Confessions of a Nerdy Teacher - First Week of School I remember trying to plan my first day of school my first year teaching, so the kids show up at 8:00am AND……crickets. How do you start the first day?! There are so many things that the kids need to know and according to Harry Wong I had a lot of procedures to teach. Goals of the First Week of School: Get to know eachother. There is time for content later, establishing your classroom community that first week will effect the entire school year! First Day of School Plan View PDF Here is my lesson plan form the first day of school last year. 1. Word First Day Letter (You will need to customize this one, so I didn’t include a PDF) The first thing my kids do when they come in the room is find their desk and read a letter I have written them. ** Playing Cards …Several people have asked about the playing card in the corner of the desk. 2. This is not a new idea, but it is a really fun idea for the first day. 3. 4. PDF Multiple Intelligence Inventory 5. 3. 4. Word Homework Sheet 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Instructions: Cup of Tea Different types of words can be used to make your writing more interesting and easier to read. You need to know when to use them and how to spot them. In writing, words are grouped together into phrases, sentences, clauses and paragraphs. Linking these building blocks together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read. Use your commenting skills to identify what's wrong with these pieces of writing. When you are writing non-fiction it's important to use a style of writing that fits the subject.Use your knowledge of non-fiction writing to group the correct titles, text and pictures together. The Look, Say, Cover, Write & Check is a support tool for learning spellings using a trusted multi-sensory approach. This activity helps prove the rules of changing nouns from singular to plural. This is an activity targeted to Year 4 to help with medium frequency words. An updated version of the traditional word guess game. A humurous seaside writing activity.
August 2011 Hey friends! Denise here from Sunny Days in Second Grade. I'm so beyond crazy excited to be a Blog Hoppin author! The group of teacher authors and bloggers here is one I have tremendous admiration for and I am just tickled pink to be part of this group! I'm just going to jump right in with a great way to build classroom community. I gathered the kids on the carpet (don't all the best lessons happen there?). Then I had them come up a few at a time, making sure the rest could hear and see the action. I put 16 bandaids on 16 hands and when my 17th student came up for his, I just told him I was sorry, but I didn't have any for him. I also added in how our last student didn't get a bandaid at all! I have to say, it was a goose bump inducing lesson. If you try it, I'd love to hear how it goes. See ya on the Sunny Side!
Letters Letter Writing (Valerie Ryan) Letter Frame (Jo Taylor) DOC Letter Writing (Paul Cockcroft) HTML / PDF Formal Letter Success Criteria (Iffat Sardharwalla) DOC Letter Template (Connor Turnbull) DOC Letter Checklist (A. Gill/J. O'Neil) DOC - All Checklists ZIP Formal Letter Checklist (Amalia Dessouki) DOC Letter of Complaint (Melanie Davies) Persuasive Letter Template (A. Curtis) DOC Washing Machine Complaint (Natasha Outhwaite) DOC More resources for persuasive letter writing are in the persuasive writing section. Teachers Pet UK - Activities and Worksheets - Home
Instructions: Playground games in England We play this game with a really long piece of elastic, about 2cm wide and 3 metres in length. We tie the ends of the elastic together to make a loop. Two children stand inside the loop so they are stretching it relatively taut around their ankles. A third person performs a series of hops and jumps, chanting appropriate rhymes. Start with left foot inside the elastic loop and right foot just outside. Here is one of the rhymes we say: 'Chocolate cake, when you bake, How many minutes will you take? On ONE: jump up and land with left foot outside the elastic loop and your right foot inside. If the current player fails to execute the correct jump their turn is over and play passes to one of the people inside the circle of elastic, who then tries to out do the previous player. Here are more of the rhymes we use: 'England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales Inside, outside, inside, on!' 'Old Mrs Mason broke her basin On the way to London Station. 'Charlie Chaplin sat on a pin How many inches did it go in?
The Global Classroom Project: 2011/12 - home Labels Drag and drop the names of the classroom items on to the picture. The name box will turn green if correctly placed. Drag and drop the names of the animals on to the picture. Find and select the letters in the correct order to make the word. The Word Wheel 2 is multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in words with clusters.WW2 lesson outline Drag and drop the names of the fruits on to the picture. Drag and drop the names of the types of transport on to the picture. Drag and drop the names of the vegetables on to the picture. A drag and drop matching quiz based on descriptions of objects from around the home. This Alphabetical order activity is a simple to use word ordering exercise. This simple labelling activity can be used for either the Three Little Pigs or Cinderella as a backdrop for their sceneScenes lesson outline The CVC maker is a simple to use application. Create imaginative dialogue with the visiting aliens.