Author: RebeccaHaden
The Wheels on the Bus
Josepha shares tips for teaching songs to little kids — plus this great song for your transportation theme! Continue reading
Transportation Classroom Theme
Throughout our history, we humans have wanted to go from one place to another, and to take things from one place to another, so a lot of our ingenuity has gone into transportation. We have a number of relevant classroom themes and lesson plan collections already posted: Trucks lesson plans… Continue reading
Make a Science Portfolio
Combine research, art, and writing to create a great classroom project that can be anything from a quick classroom activity to an organizing system for a major science unit. The basic idea is to have each student create a labeled picture that shares information, then put them all together into… Continue reading
Linocuts in the Classroom
If you want to use linoleum blocks, check out the Speedball Super Value Block Printing Starter Kit. Meat trays and pencils? Try a scrapbooking brayer like Making Memories Brayer, poster paints, and fingers to push down the paper. Continue reading
Online Quizzes for In-class Response
At WordCamp in Kansas City this month I heard a speaker who suggested using a WordPress website for quick in-class assessment. When you’re giving a lecture or explaining a concept, you can have everyone logged into the class website, have them answer quick questions online, and thus make sure that… Continue reading
Routine Tasks in the Classroom
I’m a teacher, but I’m also a parent, and I’ve occasionally had disagreements with my kids’ teachers. Once a teacher complained to me about my daughter’s resistance to doing routine stuff like copying out spelling words repeatedly. “Most of our lives as adults,” she said to me, “consist of… Continue reading
Superhero Writing Lessons
Writing can be a pleasure, especially with fun, highly motivating writing assignments. How about superheroes for a writing theme? Check out our list of great superhero writing prompts: The most obvious writing assignment for a superhero theme is writing a comic book or, less ambitiously, a comic strip. have students… Continue reading
Math Superheroes
Math and superheroes go together like Batman and Robin. If you’re using a superhero theme for your classroom, take advantage of that. Math class? Make it your ongoing theme. There’s a ready-made bulletin board set: Math Superheroes Bulletin Board Set has 8 lively posters with captions like, “Probability woman says there’s… Continue reading
Olympics Classroom Theme
Even if it’s not an Olympics year, the Olympics can be a great classroom theme. Olympics theme bulletin boards can always say, “Go for the Gold!” [amazon_link asins=’B004Y7WCN8,B0019HX3CK,B01JVT3D2W,B074TBRDWX’ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’us-1′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’08f2976f-43f3-11e8-b45e-a77f5a0b6107′] Visit the Olympics website. As of this writing, it’s showing Pyeongchang. Work on visual intelligence and reading… Continue reading