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It's That Time!
Adding a SMILE to SBAC
It's that time of the year! Testing Weeks! Here are a few resources to get you and your students motivated and smiling during the next few weeks and all year long.
Also great for ALL grade levels to motivate and encourage a growth mindset!
Who Remembers?
Click Images to Access the Virtual Version of Spirograph
The most marvelous toys are those that give us a sense of accomplishment. Draw beautiful intricate designs and unusual-shaped patterns with ease with this new virtual version.
BRAIN STIMULATING: While it is similar to stencil art or spin art, the Spirograph Virtual requires more concentration keeping focused. They will practice hand-eye coordination while discovering their artistic imagination.
Motivate & Build a Growth Mindset
Click the Motivational Image to get a FREE printable you can make into a poster and hang in your classroom!
Color Your Way To A Relaxing Day!
Click the image to access a FREE download of 3 different coloring pages to help you or your students calmly deal with stress. Creates a beautiful design as well!
Watch this video for some great Testing Motivation Hacks that are simple and perfect for showing your students you love them!
Mathematics
Click above to access some great activities for the months of May and June.
Activities include Choice Boards, Jokes of the Day, Asian Pacific Heritage Month, Cinco De Mayo, Jewish Heritage Month, Phonics Resources, Mother's Day, and End of the Year Activities!
Click images to the left to access May Number Corner overview videos as well as resources from Bridges. At The Math Learning Center, they've created some fun activities with springtime themes to help get your math blooming! These are worth the peek!
A Worthwhile Read & Training
x06q60xvSI6xdakCouVZ_Major_Strategies_Pam_Harris.pdfDoing mathematics is about problem solving, using relationships, finding patterns and connections. It is not about performing the same step by step procedures regardless of the numbers in or structure of the problem.
Mathematics teaching should not be about answer-getting only, where students robotically mimic the teacher. That mimicking creates students who can only solve problems they have seen before, often with little to no reasoning.
Instead, students should be encouraged to use what they know. And as students use what they know to solve problems, skillful teachers guide students to search for and use patterns which in turn create new mental relationships in the students’ brains.
But if students are not rote-memorizing and mimicking the same procedure (algorithm) for every problem, then we must ensure that students will be equipped enough. We need students who own the major, important relationships that allow students to solve.
Click the box in the upper right corner to open the PDF version of Math is FigureOutAble and register for the connected training!
Creating logical thinkers in Math. In each "Who am I?" puzzle, a number robot offers clues about who the puzzle represents. The goal is to fill in the blanks for its digits and solve the mystery. Click the box at the top to open.
Thank you Georgia Terlaje, TOSA, for these resources!
Mystery grid is another great math logic tool! To solve a mystery grid puzzle, place all the tiles on the grid so that every row and every column contains exactly one type of tile, and so all the tiles fit the clues. Click the box at the top to open.
Always a Learner
As teachers, keeping a growth mindset about learning opportunities to better our teaching craft is essential. Growth mindset is the idea that your intelligence isn’t fixed, and seeing challenge or difficulty as an opportunity to improve and learn. People who have adopted this way of thinking believe, not that they can’t do something, but that they can’t do something YET! Maybe this year you found some struggles, or accessed something that you want to dig deeper and learn more about. Below are some opportunities available for FREE to refine our craft and learn new areas to bring into the classroom.
Should you tell your kids they are smart or talented? Professor Carol Dweck answers this question and more, as she talks about her groundbreaking work on developing mindsets. She emphasizes the power of "yet" in helping students succeed in and out of the classroom. Click to watch this impactful 10 minute video.
Join SMART's Professional Development Specialists at their upcoming virtual events. Learn strategies on how to enhance teaching, and how to flawlessly integrate SMART tools into your classroom! There is something available for everyone!
Webinar Recording - April 21 2022 - F2B Level I Teacher Training.mp4Level 1 Teacher Training Webinar for FootSteps2Brillance the FREE Foundational Skills Program through RCOE.
Click above to access the presentation and video webinar from their first session. This is an AMAZING resource to fill the gaps within our Foundational Skills.
They are also hosting a Full Day Summer Workshop on June 14th. You can register here.
Seesaw Connect is a FREE virtual conference for any educator. Explore short on-demand courses that interest you, no matter where you are in your Seesaw journey. Get inspired by passionate educators that share simple ways to engage students.
The Perfect Solution for Learning Gaps in Foundational Skills and Reading
This program is for TK-3rd grade and any students who will need that extra reinforcement with the foundational skills and reading. It provides learners and teachers with complete lessons and parent support. Not only is this fantastic for the summer months, but teachers can also use the lesson plans, resources, and download the app in their own classrooms as part of differentiation during whole group and guided reading.
Everything is available in English and Spanish!
Access the App Downloads here as well!
Decode and Encode
Best First Teaching Practices in English Language Arts. Click the resources below to learn strategies to get your students decoding AND encoding and learn the importance of both. There is also a Padlet with enormous amounts of information and best practice ideas and resources! If you would like anything modeled in your classroom or would like to sit and plan, please let me know!
Learning to Read at 62
A story of the struggles one man encountered going through life not being able to read.
David Chalk, who gave permission for his literacy instruction to be filmed for the www.thetruthaboutreading.com documentary, offers a glimpse into his day-to-day life before he was literate, beginning with when he started school at age 5 to when he learned to read at age 62.
Documentary to be released Summer 2023
STEAM Resources
"Collaborating With Clarke" Office Hours
Click image and then on any open time slot to make a booking. Booking can be for planning, discussion, crying, venting, co-teaching, brainstorming, or collaborating at a Grade Level PLC.
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