I am linking up with Ashley Reed from Just Reed this mid-week to share in my Top 10 Pins in Classroom Management! I know that I already...
Discover fun and engaging idioms practice activities for your classroom! Explore popular idioms and creative idioms lessons while...
One of the most shocking, and upsetting, moments of your adult life was probably learning the full story of Christopher Columbus. Almost every elementary school textbook hails him as a hero who "discovered" America, whose tireless crew on the Niña,…
Using brain-based learning strategies & playful stories, Secret Stories® phonics approach helps students remember sounds to letter patterns. Here are examples of r controlled vowels, th digraph & more.
It's time for you to throw your old dictionary away because this one's going to tell you everything that you need to know. https://www.instagram.com/p/BQqF0KmlN
I’ve added a couple of new music symbol worksheets to my website. They’re a colorful way to make sure your students really understand everything on a page of music (or practice for upcoming theory exams, as is the case in my studio!). I’ve made two levels so far. Level 1 drills these symbols: treble clef, bass clef, time signature, repeat sign, bar lines, forte, piano, … Continue reading →
Art can inspire a person to create great things. And sometimes those great things are memes. And sometimes those memes are so good, they end up on the r/TrippinThroughTime subreddit.
Giving short compliments is not easy, but it’s always well received. Know from the list here great words that can be used to compliment others!
If you haven’t already read our editing blog ‘What the Frick is a Zero Draft?’ then go and do that now. If you’ve already read it, excellent. Let us continue this novel editing conversation right away. So, how do you turn a zero draft into a proper first draft, and then a second, third, fourth, […]
Shakespeare's got nothing on you.
There is a reason nobody helps out slackers. Because even if you give them the answers to the upcoming text, they will still whine and moan about how it's not fair for them. Or how it is so hard on them. Or that they will lose their scholarship and other stuff. It's like they don't
Jan 16 prompt & poem Pacific NW poet, Ariel. Today, on Twitter it is @1line wed. – I’m hoping to play today. The theme is “fantasy”. Today’s prompt is “ath…
I've been working on a few things for Behavior Management so I thought I'd join the party! Check out The Lesson Plan Diva to see others who have linked up! I've seen a lot of clip charts and stop lights in blog land and I have to say that I am not a fan. Don't get me wrong--I think they are pretty, easy to use, and a quick visual for the teacher at the end of the day when getting things ready to go home. BUT I strongly believe that kids should not be publicly embarrassed for their behavior. EVERYONE makes poor choices from time to time. Would you want the entire staff to know when you missed a deadline or made a mistake? I know this is not the intention, but it happens anyway. Instead I use a binder. I wish I had a photo to show but sadly it is locked up at school. In the binder is a chart with student numbers instead of names. When students make poor choices, they are asked to visit the behavior binder where they place a check mark next to their number. There is also a copy of our Quality Student they should quickly review. When sending students to the binder, I make sure to do it privately so the student is not embarrassed. Each Monday we discuss the previous week's data, celebrate if we made a goal, and make new goals for the coming week. The binder is also handy at conference time. As a class, we set goals for the number of checks we will try to stay under per week. Students also may have personal goals for how many checks they will have each week or grading period. Recently I found Homeworkopoly on Ladybug's Teacher Files and decided to teacher-lift it. She uses this for students who consistently complete their homework, but I decided to use it as a behavior incentive. ALOT of people have been posting about doing away with the prize/treasure box and this could work for that too. I included two "prize box" places on the board but you could easily replace them with something else. I am still working on the Chance cards and I also added a spot for "Student-written questions." My plan here is to have students write their own review questions for topics already covered. So my printer is running low on ink and the colors are a bit distorted but this is the basic idea. My plan is to post it on the chalk board and use pictures of the kids faces to make magnetic playing pieces. Students who made it the entire week without any checks in the behavior binder (or who met their personal behavior goal) will get to take a turn on the Behavioropoly Board. Check out Ladybug's Teacher Files to see how she runs the game. ***Update*** Due to a high volume of requests I am no longer sending out my template by email. You can go to my TPT store and download the files for free!
America had Al Capone. Sydney had Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - who *hated* each other.
… is to pray and work for others to get saved. We have all eternity to praise God, to pursue our hobbies, to enjoy riches. But the opportunity to save souls stops at death. *I don’t own…
