Inspiration: Black and white ship mosaics from Ancient Rome . These grade 7s were studying the ancient world as well as learning Italian ...
Tracing Lines - Worksheets For Little People As your little one learns how to write, tracing lines is a great activity! And there are benefits to it too! Line tracing is one of those activities that develop your child's control of the small muscles in his/ her hands (fine motor skills). Tracing will teach your child to make the precise movements that are necessary for forming letters. Tracing improves hand/eye coordination. Line Tracing By Age Line tracing is predominantly for little ones as they learn how to write. It's therefore perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners. Your child's age and
Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.
I have seen so many great ideas for review games out there. I thought I would compile a list of my favorites to have as a resource. I figure if I could come up with 6 great games that work, I only have to use the same game 4 times in a year! 1. Zap! - This is my favorite game so far simply because the smartest group doesn't always win. It's kind of like Jeopardy, but with a curve ball - if you get the "Zapped" card, you lose all your points! Thanks for sharing, Mathtastrophe! Game instructions and printable here. Another take on this game is Bazinga by Simplifying Radicals. 2. Nerf Gun - Love this idea! Draw a bullseye on the board. Divide the kids into teams. Ask a team a review question. If they get the answer correct, they get to shoot at the board to see how many points they earn. So fun! 3. Jenga - I really like how Living Out His Love blog does this one. She writes with a sharpie marker directly onto the Jenga piece. And, she write a subject and week on both sides of each piece. Though, if done this way, it seems like you could only do this at the end of the semester (because if you have Sciene, week 7 written in sharpie and you're only at week 3, that wouldn't work!). Another idea is to tape the subject and week with clear packing tape and then re-do it as your progress along in the year. 4. Power Tower - Similar to Jenga, but with paper cups. Write the question on the cup. If the class answers correctly, they get to stack the cups. If the tower falls, they have to start over. via Mrs. Lewis' Learning Library 5. Mr Potato Head - For every question the class gets correct, they get to add a body part to Mr. Potato. I also like the idea on 2nd Grade Rocks! blog. She uses it as a behavior incentive. Every time the class has good behavior, they get to add a body part. When Mr. Potato is completely put together, they get to have an ice cream party! 6. Snowball Fight - Love this idea for Texas as this may be the only snow the children ever see. Write the review questions on a piece of paper. Divide the kids into 2 teams. If the kids get it correct, they get to crumble it up into a ball. After all the questions have been answered, they get to have a snowball fight using the paper balls! 7. Chair Tic-Tac-Toe - Put nine chairs in 3 rows of 3 to make a square. Divide the class into 2 teams. Ask a team a question. If they get it correctly, one of their players gets to sit in one of the chairs. The first team to have 3 players sitting in a row wins. 8. Memory Mogul - Awesome (and free!) printable game from Sola Gratia Mom blog. This one seems like it could take some time printing out the cards and possibly creating a game board. But, the game board and cards could last all year. Click here for instructions and printables. 9. Stinky Feet - My 7 year old son would love this one. Very simple with little prep time. Idea and instructions can be found here at Teaching in the Fast Lane blog. 10. Classroom Board Game - This game may require a little adapting, but it looks like fun. Turn the classroom into a life size game board. Great ideas for how to do this game here at Blessings for Bible School Teachers.
I used a map I found online and edited it so that we could use it to practise our directions in Spanish class. It doesn't look very clear here, but it was when I printed it out.
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Teaching geometry can be FUN! Take a look at these geometry videos, books, anchor charts, activities, games, and freebies! Perfect for 1st and 2nd grade!
Free Summer themed Printable Pack featuring 37 activities for toddlers & preschoolers. Math, literacy, prewriting, scissor skills, visual discrimination, puzzles and more!
Do you want to get started with project based learning, but you’re not sure how? Maybe project based learning sounds too complicated, in-depth, and overwhelming to you? That’s how I felt when I first delved into PBL. But now I know there is nothing to be afraid of! In this post, I will give a quick explanation of project-based learning and then give you some tips and ideas to begin to implement it in your own classroom. What is Project Based Learning? Project based learning, simply stated, is an authentic learning experience
I LOVE Libraryland! Have I mentioned that before? I have always been an avid volunteer, one that likes to try new things.. and I love connecting. Now, is libraryland overwhelming.. it sure is! Another thing I love is learning from others (and having a space to offer to different activities is great as well) The title of this blog is collaboration.. but when rethinking and writing it, I realize that the collaboration that I had with my art teacher was bouncing ideas off of each other.. and making sure the space was ready for various activities. That is still collaboration..right?? Before I became a librarian.. I was already following some amazing librarians (some that I will actually get to meet in person soon!!!) So, one awesome librarian/tech facilitator Nikki Robertson posted this way cool picture that she had found (if you are the original poster of this.. would you please let me know so I can thank you for the wonderful idea.. and give you credit!) How absolutely beautiful is this! So, I talked to my amazing art teacher on campus.. and the conversation went something like this: "Hey Mrs. R... want to work on something like this for the first of the year? The feathers can be students hopes, dreams, wishes and resolutions." "Sure! That is great!" A couple of weeks later.. Mrs. R approaches me and shows me the bag of beautiful feathers. "Yes, Mrs. R.. these are PERFECT! How can I help!?" "I am still getting feathers" We decided to hang this up for science night (as what better time to talk about wishes and dreams) "Hey Mrs. R.. what can I do to help with these wings?" "Help me hang them!" In other words.. I had nothing to do with this! (Well.. I did make the poster above the wings.. and I helped hang them) Seriously.. they are beautiful! She created a generic feather and then asked each student in the school to create/decorate their own and then combined them with this wonderfulness.These wings are right across the hall from the library, so I loved hearing the conversations that students had with their parents about their goals and dreams (and of course it was a perfect photo opp!) Mrs. R. the rocking art teacher At the beginning of January, Mrs. R. came to me and asked if I would like to help with a Chinese New Year Celebration. She did tell me that there would be no glitter! (Side note.. I love seeing things being created in the library.. and I don't mind mess. HOWEVER.. I HATE using glitter.. that is the one thing not allowed) Of course I said yes.. as the library is a great space to have people! We set a date, got it on the calendar.. and like before I asked what can I do to help. The space is how I helped (and help somewhat monitor the stations) The Chinese New Celebration ran much like the Late Night in the Library. It was an extended time with several stations set up. I read a short story in the middle of the time, but the hightlight.. the Dragon Dance! Stations: -Rooster stamp -Paper lanterns (like this idea.. but of course there are tons of ways that you can make them) -Chinese Plastic Spoon Dancing Dragon (like this idea, but did it with plastic spoons, string and paper pieces) -Chinese drum (much like this idea) -Write Happy New Year in Chinese (this was a super cool station because she had put out thin paper and brushes with the black paint) The art club students ran the stations, and we had over 30 attendees for a Friday afternoon. These art club students are also the ones who did the Dragon Dance. We are already talking about next year for this! We are going to do the Dragon Dance to end the day.. but before the event starts as almost a parade to the library. Did you celebrate Chinese New Year? How do you collaborate? Upcoming blogs- -how my lesson plans are evolving -February happenings (I just finished my first actual display!)
These best selling speech sound cue cards are great for providing students with consistent cues when they're learning new consonant speech sounds in Speech and Language Therapy sessions! A must-have for your Speech Therapy toolkit! Please note: these articulation cue cards were fully updated in July 2023. Contents This resource contains cue cards for 24 consonant speech sounds of English - p, b, m, n, w, h, t, d, k, g, f, v, s, z, ‘sh’, ‘zh’, ‘ch’, ‘j’, r, l, th (voiced and voiceless), y and ‘ng’. They have been designed for use in Speech and Language Therapy sessions to help provide cues and visuals when students are learning new speech sounds. An additional file is also included which contains cue cards for /r/ (with bunched and retroflex options), vocalic r and ‘rl’ (see download file). ⭐️ About the cue cards: There are 5 different sets of cue cards. In each set, there are two sounds per page. Each cue card includes a variety of cues to support students to produce the target sound. The types and amount of cues varies depending on which cue card set you’re using. Each set has an explanation page before it, so you can learn more about the individual cue card sets and who may benefit from each type. Cues include: phonetic cues (visual, verbal, tactile, and motokinesthetic), gestural cues, metaphors, metaphonological cues, and some orthographic cues (note- not all graphemes included). Additional visuals and cue cards are also provided in the resource. Including a “My Speech Sound Helpers” diagram, visuals for the type of sound, tongue position, volume, etc. ⭐️ See the preview for a detailed overview of what is included in this resource. PLEASE NOTE: This resource includes a COLOR VERSION ONLY. I felt that the images lost a degree of clarity when in line art form. However, you can print in grayscale from your printer options if preferred, as the shading is preserved in this format. ⭐️ Preparation: Print onto cardstock. There are two sounds per page; cut the page in half to get individual cards. Laminate if desired (useful if you want to draw extra cues such as airflow on the cards). Tip: Print multiple pages to one page if you want smaller cue cards. ⭐️ Ideas for using these speech sound visuals: Use in therapy sessions to support speech sound production. Print and put on a bulletin board display as a sound wall. Send cue cards home for home practice. Use the ‘Consonant Speech Sound’ pages (all sounds on one page) for stimulability assessments, progress monitoring, and educating others. These are suitable for US, UK and Aus. English! (other than the word "color" on the front cover, everything else has spellings suitable for UK/Aus English settings!)
These printable Color Sorting Mats are a fun, hands on activity to help toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age kids practice identifying colors.
Even though I believe there's a lot of learning going on when kids are involved in creative play, crafting, games, cooking, and a...
Make Ten... A fun and easy card game for kids that reinforces math concepts and uses a regular deck of playing cards. Free printable play mat included!
Use these mini states and capitals flash cards to help your child learn the 50 U.S. states and their capitals.
Teach pattern skills in preschool and kindergarten with this free printable body movement patterns set focused on patterns and pattern units.
Friday was one of those fun, engaging, awesome days of learning. It was play-based, rigorous, and had my operating room of 1st grader doctors begging for more. Today I wanted to share with you more…
Looking for a fun Preschool Construction Theme for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Construction Learning Activities for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Emotion regulation is important to children's social and emotional development.Teaching kids how to identify their feelings teaches them self control.
Science gets REALLY interesting in 4th grade. Bones, cells, digestion, animals and more are featured here in our 4th Grade Science Worksheets. Are you ready to learn? There’s no more fun way than with worksheets. Print them all for free. 4th Grade Science Worksheets
Today was all about color. Before class I assigned the girls a color to wear so they could sit at the table in the color wheel. So perfect that we have exactly 6 girls. The table isn't round, but they still got the "wheel" idea. :) As usual, these little sweeties took this idea and ran with it. At one point one of them said, "I sure hope Orange gets here soon!" From then on, they each were known as their color instead of their name. Then, when I asked what you got when you mixed yellow and blue, they answered "Tabitha!" (she was our green). Hilarious and so much fun. I think it was good for them to physically see who was opposite them on the color wheel. It was a great way to talk about primary and secondary colors, complementary colors, and warm colors/cool colors, etc. Fun! During our discussion, the girls worked on this worksheet. (The first thing they asked was, "Can we color Roy??" This made me happy.) I asked them to color the rectangles starting with dark heavy pressure and then fading into a lighter tone of each color. Most of them were familiar with the "Roy G. Biv" memorization tool, but it was new to a few of them. Roy has 6 distinct hair segments to color in the order of the rainbow (skipping indigo as today we stuck with just the primary and secondary colors). Here's a sample of a finished worksheet. (Several of them decided ol' Roy could use a sweet mustache. This one is quite French, non?) We then moved onto a really great design and color project found HERE from Art With Mr. E. I began by letting them know that it took me a couple of tries before I really got the hang of it. Here are my examples as well as several of my first attempts that are headed for the recycling bin. I showed them how to do it step by step really stressing that you need to make sure each line goes from dot to dot. They practiced with pencil on scrap paper first until they felt more comfortable. I made sure to let them know that even if you have a couple little sloppy spots or tiny mess ups, these still look oh so cool! They did their finished drawing on a 4x6 card with a fine tip Sharpie. They chose any color scheme that appealed to them. And they turned out amazing! This was a really great project that combines design and color and also light and highlight. (Thanks Mr. Edinger for sharing this great project!!) HERE is another variation on the Line Design project. It's the same concept but with some tweaks. I had a lovely, colorful afternoon with these colorful, amazing, fun, sweet girls! See you next month!
Free, fun and useful Kindergarten - 1st Grade, Common Core aligned lesson plans, math games, calendars, behavior charts, materials and more!
The complexity of emotions is influenced by many factors, from internal to external factors. Each persons experience is also different and that also plays an important role in influencing the complexity of emotions..
As promised I am back to share my newest 3D shape product. WOW! I feel like I have been working on this packet FOREVER! One reason this took so long to create was because I took my first leap into creating clip art because I was not able to find any cute 3D shape clip art. This resource has TONS of cute stuff and I am so excited to share it with you! This 36 page 3D Shape Fun packet includes 6 posters to teach 3D shapes and one 3D shape attribute poster to help students with the vocabulary terms. A 3D Shape/Color BINGO game with calling cards and 7 different BINGO boards. A student book to learn about the 6 3D shapes, concentration game, 3D Shape Sort with Data Analysis and an "I Have, Who Has 3D Shape Game" WHEW! Stop by my shop to check out this fun packet!
In this episode, Dr. Stanley Rockson discusses how you can distinguish between lipedema, lymphedema, and obesity.
Are you looking for some simple yet highly engaging investigation areas and learning invitations to start the school year? Play-based learning is the best way to engage your students and encourage them to take an active role in their learning so this school year, welcome your students with investiga
