I have one week of student teaching left in a preschool classroom. Today my cooperating teacher told me that I've done an amazing job in the...
Does anyone have information or know of a good book/website where I can get information on how to work with and/or what techniques to use with...
I know nothing about the area, but something in your post stuck out to me. All of your experience is in high school and you got placed in a middle...
I am preparing to teach a unit on leaves toward the end of this month. Because I am a student teacher, I can't just teach the lessons and be...
I have gone to local bulk suppliers and found styrofoam meat trays. I'm not sure what is available in your area, but places such as Gordon Food...
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your thoughts and help. I actually teamed up with the teacher next to me and we finally found everything we needed and...
I am going to buy the real food of ALL of the fruit for the kids to try, but because this is something that I want to work on all week and use...
I am getting ready to read and work with the book "Handa's Surprise". I would like to prepare three sets of the book with play food and other...
For the voice trait of writing, "show, don't tell", we did several activities. The first thing is to come up with a list of emotions (scared, mad,...
I used my smartboard with 2nd graders this year. It works well for all learners. The one thing that I really enjoyed about it is the fact that ALL...
I am teaching 2nd grade right now and we have also done the 4 square method. My students know that a paragraph is indented or "bumped in". It has...
Something I do with black film canisters, but something I'm sure you could do with plastic eggs, is sound jars. I use them primarily in early...
Radar hazy icy two y's and a z is tricky! Fun in the sun
gtaszxsz nmjherl.; Rachel Oh my! I didn't expect to spell it remotely close, but I didn't expect to make this much of a mess either!
We only have to do 4 observations throughout the 15 week semester. Our US comes in approximately every three weeks to observe a different academic...
Our 2nd grade classroom does a Star of the Week Bulletin Board. One student is selected each week to bring in pictures and write an autobiography...
I agree with Danny's Nanny. I have just completed my student teaching and I started the semester off with one plastic bin with hanging folders...
Fountas and Pinnell have some great books, but yes, very overwhelming. Guided reading is really a time to listen and assess students for reading...
Planning guided reading can be quite challenging depending on how wide your range is. I have 5 guided reading groups, with no more than 6 students...
