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Food Pyramids – D4 Class
Posted by Kathryn on 15th May in Teaching Resources
Welcome to the world of D4 class. They are a group of 4th-5th graders. I teach them science, math and listening skills. Recently, we’ve been talking about health in our science classes. As a culminating activity, I had them make food pyramids on poster boards. Ignore the fact this is the “old” food pyramid. It [...]
Hot Seat!
Posted by Kathryn on 15th April in Teaching Resources
I’m a believer in using games to educate and reward. I have a class of first graders whose favorite game is a spelling bee. Who would have thunk it? Hot Seat! comes courtesy of a coworker. It emphasizes speaking and vocabulary. It’s a simple game that uses nothing more than a marker/chalk, a chair and [...]
Classic Tales
Posted by Kathryn on 12th July in Teaching Resources
One of my favorite series to use for teaching reading is Classic Tales by Oxford University Press. They are well written and illustrated. They are nicely leveled and reinforce vocabulary. There is a cassette tape and adtivity book for each title. They are fairly short, 18 pages of story text with a similarly sized activity [...]
Star Student Bag
Posted by Kathryn on 2nd May in Teaching Resources
This is a trick I learned while working as a substitute in the US. Sometimes kids need motivation. Awe, heck. Lots of times kids need motivation. Whether it be motivation to behave or do good work, they still need it. In an ideal world, that motivation would come from within. But this isn’t an ideal [...]
Save the Words
Posted by Kathryn on 4th February in Teaching Resources
see more puppies I came across “Save the Words” a few days ago (warning, obnoxious website). The premise is that words that are less common in every day language will be removed from dictionaries. The people who made this site want to save those words from exclusion. I doubt the site would do much to [...]
