Here’s a free worksheet I came up with to help kids practice recognizing consonants and vowels. Remember to right click, select “save image as” and save it to your computer so you can print it the desired size. Enjoy
There are many ways teachers collect papers. Personally, because I collected every paper, I needed something a bit more specific. I had a stack of file trays that were labeled for math, reading, writing, science/social studies, other. That way, I wouldn’t have to sort papers near as much when I put them in my grade book. Here are a few other ideas I’ve seen:
Here’s a GENIUS idea I just saw: the teacher had made magnets with different locations where students should turn in papers. She’d stick the magnet on the board next to the item on the to do list. That way, the kids would know where they should put each paper and she wouldn’t have to repeat herself or write the directions day after day. So Smart!
I recently saw this cute worksheet for a unit on Famous Americans. I thought it was very easy and would be great for teaching about main ideas (only including important details from the person’s life) and for reinforcing correct paragraph structure.
Click Famous_American_page PDF for the download.
When teachers arrange their desks in groups, they need an easy way to label each group. Many teachers number them, or gang things from the ceiling using string, but the following idea was the easiest to set up and most easily recognizable table identification system I’ve ever seen. It’s so easy that it blows everything else out of the water. Take a solid piece of construction paper or cardstock and fold it in half. Then tuck one end in the metal bar between ceiling tiles. Done. Anyone with half a brain who walks into the room will know what color goes with each group of desks and it’ll take you 2 minutes flat to put up all the papers. Just make sure your school doesn’t have any fire codes you’d be violating if you attach anything to the ceiling…
There are many websites that talk about Homeworkopoly. Teachers have created their own versions to fit their needs, and it seems to work well.
Here are the pieces to download (from teachernet.com):
Download Game Board with street names.
Download Game Board without street names (make up your own for your city)
Download Chance Cards (includes blank cards for making your own)
For more info on Homeworkopoly, click here.
This was a really cute way to track students’ progression towards a goal. Each student has a marker with their number on the front and the scratchy side of velcro on the back. As students move closer to their goal, they get to move up the chart (by attaching their marker to the velcro strip) until they have reached their goal. I assume it wouldn’t be too hard to change the title on the poster so you could reuse the poster for various goals throughout the year. Good idea!
I saw this fun management system in a 2nd grade classroom. Each student gets a clip with their number on it that starts in the middle of the 5 tier system each day. The students cam move up and down on the chart with their behavior. The teacher has different rewards the students can earn each day or week depending on where they land at the end of the day. Since they’re laminated and on magnets, she can change them periodically to keep kids interested in the system.
The levels (listed from top to bottom) are: hang ten, surf’s up, aloha, strong current, get out of the water.
Pretty cute, huh!?!
Here’s a worksheet I made for practicing recognizing even and odd numbers. Enjoy!
To get this worksheet, right click on it and select “save as.” After you’ve saved it, you can resize it to be half sheet or full sheet according to your preference.
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