Small Types: Read All Over
Hey, remember this goofy old riddle? Q: What's black and white and red all over? A: The newspaper! (The "red" should obviously be "read" in that sentence, but I wasn't sure how I should type it since I didn't want to give away the riddle. Hmm.) Anyway, since this month is about the color red, with Valentine's Day and hearts and all, that little riddle popped into my head...
9 Tools to Create E-magazines and Newspapers for Your Class
1- Uniflip UniFlip converts your magazine, brochure or catalog from its original PDF format into an exciting, professional multi-media digital format with pages that flip. 2-Joomag Joomag is a web tool that lets you create your own magazines using a simple online editor.
16 Websites to Teach and Learn Vocabulary
There are now several web tools that are really great in teaching vocabulary and that you can use with your students in the classroom. We have curated a list a list of some of the best web tools to teach vocabulary. Check them down below. 1- Vocabulary.com This is a website that will hep students master the vocabulary essential to their academic success.
10 Free tools to create digital magazines and newspapers
Creating digital magazines and newspapers is the trend in 21st century education.Encouraging students to publish their work online in the form of digital magazines is to sharpen their writing,creativity,and thinking skills.In today's post,I am sharing with you some popular free tools to help you create digital newspapers. Enjoy the list below 1.Uni Flip This is an online web publishing tool to create interactive e-magazines and other publications.It requires no installation 2.Open Zine
Poetry Cafe
I love admiring this picture. For me, there's something so very peaceful about it. It represents nine months of blossoming for 24 young little thinkers. I took this on the day of our Poetry Cafe (inspired by Marie, my teammate, who found an amazing post about a teacher who knew how to put on a great Poetry Cafe - look here and you'll be impressed).
Fun in Fifth Grade at JCS
Every year, our school holds a Race for Education. This is one of our biggest fundraisers that brings in quite a bit of money to JCS. Both the students and the teachers send out mailers asking for donations to family and friends and pray that others feel compelled to help our school. On a Friday in October, the whole school goes to a nearby track and runs laps for an hour. People can donate by lap or give a flat donation.
One Stop Teacher Shop: No-Fuss Literacy Centers!
I've said this before, and I'll say it again...I am a "low maintenance" teacher, and am always striving to find the simplest, yet most effective way to accomplish my goals for my classroom. My Goal: I wanted to have at least one center per week that effectively addressed the skill or strategy I was teaching (or had already taught) my students. My Problem: I had a ton of fiction and non-fiction texts, but no activities to go with them! :o(
4 Square Planning: The Key to Organized Writing
Guest post by Catherine Reed, the Brown Bag Teacher As a fifth-grade ELA teacher, I spent many hours writing together with my students. We worked on developing ideas, learning writing conventions, giving opinions, and most importantly, organizing our thoughts. My students were expected to learn three differentiated classes of writing, and my lowest writers really struggled with the execution of ideas. My students knew what they wanted to say but struggled to write it in a logical, organized manner that allowed others to understand. Throughout our first 9 weeks together, I tried planner after planner including a pyramid planner, a traditional main idea planner, genre-specific planners, etc., and found that these planners did not work for my students.
