Meet Heather from

Teaching Through Turbulence! 

 

She posts many great ideas for management and more. 

 Her blog is great for every level! 

This weekend she is having a giveaway! 

 

 It ends at midnight on June 11^th!

So hop over and check it out!

 

Check it out there are fabulous giveaways for:

Intermediate

Videos

Clip Art

And Primary !

Very exciting!  Thanks Heather!

 

Enjoy!

~Holly

Ladybug Life Cycle!

What an exciting process to watch.  Most kiddos come with some knowledge of the changes caterpillars and tadpoles go through to become butterflies and frogs.  However, few know about the life cycle of a ladybug!

I have made an emergent reader and booklet for students to learn, more and record what they know. 

After reading Eric Carle’s The Grouchy Ladybug, I got the idea to make a booklet with speech bubbles too! 

~click the picture for a copy of these two FREE items~

 

Each stage has a large space for students to write facts.  This week I will be challenging students to become each stage and write in the first person.  I can’t wait to hear the "writer's voice” come alive when they share in the author’s chair!

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted but there are only12 days left!!!!! …and somehow the end of year assessments and tasks, have taken over!

 

Enjoy!

~Holly

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Many of us teach “Fact Families” or use a triangle as a means to teach the relationships between numbers in addition and subtraction.

…Well the other day I was about to teach my lesson and on a whim started talking in this “royal” (aka: poor excuse for a British accent!) and had the kids wrapped!  Their attention and buy-in was remarkable. 

 

Needless to say it really drove the concept home!

 

I was making up stories, for example, of a castle on top of a mountain that had 10 royal children.  6 were prices and 4 were princesses.

 

 

Well, I started to embellish the stories and draw as the lesson progressed.

 

I love when a random idea becomes your best lesson of the day!

 

A teacher friend of mine suggested that we make booklets for students to work in and…

 

Click HERE to get a copy of the booklets!

 

The idea is still new. Who knows where it will go!  But in the mean time you can copy the booklets and program them as you like.  I thought that kids could:

 

~ Cut out the castles with numbers, glue them to pages and show the two addends. 

 

~Write the equation.

 

~Choose a colored castle card from a pile or bag and write the related numbers on a page.

 

~…And/or have a booklet devoted to showing the different ways to make ten.

 

Let me know how you use them!

Enjoy

~Holly