How to Avoid the Summer Slide! Summer is right around the corner! We all LOVE our summer vacation, but not the "Summer Slide!" The Summer Review Packets
How to help your child find the right learning styles to enhance their potential in school and to prep the brain for higher learning. Learning is unique and different for each child.
We all fall into one of nine learning styles. Which one is your strongest?
To help with any teachers dealing with school closures or the possibility of home and distance learning, I've put together these Home Learning Choice
In this post, you will find 27 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom! Formative assessment is such an essential part of the learning process and student success, and many digital tools can help support this process.This list has a wide variety of features and options to help you solidify your formative assessment strategies! Many of the tools below are great for both formative and summative assessments.
You can use these kinesthetic activities right away! Incorporate hands-on learning into your child’s lessons and improve long-term learning.
FREE printable Symmetry drawing activity for preschool and kindergarten kids. A fun art and math activity in one! Kids will complete the symmetrical pictures by drawing the other half.
Student anxiety is at an all time high. With grade level standards becoming more rigorous, and state tests looming, teachers are feeling more pressure than ever to prepare students. That pressure is also felt by
These crossing midline activities support development of crossing the midline plays in functional tasks like learning and self care.
Your new favorite teaching strategy: This pared-down version of learning stations keeps the movement, interactivity and variety while minimizing the prep work.
I LOVE saving figurative language until June - it's such a fun language unit ... and perfect for our "dreaming of summer brains". We finished up our EQAO testing mid week, and this onomatopoeia activity was the perfect break from testing. How fun is that??? Students chose two contrasting colours - one for the background and one for the word and border "bursting out of the page". They also needed newspaper (cut just a fraction smaller that the "bursting out of the page border" and glued the newspaper on top. They glued their word on top of that (we had brainstormed a lot of onomatopoeia words, but for some reason most of them chose SPLAT for their word). I also had them do a little shading under their letters for that little extra POP (see, I know some onomatopoeia words, too). ;) I had seen this awesome idea on Pinterest and followed it back to Artisan des Arts. Her examples are FANTASTIC!! We also wrote simile poems this week. I found a little template HERE for the students to use for their rough copies. When students were finished their templates, I had them write out their good copies, and illustrate a few lines with a small image. I hung these up, too ... LOVING our bulletin board switch up ... even this late in the school year!!! (I have two of these "smART class" bulletin boards side by side in the classroom. 15 more school days left ... I think I can ... I think I can ... Happy Friday!!!
This past week, we learned about synonyms. The kids really grasped the concept by mid-week! I am excited to see them start using synonyms...
The Month of December is such a busy and fun time! I don't want learning to take a backseat, so I made some FUN-filled NO PREP Packets for the month of
My kids weren't really interested in learning about cells until I said slime. Okay, it was a fairly cheap trick since I knew they loved slime. But I also knew that slime would be the perfect way to learn about cells. I can't say I've ever touched cytoplasm but it sounds very slime-like to me.
Learn how to curse in Spanish with this list of swear words and phrases. Be warned: explicit language inside!
Differentiation and scaffolding can help students better understand and learn. Here are teaching ideas and tips to use in class.
Help your primary grade students explore, learn, and write about landforms. See our hands-on landforms activities plus our culminating writing project!
Fun and engaging force and motion experiments, project ideas, demonstrations, book lists and more! Great for the classroom and home!
Are your worksheets contributing to meaningful learning, or just keeping students busy?
These 25 quick and easy tips for new teachers will help you create a positive, engaging, and effective learning environment for your students.
In this post, you will find 27 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom! Formative assessment is such an essential part of the learning process and student success, and many digital tools can help support this process.This list has a wide variety of features and options to help you solidify your formative assessment strategies! Many of the tools below are great for both formative and summative assessments.
I am going to be printing off this poster to hang by my daughter's homeschool desk. I just love the way they have shown these prepositions making it easy for younger children to understand.
Inside: Activities and ideas for teaching the body parts in Spanish, for all ages. Teaching the parts of the body in Spanish is fun because it’s naturally a hands-on sort of theme. There’s much need to print out lots of worksheets or flash cards because our students are walking around with ready-to-go visuals: themselves! That said….
Hey Ya'll! Today I'm going to share with you our adverb posters. We actually did these about 2 weeks ago and am just now getting around to sharing it with you. Adverbs are always so tricky for our little ones. To get started, we brainstormed a list of different types of adverbs onto our anchor chart. After reviewing these for a few days, some of my kiddos just weren't getting it. Of course, Amy from Step into Second Grade came to my rescue! She blogged about making adjective posters. I loved the idea so I decided to use them for adverbs instead. I printed out 4 verb pictures (eat, write, run, and sleep) and glued them onto butcher paper. I split my kids up into groups and had them rotate to each one. They had to write adverbs that described each picture. Was it perfect? No! Was every word spelled correctly? No! Was it effective? YES!!! This just seemed to click with my strugglers. They used the anchor chart posted above to help guide them. I didn't hear one conversation that didn't have to do with adverbs. It was fantastic! I displayed our final products underneath our whiteboard. They were so proud of their finished product. A lot of the same words were repeated but that is OK! Sometimes I get so caught up in the cuteness of things that are on TPT that I forget how effective the simple things can be.
The Earth consists of different types biomes with plant and animal species alike. Learn facts about the various biomes and what lives there.
I've been asked to share my assessments and those that I use. Assessments are snapshots of a child's current ability to perform a certai...
Kids will love learning about the components of blood with this fun and memorable activity - make a blood model!
Happy Sunday, friends! Tonight I want to share with you one of my favorite Kagan structures – Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up (SU, HU, PU). Kagan Structures are all about cooperative learning – not group work – with frequent modeling, celebrations, community building, and brain breaks…sounds fun, right? Kagan structures hold every student accountable...
Want to acquire new skills to boost your resume without having to pay hundreds of dollars? Here’s a handpicked list of free online courses to help you learn and save money!
The past few years I’ve had the opportunity to teach a course entirely through project based learning. Our local university approached a couple of schools in our district and asked us if we were interested in teaching a cross-curricular PBL program where our grade 12 students can earn college credits. Ummmm…. heck yeah! Basically, the ... Read more
Picaria is a 3-in-a-row game played by Native Americans from the American Southwest. An easy to learn two player abstract strategy game.
Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can't focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can't focus on the directions, they
This set of nets for foldable 3D shapes includes 8 different shapes in two formats: with tabs and without tabs. Great for ALL ages!
Music class is an active, engaging, and joyful experience! This is especially true when our musical activities are grounded in creative and intentional teaching strategies. One of the most important teaching strategies has to do with teaching the difference between steady beat and the rhythm of
Around here we love simple and playful learning! For that reason we’ve gathered up 15 simple, playful, and fun activities for learning shapes. {This post may contain affiliate links for your convenience.} 15 Activities for Learning Shapes 1. Learning Shapes Hopping Game source: Toddler Approved 2. DIY 3D Shape Sorter source: The Realistic Mama 3. Popsicle Stick Shapes Activity source:...Read More »
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Got German? Learn your first German phrases for your traveling, meeting and greeting people, going shopping, booking hotel rooms and much much more.
This fun game is perfect for practicing the parts of the body with your ESL students. Have them roll a die and color the body parts in the correct colors.
You may have heard our agents at some point mention “life skills” and may have thought to yourself “what does that mean and why should I care?” Life skills reach beyond subject matter education and provide the overall objective of our organization. The foundation of 4-H philosophies can be derived from examining the Targeting Life […]
Kids will enjoy learning about Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology with these great books and hands-on activities!
K-1 POETRY UNIT I love teaching poetry to kindergarten and first grade students! Even though I have this labeled as Unit 8 in my Writing Series , I actually teach poetry throughout the entire year. We follow the same routine and students look forward to our poetry week every month.
Games make learning fun, so print out and play Superhero Memory to learn contractions. Who knew grammar could be so exciting?
Are you ready for the month of March? We are all geared up for some fun learning this month! Our March NO PREP packets are done and we are ready to go!
