8 ideas to keep students engaged and having fun with a simple worksheet
Have you ever wished you kept track of special dates in one spot? Life's Big Moments are justthat! Write down those special moments in life in the month they happened and include a year beside. Special events such as:Robin's Baptism -1992Ron and Cathy's Wedding -2014 Included in this 17 page PDF downloadable are:● 12 Monthly pages● 4 Moments to Savor pages Keep track of all the special people in your life in one convenient location. And don't forget tojournal about them too! We included a page for you to write your memorable moments. This is a PDF Download digital resource. Print what you need and begin to fill in the details asyou go!
Time sure does fly when you’re having fun! At The Primary Peach we’re having a blast! SO much fun, that it’s been a WHOLE YEAR since we first started! We’re so excited, that we’re celebrating! What better way to celebrate with a GIVEAWAY!!! But first…a FREEBIE! (You’re going to want to head over to The ... Read more
I love it when posts are inspired by a reader question, and this question is from my Facebook Page. A preschool teacher asked for tips on keeping her writing center fun and engaging. I love writing centers and have included them in my classrooms from age 2 and up. When you provide the right materials […]
Sentence Starters! Here you will find a useful list of common sentence starters that you can use in a discussion as well as in essay writing. Learn these
Here are 10 great tips to inspire and support your writing practice. All genres will benefit from any one of these motivating tips.
How do you get students to take the wonderful narratives they come up with and get them down on paper? Here are the steps to teaching narrative writing in the primary classroom.
*******UPDATE******* Please download the word file, it will be transferred to a google doc for easier access for virtual learning!!! :) Attached are 2 graphic organizers for step up to writing for a 5 sentence and 8 sentence paragraph. It is color coded and ready to copy and paste to make longer paragraphs or shorter as you customized for each individual student.
Make the most of your writing block with these funny picture prompts! Go here:
Whether you are trying to write a novel, pen an epic poem, or maintain a blog about this or that, it’s inevitable that you will at some point experience one of the following: lack of inspiration decrease in motivation general malaise writing burnout general I-don’t-give-a-shit Some people refer to these symptoms as “writer’s block,” but I … Continue reading What to Write About When You Have Nothing to Write About
My kids and I recently finished reading The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood. At first my kids weren’t really into the Elizabetha...
Friday letters offer so many insights into your students and keep parents connected to your classroom. See how I teach students to manage them themselves.
Writing Station Suitcase is a year long writing center all-in-one solution. Keep students excited and learning at the writing center.
If you want to find out more about your family, download the life history questions and make time to interview your family members. Learn some fun facts.
Over the years I've created and shared more than 500 printables here on the blog. Keeping track of all of them and, more importantly, making them easy for you to find can be a bit
Make sure you know the best note-taking tricks so you can best prepare for your class. Your notes really matter, so be sure to know the best tricks out there to use!
As an introduction to my series on Organic Architecture, I thought I’d start out with the ol’ granddaddy of plot structures: Arch Plot. You probably already know all about this plot structure, but to make sure we’re all on the same page, I wanted to do a quick overview. Arch plot has lots of names....
"Mistakes are GOOD!" The first time I said that to a class of second graders, they looked at me like I was crazy. They were incredulous. "You mean you actually want us to make mistakes?" they asked in disbelief.
Writing prompts to help inspire your writing, break through writer’s block, or give you a place to start whenever you need a story idea. There are 199 writing starters below and most of them …
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Read this post and watch the video to see how we organize writing in my upper elementary classroom. This post includes a free printable binder template.
MLK Day is right around the corner and we've been busy trying to find some last minute {and simple!} ideas that you can use in the classroom as you and your kiddos explore the life and legacy of this important historical figure! * * * The story of Dr. King offers a powerful example of how one person who stands up for what they believe in/what is right can make a difference. As you explore the life of Martin Luther King Jr this January - his ideals, his hopes, and his impact - empower your students with the knowledge that, they too, have the power to make a difference in their families, their school/community, and even the world! Constructing a dream mobile is a great way to help your students make a meaningful connection with the holiday as well as instill this very idea! We found two variations of the dream mobile and either project would make a fabulous addition to your MLK Day lessons! Individual Dream Mobile Photo Source: Mrs. Prince & Co. Leanne over at Mrs. Prince & Co. has her kiddos create individual mobiles, writing about their dreams for their school, community, and world. If you're interested in completing this project, she offers the mobile printables for FREE over at her blog, so set-up is sure to be easy peasy! Collaborative Dream Mobile Photo Source: 4th Grade Frolics Tara of 4th Grade Frolics invites her students to work together to create a class mobile displaying their dreams for the world. Invited to think about various topics - freedom, equality, fairness, unity, etc. - students wrote about what these dreams might look like and their hopes for the world! Here's a picture of the completed mobile... Photo Source: 4th Grade Frolics Of course, these projects were initially used with second and fourth grade students, so keep this in mind when tweaking the activity for your preschoolers!
Filler Activities for ELA (blog post) What can you do with five extra minutes in secondary ELA? Here are a few ideas to engage students until the bell.
Do you have trouble remembering "the little things"? If your answer was even a tiny bit "yes", then you need to know what lists to keep in your planner to
I've got a Spaceman Freebie but first, I have some new products added to my Teachers Pay Teachers store: ⤤ SUPER EASY to implement - GREAT for the first weeks of school!!!! Click on the pictures to check them out or click HERE to visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store and click HERE to get a FREE kit each month!! Wonder how many times I've had to remind students to use spaces between words when writing? Maybe a million! I've been wanting some "spacemen" to help students remember to use those spaces, so I decided to make some. If you would like to make some too, I have a free download for you right here: {Click here or on the picture to download} BTW, I post a lot of freebies on my blog - if you don't want to miss any of them, make sure to click on this button follow me on bloglovin': There are a couple of ways to do this - the easiest would be to print on cardstock, laminate, and cut into strips. They can be used this way, might get a little worn after a while but it would be easy enough to replace them each school year. To make them super sturdy, I wanted to make mine to fit on large craft sticks (the kind sized 6 inches x 3/4 inch). I bought these at Walmart: I tried using Mod Podge at first, and that worked good, but I realized I had a MUCH easier way to do it so I broke out my trusty Xyron machine with the laminate/permanent adhesive cartridge: This: That's the smaller one, that works just as good, I have the larger one here: I got mine years ago and it's a lot cheaper now! I loaded in the printout of Spacemen... and out they came, laminated with permanent adhesive on the back. Then I just cut out on the lines (I used my paper cutter) and peeled the backing off to stick on the craft stick. I have these sized to fit the craft sticks exactly with just a little extra on the top and bottom. I made that extra space on purpose - here's a little trick to trim off that top and bottom and make it perfectly molded to the stick. Use a fingernail file! Just use a downward motion pressing the file to the stick where the paper is hanging over. It files the paper and laminate away and shapes it to the edges of the stick: Now they are ready to use!!
After their invention by Venetian merchants, forms of these books were kept by everyone from H.P. Lovecraft to Thomas Jefferson.
The composition class I have been teaching for years is supposed to be all about research, critical thinking, and honing argumentative w...
The first sentence of your story is the most important you will write. It will determine whether the reader (or publisher) decides to keep reading or toss your book aside. Think of it this way: when you meet someone new you decide from your first impression whether or not you like the person and are […]
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This emoji-themed writing activity is perfect for the first day of school! Students color in the emoji that shows how they feel about the first day and then write about it. This is a good way to get that first writing sample or to keep kids busy while you collect supplies, get your new class settled...
