet. That some children are successful learning that way.
Culturally responsive teaching is less about using racial pride as a motivator and more about mimicking the strategies students' communities use to teach them long before they come to school.
Have you ever wondered what culturally responsive teaching is and what does it mean for math instruction? Learn 6 characteristics here.
Smells like snack time! Yes, we’re still talking about our 5 senses around here, and now we’re exploring our sense of smell. I put together this little smelling guessing game for the bo…
Beginning Acting 9-Week Lesson Plan | Drama Notebook Lesson Plans and Plays for Kids and Teens
When you take the time to say 'thank you' to those who are most important to your business, it can leave a lasting impression.
How many times have you said that there just isn't time in your school day to fit everything in? I know I have said it plenty
My final class assignment included creating a final philosophy on culturally responsive teaching. Here are my final thoughts on how to be a culturally responsive world language educator:
What does it mean to be optimistic? Don't we want our kids to have a realistic perspective on the struggles of life, while keeping their chins up?
Regular exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle and good wellbeing. Not only does exercise help protect you from health issues such as diabetes, asthma, arthritis and heart disease, it can also improve your mental health. If you exercise regularly, it can help reduce symptoms of stress
If you've ever considered adding reader's theater to your reading block but thought it would be too much work, check out this guest post from Sarah Wiggins!
Throughout the month of February, I have been on a virtual book sharing my book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, with teachers,
Are we the Educators or the Oppressors? Managing not Leading. Micromanaging. Controlling. Suffocating. Sound familiar? Our Students? Our Future. Our Students? Spokes in the One Size Fits All Creativity Killing Machine . Is this what status quo education boils down to and must be? I hope not, b
One of the most important parts of our mission here at The Inspired Treehouse is inspiring kids to develop gross motor skills!
The Apple Taste Test is a wonderful way to incorporate the sense of taste into your lesson. It also sneaks in vocabulary, math, and science.
In this worksheet, we listen like like an owl — and go on a sound hunt — to become more aware of the sounds around us.
These are my favorite ways for integrating music into math ideas for elementary students. Music helps kids memorize math facts, with math problems, learn patterns, and so much more.
All kids benefit from practicing mindfulness. Who wouldn't love the kids and young adults we work with to become more focused, calm, in control, and self-aware? Mindfulness is a technique that can help teach and strengthen those abilities over time. By practicing mindfulness, people can learn to bec
5 Senses Activities for Preschoolers - 15 fantastic ideas that will help young children learn and explore through their senses.
A Stanford researcher’s Venn diagram shows the overlap between the common core and the Next Generation Science Standards, which some are using to argue for standards adoption.
Explore the sense of taste with this lemon foods science investigation for preschool and school age kids.
Teach drama and spice up your readers' theater in upper grades with Zoom Playhouse.
Do you love to add science lessons into your music class? Or a science teacher and want to use music to help students understand sound? Use Boomwhackers!
Music in the classroom is a powerful tool and it should be more than just having music as a special once a week. Learn why music is important and different ways you can integrate music into your lesson plans seamlessly. Blog post at Mrs. D's Corner.
Eating can nourish the mind as well as the body.
See how easy introducing and teaching poetry for kids can be. This post not only has helpful tips and ideas, but a free download to help you get started.
Fourth grade class wrote some terrific "sound songs". I got this idea from another music teacher. Thank you! It was a hit.
I found these Movement Cards at The Home Teacher and love them! There are 3 different sets you can choose from to print out. I chose this set because I liked that it had one movement for each letter of the alphabet, the pictures really went with each movement (so hopefully one day B can …
Need ideas for your reading list? Check out this list of best mindfulness books by Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
Culturally responsive teaching is crucial to fostering classroom inclusion.
The four domains of the Danielson Framework rubric are Planning & prep, Classroom environment, Instruction, and Professional responsibilities.
Science experiments for kids to learn sense of smell, why we can smell, how sensitive are we to smells? Activities for 5 senses classes at home and school
