I love teaching character traits!

Las capas son unas de las tendencias capilares más claras del momento. Y no nos extraña, porque casi siempre son sinónimo de un pelazo con movimiento y mucha personalidad .

Teaching Main Idea and Details is a fun, but tricky topic. Get students to have maximum engagement with this Main Idea Unit! I personally love teaching all comprehension strategies. It is kind of my teaching jam! I have a strong belief in teaching comprehension strategies in the younger grades in order for them to fall in love with reading. I mean, who really wants to just read words for nothing?! What I have done is developed my Main Idea and Details activities into a product that now makes it so you can teach Main Idea and Details with ANY book that is a fiction or a non-fiction story/selection! That way no matter what program you are using you can tie these activities in with it. I have laid out for you a simple way to use “The Little Red Hen”/ or “Cats” (a simple non fiction selection) to help initially teach Main Idea in a fun act it out kind of way. Along with some simple worksheets to help them recognize Main Idea and Details. Other than that; all crafts, graphic organizers, ect, have no limit to what book to tie it in with. Activities Included: Teaching Outline Suggestions C.C.S.S. Addressed for Kindergarten 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Act Out Main Idea and Details with Non-fiction: Cats (print out book in pack) and The Little Red Hen (Print out book in pack) Teaching Cards/ Anchor Poster Examples/ Posters for your Focus Wall Main Idea Song Details Song Main Idea and Details Graphic Organizers and Worksheets Interactive Notebook Pages Main Idea and Details Light Bulb Chandelier Craft Main Idea and Details Ladybug Craft Main Idea and Details Kiddo Thinking Craft Main Idea and Details Birdhouse Craft Main Idea and Details Car Craft Main Idea and Details Star Dude Craft Main Idea and Details Comprehension Tri-Folds (2) Click here to buy it in my Comprehension Strategies Bundle! Like this unit? You may also like my Story Structure/ Story Elements Unit Click Here Terms Copyright © Emily Barnes of Emily Education. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clip-art and font credits.

I wanted to stop by and share a few fraction freebies with you all. I love craftivities and always try to make any skill tie into a craft someway or another. There's just something about seeing a cute craft hanging up that makes your teacher heart smile big. This week we wrapped up our fraction unit with these Pot of Gold Fractions. Each student had to color and write the fraction under each flip. They also had to write if their fractions was halves or fourths on the clovers. Here are a few fraction craftivities that we made last year. You can find those here. One of my favorite things to use when teaching fractions is sticky notes. They work like a charm! There are TONS of different shapes, etc that can be used to make different fractions. Here is an example of how we used them to look at equal and unequal pieces. We also used them to create halves and fourths. You can read more on how we used sticky notes last year here. Happy Wednesday friends! I am officially on the countdown for Spring Break!! 2 more days!!

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Do you have a classroom pet peeve? Mine is untied shoes. I can handle a lot from these firsties, but there is something about those stringy laces hanging on the ground. They inevitably get stepped on and played with and drive me NUTS. In past years I've just dealt... but this year I cant take it! I have one kiddo who insists on putting his untied shoe laces in his mouth... eww! So I started the I Can Tie Club in my class. I have been encouraging my students to BEG their parents to teach them how to tie. When they can successfully tie their shoes, they get to sign the giant shoe and get a pencil. We started last week and I have 3 kids down, 18 more to go... yikes! But we will make it; all tying by the end of the year (or sooner, fingers double crossed!).

I am here to share with you a fun unit we just finished up, adding and editing dialogue in our writing. I have some extremely creative writers this year, which is a teacher’s dream come true! We all know that writing can be such a scary thing to teach sometimes because of how open-ended it is and […]

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I love teaching character traits!

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Hoy quería hacerles llegar un texto muy lindo sobre las leyes de espiritualidad de la India. Me ha llegado por varios lados, y como para mi eso es una señal, lo comparto con ustedes En la India se enseñan las "Cuatro Leyes de la Espiritualidad" La primera dice: "La persona que llega es la persona correcta", es decir que nadie llega a nuestras vidas por casualidad, todas las personas que nos rodean, que interactúan con nosotros, están allí por algo, para hacernos aprender y avanzar en cada situación. La segunda ley dice: "Lo que sucede es la única cosa que podía haber sucedido". Nada, pero nada, absolutamente nada de lo que nos sucede en nuestras vidas podría haber sido de otra manera. Ni siquiera el detalle más insignificante. No existe el: "si hubiera hecho tal cosa...hubiera sucedido tal otra...". No. Lo que pasó fue lo único que pudo haber pasado, y tuvo que haber sido así para que aprendamos esa lección y sigamos adelante. Todas y cada una de las situaciones que nos suceden en nuestras vidas son perfectas, aunque nuestra mente y nuestro ego se resistan y no quieran aceptarlo. La tercera dice: "En cualquier momento que comience es el momento correcto". Todo comienza en el momento indicado, ni antes, ni después. Cuando estamos preparados para que algo nuevo empiece en nuestras vidas, es allí cuando comenzará. Y la cuarta y última: "Cuando algo termina, termina". Simplemente así. Si algo terminó en nuestras vidas, es para nuestra evolución, por lo tanto es mejor dejarlo, seguir adelante y avanzar ya enriquecidos con esa experiencia. Creo que no es casual que estén leyendo esto, si este texto llegue a nuestras vidas hoy; es porque estamos preparados para entender que ningún copo de nieve cae alguna vez en el lugar equivocado! "Si un día tienes que elegir entre el mundo y el amor, recuerda: Si eliges el mundo quedarás sin amor, pero si eliges el amor, con él conquistarás al mundo"

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How many times have you been stuck in the inner dialogue within your mind? You know those thoughts we would never say to a friend. The thoughts which reveal how we honestly see ourselves. Ideas like: I’m never good enough. I always mess things up. No one loves me. I’m never going to get this ...

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Have you ever come across a mentor text that literally covers five standards and you squeal with delight? Or am I the only crazy person that gets excited about these types of things?! After reading Verdi by Janell Cannon with my students, I just couldn’t contain myself! I have so much to share with you...

{Politics can be a touchy subject no matter where you go, but it's especially important to be careful what you say - and how you say it! - in a school setting. Sidestepping potentially 'hot' issues such as your personal political party affiliation and candidate selections, election season truly does offer a fabulous opportunity for discussing important concepts like patriotism, citizenship, as well as one of the many things that makes America great, the freedom to make our own choice!} Photo Source: melissa-wade.blogspot.com To kick off your Election Unit, we found these awesome notebooking/anchor chart ideas over at Second Grade With Mrs. Wade that explore all kinds of different topics! Our favorites... We Love The USA! Election season is a great time to remember all of the things that make America great; we vote to elect the leader of our country, we enjoy freedoms that many other countries do not, we can feel confident and secure knowing that we have a military that will defend and protect us, etc. We love the idea of starting your unit with a notebooking exercise that will have your students brainstorming all of the reasons that they love the USA! What Does It Mean To Be A Good Citizen? In the same vein, the freedoms and rights that we enjoy also come with responsibility - the responsibility of contributing in a positive way and practicing good citizenship. Not only does a good citizen demonstrate many important attributes and values important in our communities - responsibility, courage, acceptance, honesty, etc. - but a good citizen also follows the laws of the country and recognizes the importance of political awareness. Melissa's citizenship notebooking page and anchor chart are a perfect way to introduce and discuss how to be a good citizen - in general and as it relates to the coming election {exercising our right to vote!}. For these fabulous activities and lots of other great government themed notebooking/anchor chart ideas, be sure to visit Second Grade With Mrs. Wade!

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