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Source: Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess Notes: As noted above, the dough for these Danishes should rest in the fridge overnight. I have included notes below if you need to rush the process along — the Danishes can be made start to finish in as few as 6 hours. The filling amount listed below is for 6-8 pastries. Double it if you are making the full amount of pastries. Day-old pastries reheat quite nicely at 350F for 10 minutes or so.

Here's a fun way for your students to practice editing for missing punctuation. Students edit sentences for missing periods, question marks, commas, apostrophes, exclamation marks, and quotation marks. Then, they use these sentences in their punctuation pockets craftivity! Choose between the print version and the TpT Digital Easel version. The print version can be made into a creative bulletin board or school hallway display. WORKSHEETS- Students begin this activity by completing two worksheets that contain 32 sentences. Answer keys are included. Students must determine which punctuation is missing from each sentence. Missing punctuation includes: periods question marks exclamation marks commas apostrophes quotation marks CRAFTIVITY- After the worksheets have been completed, students color the pockets and glue them onto a sheet of construction paper. Then, they cut apart the sentence strips from the worksheet and insert each strip into the appropriate pocket. Student-friendly directions are included so that you can place the directions under your document camera, and students can refer to them as they complete the project. TPT DIGITAL EASEL VERSION- This is a paperless version that can be completed on a device. Each slide contains two sentences written on two unique slips of paper. Each sentence is missing one type of punctuation, and students must read the sentence and determine what is missing. Students then drag the slip of paper to the appropriate punctuation pocket. The digital version contains the same 32 sentences that are included in the printable version. It contains 17 slides in all. Check out the PREVIEW! Here's what teachers like you had to say about using this activity with their students: ⭐️ Alisha W. said, "My students really enjoyed this activity! They appreciated the process of making the punctuation pockets instead of just working on a worksheet." ⭐️ Kristi M. said, "My principal walked in right after I used this activity with my students, and she was impressed! I love how simple yet engaging it is." ⭐️ Jama M. said, "Incredibly useful because it covers several curriculum standards with one activity." ⭐️ Nat M. said, "Such great value for money! I've used this craftivity across many different year levels and all students have loved it. Well organised, includes step-by-step directions, answers, photos - LOVE it, thankyou!" Note for my Australian teacher-friends: The final page of this PDF includes a pocket labeled "full stop"! Copyright by Deb Hanson This item is a paid digital download from my TpT store www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Deb-Hanson The resources in this bundle are to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher is prohibited. This item is also bound by copyright laws. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting these items (or any part thereof) on an Internet site that is not password protected are all strictly prohibited without first gaining permission from the author. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Please contact me if you wish to be granted special permissions!

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This interactive and hands-on experiment and sorting activity will allow your students to actually the difference between materials that are transparent, translucent and opaque. This is a great way to teach, practice and asses this tricky concept in a kinesthetic way! Use this for your upper elementary or middle school science class. This product includes: Text reading with comprehension questions introducing light, reflection, transparent, translucent and opaque vocabulary. A simple experiment to test for how much light can go through a material with 2 levels of experiment worksheet. Several different levels of a cut and paste sorting activity A vocabulary review application project where students use the sort words in a diagram, story or comic strip This product is designed to cater to all learners and ages with only simple materials required... [Glass Window, Paper Towel, White shirt, Aluminum foil, Wax paper, Wood Colored Cellophane, Magnifying glass, Book] Enjoy! More Cut and Paste Science! A great way to review, re-teach and assess! Landforms Cut and Paste Definitions, flash cards- 20 words, 4 lesson options States Of Matter Examples Cut and Paste -4 different levels included! States of Matter Cut and Paste-How can one state change into another w/ examples Food Chain, Food Web, Energy Pyramid Cut and Paste Potential and Kinetic Energy Matching Cut and Paste Forms of Energy Matching Cut and Paste- Definitions and Examples Energy Changes Transfer Introduction, Definition, Examples & Cut & Paste Element, Compound OR Mixture SORT, practice, assessment activity Physical or Chemical Changes SORT: practice, assessment, station activity Solution, Solvent, Solute Sort: Practice, Assess Station activity

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The young middle school singers who arrive in my choral classroom each August are incredibly diverse. In my room, I have children whose native languages are Dari (the Persian language of Afghanistan), Mandarin, Hindi, German, Spanish, Swahili and many more. I've taught singing to children in my classroom who, believe it or not, are almost completely deaf, some who have trouble matching pitch, some who can barely articulate due to cerebral palsy, children with severe intellectual limitations, extreme cases of Autism, and children who are legally blind. ...And almost all of them come to me utterly unable to read music. My room is a true public school classroom in America, and I absolutely love that fact. There are many resources in marketplace for helping break through language barriers. Smartling, for example, is a translation software company that helps us break through language barriers by translating mobile apps and websites for companies. My feeling is that if children want to sing, they should sing, and it's up to me to find ways to communicate in a way everyone can understand so they can learn. I don't test their voices. Middle school children are so afraid to be put on the spot and forced to sing alone, so I stopped testing their voices years ago. I can hear what I need to hear in the group setting, discretely work on the issues that need addressing, and avoid causing them the extra stress. To be in my chorus class, the only requirement I have of them is that they have a true desire to learn to sing. Each year, there are over 300 children who walk through my doors each day electing to take choir, and I am honored they make that choice. To help them become musically literate, I had to learn to teach using all three learning modalities each day: Kinesthetic, Visual and Aural. When I began developing my Sight Singing Program, S-Cubed, the main goal I had was to help my beginning students, regardless of whether they speak English or whatever their individual challenges may be, truly learn how to take the dots, curves, stems and lines off of the page and successfully and accurately turn them into sound. I wanted to help them understand the language of reading music better, and I wanted them to have fun in the process of learning it. To reach them, I knew that I had to incorporate every possible learning modality. One of the most important parts of my sight singing method is the use of the Kodaly Hand Signs. The hand signs help to connect pitch to the physical movements of the hands. The use of the vowel sounds in the words of the Kodaly scale helps intonation and blend tremendously because teachers can teach students how to use tall vowels when they sing. In the Sight Singing approach I developed, I took the Kodaly Hand Sign movements and added more layers to help my beginners experience more success. When you see my students tackling a new piece of music for the first time, you see them pulsing their hands to keep the steady beat, and you see them lifting and lowering their hands to match the changing pitch. Click here to see an example. I carefully and deliberately teach those skill sets to my students and slowly build the coordinations required to successfully execute them one step at a time. It is all outlined in the descriptions of the individual lessons in my program. ...But the single most important element of my program is "fun". To begin building the skills I've described above, I play a game with the children called Forbidden Pattern. Click here to see a description of the game. Click here to see me playing the game with my students. This is really the "hook" of the program I've developed and it works with all of the children I've described in the first paragraph of this post. Regardless of what language they speak or what other challenges they face, when we turn the learning process into a game, our middle school children listen, laugh, thrive, and best of all, in the end, we all learn to speak the common language of music. Check out my blog!

This is a quick, easy & fun game for practicing r-controlled vowels (-er, -ir, & -ur). Directions: Shuffle the cards and place them face down in a stack. Players take turns choosing a card and reading the word. If the player can read the word, he keeps it. If not it, goes back in the pile. But watch out for the nurse! If you draw the Call the Nurse! card you lose all of your cards and they go back into the pile. The player at the end of the game with the most cards wins.

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