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Monday, March 11, 2019

March Teacher Talk

Posted by Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

St. Patricks 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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A Stranger in a Strange Classroom, It’s Standardized Testing Time!

By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

For a multitude of teachers and kids, the anticipation of spring and excitement of summer break are shrouded by stressful thoughts that emerge during testing season. Of course, if you're an educator, you can't get away from it, stress is your ever present companion, it's an inherent part of the job, especially during this time of year. To add insult to injury, if your students do poorly, it's on you.

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The Thief of Joy
By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning

Finding joy in the selection of read-alouds this month.
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Slope for Vertical and Horizontal Lines

By Vicky Rauch of Scipi

I work in the Math Lab at the community college where I also teach. Last week, I had two College Algebra students who were having difficulty with slope. They knew the equation y = mx + b, but were unsure when it came to horizontal or vertical lines. Read how I used visuals to help these students.

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Advice From The Coach

By Gini Musmanno of Reading Spotlight

Check out this advice from a famous basketball coach. It can be effectively applied to teaching, too.

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Watermelon Subtraction
By Margot Gentile of Margot Gentile

Watermelon slices naturally look like big smiles, don't they? There will be smiles all around as children manipulate the movable parts to "bite" into watermelon slices and remove seeds. They will be delighted to "see" and understand the concept of subtraction and teachers will love this freebie!

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6 Confusing Words to Master
By Charlene Tess of Charlene Tess

Learning to master confusing words, is an essential skill for all writers.

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Today We Are Leprechauns

By Laura Cripe of Under One Roof

Learn how you can use STEM in your elementary classroom this March with a fun Leprechaun activity. All smart Leprechauns hide their gold, but a truly tricky one will also build a protective container to keep out humans. Check out the ideas my students came up with in this St. Patrick's Day STEM lesson.

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Classroom Seating Arrangements for Grades 4-8
By Marcy Howe of It's A Teacher Thing

Classroom seating arrangements can make or break a classroom. Learn about four classroom seating arrangements that work and the benefits and drawbacks of each.

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Striving & Thriving: Remembering Purpose in the Reading Classroom
By Tracy Willis of Mossy Oak Musings

Sometimes, your teaching attitude just nose dives into the concrete pavement, and sometimes it takes new learning opportunities and our students to remind us that we are striving and thriving. Grab a box of tissues!
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Building Student Empowerment
By Kathie Yonemura of Tried and True Teaching Tools

It was my first year of teaching and I was a little nervous and very excited about my first parent-teacher conferences. 3 parents out of my 27 students showed up. 30+ years later. . I have 100% parent participation.
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2nd Grade Math for March

This 2nd Grade Math for March resource has 30 pages of math work plus a bonus activity which is perfect for March! Great for keeping math skills strong as morning work, home work, math stations, small group work or tutoring! Also, perfect for sub days or days when you have meetings and a teacher friend or aide needs to continue working with your class!

Answer keys and Table of Contents included!

***NOTE: This set is part of a BUNDLE. Here's the link to the BUNDLE: 2nd Grade Monthly Math Bundle (year-long!)

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These activities would work for second graders,first graders who need enrichment and third graders who could use some review.

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Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom:

✿ early finishers

✿ tutoring

✿ sub tubs

✿ math stations/centers

✿ holiday work

✿ small group

✿ end of unit quick assessments

✿ homework

✿ reinforcement

✿ enrichment

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FREE MATH LESSON - “Word Problems Subtraction Within 10 Boom Cards Digital Resource”

by Teacher Tam
1st Grade

Your students will enjoy solving subtraction word problems with this fall-themed set. The deck has 25 cards and comes with 2 types of problems. For one type of problem, students will drag the numbers and symbols needed to make the corresponding subtraction problem. For the second type of problem, students will click on the correct answer. Students can click on the sound icon to hear the directions. Fun, surprise sounds are also included!

CLICK HERE TO PLAY A PREVIEW!

*****Just download the PDF and click on the link found on page 2 to grab your resource!*****

*****READ MORE ABOUT BOOM CARDS™: Boom Cards™ are self-grading, DIGITAL resources. They live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning℠ account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards™ to students.

Boom Learning℠ also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards™ purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

WRITING LESSON - "St. Patrick's Day Activity"

by Fourth Grade Frenzy
Grades 2 to 4

You can get this March Writing Activity HERE!

3-Digit Subtraction Across ZEROS Worksheets

Sometimes your students need extra practice work for 3-Digit Subtraction Across ZEROS ! This set is just what you need! I've included 10 practice sheets with answer keys! The practice sheets feature problems with a format that makes it easy for students to neatly show their work in columns with regrouping and arrow to show them the direction to work the problem.

Great for morning work, homework, math stations, tutoring, early finishers, quick assessment or review!

Here's what is included:

✔10 pages

✔10 Answer Keys

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These activities would work for grades 2-4 older students who could use some review or younger students who need a challenge!

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Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom:

✿ early finishers

✿ tutoring

✿ sub tubs

✿ math stations/centers

✿ holiday work

✿ small group

✿ end of unit quick assessments

✿ homework

✿ reinforcement

✿ enrichment

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “FREE Rubrics for Writing a Summary”

by HappyEdugator
6th - 9th Grade

A free writing rubric assessment tool for a short summary. You get two rubrics: one for writing an objective summary and one for writing a summary with critical analysis. The common core standards require students to write constructed responses to prompts on mastery assessments. Students have to be able to summarize objectively and with analysis and interpretation.

Objective summary - This rubric is for a summary of the passage, either fiction or non-fiction, that includes the main details of the topic and the key points, giving the gist of the writing, but without any opinion.

Summary with Analysis - This rubric is for a brief summary of a passage, either fiction or nonfiction, that includes analysis with textual support. It could be a summary of a plot that includes an analysis of the characters' actions, citing evidence from the text to support any claims, or a summary of a newspaper article with analysis or comparison to other work, supporting any claims with evidence from the text.

Use for Language Arts Test Prep. Prepared for middle grades writing assessments in order for students to have practice writing summaries before taking a state standardized test.

This is a free sample of the product

Writing a Summary

This rubric is also included in my Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE

Saturday, March 9, 2019

MATH LESSON - "Functions"

by Fourth Grade Frenzy
Grade 4

$Math Functions Craft$

You can get this adorable Math Functions Craft HERE!

About Me

I received the Crystal Apple Award from N.B.C. News. The "Excellence in Teaching" Award was given to me by the Los Angeles Unified School District's Los Angeles Educational Partnership. My Math Team won the first place trophy four times in the Los Angeles Unified School District's Math Tournament. I am most proud of my after school Accelerated Reader Program in which Huntington Drive students have read thousands of books each year. In 2000, I became a National Board Certified Teacher and renewed my certification in 2009. I have been a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District since 1982. I sell Teachers Pay Teachers lessons at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Victoria-Leon/. I created the blogs, The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs, The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs II, and The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs III. Members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative work together to create and market their TpT products - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Best-of-Teacher-Entrepreneurs-Marketing-Cooperative-1054613. Feel free to email me at vleon999@yahoo.com.