March 2020 Teacher Talk

Posted by Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

St. Patrick's Day and so many more tried and true teaching ideas are here for you to check out this March.  Best yet,soon it will be spring and the end of the year will be here before you know it. 

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It's March...Let's Go Fly a Kite
By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

A great activity for home and at school.
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Learning During Our New Reality: Social Distancing
By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning

Just a few tips on some activities to add to your distance learning.
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Teaching Data, Graphing and Scientific Process with Paper Airplanes
By Tracy Willis of Wild Child Designs

Read how a paper airplane project sparked students to collect data, try out different graphs, and explore the scientific process! Remote learning freebies included with this post.
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Simple Ways to Make Classroom Lessons More Engaging
By Marcy Howe of It's a Teacher Thing

Learn simple tricks to liven up even the most unexciting topic. It's easier than you think!
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The Best Principal I Ever Had
By Gini Musmanno of Reading Spotlight

What principles make a great principal? Read about them here.
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Easy-to-Implement Home Instruction Ideas
By Renee Heiss of All-American Teacher tools

Prepare now for the possibility of home-instruction for all of your students. Find easy ways to send them home with a packet of work until you come back together again!
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St. Patrick's Day Myths and Fun Facts
By Vicky Rauch of Scipi

March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day. Read my latest blog post to explore some of the myths surrounding this Irish holiday as well as to discover a few fun facts.
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How to Choose Between Affect and Effect
By Charlene Tess of CharleneTess

Here's Help with Choosing Between Affect and Effect.
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School closed: Now what?
By Lisa Robles of LisaTeachR's Classroom

Our schools have closed. Now what? Here are some links that could be useful during this time to keep your kids learning.
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FREE MATH LESSON - Same and Different: “Sort and Classify Dogs”

By: Laurie Fyke @ Primarily Learning

Preschool – Grade 1

Check out these Same and Different Activities for sorting DOGS! Use the picture cards to create graphs, sort and classify dog shapes/ outlines and colors and define your own sorting rules. A great same and different Math Center Activity for PreK and Kindergarten.

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 (8 Dogs x 8 colors)

SORTING TASKS:

• Use visual discrimination skills to sort the animals by color, shape, size, direction, or other common features.
• Begin with teacher-directed tasks, or class demonstrations when learning how to sort.  (Use one attribute, e.g. color or shape for an initial sort.  Then add a second attribute, color and shape, etc.)
• Invite the children to play with the material and think of their own sorting rule. Be aware of individual differences.   Support and encourage the learning.  After the sort ask, “What is your sorting rule?”  Invite them to share their reasoning, “Tell me why this animal is here.”  “Why did you use the bears?” Encourage them to “think about their thinking.” Take opportunities to extend the learning.

CREATE AND EXTEND PATTERNS!  (Use sentence strips to provide a visual line for the sequence.)  e.g.

•        a b a b a b

•        aa bb aa bb aa bb

•        abc abc abcabc

•        abbc  abbc abbc

•        aabbc aabbc aabbc

SORTING TRAYS

•        Use some of the 8 sorting circles provided.

•        Use divided trays from the dollar store.

•        Paper plates and hula-hoops  make good sorting rings.

•        As the children gain skills, add a Venn diagram.  

Mathematical concepts and language learning… they all overlap! 

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Note: These sort and classify cards are available in a BUNDLE or as single units.

• Same and Different: Sort and Classify SEA CREATURES
• Same and Different: Sort and Classify WOODLAND ANIMALS
• Same and Different: Sort and Classify ZOO ANIMALS
• Same and Different: Sort and Classify MEGA BUNDLE

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