Wednesday, December 23, 2020

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Picture Photo Writing Prompts - FREEBIE Sample”

by The Teacherly Life
2nd - 6th Grade

Looking for some fun and engaging writing prompts that include photos / real pictures? Try these with your students! They come in two sizes (full and half page) so that you are able to project them onto a screen for your whole class to write together or print as smaller cards that can be a part of an individual writing center.

This is the FREE SAMPLE.
-4 unique photo writing prompts
-real photos
-sample of 4 different prompt styles

-all prompts full size OR half size

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Weekly Wednesday 5 Under $5 - December 23, 2020

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5. With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

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Word Search Long Vowels - $1.49

By Reading Spotlight

2nd - 5th

Worksheets

Fun! Motivating! Effective! Easy to Use! Practice long vowels in a different, enjoyable, and helpful way. This set of 3 word search puzzles provides practice in more than 100 different words with regular long vowels, helping to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later. Effective for reading levels 3-6, they might also be used with better readers in grade 2 and struggling readers above grade 6.

Admiral McRaven "Make Your Bed" Speech Analysis for Grades 9-12 and Homeschool - $4.99

By History at Home

9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Homeschool

PowerPoint, activities

Great for homeschooling or any high school class, this resource includes background history, the complete text of Retired Navy Seal, Admiral McRaven's "Make Your Bed," and a link to watch the speech! It also includes 10 in-depth speech analysis questions and writing prompts to give different learners options to explore the speech in more detail.

ESL - Listening and Speaking Practice - $3.00

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno

2nd, 3rd, 4th

Activities, Printables

This engaging resource contains listening and speaking activities to help your ESL students practice and strengthen their listening and speaking skills. These activities can be used for your beginner, intermediate and advanced ESL students. The activities are colorful, fun, easy to use, and engaging to hold their interest while practicing these important skills.

Word Problem of the Day - $4.50

By Victoria Leon

2nd 3rd, 4th, 5th

Worksheets

Teach the "Word Problem of the Day" to reinforce problem solving and review addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. There are more than 200 word problems and the answers. Use larger or smaller numbers to increase or decrease the difficulty of the word problems. It also has word problem charts and a blank word problem worksheet for students to write the information, question, draw the picture, add/subtract/multiply/divide, and label the answer.

Our Nation's First Ladies - $4.00

By All-American Teacher Tools

5th - 12th

PowerPoint

This PowerPoint presentation provides the following information for each first lady: Name and maiden name, years as First Lady, Picture, two factoids, a First Lady first, and a question to ponder. Recently updated to include First Lady Jill Biden. Perfect for a lesson on election day.

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Writing Poster FREEBIE: Opinion, Informative, Narrative CCSS”

by Third Grade to the Core
2nd - 7th Grade

These anchor charts describe the three main writing types. They are a great student reference and will look great displayed in your room!

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Happy teaching!
Third Grade to the Core

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Monday, December 21, 2020

December 2020 Teacher Talk

Posted by Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

It's December and time for our holiday version of Teacher Talk. Getting ready for the holiday festivities or just looking for some great ideas. You don't want to miss what these creative educators are doing this month.

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An Amazing Holiday Values Lesson To Use Right Now!

By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

I woke up this morning, December 20, 2020 and thought about how much things have changed since the pandemic, staying away from those we love, prejudice against those who are different, a separation of so many people in this country, bullying, and distance learning. This has been a very sad and stressful time in our lives.

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Hope is Just Ahead

By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning

Adding hope to a New Years goal setting activity.

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Virtual Math Games to Engage Student Learning

By Kathie Yonemura of Tried and True Teaching Tools

One of my struggles during distance learning has been how to keep students engaged during math. Breakout rooms have been the perfect solution! I digitized a few of the games I used to print out and laminate. They are no-prep and ready to use!

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When was the last time you took time for YOU?

by Renee Heiss of All-American Teacher Tools

You've been creating virtual lessons, implementing virtual rewards and discipline procedures, and possibly keeping up with in-class separation shenanigans, as well. It's overwhelming and not what you signed up for, right? Here are some ideas to help you relax and enjoy a small part of your day or week so you tell yourself that you are special (channeling Mr. Rogers here!)

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My Rule #3 for Teaching Middle School

By Katie Auer of Loving Language Arts

#3 in a series of tips for Teaching Middle School

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Civility in the Classroom

By Charlene Tess of Charlene Tess

Teaching civility in the classroom is a must.

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The Gift of No Homework

By Gini Musmanno of Reading Spotlight

Why not try giving students the gift of NO HOMEWORK this holiday season? For a week? For a month? For EVER?

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3 Easy Tips to Increase Engagement and Learning During

Grammar Lessons

By Marcy Howe of It's a Teacher Thing

Learn easy tips for increasing engagement and learning during your grammar lessons.

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Make sure you take a look at all the tips from our extraordinary educators.

FREE MISC. LESSON - “Snowman Glyph Activity: All About Winter FREE”

by Primary Paradise
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

Glyphs are a great way for students to show information and practice following directions to complete a specific task.

This fun winter glyph asks students to create a snowman based on their answers to 6 questions. There is a Winter Fun and a Winter Animals Key for you to choose from.

Your students will have a blast with this fun winter glyph!

It is a great way to celebrate winter, especially for classroom who can not celebrate winter holidays.

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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Precalculus Lessons

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Graphing-Polynomial-Functions-Curve-Sketching-4888884

This is a summary of graphing polynomial functions (Curve Sketching in AP Calculus).

Included:

1. Examples are given for linear, quadratic, cubic, quartic functions.

2. For the cubic and quartic functions, the first derivative test and the use of the derivative of the function are used to explain the curve of the function. (curve sketching in AP Calculus AB)

3. Desmos graphing and the TI - 84 plus are used for pictorial reference. Instructions for desmos and TI-84 Plus calculator are given to help students verify graphing. But, this could be a paper pencil curve sketching activity for the students.

4. Worksheet - Practice problems to help students with curve sketching.

5. Notes given on how to make your own polynomial functions by taking the product of two or more binomials. You could make many more polynomial functions on your own by creating your own functions.

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Absolute Value Equations/Inequalities - Lesson Plan 2 (Distance Learning)

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Free Sample Seesaw Alphabet Activities Letter S (Pre-loaded) - Distance Learning”

by My Happy Place
Pre-Kindergarten - Kindergarten

This free sample of alphabet activities for use in the Seesaw* platform includes ten interactive slides that teach about the letter S. Perfect to use for distance learning or in the classroom, these literacy activities are fun and meaningful.

This activity is pre-loaded into Seesaw and cannot be used in any other platform.

To see the full Alphabet Activities for Seesaw resource, click here.

When you purchase this resource, you will download a PDF that includes a link to the Letter S Alphabet Activity. The link will prompt you to save an activity into your Seesaw Activity Library where you will be able to edit it if you choose, add your own voice to the instructions, and then assign it to your students.

This activity begins with an interactive virtual classroom. On this slide, students can watch an instructional animated video about the letter S and then click around the classroom to link to the nine other interactive slides. The various activities focus on letter identification, letter sounds, initial sounds, and letter formation. Two slides invite students to use the camera feature of Seesaw in a "show and tell" manner.

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