The Christmas Wish is a beautiful book. It’s perfect for your classroom in December. December can be an exciting time of year for children that celebrate Christmas. I found this book and it was the perfect read-aloud for my 2nd and 3rd graders. The Christmas Wish by Lori Evert and photographs by Per Breiehagen is an amazing book with real…
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Classroom Trading Cards as Writing Prompts
Using classroom trading cards as writing prompts has been a game changer. Many teachers have told me that their students lack motivation to write or just don’t like writing. I don’t think that’s it at all! As teachers, we just need to see what it is that they are interested in and run with it! Unfortunately, that could mean different…
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Writing For Self Regulation and Goal Setting
Writing for self regulation and goal setting just may be the most important thing you do this year. Writing is not just for writing time! Writing is used all over the curriculum! The more purposeful the writing, the more kids will want to write. I wrote a guest post over at Minds in Bloom on just that topic this year….
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Genius Hour
Genius Hour in the classroom may sound a bit scary to some. Sometimes letting go and having the students guide the learning can be a daunting thought. Today, I will talk about just that…letting go a bit and seeing what happens when you incorporate genius hour in your classroom. Thank you for joining me this week. I hope you find…
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The Dalai Lama and Teaching Mindfulness
Mindfulness is new to the education system. I wanted to know more about mindfulness and the impact it can have on kids and learning. Yesterday, I went to see the Dalai Lama for the Heart-Mind Summit. I focus a lot on teaching the individual child and really feel that classroom management is all about routines and rules and getting to…
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Teaching Kids to Visualize
Visualizing can be one of the most powerful techniques that you use to teach readers and writers. It helps students with reading comprehension and it helps them to generate ideas and write interesting stories and poems. Visualizing is the topic of this Writing Sundays post. Thanks so much for joining me. Visualizing is the act of closing your eyes and…
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