Helping Teachers Inspire Learners
Hi friends! It’s great to be back for my regular Writing Sundays post. I took a little Christmas vacation and I’m so glad to be back to teaching my kiddos how to write! Amongst other things, of course! {This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. } You know that typical lesson where you give the students a word and…
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Personalized Learning, Genius Hour, Passion Projects, 21st Century Learning, Inquiry Learning, Differentiated Learning… these are all terms to describe types of learning that are designed to engage the student based on their needs. I have tried my own style of personalized learning and I differentiate learning all the time for students as I know most of you do. I always…
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Writing is all about expressing yourself. It can be quite therapeutic and it can also help you to clarify things that are on your mind. For your children, getting over the first step is the actual effort and challenge of putting letters on to paper and creating words and sentences. That is why it is so nice to have your…
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Yesterday was just an ordinary day. Okay, not really. It was our Christmas concert day. So were the students were really hyper? No. We were too busy. We were busy working on a new lesson about R.A.K. (Random Acts of Kindness.) Although we often do this as I teach Mindful Learning and focus a lot on social learning, today was…
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Thank you for joining me for Writing Sundays #12. We have given our Interactive Writer’s Notebooks a little rest until January so that we can focus on Winter and Christmas writing and learning and writing about kindness. In order to teach my students about kindness this season I started out by having them explore their own best memories. I did…
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This week I was inspired by the book Snowmen at Night. I am sure you all have seen it but if you haven’t, it is priceless! In this story, snowmen have fun at night when the children have all gone to bed. What makes this books special is the art work. It is great for teaching perspective and shadowing. Conveniently,…
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