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This is my 8th logic game. It´s about the TV programmes and ´be going to. It´s good to have some fun before or in the Summer Holiday. Some cliparts are from Philip Martin. Thanks for them. Hope you like it. Hugs, ZsuzsapsziIf you don’t know how to solve this kind of game, you can look at the Einstein riddle on the net or have a look at my 33rd logic game, called Best friends where I wrote down the solution step by step. - ESL worksheets

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SS colour one part of the memory and then cut it. It helps a lot to teach them to read in english - ESL worksheets

In my 19th logic game you can find out a part of the five children´s daily routine. The cliparts are from Grace Lee. The key is on the 2nd page. Enjoy it. Have a great day. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi.If you don’t know how to solve this kind of game, you can look at the Einstein riddle on the net or have a look at my 33rd logic game, called Best friends where I wrote down the solution step by step. - ESL worksheets

If you know my logic games, then you know what you will find here. In this 41st game five boys went to sprinkle their relatives this Easter. Each boy became different presents from different relatives, and the number of the visited ‘girls’ are different, as well. The background is my creation. :)Enjoy it! Hugs, Zsuzsapszi - ESL worksheets

In my 22nd logic game you meet Jason, Joan, Kelly, Lisa and Robert, who were at the market yesterday. They bought some vegetables to prepare a delicious dinner for their loved ones. From this game you can find out what they bought, what they cooked and who ate it. Some cliparts are from Philip Martin and some from http://www.clker.com/. Hope you enjoy this one as well. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi.If you don’t know how to solve this kind of game, you can look at the Einstein riddle on the net or have a look at my 33rd logic game, called Best friends where I wrote down the solution step by step. - ESL worksheets

This worksheet number 2 of five worksheets on Homophones. The learners first learn the difference in meaning in each pair and then attempt to complete the sentence with the correct word. - ESL worksheets

Here is a worksheet on taxes. We live in California so I used the taxes that apply to us. I also used a minimum amount of income tax. The majority of my students will never work. The couple that will, will most likely work part time. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Life-Skills-Paying-Taxes

I'm back! I totally apologize to all my readers for disappearing for the last couple of months. I took my first real grad class this fall and had no time to breathe. Something had to give and unfortunately it was my blog. But, the class is over and I am back! I have so much to tell you but instead of one long post, be looking for short posts over the next week or so to catch you up! The class I took was TONS of work but also very rewarding. In Massachusetts, if you have even one student in your class who is and English Language Learner, you need to take a class called Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Language Learners (RETELL). It's basically an intro to ELL and walks you through tried and true activities that helps ELLs succeed in the classroom. Being my second year in district, I found the class to be EXTREMELY helpful and my biggest takeaway is direct vocabulary instruction. I have always felt that vocabulary is such an important part of teaching social studies and last year I just knew I wasn't cutting it. My students were just understanding vocabulary on the most superficial of levels and I knew it was because I was teaching a population I had never really experienced before. In the class they taught us a vocabulary activity called the Seven Steps to preteach vocabulary. Here is a fabulous example of Seven Steps from an elementary teacher: I knew this was exactly what I needed but I decided to tweak it for my class. Now, almost every day, my kiddos walk in and we preteach a word or term they are going to need in order to understand the upcoming content (Tier 2 and Tier 3 Words). We do it in the same order every day: Introduce word and have them pronounce it twice. Ask if they know anything about the word and identify and prefixes, suffixes, and/or base words. Have them write down a student friendly definition. Tell them how we are going to use it in content. I also like to tell them how it is used in other contexts (for the word "convention" this week, we talked about the Constitutional Convention but we also talked about ComicCon). I show the kids a YouTube video that better illustrates the word or a visual. Lastly, the students are given a sentence stem that they need to finish with the students in their table groups. We then share out as a class. This method has truly revolutionized my class! Not only are the kids truly understanding the vocabulary, it has allowed me to frontload my teaching. As an example, I taught the term Articles of Confederation three days before we really learned about the Articles of Confederation. The kids absolutely love it and have been acing their vocab quizzes like champs. They can use the words weeks later in a sentence and I really feel like it has helped me make bigger connections in my content. I showed two different videos with this term. The first clip, I explained to them, is how the British knew how to fight and the second video was how the Americans learned to fight from the native Americans. We were able to compare and contrast the two styles and this whole lesson took less than ten minutes of my class. If you're interested, I have started to gather together these vocab lessons and have made them available on Teachers Pay Teachers. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mesopotamia-and-First-Civilizations-Direct-Daily-Vocabulary-Instruction-1675580 https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Revolution-Direct-Daily-Vocabulary-Instruction-1672787 Head on over to TPT to check these out and look for more as I progress in the year!

This is a quick test to evaluate SS about the plural of nouns. It includes one example of virtually every kind, such as : +s, +es, irregular plurals, etc.Besides, in order to save some paper and take care of the planet every page will serve for three students! :) - ESL worksheets

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This a 5 min activity for ss to activate the vocabulary they know about sports - ESL worksheets

It´s my 5th logic task. The ss have to know 5 tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple and future simple. It´s good to have some fun before or in the Summer Holiday. Hope you like it. Hugs, Zsuzsapszi. If you don’t know how to solve this kind of game, you can look at the Einstein riddle on the net or have a look at my 33rd logic game, called Best friends where I wrote down the solution step by step. - ESL worksheets

I absolutely love this idea found on Pinterest. I made my own version. What a fab way to get more interesting sentences out of the children....

This is not a creation of mine but it was so useful for me that I couldn't help sharing. Thanks to the one who made the worksheet! :) - ESL worksheets

A simple picture crossword to revise animals. After filling it in Ss will learn the proverb 'Curiosity killed the cat.' - ESL worksheets

I've been asked about this a few times recently, since I am not so secretly disappointed that the community I live in is not as supportive and enthusiastic about the ideas and implications of physiological birth as I wish they were. This is a nice way of saying, I whine a lot about people choosing to birth in ways that I think are way less than optimal. We are offering our 5 week class for free for locals next month in hopes of helping shift the culture here, even if just a fraction of an inch. But I was prepping

It's a reading about the Incredibles, the objective is to practice superlative and comparative adjectives through different types of activities: questions, true or false and a wordsearch to work on spelling. Happy Easter to every one! :) - ESL worksheets

This is a revision ws. The ss can practise their knowledge with 5-5 exercises. Key is included. The notebook style is from Philip Roeland and the cute cliparts from Grace Lee. Thanks for sharing them. *o* - ESL worksheets

Students must writhe sentences by usinh HE/SHE/THEY in plus teh correct adjective. - ESL worksheets

Master ray diagrams for converging lenses with our detailed step-by-step guide. Perfect for physics students.