Fall Addition and Subtraction Color By Number worksheets Are you looking for a no-prep way to help your students practice math skills like addition and subtraction? Then these fall addition and subtraction color by number worksheets are exactly what you need! Why Use Color By Number Math worksheets? Color by number math sheets are the …
7 Reasons to use exit tickets in the classroom Exit tickets are a simple and easy way to informally assess your students’ learning of the lesson you just taught. They’re given at the end of a lesson and are usually no more than 2-5 questions in length. Today I’ll share 7 reasons to use exit …
Teaching kindness in the classroom The beginning of the school year is always a time to practice the classroom management strategies we want to put in place. We often spend a great deal of time modeling routines and procedures. Teaching our students to be kind is just as important as teaching them how to …
Books to teach Kindness in the classroom Just like reading or math, kindness is an essential skill that is so important for students to learn early on. It’s a skill they will take with them throughout the rest of their lives and hopefully, use daily. In order to create a classroom community of kind …
Listening centers for primary grades Are you looking for a way to revamp your Listening Centers for primary grades? Do you remember (or are you still in) the days of rewinding cassette tapes or purchasing a set of books for all of your students and then trying to store them? Well not anymore!! QR Codes …
HOW TO CREATE EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM NEWSLETTERS Classroom newsletters are an excellent way to keep parents informed on what’s going on in their child’s classroom. Sending home a classroom newsletter is a simple, but effective way to do all of the following : Maintain great parent-teacher communication Keep parents up to date with what their children …
One way to instill confidence in your students’ reading abilities is to help them master context clues! Using context clues to understand a new word’s meaning is something our students will continue to use far beyond their time in our classrooms. Today I want to share with you a few tips to teach context clues …
Before students begin creating their own informational pieces, it’s important that they see a variety of informative passages and texts. They need to really be able to distinguish what makes this type of writing different from Fiction. A simple T chart to show the differences of informational and fiction writing and work good to get …
Teaching students to summarize seems like it should be fairly easy. There are no comprehension questions, no digging deeper into the text and no activating prior knowledge. After all everything they need is right there in front of them. In this blogpost I’ll share 5 ways to help your students master summarizing. But easy is …
There always seems to be an eagerness among students to learn about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and what a great topic for them to be eager about! There are so many lifelong lessons that children can carry on into adulthood. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is such …
