End of the Day Review- NO PREP Jeopardy!

Sometimes you have a few minutes left at the end of the day you’d like to use productively.
Sometimes, you’re just an awesome teacher and you plan for an end of the day review on spelling, grammar, social studies, math vocab, etc. Here’s a super easy way to do it:

  1. Draw columns on the white board (1 for each topic you’d like to review)
  2. Title the columns from things you’ve done that day/week
  3. Write the following numbers under each column header: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50
  4. Divide your class into small groups (super easy if you have kids in tables already) and let a team choose a question.
  5. MAKE UP QUESTIONS AS YOU GO! Killer easy right!? Just make the higher point values a little more challenging. You can make any kind of question you want: multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank. Just do it!
  6. Keep track of points on the whiteboard

Additional rules/notes:

  • Let everyone try to answer so that everyone is part of the review (choose whoever raises their hands, or choose a student number randomly, you choose)
  • More than one team can answer if you make an answer with multiple answers (just day that the first team to raise their hands or whatever gets to choose the next question)
  • Whatever team gets the question right, chooses the next category/point value

Common vs. Proper Nouns- Christmas/Winter Holidays worksheet

Another common vs. proper nouns worksheet… but winter holiday themed! Right the worksheet below, choose “save image as” and save it to your computer so you can resize it before you print it (full page, half page). Happy holidays!

Thanksgiving Common vs. Proper Nouns worksheet

Another way to bring Thanksgiving into your classroom! Woot! This worksheet focuses on identifying proper and common nouns. This free worksheet is appropriate for 2nd grade and up. Click here for the free printable PDF: Thanksgiving common vs proper nouns PDF  Enjoy!

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Thanksgiving Grammar Practice Book for Upper Grades (free download)

Thanksgiving grammar book- upper grades STICKER

Here’s a great way to combine learning the history of Thanksgiving with some grammar practice! Start 9 school days before the Thanksgiving break. Students read a little bit of the story each day and do a few simple grammar exercises using the text for that day. Enjoy these Thanksgiving worksheets! Click here for the PDF workbook.

2021 update: if you can’t access the PDF in Google Drive right away, please request access when you’re promoted. Google will send me an email so I can grant your email address access to the PDF and I’ll respond to give you access as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience. I haven’t figured out why it’s sometimes unavailable now.

Mystery Noun Of The Week

I saw this cool idea and had to blog about it! Each morning, the teacher posts a clue to a the mystery noun and reveals the noun on Friday. Participation is voluntary, but most kids are pretty motivated by the mystery aspect if this activity. The teacher uses a book from the Daily Detectives series by Daryl Vriesenga.  It would also be pretty easy to make your own clues to introduce an important noun in a lesson the following week or clues that describe something your class learned a few months ago as a review. I liked this idea because it reinforces what nouns are in a painless way.

EASY word wall

Sometimes it’s hard to remember to add words to your classroom’s word wall. Here’s a genius idea I saw in a kindergarten classroom recently. The teacher prints up the words at the beginning of the year and tacks them to the board backwards. When they learn a new word, all she has to do is flip it over and wa-la… organized, done-in-a-second word wall!

 

Here’s another easy way… magnets!

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Effective Vocab Bulletin Board

Teaching vocabulary is only good for students if they actually LEARN the words. Here’s one way a teacher uses a bulletin board to increase students’ vocabulary:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make sure to post:

1. the vocab word (big enough to see from every desk)

2. a simple definition

3. a simple picture to help explain the definition

4. a list of previously learned vocab words

This teacher introduces the words (10 each week) on Monday and then reviews all the words every morning (only takes a few minutes on Tues-Friday). The class also comes up with a gesture for each word. I’ve seen her class do these vocab activities, and let me tell ya, these kids really learn the words!

Abbreviations Matching Game

Submitted by an awesome teacher (Thanks!):

“This is a matching game to help our 2nd graders learn abbreviations.  We ran the months off on one color, days of the week on another and the miscellaneous on another so that they could have a better chance at matching them.  You can do it as a whole class activity or as a center during your literacy block. Once they do them, they are going to write them in their literacy journals.”

Click here to see the Word document matching game.