I’m looking to set up my last ad swap of the year. Basically we swap blog buttons (images with a link back to the owner’s blog) and post them in each other’s side bar. It’s a free way to spread the word about your blog! Click here for more info on my ad swaps. Contact me if you’re interested!
It’s always nice to have the student contribute to parent teacher conferences, and have them review their progress and behavior before you sit down with their parents. So I present to you two versions of my “How I Feel About School” student form. Click here for the free printable PDFs:
Parent -Teacher Conference form – lower grades (revised)
Parent Teacher Conferences- student form (upper grades)
Click here to read 25 tips to surviving parent teacher conferences!
Such a great article! Hundreds charts are one of the most important math tools for kids!
It’s that time again… time to swap ads! Basically I put your blog button or image on my sidebar and link it to your desired blog/website. You do the same for me and we both increase our traffic and spread the word about great blogs! Click here for more details. Thanks!
Fire Prevention Week 2013 will be October 6 – 10. Most teachers won’t be able to spend a lot of time discussing fire prevention, so the National Fire Prevention Association has made a few quick activities for you to use, that will actually support what you’re teaching in school. For example, the NFPA has a kitchen safety checklist you can discuss. Why not have your kids circle 10 nouns, highlight 10 verbs, etc. while you go over the sheet? Grammar practice!! And for lower grades, use the Stay Safe in the Kitchen story for some quick comprehension practice.
Click here to go to the Fire Prevention Week page.
Hello friends and readers! I’m looking to beef up Squarehead Teachers and I’d like your help! I’m searching for a few guest bloggers to feature on my website. I’m looking for ORIGINAL posts less than 500 words long (so readers can finish them in 5-10 minutes or less). I’m interested in delivering ideas in an easy-to read, concise way.
Here are some topics I’d like to publish more information about:
As one of my guest authors, you can include a short bio (75 words or less) about you on your post with a link to your own website or blog. This means more potential traffic to your site! I welcome pictures (include link to source if it’s not your own original photo), bullets, and helpful hints! So contact me if you’re interested in being a guest author on Squarehead Teachers! … Or if you’d like me to write a post for your blog (I do that too)! Thanks!
This gives a couple basic measurement questions for kids ( involving length and perimeter) and a chart of the Metric System. It would be a good whole class activity to create a chart like this (in math journals, on an anchor chart, etc.).
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I don’t know about you, but I love using graphic organizers. I’m a visual learner, so maybe that’s why. But anyway, this anchor chart I saw in an elementary school classroom seemed to be an effective way to study animals (spiders, in this case). It focuses on characteristics, sorted according to 3 verbs: are, can and have. It’s a very basic idea, but works well because students can just finish the sentence “Spiders have…” or “Spiders can…” to help them sort out and analyze characteristics. This same idea could be used for a variety of topics, simply by changing the 3 verbs used.
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