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Cartoon Playground grammar cartoons, page 3. How to: Foldable. I've received some questions about how to make these foldables so I'm going to show you guys.

How to: Foldable

It's very easy and student friendly! With that said I hope you can use these in your room. Materials: 4 lunch paper bags, 1 large rubber band, 1 square sheet of colored paper or 4 note cards First lay 1 paper bag with the flap on your left side facing up. Next your going to lay the paper bags one on top of each other with the flaps switching from left to right. Then your going to fold them in half. After you have folded them unfold your bags and cut about 1 inch on each corner where folded. Then your going to place your rubber band in the middle inside the slits. Now using your solid colored paper fold into 4 equal parts, cut and insert them into the bag openeing. Here's a look inside my problem solving book. My students show examples of how to use the UPSL method when solving story problems. Show Me the Strategies. {*style:<u> </u>*} *Teachers—The following strategies can be implemented into your daily/weekly lesson plans by using the “Instructional Newsletter” Folder on your school’s Shared Folder.

Show Me the Strategies

A Taxonomy of Reflection: A Model for Critical Thinking. My approach to staff development (and teaching) borrows from the thinking of Donald Finkel who believed that teaching should be thought of as “providing experience, provoking reflection.”

A Taxonomy of Reflection: A Model for Critical Thinking

He goes on to write, … to reflectively experience is to make connections within the details of the work of the problem, to see it through the lens of abstraction or theory, to generate one’s own questions about it, to take more active and conscious control over understanding. ~ From Teaching With Your Mouth Shut Over the last few years I’ve led many teachers and administrators on classroom walkthroughs designed to foster a collegial conversation about teaching and learning.

The walkthroughs served as roving Socratic seminars and a catalyst for reflection. But reflection can be a challenging endeavor. In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I’ve developed this “Taxonomy of Reflection.” – modeled on Bloom’s approach. 1. Take my Prezi tour of the Taxonomy Trackback URL. LAPD Devonshire PALS. The Jeopardy Program is a gang prevention and intervention program for boys and girls ages 8 through 17 and their parents.

LAPD Devonshire PALS

Jeopardy combines the strength of the community, neighborhood schools and the police department to affect positive, lifelong attitudinal changes in the young people so as to have a positive impact on the community. Jeopardy targets “at risk” children, offering a variety of educational and physical projects, from tutoring to martial arts. Decrease truancyImprove gradesIncrease graduation ratesImprove self-esteemDecrease the risk of gang involvementImprove conflict resolution and other life-affirming skillsImprove and demonstrate goal-setting skillsImprove reading and writingDecrease violent and other inappropriate behavior How You Can Become Involved The Los Angeles Police Department’s Jeopardy Program is dedicated to helping children avoid a life of crime and gangs. Things You Can Do To Help LAPD Devonshire PALS. ClassDojo. Team Building Activities, Initiative Games & Problem Solving Exercises.

Mother's Day Primary Resources, mother, day, mother's, mum. PDF to Word Online Converter — The Easiest to Edit — 100% Free. 3rd Grade Math- Anchor Charts/Posters. WARNING: If you are not a teacher, you probably won't care about this post!

3rd Grade Math- Anchor Charts/Posters

Most of you know that this is my first year teaching. I have made MANY anchor charts and posters this year. I am on Pinterest all the time looking for new ideas--and believe me...there are a LOT of great ideas on there. TeacherTube - Teach the World. FlexBooks.

10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare.

10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should)

The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.” We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.”

But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. Milk Jug Decorative Window Crafts. Jun30 by Lindsey Boardman.

Milk Jug Decorative Window Crafts

Kid Printables - free printable fun for kids - StumbleUpon. Hunkins Experiments (over 200 home experiments) - StumbleUpon. Dont Pay for Technology: 25 Freebies for Students - StumbleUpon. Jun 29, 2009 In today's economic climate, paying for technology isn't prudent, and for some students, it isn't even an option.

Dont Pay for Technology: 25 Freebies for Students - StumbleUpon

Fortunately, there are plenty of freebies on the web that can help with document creation, research, writing, storage, collaboration, studying and more. Here are 25 free web apps and software programs that may be useful to students. Document Creation Zoho Office - Zoho Office is an amazing suite of web-based productivity and collaboration tools.

Simple Pop-Ups You Can Make! Editable Display Banners Pack (Colours) - display, banner, colour, colours, sign, poster, green, yellow, blue, red, black, white. Mad in crafts: Dollar Store Plastic Animal Bookends. First of all, thank you so much to all of you who voted on the first round of So You Think You’re Crafty.

mad in crafts: Dollar Store Plastic Animal Bookends

Weren’t the projects fantastic? I have my work cut out for me in this competition! My animal bookends didn’t quite take first place, but I was ecstatic to see how many people liked my project the best. Besserina’s adorable Flour Sack Outfit received the most votes and for great reason. Be sure to check out the tutorial for her project on the SYTYC blog. Classroom Area Banners (Set) - Classroom Area Signs, KS1, Banner, Foundation Stage Area Signs, Classroom labels, Area labels, Area Signs, Classroom Areas, Poster, Display, Areas.

KidsKnowIt.com - Internet's Most Popular Educational Website For Kids - Thousands of Free Educational Games And Activities. A to Z Teacher Stuff For Teachers FREE online lesson plans, lesson plan ideas and activities, thematic units, printables, themes, teaching tips, articles, and educational resources. Unique Teaching Resources: Lesson Plans, Book Reports, Bulletin Board Displays - StumbleUpon. TEACHING TIPS. Making Learning Fun. Interactive-notebooks - home. Homepage Walter Fendt. Tattle Jar. So Much Homework. "So.Much.Homework" cc by anna gutermuth on flickr This is a revised version of a post originally to my own blog.

So Much Homework

When I’m doing math homework, I just really go fast and crazy, and in the end I still don’t understand it, really. It’s just a lot of pressure. And it shows: I’m always tired in class, because I spent all my night doing my homework! Teachers don’t see “Vivian totally understands that.” Vivian’s words should be a source of reflection for everyone involved in education.

I’ve just downloaded the kindle version of Kathleen Cushman’s “Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell us About Motivation and Mastery” after thoroughly enjoying the sample chapter addressing the issues surrounding homework shared by Lyn Hilt during a previous #elemchat on twitter. Through listening deeply to students’ voices on the topic of homework as deliberate practice, Cushman proposes the following “four R’s of deliberate homework”: Is the homework assigned personally relevant to the needs of the learner? How to make an origami corner heart bookmark. Make Your Own Paper. Primary Resources - FREE for Early Years (EYFS) KS1 & KS2.