I love hearing about the many different ways that teachers set the tone of their class right off the bat. We all have different strengths and hobbies that help to turn our class into a place that is unique and special. Today I am linking you up to a blog post that I did on a few picture books that I think are especially good for the first week of school. Best wishes!
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The first week of school can be stressful and unpredictable. I always like to have a number of simple activities prepared for my students to help break the ice and ease them into instruction. This year I decided to plan ahead and prepare a number of activities that I knew my students would enjoy. This “First weeks of School” printable pack will provide a wide range of print & go activities that are sure to please!
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Ever wonder what makes a creative writer? See what these educators are doing to inspire their students to love writing.
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Creative Writing Tips from Pixar
By Lisa Robles of Lisa TeachR’s Classroom
Want some writing tips from best storytellers around? I found this great info-graphic detailing the top 22 tips from Pixar. I took a few and discuss how to use them in a classroom.
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By Marypat Mahoney of Just Add Students
Students love creative writing activities. But all too often, we have to put those fun activities on the back burner. Here is an easy way to engage students in creative writing in every class.
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By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern
Usually when I tell my students that we are going to learn how to write poems, some of them say, “I can’t write a poem,” or “Yuck, Poetry!.” By the end of the workshop, which takes about 2-3 weeks, most of the kids realize that they can in fact write all sorts of poems and they even like it.
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By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning
By far, the best idea I have ever found to create better writers is to make sure that kids are writing every day. Good writers are people who write.
This worksheet set is extremely useful to teach students in Middle School and High school Classroom Commands. The vocabulary list with 12 commands and a work bank will allow you to teach them 12 basic expressions that they can use easily. In addition the second worksheet will allow them to review Classroom objects. Students can use a dictionary or their word bank to fill both pages. Once the vocabulary has been introduced students will use both pages to write their own commands. They can write individually or in small groups. They can present them to the class. This interactive package will satisfy Communication standards 1.1 where students produce information in the target language and 1.22 where they understand and interpret spoken language. One student can read the commands in Spanish and have the others perform them. it is quiet an entertaining an engaging activity. The vocabulary worksheet can be used for assessments and the command performance can give you a listening comprehension assessment grade. Enjoy these entertaining and engaging package.
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It includes 14 easy-to-use rubrics on everything from interactive notebooks, to presentations, to science projects. There are also 4 self-evaluations for students to fill out. Each rubric comes in 4 point or 5 point scales, and also in full or half sheet printables.
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By Jennifer Kramer of Jenny’s Class and Edutunes
Are you looking for a great way to “warm up” for a math lesson? Songs are a great way to introduce concepts, to review concepts,and to pave the way for any lesson. Follow the link to hear 5 song samples, and discover ways they can be used to introduce important concepts!
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My students and I have never liked jumping into math class feet first without a chance to dip our toes in the water and get used to the idea first. Math warmups, short whole group activities based on the math you’ll be studying during the lesson, are a perfect way to dip your toes.
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There are so many creative math warm-ups to help get your class excited about math class. Here are some that I’ve used.
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There are so many creative math warm-ups to help get your class excited about math class. Here are some that I’ve used. At least once a week, we had a math bee using flash cards for addition, subtraction, multiplication and/or division. I would hold up a card and each child would have a chance to answer. If the answer was correct, they would keep the card.. We would do this for at least 30 minutes and the student with the most cards would win. The winner would act as the teacher and hold up the cards for the next game.
The math bee could also be done as a collaborative group activity. One child would be the leader/teacher of the group and hold up the card, and each child in the group would have their chance to answer. The winner would be the leader the next time we did the activity. Collaborative groups worked so well because each child had a turn more often. Of course they all wanted to win because they liked being the leader/teacher of the group or the class.
This next warm-up lasts about 5-10 minutes and you can do it at the beginning of each math class. Write 5-10 math problems on the board, have them work on them at their seats. Then call on students to come to the board and write their answer. I would ask questions such as, what operation or operations did you use to get your answer, or is this answer correct, why or why not. If we were working on math facts, I would sometimes put the problem on the board with the incorrect answer and ask them to fix it and then have them explain why the answer was wrong. In addition to this, you could write down a problem with the correct answer and ask why it is correct. At other times, I would put a problem on the board with the correct answer, but without a mathematical sign. They would have to tell me whether the example was addition, multiplication, addition, subtraction or a combination .
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My partner used an awesome activity called mental math. He would come up with a math example, or word problem that the children would do in their heads, they couldn’t use paper. The first child to answer correctly would come up with a math example for the other students,/teacher and/or both to figure out. He also had them make up mental math problems for a homework assignment. They enjoyed it so much that often times I would hear them doing mental math with their friends while walking down the hall or sitting in homeroom. They especially loved it when they could stump the teacher, which didn’t happen often, but when it did, you could hearthe class cheering.
Another great activity for the beginning of each math class is called Help Me Get There. I would put a number on the board such as 150 and the class would figure out all the combinations of numbers that are equal to it.
Here are some examples:
Another fun activity is Guess What Number is in My Head. This game is similar to 20 questions. Draw a big head on the board with a question mark. The class will ask questions to arrive at the correct answer. The child who guesses the answer gets to think of the next number. This can also be done in collaborative groups. I actually prefer this method because the kids get more chances. As closure for this activity, each group gets to pick a number for the teacher and classmates to guess.
Questions you might ask are:
Use your imagination and I just know that you will come up with some great ideas.
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Have you ever passed out a blank calendar and half of your class finishes it in two minutes and the other half are unable to complete or even crying over the frustration of not being able to understand what to do?
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I Met My Goal!
Do you ever need a quick and easy graphic organizer for behavior and / or learning goals? It is important for students of all ages to be able to reflect upon the goals that they have met, the strategies they used and their plans for the future. This set includes variations of graphic organizers which can be used to help learners reflect upon their goals met for the year, quarter, week, etc. Includes space for a self-portrait or to color a picture of a girl or boy. This was useful for Marzano; however can be adapted for other teacher evaluations.
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This packet provides numerous opportunities to review all of the letters of the alphabet. It’s perfect for review at the beginning or end of the school year. It’s also a great tool to keep students practicing over summer.
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Happy Canada Day, everyone! I write this to you on the eve of Canada’s 148th birthday!
For those of us who are Canadians of a certain age, life experience and education, the images below are easy to name and contain a number of our national symbols.
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Teaching kids about freedom and keeping it simple.
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Foster Freedom in Writer’s Workshop
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Giving students choice on what they write about and the mode in
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When I think about July 4th, I think about our American Flag and what it represents.
I asked my class what this day means to them. A young boy stated, “It’s when you get to see fireworks.
This is one of the responses I expected, so I asked why do we have fireworks?
He just shrugged his shoulders. Another student responded and said,
“To celebrate our Independence from England.” Great answer I told him.
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Beginning of the year activities have never been so SUPER! This beginning of the year activity focuses on getting to know each other activities, goal setting, and speaking and listening standards 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
There are 7 different bag designs that can be printed directly to a standard sized lunch bag. (There is even a special teacher design.) Children then take the bags home and fill them with items that will help them tell the class why they are super! This unit is a great way to start practicing those very important speaking and listening skills.
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Rainbow Write the Alphabet & Color Initial Sound Pictures …
Each blackline sheet in this resource contains a matching upper- and lowercase letter of the alphabet (with a starting arrow) and pictures of things beginning with that letter sound. Your students can rainbow write inside each letter outline using the colors of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple.
These activity sheets provide handwriting practice and beginning letter sound recognition.
*The KG Primary Penmanship font was used for all the letter outlines.
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This pack will help your students review all the letters of the alphabet. It aligns with the Common Core Foundational Reading Skills Standard:
Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. (RF.K.1d)
Your students can follow and color each patterned path of upper- and lowercase focus letters.
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Find and circle/underline/trace certain letters;
name things that begin with the focus letter sound.
Extension Activity: Practice handwriting by doing rainbow writing inside the letter outlines at the top of each sheet.
Included in this pack: 26 activity sheets – one for each letter of the alphabet.
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With a title poster, this set includes 32 A5 posters showing words/ vocabulary and phrases for different sentence openers. This is a necessary resource that will encourage students to have more sentence variation in their writing.
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In this three page Beach Read and Write pack, students will read the one page beach story and color the pictures. Then there are two pages with five sentences on each page about the story. Each sentence has a missing word. At the end of each sentence, there are two words for students to choose from to find the correct missing word to tell about the story. Students will circle the word that correctly completes the sentence matching the story on the first page, and then write the correct word in the blank.
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Music has always been very near and dear to me so this is a great topic to write about. From day one of my teaching career, I used music in my classroom. Even though I’m not a musician, by any means, I can plunk some notes on the piano, and play very rudimentary guitar chords and notes.
My first job, I was working wit
h mentally challenged teenagers who had very low IQs. I began playing songs on the piano to help them learn, each day we would sing the alphabet song, low and behold they were learning their alphabet letters. They just loved when I brought the guitar into school so we could sing together. Of course, they were the only ones that I would play the guitar for, they didn’t realize that I really couldn’t play. We did have fun.
Each day at 10:00 I would turn on the TV show the Electric Company. I felt that the class would learn more by listening to the catchy little tunes and lyrics for words, letters and numbers, than they would if I used the usual methods for teaching reading and math. Don’t get me wrong, I did use phonics, etc., but for these kids who would never progress much more than a 2nd or 3rd grade level, it worked. They loved it.
A few years later, I had a self-contained class for children with severe psychological problems. They were too disruptive to remain in the regular classroom. Talk about challenging!!! Well, music does calm the savage beast. I would play classical, or quiet tunes and the kids, for the most part, would calm right down. As a reward, I would let them bring in some of their own music to share.
On to middle school to teach 6th grade which is my true love. The language arts program has songs to accompany each new unit.For the beginning of each ELA class they always asked me to put on the CD so that they could sing the song that went with what was being taught. The kids especially loved the Noun Song, the
lyrics and tune was very appealing. They would even walk down the hall singing it and I would hum it to myself. I guess the point that I’m trying to make is, music really helps kids learn and they don’t even realize it. I would also play music during study hall, or while the kids were taking a test to help them relax.
Another interesting way to use music in the classroom is to have them write poetry or do creative writing to classical music. First, have them close their eyes and listen. Tell them to let the melodies take them to a special place. They can then describe it in their work, they can say how it made them feel, or who if anyone was there, what happened, etc. My classes just love this activity and they also like sharing their creations with each other. This also makes for a good bulletin board.
I so enjoyed directing plays with elementary and middle school children. As I said before, I don’t really play an instrument, so I sought the assistance of the music teacher who was more than willing to help. Wealways had a great time and it amazed me to see how talented some of those kids were. They just shined during the performances and were able to belt out the songs which always gave me chills. Talk about dancing, that was another thing that blew me away. It was awesome to see them move and groove to the tunes. Talk about America’s Got Talent, well, these kids sure had it.
So, as you can see, music can be used as an introduction to a lesson, as a way to help children learn and memorize things. Students can do research about musicia
ns, composers, directors, and write reports about them. They can learn about music throughout history as part of an ancient history unit. If you’d like to see more ideas about how to integrate music into the curriculum. Here is a link to a great website:
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I’ve created a Back to School Binder that will be using the song“Getting to Know You.” from Rogers and Hammerstein’s hit musical The King and I, as a stepping stone to help make students feel at ease while getting to know each other.
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This 20 page common core packet contains language arts and math material daily for the month of June. Some pages have June graphics such as beach items, ocean animals, flowers, and summer fun. The skills included are review skills that students should have been taught during the school year.
The preview shows each page included. Please take a look.
There is a NAME THAT PICTURE page included at the end of the morning work which names each picture for the phonics section of each page in case you have difficulty naming any of the pictures.
Skills included are:
Language Arts:
-Tracing word wall words (sight words): who, ate, came, say, and please
-Tracing a sentence with each sight word included above.
-Writing a sentence for each of the sight words above.
-Writing a sentence about a June picture.
-Choose from three pictures/words and write a sentence about the picture.
-Rewrite the sentences correctly with capital letters and correct ending punctuation.
– Cut and glue the correct letter for the beginning sound of each picture (a-z).
Math:
-Subtraction: Complete the equation. Find the difference.
– Addition: Complete the equation. Find the sum.
– Color the correct number (7-20) to match the set. Color the pictures.
-Write the correct number word (one-ten) to match each set.
This common core packet is great for morning work, but can also be used for homework, literacy centers, writing centers, math centers, or a mini lesson.
I hope you and your students enjoy using this packet. I have morning work available for each month of the school year.
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Integrating writing into every standard gives students writing practice which leads to success. This 27 page book is designed so that you can copy the book, cut it in half, staple, and then it is ready for use. Each page has a picture and two blank lines for students to create sentences for each picture.
There is a title page, and then the 26 pictures included in this book are beach ball, beach chair, umbrella, palm tree, fish, crab, dolphin, flip-flops, jellyfish, octopus, shovel, seahorse, shell, surfboard, t-shirt, sun, sunglasses, sunscreen, flower, watering can, sand pail, worms, scooter, sandbox, wagon, and roller skating. This is great for a mini lesson on what good writers do, homework, morning work, or literacy centers to work on writing. I hope your students enjoy creating their own sentences for the pictures.
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Great for morning work, homework, or center time. This June pack includes 54 pages. There are 27 June related pictures for students to unscramble the sentence at the bottom of each page by cutting the words out and gluing in the correct order to tell about the picture. There are 2 pages of each picture making the pack 54 pages. The first page with each picture has the “unscramble the sentence” activity and then students are to TRACE the sentence that matches the unscrambled sentence in the box. The second page with each picture has the “unscramble the sentence” activity, but then there is a blank box for students to WRITE the unscrambled sentence on their own (no tracing like the first page for each picture).
A black and white picture is included at the top of each page for students to color. This activity requires students to find the word with the capital letter to place first in the sentence and to find the last word by looking for the ending punctuation. Then students have to arrange the rest of the words in order to make sense and to match the picture at the top. A variety of sentence types and word choices are included to provide for differentiation.
Some pictures have extra space so that students can add details to the picture area.
Higher students could also turn to the back of their paper and add more sentences to create a story about the picture.
The 27 sentences included are:
The three fish can swim.
My sunglasses are blue.
I see the bright sun.
The sunscreen protects us.
We like the flowers.
We can water the flowers.
Go get the pail!
The ball is big!
We play under the umbrella.
Run to the tree!
Look at the big fish!
Will the crab pinch me?
The dolphin can jump high.
My flip-flops are little.
He saw a little jellyfish.
The octopus will go down.
Here is my shovel.
The shell is in the water.
Did you see the seahorse?
They have a surfboard.
That is his red t-shirt.
Will he find more worms?
Who wants to jump?
Please swing with me!
Come play in the sandbox.
Where will we skate?
Who will ride next?
I hope your students have fun with these scrambled sentences!
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