Chalk Talk: A Kindergarten Blog

Spinner ESL Powerpoint (PPT) Games If you are the type of person who prefers to have games on powerpoint or as printable handouts, we have been thinking of you. We offer board games, powerpoint games and more for the classroom and one to one teaching. It is total fun and highly engaging fun lessons with these resources. Printable ESL Board and Card Games We offer a variety of printable ESL board games and card games to help give your students lots of communicative practice. ESL Board & Powerpoint Games Templates ESL Game Templates - Powerpoint and Word Game Templates On ESL Games World we do not only aim at providing you with games for your classrooms. Classroom Tools - Click Here! Get some cool tools for use in your classroom.

Erica's Ed-Ventures First Grade Brain: Scott Foresman Reading Street 1st Grade Roll and Read Fluency Practice for Units 2-5 I have finished the Roll and Read fluency practice sheets for Scott Foresman Reading Street Units 2-5 for first grade. I can’t wait to use these next year! “The Roll and Read sheets are leveled for differentiation: below level, on level, and above level. (These sentences come from the Monitor Progress section at the end of each week in the Teacher’s Manual.) To save on printing, consider laminating the sheets or placing them in a page protector and using Vis-à-vis markers or dry erase markers so they can be used again and again!” Click below to purchase the roll and read sheets on Teachers Pay Teachers!

Miss Kindergarten First Grade Factory A Place Called Kindergarten I Love 1st Grade The Wise Owl Factory Some words sound the same, but are spelled differently and have very different meanings. Using the wrong word is easy to do, but it is just as easy to use them correctly if you study a few at a time. The following words are frequently confused and used incorrectly: Their: belongs to them Example: I found their house by using Google Maps. There: location (Replace it with the similar word “where.”) Example: We will be going there today. Loose: (rhymes with moose) not close together – free Example: Baby’s front tooth is loose. Lose: to suffer loss Example: Our team is going to lose tonight. Hear: to receive sound through the ears Example: I hope to hear him sing tonight. Here: this place Example: Let’s stop here and rest. Passed: verb, past tense of pass Example: Father passed me the potatoes. Past: noun, preposition, or adjective Example: I wonder if he had a troubled past. Example: Her past experience is valuable. Example: The plane flew past the buildings. Peace: the opposite of war

Teaching in High Heels Earlychildhood NEWS - Article Reading Center We are always looking for the magic bullet, something that will solve all our problems. And, today this magic bullet for education is technology. It will solve all our problems! It will increase academic skills, reduce dropout rates, eliminate the racial divide in academic performance, and increase SAT scores. Are Computers Developmentally Appropriate? To evaluate whether computers are developmentally appropriate for children over age three, we need to determine the developmental needs of these children. Howard Gardner has shown that young children exhibit a diversity of learning styles, and that the optimum way for many children to learn is not the traditional teacher-directed, verbal approach (, 1987). The danger, however, is that computers will be used only to reinforce the national trend toward earlier and more academic skill acquisition, and that other important developmental needs will be ignored. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The use of computers in a fully integrated classroom is endless.