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K-8 PARENT HANDBOOK (California) Promethean. All Interactive Whiteboard Resources. AAA Math. Math Game Time - Free Math Games, Videos & Worksheets for Kids, Parents & Teachers. Place-value-activity-pack. Addingto100. Second Grade. Math Teaching Resources for K-5 Classrooms. Using Number Talks to Build Students' Math Reasoning.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. Whiteboards - Primary Mathematics. Let’s Laugh! 10+ Resources & Activities for Inspiring Laughter in Your Class. “Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity…When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.”

Let’s Laugh! 10+ Resources & Activities for Inspiring Laughter in Your Class

~Gretchen Rubin April Fool’s day is around the corner and it’s a great time to get your students laughing while learning. Laughter is healthy and gets us to relieve the stress of language learning. Many of these lessons deal with studying the language in jokes. Jokes are cultural. Joke Mingle You can have students bring in jokes for any topic, grammar, or vocabulary you teach. Students memorize at least one of the jokes.Put students in pairs facing each other.Give them 30 seconds to a minute to tell their jokes.Blow the whistle.

My Favorite Joke Have students present their favorite jokes to the class then discuss where they first heard the joke, who told them the joke, and why they think the joke is so funny. Corniest Joke Contest One of the ways to get your students laughing is to have them tell corny jokes. Jokes Across Cultures. From The Schools Our Children Deserve. From Chapter 9: "Getting the 3 R's Right" in The Schools Our Children Deserve (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999) What Works Better than Traditional Math Instruction By Alfie Kohn Why the Basics Just Don’t Add Up The still-dominant Old School model begins with the assumption that kids primarily need to learn “math facts”: the ability to say “42” as soon as they hear the stimulus “6 x 7,” and a familiarity with step-by-step procedures (sometimes called algorithms) for all kinds of problems -- carrying numbers while subtracting, subtracting while dividing, reducing fractions to the lowest common denominator, and so forth.

From The Schools Our Children Deserve

Once the subject is defined this way, there isn’t much mystery as to what technique will be used. If students have trouble producing the right answer, that is “taken as evidence only of the need of further drill.”[2] This, as we’ve seen, is exactly how the failure of direct phonics instruction is explained away: the more it doesn’t work, the more you obviously need it.

Grammar Blast. HOMOPHONES - Kids B - Teacher Olay. Homophones are words that are pronounced the same, usually spelled differently, and have different meanings.

HOMOPHONES - Kids B - Teacher Olay

Here are some examples of homonyms and homophones: Ark (boat), Arc (part of a circle) bank (the side of a river), bank (a place to keep money) hare (rabbit), hair (grows on the human head) Choose the correct homophone to complete this sentence. (a) The boy put shampoo on his (hare/hair). (b) Mum put some (flower/flour) in the cake mix. (c) James didn't have a very good (nights/knights) sleep. (d) A rabbit is a bit like a (hare/hair). (e) Tony got chased by a large (bare/bear). Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentences. (a) Lucy couldn't wait to (meet/meat) her friend. (b) Andrew (missed/mist) the bus. (c) The mouse got his (tale/tail) caught. Online Reproducibles. ClassDojo. Kideos.com - The Online Kids Video Network. Online tools and applications - Go2web20.

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