This language arts anchor chart seems so easy, yet so effective in displaying the differences between fiction and nonfiction. The teacher even included a picture of fiction vs. nonfiction to help younger learners the two. It could be a good assignment to have each student create a personal anchor chart like this, especially using pictures from old magazines, etc.
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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Roman numerals are hard for most Americans… mostly because we don’t use them very often. So here’s one way to help get your kids used to Roman numerals, and hopefully teach them a few: Refer to your tables using Roman numerals! If you were really excited about it, you could have each student learn their number in Roman numerals and have them write it as part of their heading on papers. In case you forgot Roman numerals yourself, here’s a nice chart to help you keep Roman numerals straight.
Here’s a quick review video about base 10 number systems…
I fell in love with this idea instantly. It teaches kids the different parts of speech and lets them write poetry while they’re doing it! I made my own worksheet for you to download. Click here for the PDF: Grammatical Poetry
I was helping a fellow teacher go through her classroom and we found tons of interesting posters and pictures she’d collected over the years. It had been hard for her to incorporate everything into lessons, but she didn’t want to part with them. Here was our solution: use them as writing prompts! It took about 10 seconds per poster and we paper clipped each prompt to the poster so she could slap them on the board really quickly. We wrote each prompt by hand, but we could have easily just typed them. We wrote potentially new vocabulary words in a different color, so she could point it out to students if they needed help spelling, etc. These were a few of the many prompts we made:
This same idea could be easily applied to a variety of ways. Use pictures of historical people, events and places to review social studies. Give a strange picture from a magazine to your child when they begin a car ride, and have them write down a certain number of nouns, verbs, or adjectives before the ride is over in order to earn a special something. But whatever you do, have fun with it!
Confused about partitive and measurement division? Not anymore! Here’s a quick video explaining the difference…
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