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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Division and 3D Shapes Poster

Here's a couple of other posters that would be good to put up in your room. One is help the kids remember how to do long division and the other is a poem to help them learn about 3D shapes and remember what they are and things like. However, the 3D shapes thing doesn't even have to be a poster, you could just pass it out to each student to use as a reference or just use it to teach them about the shapes.

Credit Picture 1: http://followpics.co/great-poster-for-long-division-would-be-great-in-math-notebooks/

Credit Picture 2: Meet Miss Parker - http://meetmissparker.blogspot.com/2013/03/spring-sale-common-core-math-3d-shapes.html

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Multiplication Races

This is a fun math idea for children who are learning multiplication. All you need besides this is some multiplication cards. However, this could be changed to be adding, subtracting, or dividing races.

The directions say: "Choose a card. Find the product. If you are correct, move ahead one space. If you are not correct, stay in the same spot. The first one to the flag is the winner."

Some variations: If you get it wrong you move back one space, or someone else can steal and they get to move.

Credit: First Grader a la Carte - http://firstgradealacarte.blogspot.ca/2011/07/races-continue.html

Very Hungry Caterpillar

I think this idea is adorable! Great activity after reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. Kind of messy but still very cute and lets children's uniqueness come out! The words say: "And the very hungry caterpillar became...(other page)...a very beautiful butterfly!"

Credit: Dana Ellis - http://danaelaineellis.blogspot.com/2011/08/very-hungry-caterpillar.html

ABC Pasta

Great inside-day activity or even just a regular day activity! This is obviously better for young grades like Kindergarten and maybe first grade. This will help them learn their ABC's or just review them and it will be lots of fun!

Credit: kiki creates - http://kikicreates.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-02-21T21%253A50%253A00-08%253A00&max-results=4

Reporting vs. Tattling

Here's a really good way of explaining if something is reporting or tattling. A lot of kids love to just tattle on others about unimportant things and they are just trying to get the other in trouble or get attention. This is a good lesson to teach kids to show them the difference between reporting something (like bullying or something else severe) and tattling. This would be good to have as a poster in the classroom to remind them what is reporting and what is tattling.

Credit: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b9/c0/4c/b9c04c3eb86ab0594bdd63682fc209ad.jpg

Attention Grabbers

Here are some cute and creative attention grabbers!

Credit: I love 2 Teach (http://ilove2teach.blogspot.com/)

Some other ideas that I have heard:

Teacher: Red Robin! Students: Yum!

Teacher: Class, class, class! Student: Yes, yes, yes! (This one is fun because however the teacher says it, that is how the students should say it. So if the teacher says it really softly or with a British accent then that is how the students need to say it. Or you could even vary the words little. For example the teacher could say, "Classity, class, class" and the students would say, "Yessity, yes, yes")

Teacher: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.... Student: Lads and Lassies!

Things like this can work in older grades. One of my high school classes, which was actually a college class used the "Class, class, class" one and so these can be used for really any grade. However, with the older grades, you may want to change it up every once in a while. In the college class where my teacher used it, the attention grabber didn't work after a while because it got old. I think if you switched it up or had a few different ones that you could use then hopefully the students would continue to answer.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Spotlights

Well, I'm kind of stuck on First-day stuff so here is some ideas for spotlights that you can have the kids make. Of course, these can be used throughout the year. The sunflower spotlight would be a good one for the first day for everyone to make at the same time and then share them. The other spotlight is probably better to give to 1 student a week or something.