Farley is hosting her monthly Linky Party! Check out Currently February: As many of you know, I'm preggers (due in April). Therefore, my hubby and I are staying in a lot more than we usually do and watching lots of TV! We've watched Breaking Bad (all five seasons) and Homeland (just starting season two). We also watch lots of documentaries on Netflix. We found a great one the other night that I'd like to recommend. It's called "American Teacher" (2011), and it follows the lives and experiences of four teachers. It's only about 80 minutes long, so check it out if you have some free time! Matt Damon narrates the documentary so enjoy that! =) Photo courtesy of IMDb. On another note, did you hear about the Sunday Super Sale over at TpT!?! Everything in my store will be on sale for 28% off! Yippee!! I know I'll be shopping for lots of activities for the month of February, spring time writing activities, more clip art, and some center activities! Last but not least, I just added a great resource to my store called Sweet Sentences Mega Pack! It's only $4.00 and contains 56 pages of grammar and writing activities to help young writers grasp the concepts of complete vs. incomplete sentences. There are posters, activities for literacy stations and small groups, printables for independent practice, and whole group lessons. Check out a few examples below: {CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1j and CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1f} Leave a comment below about writing instruction in your classroom (also include your e-mail), and I'll choose a few lucky winners to receive the Sweet Sentences Mega Pack for FREE! :)

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How has your summer vacation been going? Mine has been both relaxing and busy at the same time. I have been working like a busy bee planning for my mid-August nuptials! If you follow me on Instagram, then you’re definitely up to date on all things wedding! I’ve also been making more of an effort...

I have created this worksheet for my intermediate ESOL learners who will be sitting a writing exam. It will give them enough practice as to when to use capital letters and correct punctuation. - ESL worksheets

Revise to learn a lot of useful adjectives to talk about the 5 senses Learn and practise: The five senses from afrimogo ...

in,on,under,next to,behind,between,in front of,opposite - ESL worksheets

Kagan strategies are nothing new – if you haven’t been to a conference then surely you know a teacher who has. I was one of those teachers that absorbed all the information teachers could give me about Kagan Learning since I was never lucky enough to attend. While I pushed cooperative learning and being interactive, […]

You just found out you are teaching a split grade class next year. For most teachers the idea of teaching a split is overwhelming. You have twice as many curriculum expectations or standards to teach and no more time to teach it within. Sometimes you are lucky enough to get independent students. However, if you

Are you looking for a way to scaffold math vocabulary and concepts and make math more visual? In this post are photos of math word walls for elementary, middle and high school math along with photos of math classroom word walls that teachers have sent to me of their math classroom set up. Included in this post are links to free math word wall cards and discounted printable math word wall bundles for a variety of math topics. I am updating each math word wall to include a virtual option. Now in the files will be color, black and white and interactive digital math word wall options.

FREE daily math warm-ups for second grade are the perfect way to start the morning with your students. Great 2nd grade math review.

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In this 3rd grade math worksheet, your child will practice geometry and addition as they calculate the perimeter of each house to find the largest one.

Give your child practice with his sentence building skills with this printable worksheet that's all about capital letters.

The well known activity where students have to write routines in different situations in the boxes. It can be used in a varety of ways. - ESL worksheets

Every English language arts teacher needs a variety of successful, student led discussion strategies that will provide opportunities for student learning.

Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these work stations. I thought some of you may enjoy taking a gander at what they came up with as well! Just a little background... we utilized a strategy many of you may be familiar with called "Round Robin" to gather ideas during our meeting. The staff were given the anchor charts with only the titles and asked to add any activity ideas they were doing, would like to do, etc. based on the title on their paper. We gave each group 1 minute to brainstorm and write their ideas, and then they were asked to pass the poster to the next group. We continued to do this until all posters had made it to all groups. This is a great strategy that you could use with your students as well to assess their background knowledge and/or learning of concepts. You could even do it at the beginning of the year to see what activities they already know and enjoy doing during Daily 5 if they are familiar with it from the year past! This may give you some insight as to what they may want to do in your classroom as well! Alright now onto the posters...keep in mind these were quickly written by our staff and we discussed them a bit after as well, so not everything may make perfect sense! But feel free to ask questions in the comments if you have any and I would be happy to try my best to answer! After our meeting, I also took some time to type up all of their ideas onto one page for them to hold on to and refer to throughout the year. You are welcome to a copy if you'd like- just click on the image below :)! (Graphics: Scrappin Doodles, Priscilla Concepcion)

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I created a House and Furnishing unit for cycle two students. First, I asked students to build a house (teams of two). I asked them to use recycled shoe boxes or any other recycled materials made of plastic or cardboards. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-House-1409554 Here are the evaluation grids that I use to evaluate all competencies. I asked students to play Go Fish. Here's the final result! I found this video on Youtube if you are using Tiny Twist: We played this interactive board game. Click on the picture below and you'll be automatically directed to this cool Website. If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to give me a shout out. I really love to read your comments. Have a great weekend!

They compare two pictures. First, supply 'There is' or 'there are' and say which picture is being described. Next, they put the verb into the present continuous and once again, decide which picture is being described. - ESL worksheets

Check out these 5 No-Prep Reviews Games for any classroom or any subject! Click to see what no-prep review games you can add to your teacher toolbox!

Put the verbs into the present continuous and put the prepositions into the gaps. A lovely picture, taken from the internet. A good picture to use for oral practice. Just a short, fun activity. - ESL worksheets

Get some synonym practice with this handy worksheet that asks kids to choose the synonym for each word in bold. Download to complete online or as a printable!

An Anchor Chart for Introducing Angles from Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas!