This is the easiest way I’ve found to do classroom jobs. I was doing a lot of tidying up and organizing each day after school and thought that my 1st/2nd graders could do most of these things with a little training. I gave every child in my class a job. This builds community and ...
An Old Classic: FOR 2, 3, OR 4 -- rummy game for 1st, 2nd, 3rd graders The Hundreds Board, the most valuable manipulative in elementary school. Exploring Functions through the Use of Manipulatives, the most valuable manipulative in high school. Geometer's Sketchpad Notes TOC mathn...
They love their guns and their Constitutional 2nd Amendment so much that they are willing to injure, maim and scar their children permanently for life and even teach them, in school, how to be a violent mass-murderers. And when their children grow up and act in accordance with what they ...
so the story is always a surprise to them. Walter is very lazy and never pays attention in school. He ends up getting lost, and meets three frogs. He tries to teach the frogs what he knows, but soon realizes
Why are some not willing to accept that their hypothesis was wrong? That is the BIG lesson I teach my middle school students – you may have made an incorrect hypothesis; what did you learn though? This seems like a good stopping point since I moved into work!
“Micronauts”comic bookinstead. But it was definitely not made for first-graders to read. I was uninterested in the story itself, but the ads were so mysterious and amazing: Gorilla masks were across the page from a hovercraft. They offered pranks like S.S. Adams’ Snake Nut Can and ...
say I was in over my head. I did not know how or what to teach and I began this lesson. This is how I taught my sons their alphabets before they entered school. It worked out. I found this lesson encouraging. I had an aide working with me. There were usually 18 to 20 children....