SS1CG2 Explore the concept of patriotism through the words in the songs America (My Country ‘Tis of Thee) and America the Beautiful (for example: brotherhood, liberty, freedom, pride, etc.) Students will listen to the song and be given lyrics, and then in small groups will have to add some choreography to the song and present in front of the class their own "take" on the lyrics and the song. This is a creative way for the students to learn and remember the song lyrics and their importance.
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A book I love to read, especially at the beginning or very end of the year when many students have worries, is Silly Billy by Anthony Brown...
This piano teaching idea share is full of fresh recital ideas, interesting games to play online, and great ways of injecting energy in lessons!
Gethsemane What Comes Next singing time activity uses a spin on echo singing with the kids leading what lyrics come next. Printables for Primary Music Leaders.
This making inference activity and lesson plan will help all of your readers succeed at making inferences and inferring as they independently read in your upper elementary and middle school classrooms. Making inference mentor text included.
Teaching students how to find the main idea can be hard. Here's what I used to teach my students how to find the main idea.
A few months ago, I was perusing Pinterest, TPT, and other online sites to find ideas for how to teach main idea when I came across the blog...
Teach your students to better understand the main idea with the ideas and printables including organizers and anchor charts.
Learn Piano With Your Child. Online piano lessons using a montessori method.
Our school threw our 2nd annual Harvest Festival on Friday! This new tradition is my favorite. I love seeing the kids after school ad having...
Pinterest This week in my classroom I’m going to be teaching my students to find the main idea and supporting details of a paragraph. I have to say….. this is one of my FAVORITE units! We spend a few weeks on the skill, but we continuously go back to it throughout the year. This year, […]
Slope is an important topic for pre-algebra, 8th grade math, and algebra. I was trying to come up with a new idea for practicing slope and I came up with the following: I made 32 cards with ordere…
Teaching topic vs Main Idea activities, picture books, guided questions, and more plus a fun topic vs main idea freebie activity.
Unlock Reading Magic: Dive into animated shorts and task cards for captivating main idea and details lessons! 📚🎬
A few weeks ago we finished up our study of main idea, so I thought I’d share with you a few of our favorite activities and lessons that went on during our unit! To introduce main idea, my students became DETECTIVES. Let me just tell you how thrilled they were. We even pulled out the ... Read more
Ask any elementary teacher to name one of the top three nonfiction reading skills, and I can almost guarantee that identifying the main idea would be part of that list! It is definitely one of the most important reading skills we want our students to learn! The ability to sift through all the details in […]
Need strategies to teach main idea? This post shares three strategies for teaching main idea of nonfiction texts.
