Ideas for Your Classroom
Heroes in Writing
This lesson focuses on teaching your kids to write about fictional heroes and real community heroes.
Writing a Superhero Story Lesson
Writing about a Hero in History Lesson
Shadow Writing
What is shadow writing? Shadow writing is when student's copy a writer's style or theme from a book. First the teacher presents the book that she wants to focus on and read it to the class. Next students can use a graphic organizer given by the teacher or a sequence chart of events that happened in the book to recreate their own story.
Diary of a Worm is a great book that lends itself to allowing students to shadow write. Students can create their own story by recreating it as Diary of a Mouse, Diary of a Tiger, etc.
Other great books for shadow writing include: The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish. Students can recreate the story as The Day I Swapped my ____ for ____. Students can write their own books.
The Gingerbread Man is another book that works great. Students can recreate stories such as Jalapeño man etc. Listed below is an example of a fill in the blank story for students with the book Click, Clack Moo, Cows That Type. Students fill in the blanks and use their imagination.
Click Clack Moo Handout
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Metric Olympics
Get student's excited about the Olympics and measurement by creating math stations that allow students to be engaged in their learning. These centers are ready to go for grades 3-5.
Metric Olympics lesson
Setting Clear Expectations
Setting clear expectations for quality work is essential. Help your kids be accountable and remember important criteria by posting these colorful posters.
Quality Work posters
Class Cooperation
Teach your kids about bullying by posting these posters and going over them with students. Discuss what is a bullying and role play with students what to do if they are being bullied. A great book to read is, "The Crayon Box That Talked." It is about a box of crayons that do not get along and at the end they realize the importance of working together.
Bullying posters
Powerpoint Game Templates
Need to review skills in a way that will get your student's attention? These game powerpoint templates are fun, customizable, and easy to use. Games include: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, Hollywood Squares, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Wheel of Fortune and much more!
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Math Ideas
This website is amazing! I cannot express enough how much cool stuff there is on this website. Click on the subject and search for ideas.
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Reading Strategy Ideas
This website has all the reading strategies with songs to sing along for FREE! There are lesson ideas and graphic organizers to go with each reading strategy. A must see.
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Math Lesson Ideas
One of my coworkers found this website and it is AMAZING! It has cool ways of presenting material and has printables included.
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Another one of my favorite math sites that has games and ideas for teaching math is Mathwire. This website has tons of printables. Watch out because you can spend a lot of time browsing this site.
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