Bulletin boards serve an important purpose for our students. They serve as anchors for learning done in the classroom. They can be decorative and make your classroom feel more like home or they can serve as powerful reference tools. If you're looking for a little classroom bulletin board inspiration or you're new to 1st/2nd grade this year this is going to be the bulletin board post for you.
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Fun and creative prompts for narrative writing that will spark student's imagination. Plus mentor texts, rubrics, and other helpful resources.
Pronoun practice thats meaningful for kids. Create a pronoun patch bulletin board as a whole class anchor chart and play fun themed pronoun games.
This board game is a great speaking practice on some past simple irregular verbs.
A fun esl printable board game for practising Present Simple Tense and Daily Routines. Roll the dice and describe the daily routines of the people in the pictures. English learners can improve their speaking skills and sentence construction by playing this traditional snakes and ladders game.
This is a fun board game activity using cartoon characters where students can practice physical description. The pictures help them to use the appropriate adjectives. The objective is to review vocabulary related with physical features. It takes about 15 minutes and it´s best palyed in pairs. All the pictures are from google images. - ESL worksheets
Free printable garden word search for kids. The word puzzle's hidden words are at a 2nd & 3rd grade spelling level. Downloadable pdf includes answers.
These Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade I Can statement charts are perfect to display on an objective board or a focus board! The charts will provide your students with visual reminders about what skills to work on, and keep you, as the teacher, accountable and on track with the learning focus. These packs include charts for all of the Common Core ELA and Math Standards! #commoncore #icanstatements #icancharts #bulletinboards #classcharts #backtoschool
We've had lots of feedback from our "Read-O" and "Math-O" that was posted a few days ago and so I wanted to post the "Write-O" that I made ...
Our favorite 2nd grade anchor charts for math, language arts, and beyond. You'll definitely want to use some of these in your classroom.
This one-pager works perfectly in a reading response or writing station.
Practicing word study? This choice board provides creative options for your students to become engaged with their weekly word study words. ...
When teaching narrative writing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, there are so many writing skills to cover. They range from creating a sequence of events (beginning, middle, and end) to more difficult
This money saving bundle is a collection of 4 different Choice Board Activity Products: Non-Fiction Reading, Fiction Reading, Writing, and Spelling. Included in this 39 page ZIP file PDF bundle: Reading Response Non-Fiction Reading Choice Board Reading Response Fiction Reading Choice Board Writing Choice Boards (Narrative, Informational, Opinion, Research) Spelling Homework Activities (Task Cards, Choice Boards, Tic Tac Toe) ***************************************************************************** This product has a total of 10 different choice boards with printable activities that correspond with the activities chosen. Students will love being given a choice in their learning and the variety of activities will allow you to differentiate among your students. Included in this bundle: - Non-Fiction Choice Board with 10 corresponding activity half-sheets - Fiction Choice Board with 10 corresponding activity half-sheets - Student Checklists and Teacher Rubrics are included with both reading choice boards - 7 Writing Choice Boards including: - Personal Narrative - Narrative - Informational - Opinion/Persuasive - Research - Story Starters - Mix & Match prompts - Spelling Choice Board - 16 Spelling Activity Task Cards - Spelling Wheel Activity - Spelling Roll and Write Activity Sheet - Spelling Score Graphing Sheet - Spelling Award Common-Core linked skills include: - Character Analysis - Comparing and Contrasting - Vocabulary - Summary Writing - Main Idea - Identifying Theme - Making Connections - Author's Purpose - Point of View - Creative Writing - Sequencing - Questioning - Researching - Supporting opinions with details - Persuasive Writing - Letter Writing - And much more! Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this product! Enjoy!
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Need a quick reading check? Need a reading comprehension passage that is high interest? Try these free reading comprehension passages with questions. I struggle to find non fiction reading comprehension passages that are high interest for my students. Many of my students are struggling readers, so I value passages that are interesting and fun for ... Read More about Reading Comprehension Passages
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The transition words anchor chart can be used as a mini anchor chart for students, or be put into their writing folders to support the use of transition words/sequence words in narrative writing. ...
This rows & columns bulletin board poster is a cute addition to ANY classroom! Free middle school math classroom decor that will help your students learn the difference between rows and column…
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Use the Tug of War Strategy for making thinking visible: Over the last few years my teaching has been heavily ingrained with inquiry based learning, problem/project based learning and open ended questioning.
Bulletin boards serve an important purpose for our students. They serve as anchors for learning done in the classroom. They can be decorative and make your classroom feel more like home or they can serve as powerful reference tools. If you're looking for a little classroom bulletin board inspiration or you're new to 1st/2nd grade this year this is going to be the bulletin board post for you.
I seem to admire so many Pinterest ideas and for over a year now I have been gathering and gathering ideas that make very pretty boards. This last week of school I have used two of the ideas. I changed the around a bit, but my students enjoyed them and therefore were engaged. This is no easy task considering it is the last week of school and we have a Reading Counts celebration, an end of the year party, and a last day of school pizza lunch. Pfew! Well the first idea that I want to share was an idea from my technology board. This is from another blogger and their blog is located here : Who's Who and Who's New It is a wonderful resource for ideas using technology. Another blogger did it this way; I am not certain who the last picture came from, but they also had the QR codes leading to a blog containing the children's work. I love both of these ideas and next year having the children blog in the classroom is on my list of new things I plan to add to my routine. But this year, I mixed the two ideas and came up with these; Or rather my children came up with these. They made self portraits and their portraits are holding IPODS with QR codes on them. These QR codes lead to messages for the new students I will have next year. This means I have to keep them safe all summer! The messages greet my new students and tell them about the things they will like about second grade and being in my class. The children wrote about math, science, social studies, Edmodo, writing and reading. I will post a banner that reads "Welcome to Second Grade, messages from Last Year's Hagan's Heroes". I am very excited and think this will be fun for parent's to do with their children Open House. My hope is that this gives the feeling of a strong technological presence. Next year I hope to have my students blog and call it online portfolios and use the QR codes to lead to their work for others to view. But I love the idea of messages to future students. Any comments? I would love feedback or any ideas that anyone may have concerning these QR code projects. Oh yes, the other Pinterest idea I will share another day.
Today I'm sharing one of my favourite tasks for building community in the classroom. Students are able to share an important aspect of themselves (the story of their name) with the class and with me, their teacher. Through this task we are also working on important skills, like reading comprehension, writing, and reflection. Day 1 To begin, I asked my students to write any name they wish they had on a sticky note. They then placed it in a mason jar. I read my class the story "The Name Jar" by Yansook Choi. We stopped at several points in the story to predict, make connections, infer, and ask questions. At one point, we paused in the story so that students could journal about the name they wrote down on the sticky note earlier: - Did they choose their own name? Or another? - Why? - If you chose another name, where did you hear that name before? Day 2 At the end of Day 1, students were given homework. (Stick around to the bottom of this post for a chance to get your own copy of this sheet.) I make it very clear, that while names all have meanings, your family may not have chosen your name for that reason. They might not know the meaning, and you can choose to look it up with your family if you wish. I also focus a lot on nicknames and your own feelings about your name. While I've never taught a student in foster care, or one who was adopted, I do think it's important to mention that this could be a touchy task in those situations, so be sure to know your students first, and modify as needed. Students use the homework task, and the journal write from the previous day, to write "The Story of their Name". Some possible options to include are: - who you are named after - the meaning of your name - a name you'd rather have - your feelings toward your name - nicknames you may have - the person (or people) who chose your name - how your name was chosen This piece of writing is then self, peer, and teacher edited, and a "good" copy is made. Day 3 I found this excellent step-by-step self-portrait from "Art Projects for Kids". I modified the task so that instead of drawing the left or right side of their face, they would draw the top half. Students find that folding their page into quadrants as she suggests is very helpful. Under the document camera I demonstrate each step, and students copy, adapting to their own facial features. Each student gets a mirror to look in to help them personalize. The final pieces are put on a bulletin board for display. Students also coloured in a bubble letter version of their names to complete the display. (I used the font KG Red Hands Outline for this.) Day 4 Once we've completed the task, the last job is to reflect on our work. I pulled some elements from our Arts Education curriculum (very relevant regardless of where you teach) for students to self-assess on. I've used the proficiency scale language our school has moved to for all reporting. A few students found it helpful to complete their reflection while looking at the finished product on their bulletin board, but most didn't need this. Want a copy of both my homework and reflection pages? Follow the image or button below to grab your copy. Take Me to the Free Download Pin this post.
Sample a day of Rooted in Reading with these lesson plans and activities for Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Grammar!
This set of differentiated choice boards will help meet the needs of all students in your class. Three different leveled choice boards will make sure that students approaching standards, meeting standards, and exceeding standards will be working at their levels, on the same topics. Shapes assigned t...
Check out how easy it is to use old iPhones as Listening Centers!
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This about me page is perfect for the first week of school. Students can create a custom "tee" by drawing, coloring, and writing on it. This activity allows students to show the teacher and class their favorite things. This would be a great activity for open house- suggested bulletin board theme wou...
How to support and encourage math talk in your classroom. Get a free set of math talk sentence starters and matching student bookmark.
If you're teaching nouns in first grade or second grade, this free noun game is a great fit! Kids can list a person, place, object, or animal as they move along the board. #firstgrade #secondgrade #noungame #grammar
Our favorite 2nd grade anchor charts for math, language arts, and beyond. You'll definitely want to use some of these in your classroom.
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I have always struggled with spelling, and how to engage students in meaningful activities to practice their spelling words! I have tried just about everything under the sun, from rotating through teacher-selected word work centers, to a free choice spelling menu where students try to complete different activities throughout the week. Nothing seemed to work!
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