This is the second year our school district has been using Thinking Maps. Thinking Maps are effective not only in Language Arts, but it a...
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Over the summer, I took a Thinking Maps class, and I loved it! I wish I had taken the class ten years ago. One of the big AH HA moments I go...
This post will share with you some of the things we are thinking about in KC. Shapes {Circle Maps} The kids worke...
Can you relate?? We finished our first week of Benchmark Testing this past week. Our county does them at the end of each grading period. I ...
Thinking Maps, Inc. is based on brain research about how students best learn. The maps help students to lay out their ideas visually in ways that are consistent with how the brain...
I wanted my little students to become familiar with the Thinking Maps we use in the classroom, so I made these mini-posters to help them. Th...
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What are Thinking Maps Thinking Maps are an excellent tool for Kinders to organize their thinking and build a common language using ...
It’s getting to that time of year! The students that “have it” are rocketing ahead! The struggling students need that extra oomph to really have a good grasp of the...
Thinking maps for developing student understanding: a teacher's guide to adopting visual tools in the classroom.
This post will share with you some of the gingerbread things I plan to do this week with my students this week. Gingerbread poems for shared reading time this week. Click here for Poems Click here for Poems Reading Gingerbread Books Gingerbread Thinking Maps On this Bubble Map students will brainstorm adjectives to describe the gingerbread boy and the gingerbread girl. Students will write a sentence about the gingerbread boy or girl at the bottom of the page. I plan to make one at a large group time with the class first before I send them off to do this on their own. Click Here for download Double Bubble Thinking Map I plan to compare different versions of this book using a Double Bubble. The download has a blank template. Click Here
Do you use Thinking Maps? We do and I really like them. Our school has decided to make a big push for ALL students to know and be able to us...
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Would you like to use cute Thinking Maps in your Kindergarten classroom without spending lots of time creating them? Today’s downloadable...
I don't know what all of your pacing calendars look like but ours is CRAZY fast and jam packed! Because our time is so tight and I have abso...
Thinking Maps® are visual representations for different thought processes. We can use Thinking Maps in science.
This week I began procedural writing with my students. I decided to kick off this unit by using thinking maps. Prior to this lesso...
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This post will share with you some Thinking Maps we worked on this week! You can see below we have been talking about Dr. Seuss. Wha...
