Here's a handy resource to help you start the new year off right. Scholastic's Daily Starters provide a new language problem, math problem, and fun fact for each day of the week.
Activities for Pre-K through 8th grade are provided.
Here are some sample activities:
3-5 Language
1-2 Math
Each page also includes a Teacher view and Student view option. The teacher view option includes answer reveals for the problems.
Hope your new year is off to a fabulous start!
Your students will love practicing basic addition facts and math strategies by playing Math Lines.
Destroy balls by forming pairs that up to ten. You can use one ball to destroy a group of the same numbered balls. Math Lines is an excellent activity to discuss game strategies and practice simple facts. Watch out...your students might become addicted! :)
In the past, I have used SnapzPro software to record my computer screen and make tutorial movies. I recently discovered you can make similar recordings using Apple QuickTime Player 10.0. This is a wonderful free option for screen recording.
I decided to record a short movie for my 5th graders to watch on the next step of our project. It was a huge hit! The movie also allowed me to spend more time helping students with other questions they had.
Here are two simple tutorials for using QuickTime Player to record your computer screen:
iCreate Magazine Tips for QuickTime
Give it a try! It's super easy and fun!
Lights, camera, action! Your students will love reading and reviewing books by starring in their own book trailers. Here are a few resources to inspire you:
Beyond Book Reports...Book Trailers- A Scholastic teacher blog post on using storyboards and iMovie to create book trailers.
Book Trailers for Readers- A site full of teacher and student made book trailers. A great place to inspire students to read and to help inspire their own book trailer creations.
Making Book Trailers with Photostory 3- A Tech & Learning post for Window's users on creating book trailers.
Reading-Activie-and-Engaging- An informative Wiki space detailing the benefits and process of creating book trailers.
Do you have any great book trailer resources or examples? Please leave a comment and share! I would love to hear about them!
Teacher Created Resources offers a fantastic interactive sentence editing activity. The demo for each grade level contains one level of sentences.
The sentences can be edited by dragging and dropping traditional editing marks.
Students can also switch modes and use a keyboard to edit the same sentence.
The pre-made activities are a nice start, but I really like the Instance Sentence. Teachers can type in any sentence with mistakes they would like the students to edit and it will be turned into an activity.
This would be a fun way to have students view and edit a daily sentence. The teacher could set the sentence up and then display it using a projector or interactive whiteboard. I plan on using this with my second graders who are practicing computer text editing.
School Sparks is an awesome site for colorful worksheets geared toward Kindergarten learners.
Worksheet categories include:
I would suggest not printing the sheets, but using them with a projector or an interactive whiteboard. Many of the sheets could be used as a quick review in a Kindergarten classroom.
Place mixed up words into a sentence, add punctuation, and watch your wall grow!
Wall of Words allows students to select five or seven word sentences. I like the fact that students need to select punctuation for the end of each sentence.
Classdojo is an amazing web site for classroom management!
The site allows teacher to:
How does ClassDojo work? Teachers begin by creating an account and setting up a class. Students are idenfied by an avatar and their name. There are currently only two sets of avatars to choose from. Monster avatars are the default.
Teachers can then add and change behaviors listed for each class. I had a brain storming session with several of my classes on what behaviors to include. The kids were far more detailed in selecting behaviors to keep track of.
I love showing the students the graphs of points for the class and how I can show them only their points.
It has been wonderful to see what a positive effect ClassDojo is having on several of my classes! I would love to hear comments if you try ClassDojo.
Use Google Docs Viewer to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser.
The PDF or PowerPoint document must already be uploaded to the web. I used DropBox to upload my PowerPoint file. I then copied the web address DropBox provides.
Head over to the Google Docs Viewer and paste in the address for the file you want people to view. Then, click Generate link.
Copy the embedded viewer html. Then head to your blog or web site and access the html on a post.
Paste your embed code. You should see something like this when you publish your post:
This is an awesome way for teachers to share files with parents and students. I could see a kindergarten student flipping through the above PowerPoint file to practice words that start with different letters of the alphabet.
Check out these fantastic search tricks from Google! The site contains several easy to try tricks for getting the most out of your Google Search.
Happy searching!
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