One of my favorite parts of teaching first grade is I am SO excited how it all came together, and that I can finally share it with y...
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The first week anxiety and nerves are real! Help your new students with some beginning of the year team building activities and ice breakers.
Sea Cat Coloring Page The sea is a symbol of freedom and eternity. It is indispensable especially for its doyens. Seeing endless as a proof of existence, the seas have always attracted people's attent
This year, I decided to teach this skill over a few days at the beginning of the year. I've never taught it like this before. I usually wait until I move into nonfiction and argument writing and then I mention the difference in the three, but I never teach it as its own lesson. However, this year I thought maybe knowing how to do each of these early on would help as we start working on answering open-ended questions. I was inspired by this post over at The Creative Apple. I loved her anchor chart, which I believe she borrowed from this blog. Wanting to have an interactive page for our ISNs, I turned the anchor chart into this interactive folding page! {You can get it FREE right HERE!} They looked like this in our notebooks: Which open and look like this: Next, I had the kids read some short articles (I used some old Time for Kids magazines) and answer some simple, "right there" questions using either a quote, summary, or paraphrase to support their thinking. I am hoping that teaching this strategy early on will pay off. Often, I have students (usually my struggling learners) who will copy an entire paragraph from a text because they think they are supporting their answer. Typically, they don't use transitions and their answers come out disjointed and confusing and LONG! Do you teach this skill as its own lesson? How's it work for you? Happy Teaching!!
Decorating your classroom at the beginning of the year (or any time) is a challenge. Let me help with these ideas! There's always so much to do at the beginning of the school year. For me, this was really brought home when I started a new job with a science lab as my classroom. An
One of the best things to do on the first day of school is plan cooperative learning activities where students can get to know one another.
Read °°° How you first meet. °°° from the story One Direction Preferences and Imagines by sweetlikesugar1d (Zeina) with...
North Kansas City school district has gender-neutral restrooms in two new elementary schools and some renovated areas at a high school and sixth-grade centers. Toilets are in floor-to-ceiling door stalls.
