Teacher Tips These are some truly great ideas from creative teachers all over the USA. They are super "insider tips," terrific teacher "tricks of the trade!" If you have a Teacher Tip, please e-mail me at kinderbykim@aol.com and be sure to add your name, grade you teach and state you live in. Boo Boo Lotion Use “Boo Boo Lotion” along with your “Boo Boo Binder” to make minor “owies” feel better fast! Super Scents or "Smellies" Use scented chap sticks or lip balms from the dollar store to reward children for doing a “Scentsational” job! Sight Word Name Necklaces Use a plastic name badge and glue beads or jewels around the edges. Toilet Paper Roll Cell Phones Take empty toilet paper rolls and cut two slits and push down the center. Hershey Bar Measuring Did you know Hershey bars are exactly one inch long? Kiss Your Brain Book After singing "Dr. Wake Up The Word Families My good friend Kim Adsit of Warner Robbins Georgia shared this darling idea. Shower Curtain Twister Questions or comments?
Les stratégies dans un programme de lecture Tous les enseignants ont déjà rencontré dans leur classe des enfants qui savent très bien lire à haute voix, mais qui ne comprennent pas ce qu'ils lisent. Ce sont souvent des enfants qui n'ont pas de stratégies de lecture à leur disposition. Une stratégie de lecture est un moyen ou une combinaison de moyens que le lecteur met en oeuvre consciemment pour comprendre un texte. Le lecteur stratégique est actif et se pose continuellement des questions: "De quoi parle l'histoire? Que va-t-il arriver maintenant? A quoi ressemble cette personne, cet objet, cet endroit? Le lecteur stratégique planifie sa lecture, en vérifie le bon déroulement et effectue un retour sur cette dernière. Un lecteur stratégique coordonne donc un ensemble de stratégies flexibles et en modifie l'application lorsque nécessaire. La métaphore de l'équipe de football illustre bien le concept de stratégie. L'enseignement explicite des stratégies de lecture Les stratégies dans un programme de lecture
DIY spinny spellers and repurposing Duplo bricks Almost a year ago I made a couple of DIY spinny spellers for my kids, because they were learning to sound out letter combinations and blend sounds to start reading. The spinny spellers you can buy are all upper case letters though, and I wanted something that was lower case, so I just used a bit of dowelling and some wooden beads and some letter stickers we had handy. It worked a treat and I agreed with my older daughter's kindergarten teacher that it would be a good tool for the classroom, so I've got a box of wooden blocks that her husband kindly cut and drill pressed holes in, plus a bunch of dowelling and all the left over wooden beads from a thrift store find, to make over 40 of these things. I'm hoping I can get my act together and find some appropriate letraset cheaply to put letters on all the blocks and varnish them. I was going to try this method (which is very cool), but with nearly 500 surfaces altogether, that would take my until the kids were in college!
Stratégie pour apprendre à lire Bernard COLLOT 37 années d’enseignement de la lecture dans une classe unique (classe multiâge à 6 ou 7 niveaux) (1) Le texte suivant résulte de plus de 30 ans de pratiques en classe unique. Ce n’est pas à partir de la théorie que s’est instaurée une pratique, mais c’est à partir d’un tâtonnement continu et de l’efficience des pratiques que s’est bâtie une théorie. La théorie a donc été a posteriori de la pratique. 1/ Les assises d’une stratégie : écrire-lire est un langage avant d’être la connaissance d’une langue et de sa syntaxe L’apprentissage de la lecture fait couler beaucoup d’encre et de salive depuis que l’école existe. Ce d’autant que cela a été et cela reste une des raisons fondamentales qui justifie l’école.
Punctuation Perfection Craftivity! Remember this freebie I posted a few weeks ago: {click *here* for that freebie} Well, I had the most amazing 2nd grade teacher email me {Hi, JoAnn} and she had done the best craftivity that went along with my Punctuation Perfection freebie! I immediately asked her if I could blog about it and she graciously shared! Thank you, JoAnn! Look at these commas! This little period guy is adorbs! An exclamation point craft that will make sure your kiddos never forget their ending mark! P.S.
Squeezing in some fun! Google+ Pages This Blog Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Squeezing in some fun! Ok, ok, so I know you all are madly getting ready for Christmas but I wanted to share one last post on a few of the fall activities that kept us busy! We visited a corn maze and picked up some dried corn and used our fine motor skills to pick out the kernels with tweezers. We also made these scarecrows by decorating a paper bag, stuffing it with straw and then tying it onto corn stalks with yarn. We threaded fruit loops onto spaghetti sticks stuck in playdough. We practiced drawing shapes and letters. Scribble Doodle and Draw See On You may also like - I Need a favor! And the winners are.... Back to School TPT SALE and Weekly kids co-op! Shiny Easter eggs and Spring Blog Hop! Posted by Scribble Doodle and Draw Email ThisBlogThis! Labels: drawing letters in paint bags, dried corn, fall activities, fine motor activities, learning to write letters, playdough, preschool, scarecrow, sight word practice 8 comments: Load more...
Wikki Stix and Finger Lights I love finding materials (even if they're a little "gadgety") that help young readers make sense of print. For years now, I've been using Wikki Stix and Finger Lights with K/1 kids in small reading groups. The Wikki Stix are nothing more than colorful waxy strips that can be easily cut, bent, pinched, rolled, applied to paper (and removed, and applied, and removed, and applied...) without needing to be thrown out. It lasts forever. Matthew stretched out the red piece a little bit while the book was at home. It was originally just under the -es ending. A pack of "Wikki Stix" comes in a variety of colors. One pack will last a long time. Another discovery I made came after a dinner with my family at a Japanese steak house. {Take a sheet of foil, roll it, twist it... now it's ready to be shaped!} Things got even better when I found something called "Finger Lights" in the dairy section of my grocery store.
ctbaker in the acres: 14 Lovely Days: Day 2 Well, we've been living in the land of the crud all week and the last 2 days I've had all three home sick. Cabin fever is setting in! I tried really hard to keep the peace today. I let the boys pick their "territory". Sam chose my bedroom and Fulton chose the den. Ollie just roamed and took turns visiting his brothers in their territories. Any who... on to Day 2. My random act for the day originally involved making a special snack together, but I didn't think sharing the germs any further was a very good idea. Origami Monster Bookmarks! But when I got to the site from where it was originally pinned, I realized my Japanese was a little rusty. I tried to photograph step-by-step so you could follow along... Supplies: Card stock or construction paper in various colors Scissors Hole punch for embellishments Glue We started with a 6x6 square Fold into a triangle Fold the left corner to the center point Fold the right corner to the center point Apply glue and press inside Apply glue and press in place
Play to Learn: Musical Alphabet Game for Preschool 5K+ Reviewing the alphabet and teaching letter sounds can get tedious if you are always doing it the same way. I am always trying to come up with new ways to keep learning fun, active and relevant for my preschooler. My daughter enjoys games and she loves to sing and dance so I knew she would have a great time playing MUSICAL ALPHABET (similar to Musical Chairs) and it would be a fun way to practice letter recognition and test her phonological awareness of the corresponding letter sounds. It's a quick & easy, no fuss game - which are my favorite! 1. 4. I even got the Oldest Diva involved in the game. I LOVE when you can sneak in some learning like this and they don't even realize they are actually learning while playing. :) This can easily be played in small groups & adapted to a school setting. Have fun practicing the alphabet! Bern
» 8 Literacy Apps for the Little Ones I am thrilled to have Rebecca from Thirteen Red Shoes with us today to share a list of her favorite literacy apps for young children. Enjoy! Mariah asked if I could put together another list of some applications, which I have been using with my eldest child Master R who is four years old. I am certain that there are many more applications out there that would be perfect for this early writer and reader stage. The name Thirteen Red Shoes came about a few years ago when Rebecca needed a business name quickly for some tutoring she was doing. Know someone else who would enjoy this activity? Multi-Sensory Ideas for Teaching Sight Words In order to be fluent readers, students need to be able to recognize sight words quickly and accurately as these words make up between 50-70% of the words we encounter in text. Students who struggle learning sight words greatly benefit from using a multi-sensory approach to teaching. The term “multi-sensory” means using all the different senses at the same time. Using this approach to teaching increases the likihood that the student will remember the word. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Feel free to download the templates for the first 25 words of the Dolch 220 sight words. Click HERE for the complete set of the Dolch 220 sight word templates, flashcards and specific instructions for introducing sight words using the multi-sensory approach. Remember that it all begins with assessment!