Summer! The perfect time to carry around a book and spend time with favorite or new characters and subjects. This is # 4 in my 8-part series on Summer Literacy. Scan the book with a young reader. Look at all the illustrations. Talk about what the book might be about. Sit side-by-side and help the… Read More »
Summer! The perfect time to carry around a book and spend time with favorite or new characters and subjects. This is # 3 in my 8-part series on Summer Literacy. Remember, your local library may have a summer reading program where kids are encouraged to read, record their book titles and then participate in awards… Read More »
Summer! The perfect time to carry around a book and spend time with favorite or new characters and subjects. This is # 2 in my 8-part series on Summer Literacy. To be effective readers, kids need to read for 30 minutes every day. Set aside a block of time for silent reading (15-20 minutes) as… Read More »
Summer! The perfect time to carry around a book and spend time with favorite or new characters and subjects. This is # 1 in my 8-part series on Summer Literacy. If we want to install a love of reading, we need to help students finds books they can read alone. We need to help them… Read More »
The more meaningful the activity, the more engage the students. Connections to their lives and their background of information helps. Allow students to control as much of their learning as possible. That doesn’t mean to make it easy. It means to make it meaning-filled so they use skills they have developed or are in the… Read More »
Over the past few years I’ve written lots of math games for Grades 1-6. It started when I taught math and wanted to provide kids with opportunities to work on various skills on their own or with a partner when they had free time or after they’d completed their assignments. Eventually they became part of… Read More »
That’s cursive not cursing, although some people are doing a bit of cursing about the demise of cursive writing. When I taught third grade, I enjoyed teaching cursive. Each day we spent about 20 minutes working on it. We worked from the most basic hand movements (i, l, e, t ) into more elaborate ones… Read More »
Teacher’s wear many hats every day: leader, group participant, and student organizer as well as volunteer coordinator and para educator guide. They communicate daily with students, parents, staff members and fellow teachers. They grade papers, help students become independent thinkers, chair committees, and take home whatever they can’t finish during the school day. Even a… Read More »
May Dates to Celebrate 1 Mother Goose 2 Save a Rhino 3 Baby Day, Lumpy Rug, Brother and Sisters 4 Bird, Candied Orange Peel, Star Wars 5 Cinco de Mayo, Tuba, Hoagie, Oyster, Space Day 6 Beverage, Tourist Appreciation, Nurse, No Diet 7 Tourism 8 Iris, No Socks, V-E, Red Cross 9 Lost Sock Memorial,… Read More »
This is Volunteer Week across America. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank every volunteer for their time and commitment to helping others. Each task you do whether it’s a school crossing guard, Meals on Wheels driver, working in food banks, reading to shut-ins, driving a bus for the elderly or for delivering homeless… Read More »