This Dinosaur Clothespin Printable is the perfect activity to introduce Dino Day or jsut teach your students about the importance of dinosaurs!
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Explore the profound wisdom of Stoic Quotes on Purpose with an in-depth analysis of these selected Stoic teachings.
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One of the best day hikes in the French Pyrenees is the Cirque de Gavarnie. This blog will give you great tips on how to hike the Cirque de Gavarnie.
This blog post shows 2nd grade reading activities to use when teaching author's purpose of a nonfiction or informational text.
Butter Naan. Make incredibly soft, stretchy homemade naan with this easy, viral recipe perfected for 19 years. Better than restaurant naan!
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Praxis and Motor Planning: Resources for Pediatric Therapists to address Imitation of Postures, Postural Praxis, Body Scheme Awareness, and Spatial Awareness.
Are you currently in the search of your own life's purpose? Here are 4 questions to help you find what your true life purpose is and why its important!
Teaching students how to determine the author's purpose or point of view is a complex and multi-layered skill that takes deliberate practice. Check out these six steps that will help your students master the skill in no time!
Most young children can not sit still for long periods of time and quite frankly neither can I. Our brains are incredible organs, but they are limited in how much they can stay focused and motivated. We need movement to create more oxygen and blood flow to the brain for it to function optimally. Studies […]
Help your students master identifying the author's purpose with these fun and interactive Author's Purpose Activities for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-grade students. Students will determine if the author is trying to Persuade, Inform or Entertain by reading the short passage on the task card. These Author's Purpose task cards are perfect for a whole class game of Scoot, a small group activity, a partner or an independent center activity. Also included in this resource is a cut and paste author's purpose worksheet for review or reinforcement. Engage students with these interactive activities instead of another reading passage or just more author's purpose worksheets. Your students will love working on identifying the author's purpose with these fun and engaging author's purpose activities. Get the Author's Purpose Bundle here>>> AUTHOR'S PURPOSE BUNDLE Author's Purpose Task Card Activities includes: 12 Author's Purpose Task Cards Student Response Sheet Answer Key Cut and Paste Author's Purpose Worksheet See What Teachers Are Saying: This was a fun hands-on visual activity that allowed students to think about the author's purpose. It was also a great and quick way to assess student understanding of the author's purpose. My students were struggling with Author's Purpose and this resource made it so easy for them to understand the concept. Students were engaged and loved the activities. This helped students determine the author's purpose. I always prefer interactive activities and this was so helpful! More Fun and Engaging Author's Purpose Activities: AUTHOR'S PURPOSE AUTHOR'S PURPOSE (THANKSGIVING) AUTHOR'S PURPOSE (CHRISTMAS) AUTHOR'S PURPOSE (WINTER) AUTHOR'S PURPOSE (FEBRUARY) ⭐ LET’S GET CONNECTED! ⭐ TEACHING SECOND GRADE BLOG TEACHING SECOND GRADE FACEBOOK TEACHING SECOND GRADE PINTEREST TEACHING SECOND GRADE INSTAGRAM HOW TO GET CREDIT TOWARDS FUTURE PURCHASES! Go to your My Purchases page. Next to each purchase, you will see a "Provide Feedback" button. Click on that button and it will take you to a page where you can leave a rating and a comment about the product. Every time you provide feedback, you will earn TPT credits. These can be applied to future purchases to save you money! Yay! FOLLOW MY TPT STORE Click the green star beside my name at the top of this page or Click Here. By doing this, you will see when I add a new product or have upcoming sales! >>> TERMS OF USE <<< All rights reserved. Purchase of this item entitles only the purchaser the right to reproduce the pages for classroom use only. Duplication for an entire school (system) or commercial purposes is strictly forbidden without written permission from the author. Copying any part of this product and placing it on the internet, in any form (not even on a personal / classroom website) is strictly forbidden. This is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright ACT or DMCA. These items can and will be traced back to the publishing site.
As we approach Matariki, there are some wonderful Matariki crafts you can do with your children to celebrate.
Hey everyone! It's Deanna here from A Primary Owl! Today, I am talking formative assessments....this has been a huge push in my school this year. We have been focusing on Formative Instructional Practices like posting clear learning targets for students, making sure students know their learning targets and regular formative assessments to drive your instruction. So, I want to share with you 5 quick ways you can check for understanding during or after your lesson. You probably already use these strategies, but do you view at them as formative assessments?? Exit tickets are an excellent way to check for understanding. But you don't just have to wait until the students are "exiting".....you can have students write what they remember from the lesson the previous day. During the lesson, stop and have students jot down their ideas. I love using index cards for this! I have tons of them and they are super cheap. It takes just few minutes to pass them out and it is easy for students to write on the lines. Exit ticket charts or "What Stuck With You Today?" charts are great for this too. I love using my "Think and Respond" Chart. This is just another easy way to check in with students: I love white boards. We use them constantly in my room during our lessons. I recently felt like I won the lottery when I was in my local Dollar Tree store....they had these dry erase boards with handles only $1.00 each!!! I literally felt like doing a happy dance right there in the aisle! We have used them tons during math and also when we are reviewing multiple choice items for quizzes. I have them write their answers on their white boards and show me. I can quickly tell who didn't get the correct answer and who needs to look around for help before answering. I can pull those friends into a small group later for reteaching. Seems simple but we do a quick check on our fingers all the time. I say, "Give me a thumbs up if you understand, thumbs down if you are still having trouble, thumbs in the middle if you still need more time." Another way I use this is when we watch a BrainPop video, we do the little quizzes together and I have my students show one finger for answer A, two for answer B, etc. Easy and no prep or papers to print! Another scale that we use besides our fingers is a rating scale. While some students might find it hard to show their fingers because they might embarrassed to admit they don't understand a concept. Using a personal rating scale is less public. I made these, laminated them and my students keep them in their pencil boxes. Students can privately show me how they are doing. You can get your free template by clicking the picture: Finally, my favorite way to check student's learning is using technology. Here we are playing Quizlet Live, our new favorite obsession! These are just a few of my favorite tech tools for keeping students engaged and evaluating their learning during the unit we are working on. Thank for stopping by today! Pin for later:
5 Ways I Grew My Blog I am including five things that grew my blog exponentially these past 4 years. While there are many components to owning and successfully growing a blog, I attribute my own blog growth to these 5 actions. 1. Prayer/ Leading of the Holy Spirit This is key right here and
Blog post about fun, low-prep STEM playdough activities with a fun freebie!
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What is Picture Walk?Picture Walk is a reading strategy that enhances students’ comprehension of a text or story before reading it. With the teacher’s guidance, learners preview the text or the story in order to make predictions, anticipate the events, make connections with the text and infer what the story is about.Through Picture Walk, learners acquire a better understanding of the text they are going to read. Picture Walk is an ideal differentiation tool you can use in any inclusive learning
Planning is a task all teachers must do. You either love it or you hate it, and I LOVE it! I love it because my planning documents are purposeful. I refer to them and use them constantly throughout the term. No one wants to waste their time writing up planning documents only to file them away, nev
This post is actually about an activity we did a few weeks ago. {I'm trying to catch up on all my posts!} I have seen on other blogs where teachers have students sort the books in the Scholastic catalogs that we all have lying around. I decided to incorporate that into our author's purpose is as easy as pie theme with this super fun activity. We have visited author's purpose throughout several units this year, so students were already very familiar with the concept. I had saved the Scholastic catalogs from October and gave each student one. They cut out each book cover and placed them in a pile. I picked up the pie pans at the Dollar Tree. Each table got three pie pans. The students were so excited when they came in and saw their "baking" gear laid out for them to use. I placed bulletin board paper on their desks to prevent the little book covers from falling in the floor. The cute chef hats are made from sentence strips and tissue paper. Once they had their book covers cut out, they got to sorting! We had to have several conversations throughout the activity to clear up any confusion with some of the trickier book covers. And they were having conversations of their own, debating on which pan to place some of the books. It was so interesting to hear their take on author's purpose! At the end, we pulled out some of the books and discussed whether or not we thought that pan was a good choice for the books. Some groups decided to make changes to their sort. I was so excited to hear them using the language I had taught them and applying what we had learned. If you are interested in doing this little activity, you can download the author's purpose labels by clicking on the pic below. I just printed them on cardstock and folded them. Graphics by Melonheadz This was our anchor chart students referred to all throughout the unit. The mini posters are from my Author's Purpose Unit. We were so lucky to have a snow day today! I got caught up on so much and got to stay in my sweatpants all day! Win, win! Have a great rest of the week!
I am so very pleased to introduce you to my very first guest writer here at Milk & Honey Faith. Her name is Carmen Brown and she blogs over at Married By His Grace. I met Carmen the very first week I started blogging and we've grown to be the dearest of friends. We've had
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This DIY homemade goldenrod salve can be used on muscle aches, for reducing inflammation, fighting infections, lowering blood pressure and as an all-purpose healer.
Are you a christian blogger looking for creative blog post ideas?As both a christian blogger and lifestyle blogger (over at gabbyabigaill.com), I know how overwhelming it can be to always have something new to write about. While there are so many topics to write about for Christians, it can be easy to get lost in
Author's Purpose can be hard to teach. Instead of spending hours to search for a good picture book, read about my top 3 books when teaching author's purpose
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Wondering how to talk with your preschooler about Jesus? These simple tips will give you the confidence to teach your child who is three, four or five all about Him!
