How do you make teacher feedback to students meaningful? You must give feedback when it matters - before students are "done" with a piece of writing...
Aligned to the common core This resource helps students classify quadrilaterals with all the pieces to make a cute poster to help them remember!! Color and black and white included . **UPDATED** Includes posters of each type of quadrilateral in poster size and smaller size for notebooks. Now incl...
From creating content for students to analyze to sharing strategies for assessment and classroom collaboration, ChatGPT has the potential to save you hours of time and make your life infinitely easier. Here are 50 prompts that will help with that.
This past week, we learned about synonyms. The kids really grasped the concept by mid-week! I am excited to see them start using synonyms...
Making final exam review sessions meaningful is important. Read about some practical ways to maximize review time in high school English.
Creating an engaging environment for upper elementary classrooms can be a daunting task. A great way to combat these tasks is by introducing anchor charts into your classroom. Anchor charts allow students and teachers alike to visualize their learning. Anchor charts are important for students of all ages.
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Grab two free books for educators and librarians, free fonts for readability, and lots of already-created templates for you to use.
Hi! Today I'm here to share some ideas for using plastic eggs! These eggs are perfect for spring, and don't necessarily have to be used j...
Hi everyone! Just popping in today with a little freebie for you to show how much I appreciate you all! This freebie is a great way to ch...
Composing is a great way to reinforce music theory, but we don't always have time in lessons. Bite-sized piano composition prompts might be the key for you.
The Challenge: Lab Work Teacher: (hands out the lab sheets and materials tray) “Alright, we’re going to start the group activity now!” Student A: (grabs the tray of materials) “I’m going to pour the baking soda in the cup!” Student B: “STOOOOOOPPPPP!” Student C: “Ok. Student A can do that, then I’ll do the next ... Read more
Pinterest It has been a CRAZY few weeks in my house! A birthday party, a root canal, parent teacher conferences…. shew… Spring is BUSY!! On the other hand… My students had a lot of fun learning about homophones the past two weeks! Today, I’m going to share all of our FUN! First, I introduced the […]
Hello Everyone! We are so getting into our whole aquatic habitat unit and have loved so many of the books we have found that have to do with the living things that make water their home. The past couple of days we have spent a lot of time comparing and contrasting the fiction and nonfiction books. We created this little anchor chart and began sorting our books according to what we discovered. It was interesting to find some of the nonfiction books that looked like they belonged in the fiction category. Dr. Seuss has some wonderful selections from which the kids were really learning facts! Here's a mini poster that covers the same ideas as my anchor chart. If you would like a printable, swim on over and click here! If you would like my entire 100 page Fishy unit, click here! It's free! I've got to keep swimming to keep my head above water at this time of the year, so...Thanks for stopping by to take a peek into our W.O.W.!! Gotta go!! Joyfully! Nancy
Activities to teach living things, helpful books, videos, lessons, and more for living things. Living and non-living activities
Prepositions. We learned about them last week. I was scared. Some of the CCSS intimidate me. Is anyone with me here? I mean, some skil...
Parts of speech can be tricky for kids, esp when they have so many to learn! We are pretty secure with our learning of nouns, verbs, adjec...
Happy Friday, friends! Hope you had a great week! I sure did! I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for another 5 for Friday! Here ...
This past week, we learned about synonyms. The kids really grasped the concept by mid-week! I am excited to see them start using synonyms...
Whether via classroom discussions, analysis of written text, higher-order questioning, or other strategies, learn and share ways to help students go deeper with their thinking.
"This game is a hit every time I use it in class. There are few ways to teach grammar and have it really stick. This is one of them. The example here is for active and passive voice, but you can adapt it for parts of speech, sentence structure (have categories for fragments, complete sentences, and run-ons), or correct/incorrect usage of punctuation marks."
DOK 1, 2, 3 and 4 Question Stems | Blooms Taxonomy Questions Stems for Teachers and Students Creating a dialogue with the literatu...
High resolution digital download of 'Unhelpful Thinking Styles' by Journey to Wellness. A useful resource for identifying a few common unhelpful thinking styles. Not for commercial use.
The Rise and Shine Binder uses interactive morning activities to wake up with the standards! This is a year long hands-on math and literacy interactive notebook that will engage your students each morning! Great for Kindergarten and First Grade.
I have combed through classic and contemporary literature to find engaging, insightful, and appropriate texts.
We have been doing lots of fun stuff in science and I wanted to share some pictures of some activities we did during our Force and Motion unit! To begin the unit, we did an activity to learn about the relative location and position of objects. Our Science book had a great activity to help teach the students about this concept. Each partner group gets a bag of blocks, or you can use cubes. I used some foam blocks that we had in our 3rd grade storage closet. You need to make sure each back has duplicate copies of each block. Each partner sets up a divider between them and one students plays the builder and one student the copier. The builder takes their blocks and builds a structure. Then, the builder has to TELL the copier how to build the same structure. Then, they remove the dividers and see if they were right! This group got it right! They filled out this sheet to go along with the activity. Just click the image above to download! They print two to a page. Another fun activity we did was to learn about how mass affects motion. This one was sooo much fun! I gave the kids a toy car and three pennies. They had to let the car roll down a ramp with no weight, with one penny, and then with all three pennies. After each roll, the students have to measure the distance the car went and record it on their sheet. Here they are in action! Here is the activity sheet for their science notebooks. All the procedures are listed on the sheet if you need more clarification on the activity! =) Just click the image to download! Here is the flipchart to go along with Mass and Motion lesson! Just click the image below to download it. Note: You need Activ Inspire software for this to work. I certainly hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine's Day! I must say, my Valentine presents definitely did the trick!! The big present won by a student at the end of the day! After opening the present she said, "There's too much candy in here." I about died laughing. I replied, "I can take it back if you want," to which she quickly replied, "NO!" HAHAHA Valentines Day went off without a hitch! I was exhausted though! I even had to tutor for an hour and half after school. Talk about some nutty children!
It’s THAT time friends. Time to cut, peel, detach from, take off our pajama pants, brush our unkempt hair, and smear on the lipstick (who are we kidding) chapstick. Back...
Chart of the Parts of Speech with corresponding symbol- noun, article, adjective, verb, preposition, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, interjection. Printed full color on plastic material.
These techniques guide all students to process course content and then actively demonstrate their learning.
I am always looking for ways to blend subject areas together to get more bang for my buck! 🙂 This FREEBIE file can be used to teach students about culture and our human fingerprints. It can also be used in tandem with Tanny McGregor’s trash can inferencing lesson! Hope you can use it!!! 🙂 CLICK …
Boost your kids' creativity and promote imagination and adventure with these creative writing story starters. Students will love the chance to get creative!
If you are looking for a way of fostering a class discussion in the spirit of Socrates, this article can help! Open-ended questioning has a way of getting the creative juices flowing and everyone involved engaged. Read on to learn more about this effective classroom method.
Do you have a newcomer student in your classroom? Here are some strategies for supporting newcomer ELLs in their elementary classroom...
It's that time of year! Magic e! I love teaching my kids about the magic e because it means they have really grown as readers! I know th...
Teaching self-awareness skills to kids helps them develop empathy and compassion towards others. Here are seven unique and fun ways to do that!
