Have a chatty class? Do your talkative students get louder and louder during small groups until it feels like chaos? Do they talk when you'r...
Spring is here and we all have spring fever! Energy levels are higher. Students seem restless. Behaviors that have never been seen before appear. And your once quiet class becomes chatty. Every year I remind myself that this is normal. And to be expected… But that doesn’t mean we can’t remedy the situation. In this ... Read More about 10 Effective Strategies for a Chatty Class
Learn how to manage one of the biggest challenges of teaching: Six disrespectful students in the same class. Yikes!
Contractions can be a tricky concept to learn. They can be fun to learn with a game though!Teach kids contractions quickly with this fun, free printable contraction dominoes game. This is great for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students. You can play with just one color at a time or all at once for a big, challenging game for more players. Work cooperatively to make tracks or play as a game by passing out all the dominos and then taking turns one at a time adding a tile until one player is out.
Quick strategies to get your kids talking about the RIGHT stuff at the RIGHT time!
Looking for a quick and easy review game? Try Pass the Chicken! Great for any classroom, this blog post shows you how to play the game and gives you a free list of music themed categories to use. FUN for music class or any classroom.
I love learning about arrays because they are so visual which allows for a lot of really fun rectangular arrays activities and practice! I l...
Happy Friday eve! It's Kristin here from School and the City. The peaches are excited to bring you "a pot of gold" this March to make your classroom magical! My tip for you is definitely magical... but here's a secret: It's a tip to benefit YOU, not your kids. (Your sanity is important!) I have definitely had to work some magic lately because it is that time of year. By that time of year, I mean the weather is getting warm, kids are getting extra peps in their steps, and it's almost time for spring break. We are so close! When it's that time of year, it's also time for behaviors to start going downhill and the chattiness to begin getting out of control. (Well, that's how it is in my room, at least!) Last week, I decided that enough was ENOUGH. I couldn't make it through a day block lesson sentence without getting rudely interrupted by a student blurting out. So I did some research, during which I found the idea of blurt cards and figured out how to make a system that would work for my classroom. On my first day of attempting blurt cards, I posted about it on my Instagram and Snapchat (@SchoolAndTheCty). Tons of you asked me to share, so here goes! First, we read and discussed a book. These are my absolutely favorite books for blurters: Afterwards, I introduced and explained the blurt cards. Each time a student blurts out or interrupts a lesson with their voice (like an inappropriate laugh or sound), they have to mark off a box on his or her blurt card. I'm starting off with four boxes, but I hope to eventually move to three then two. If a child can make it to dismissal with an empty card, they get rewarded. PURRR tickets are school-wide PBIS "money" that students can spend at the school store. Right now, my fancy-schmancy blurt cards are just good ol' sticky notes. They are easy enough to make a few of each afternoon and stick on desks before I leave. I decided that the best way to go about this is to give all of my students the opportunity to earn rewards. Therefore, each day, 6 kids get blurt cards. Four kids are my special friends that will get blurt cards every day. I also give blurt cards to 2 more students. It's great to compare the results at the end of the day of the volcano kids and non-volcanic kids. And again, I wanted to make sure that my well-behaved students also have the opportunity to be rewarded. Last, I just made a quick schedule to keep in my binder so I can keep track of who hasn't had a turn yet. Blurt cards have worked really well for a whole... week! Some of my volcanic littles have worked really hard to restrain themselves, and I can see improvement already. Let me know over at School and the City if you try blurt cards or something similar! I'd love to have you follow my (never dull) teaching journey. Good luck handling spring fever in your classroom... and stay tuned for more March magic! For even more ideas from The Primary Peach, be sure to follow us on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to catch all the latest news and updates!
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THE OLD WAY TO MEMORIZE MULTIPLICATION FACTS When you think about memorizing multiplication facts, you probably envision painfully boring flashcards being practiced over and over and over again. As adults, most of us remember memorizing the multiplication facts this way. Card after card with an endless sea of numbers until
Every English language arts teacher needs a variety of successful, student led discussion strategies that will provide opportunities for student learning.
Don’t get me wrong — I love candy. And, a jolly rancher, a tootsie roll, or a starburst can work wonders in the classroom for student motivation and enthusiasm. So can pizza parties, and cupcake days, and brunch, and…I’ve had so many types of food parties I can’t even keep track! Recently, however, I’ve been […]
I recently had a great discussion with some educators about bell-to-bell instruction: the expectation that students are fully engaged in learning tasks from the first minute of the class period to the last. The conversation took place in the live chat during a session in the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Online Summit. (You can still … Continued
A crisis plan (sometimes called a safety plan) can sound intimidating, but think of it like a tool: a gameplan for navigating the worst days.
If you've been teaching for at least a couple of years now, then you're probably familiar with the gradual release of responsibility method of teaching. In this blog post, I explain how I Do, You Do, We Do works. Click through to read more about this instructional method!
Do you hate to teach poetry? Do you want your students to learn and enjoy poetry? Try these simple ways to learn how to teach poetry...
Every Day is a new day. Important things to note January Jan. 9 - 31 F& P Benchmarking Jan. 16 No School - MLK, Jr. Holiday Jan. 17 2nd...
Activities to help in your classroom TODAY to build Multiplication Fact Fluency across all grade levels. Perfect for Intervention
Teach your child to recognize and read consonant digraphs /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ with a digraph garden!
Intervention in reading can be the difference that changes a student's path. What teacher doesn’t want to be that difference? But, finding...
Snowball fights aren't just for brain breaks (or winter)! Try this compare/contrast activity and see for yourself the invaluable learning and assessing power of snowball fights in your classroom!
Learn about the most advanced ancient civilization in this fun, hands on Ancient Mesopotamia History Unit. This is fun for kids of all ages.
If you're not making time for math games, your students are missing out! Check out these 5 math games every classroom needs to play!
As adult readers, we know the importance of using nonfiction text features in order to help us understand the main body of text. Headings help us to make predictions while reading, and then easily find
My 3rd grade ELA team has been doing amazing things lately! I've decided in order to post blogs about the great things we are doing--I must make my blogs short but meaningful! :) I am hoping that by doing this, I can blog more often! So here it goes... We are revamping the way we are doing our interventions for our kids (a blog for a different time.) Anyway, we needed some enrichment activities, without the dreaded question every week of..."what do we do now?" So we decided to create a choice board that matched our kids needs! I have linked it below! Choice Boards Our goal for the choice board...is when the students have finished all of their intervention activities (or they did not have any intervention activities because they are just that fabulous...) they will be able to choose something from their choice board. The students will color in a square when they get finished with the acitivity. We are going to have the students try to finish 5 in a row (like BINGO) for a prize. I cannot wait to give these to the students! I think they are going to love it! :) Feel free to download it and use it for yourself and your kids! Also, read some of the squares...they are funny and will be great for the kiddos!
15 exit ticket ideas for any subject or grade level!
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Synonyms and Antonyms Anchor Chart! This blog post contains the material to create this anchor chart, plus a FREE interactive notebook entry for synonyms and antonyms!
This week I tried something new with the vocabulary in the story. I got the idea at a First Grade Conference in December. The student writes the vocabulary word in the middle of the sheet and then there are four things to do with the word. We completed two of the boxes together as a class and they finished the last two boxes independently. The kiddos sure had a great grasp of the vocabulary after this. When we read the story they had fantastic comprehension.
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Are your students writing run-on sentences? This lesson will focus on how to correct them. These ideas are ideal for any writing curriculum and are a part of a series of mini lessons for writer's workshop designed for scaffolding through sentence structure, paragraph writing, and the writing process. Learn
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Bonjour à tous! Vendredi dernier, je suis allée faire une virée au Dollorama (magasin que j'affectionne particulièrement) et je me suis dit que j'allais vous montrer mes trouvailles. J'aime beaucoup lorsque Stéphanie, du blog Les créations de Stéphanie, nous montre ses achats, ça donne toujours plein d'idées, alors je me suis dit que ce pourrait être une bonne idée aussi de vous montrer mes achats. Chaque fois que je passe au Dollorama, je ne peux m'empêcher de faire un tour dans l'allée des livres. Je trouve toujours plein de beaux albums et livres pour ma future classe. Ce ne sont pas les livres avec les meilleurs textes et les plus recherchés, mais je me dis que pour garnir une bibliothèque de classe, ils sont parfaits! Voici donc ce que j'ai trouvé. Une série d'albums pour le 1er cycle nommée Les 4 super! Je les trouvais beaux et colorés et les textes sont dynamiques. J'aurais dû prendre une photo de l'intérieur pour vous monter... Je crois qu'ils étaient 1,50$ chacun. Une série d'albums sur les métiers de la collection Mille et un métier. J'en avais déjà quelqu'uns que j'avais aussi trouvés au Dollorama et je me suis procurée ceux-ci à ma dernière visite. Ils étaient environ 1,25$ chacun. J'ai également trouvé cet encyclopédie imagée. Elle traite de plein de sujets différents. Je trouvais donc que c'était un bel investissement pour 3$. Un jour, j'essayerai de vous montrer toutes les trouvailles littéraires que j'ai faites au Dollorama, j'en ai vraiment beaucoup! :)
I wanted to share how I use (and have used for several years) a token economy in my classroom. I taught at different PBIS/PBS schools for 7 years, and a token economy is the perfect addition to what your school is already doing! I’ve used this system in 1st, 2nd, and 4th grades, and absolutely ... Read more
Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
One of my favorite winter stories to read to my first graders is The Biggest Snowman Ever. This book is filled with themes about teamwork. After reading the story, I always take time for some really great conversations about why teamwork is important, how teamwork can help complete a job, and why working together is better than working by yourself. Click here to purchase The Biggest Snowman Ever on Amazon using my affilitate link.
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• THIS 2 PAGE DOCUMENT IS AN OVERVIEW AND DOES NOT CONTAIN ALL THIRD GRADE STANDARDS. YOU CAN FIND THE VERSION WITH ALL STANDARDS HERE: 3rd Grade Common Core Standards Visual Reference- All Common Core Standards •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This skill goal sheet is a two page resource that is a fun and very visual way for the kids and parents to see 3rd grade skills. There is one sheet for ELA and one sheet for math. It can be placed in data folders or homework folders as communication of the students learning. This can also be provided to parents as simple to understand resource at conferences, parent teacher conferences or open house to inform parents a basic idea what their child is expected to learn. Included in both color and black and white, with the common core standards listed in each box and a second version with only the images and text. Includes basic third grade skills such as: reading multi- syllable words reading with fluency retelling and comprehending stories multiplying telling time to the minute measuring reading and writing sight words adding and subtracting with fluency measuring volume writing personal narratives writing opinion pieces writing expository text Unfortunately, I was not able to fit all third grade standards because I wanted it to be simple and not overwhelming for parents and students but a great variety so students and parents can see what is expected. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• You may also like: 3rd Grade Common Core Standards Visual Reference- All Common Core Standards- all 3rd grade common core standards I can statements in 6 page kid friendly format 3rd Grade I Can Statements: Each standard is listed on 1 page with an I can statement and a visual representation or an example. Perfect for posting in your classroom while teaching the standards. •3rd Grade Common Core I Can Statements or a bundle of all three of these products together at a discount price 3rd Grade I Can Statements Bundle •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• You may also like the other grade level skill sheets found here: •Pre-Kindergarten Skills •Kindergarten Skills •First Grade Skill Sheet •2nd Grade Goals Sheet •4th Grade Goals Sheet ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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
