This no prep word study activity makes a great review and can be easily adapted for whatever skill you are currently working on. Pull it out of your teaching bag of tricks on days that you don’t have as much time to plan, or when something comes up that interrupts your regularly scheduled lesson. 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students …
While students might think the approaching summer means that they don’t have to very much more school work, you want your students to learn as much as possible while in your care. With these end of year writing ideas, you can sneak some learning into those last days of 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade!1. End of Year Letter to Future …
Written by guest blogger Cindy Koopmans Our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students arrive in our classroom with lots of writing baggage that they’ve collected all throughout their elementary careers. With a little reflection and a solid plan, we can help students unpack some of those heavy suitcases and move them down the road toward clearer written expression. You are …
Technology has undergone many changes throughout history, making it all the more useful for different sectors of society. This is especially the case in the educational sector, where pedagogical tools have made leaps and bounds to better serve the goals of education. According to The Boss Magazine, educational technology now makes learning more accessible, interactive, and adaptable. And because of …
Written by guest blogger Cindy Koopmans On last week’s exit ticket, I asked my students what they enjoy most in class. The majority of them said, “Reading my Choice book.” That makes this reading teacher want to jump for joy. Now in my twenty-fourth year of teaching, I’ve finally arrived at what I believe to be a winning formula for …
End of school year countdowns can be a fun way for both teachers and students to celebrate the school year. (Although, if you’re anything like me, you probably started counting down the days until summer as soon as Spring Break was over!) Some 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers want to go all out, while others have had such a …
Sometimes a visual (like a t-shirt) can really help a lesson stick with 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. The teacher t-shirts below cover skills for teaching reading, grammar, math, and science if you want something to make your lesson really pop! Wear one on an evaluation day for bonus points (unless you have a principal that enforces a super …
Written by guest blogger Cindy Koopmans Hope. Right now, we need it more than ever. 2020 was hard. We are all, to some degree, the walking wounded here. We are all a bit weary of pep talks, we are all feeling the strain of social distancing and wearing these (insert expletive here) masks…ready to throw up our hands, crawl into …
I’m opening my mind to you, but I want you to know that this is a secret between the two of us and it goes no further. You and I both know there are loads of reluctant students that just want to get it done, turn it in, and move on. They are not interested in being the next J.K. …
One of the first steps to getting your reluctant readers excited about reading is getting to know what interests them as readers. A reading interest survey is a great way to do this. Written by guest blogger Cindy KoopmansReading Interest Surveys – Through Conversation, Paper, or DigitalYou can get to know what sorts of books interest your 3rd, 4th, and …