Oh I saw this done with that clear jelly. It has chemicals in it like hydroponics. Anyway I thought of something else I saw that was cool, kind of...
One year I had a arboretum come to my class and do outreach lessons on plants and she brought in actual dead bees on a stick and silk flowers and...
Sure! I didn't get that your kids can't read. That will make it more challenging to you but read alouds I bet they still will love. I just got...
I think this is an idea I will try this year. I've seen these nail kits at the dollar store in little velvet envelopes that look real cute. And...
Nope I don't. It is hard when the student whose mom cut out a few things for you once says, "But my mom helped too!" But I just limit it to the...
It could be that the kids are too embarrased to go up and have to "ask you" to go to the bathroom. I was a scaredy cat all the way up through 7th...
I also have kids fold the paper so they can put the date and the closing and signature in the middle of the paper. That's the only way they got it...
I'm with you Upsadaisy, I can't take the boredom of anything that repetitive. I don't even do much on calendar except change the day, the 100s...
Runaway Ralph (Beverly Cleary) Charlottes Web Pippi Longstocking Boxcar Children Mr. Popper's Penguins Magic Treehouse (to get them excited...
I think finding the thing that they are good at or that is a talent or something that really interests them and then tell them you noticed that...
I have tons of parent helpers (15 or so each year) and it would be too expensive to spend a lot since I also do a gift to give mom and dad (an...
I tried this last year and even though I teach gifted 1st graders who are all reading above 2nd grade level they hated it and so did the parents...
I think you are working too hard. I have tons of centers but I only put out 5 centers a week. It is okay and maybe even preferable for your kids...
Teachingmomof4 how do you keep track of each kids' individual book? Do you have a chart or what? That's what always trips me up. I think I will...
bonnieB I do similar to what you do but I do still have the problem of kids not returning a "chapter book" and saying it is taking them 2 weeks to...
When you get to quotation marks I teach kids that before the talker speaks you place a 66 up high and I call it sixty-six. Then after the speaker...
I made up a bunch of 10 frames and put those colored sticker dot circles from walmart into several of the frames on each of about 12 of the 10...
I did a variation on the "house" just saying that 3 people live in the house and their address is on the attic part of the house. It is the 3 who...
I do the same book baggie every night that you are talking about. I have done it many ways but have decided the best way is to let the kids pick...
I think a good way for any grade 1st and up is to read the book "Me on the Map" and then do some studying of maps, ordinal directions, continents...
