Helping Teachers Inspire Learners
When children understand story elements, they are more easily able to organize writing. The idea I would like to share with you today originated in a workshop I went to several years ago by Tony Stead. My class of second graders have been working on comprehension strategies to increase our reading fluency. We have done lots of whole class stories…
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Multiculturalism in the classroom means more than just understanding that we all come from different backgrounds. Let me back up and explain how I got to introducing this very important concept. Over the last few weeks, our class has been looking at friendship, bullying and everything in between. Since the beginning of the year (of every year), I explained to…
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The Invisible Boy is likely one of my favorite books in the last few years. I first discovered it last week, when one of my colleagues shared it with me. I decided that I would read it before Valentine’s Day because it had a great message about friends and social learning. The book was called: The Invisible Boy by Trudy…
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If you’ve been wondering how we are doing on our passion projects – well, we missed the last Friday due to the Lunar New Year assembly last Friday. However, there was some data collecting going on. Read on! So far I have been trying to get the students to take a look at themselves and who they are. We have…
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I am very happy to be part of a great linky and blog hop that celebrates great ideas in teaching. There are over 140 educators that are taking part in this fabulous event. I hope that you find some great ideas that you can start tomorrow! I wanted to revisit and share some ideas that I have used in…
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It’s interesting to watch this project get wings and take flight. Students are working at their own pace on getting all of the preliminary work done for their Passion Projects. Thanks for joining me this week. During our last session of Passion Projects, we worked on our cover pages for our folders, our questionnaires and choosing our topics. Coloring our…
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