Are your classes planning a field trip to the beach before school ends (or for your summer school classes)? Then be sure to print out copies of this scavenger hunt page to take with you.
Top 5 Lists are the topics of consideration here, where students will individually write down their top five choices for various categories of summer events and activities (e.g. Top 5 movies to see this summer). After finishing their lists, they can cut out the cards, shuffle them into a pile, and have guessing games as to who wrote which list.
Are your classes planning a field trip to the beach before school ends (or for your summer school classes)? Then be sure to print out copies of this scavenger hunt page to take with you.
Oh those happy golden days of summer! We have some clipart to set the right tone, for all of your summer projects.
"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
- Arnold Glasow
Find inspiring quote posters, paired with gorgeous photos, to download and print out for your classroom. A new entry is posted each Friday in our Teaching Calendar.
http://www.everydayteaching.com/Calendar/index.php
If you're teaching summer school this year, then this calendar will come in handy. Featuring newsworthy historical events each day, they link to further resources, activities, and information to help keep you going throughout the month of June. Also - don't forget our Teaching Calendar, with daily entries for sponge activities, writing worksheets, and printable classroom posters, at the 2nd link below!
End the school year with bubble fun (we'll have loads of entries next week for you to try out!), beach or movie parties, lunch bag scrapbooks, a pajama day, s'mores science, and more fun learning activities to wind down your year.
It's mixed results, where fourth graders are scoring higher in New York City's reading exams, but eighth graders are not faring nearly as well. How do the results fare with the rest of the nation? "Nationally, only 31 percent of fourth- grade public school students are at or above the “proficient” level in reading... "
There's some cause to celebrate in Haiti, as NPR reports that spirits are lifting somewhat, as students return to reopened classrooms.
We've all heard about the layoff notices across the nation. It's not an easy job market teachers will face this year, and even if hired, there's no guarantee that they'll be able to keep the jobs all year, as budgets continue to be slashed. Who's hiring? Charter schools, for one...
Geography: Name 10 countries and their capitals (older students can include latitudes and longitudes for capital cities). Design a poster for a country you are interested in. Anatomy: Write as many bones and body parts as you can think of. Food: Find out what's for breakfast, traditionally, in England - or Denmark, Mexico, Vietnam, or...? Money: Research what you can buy for $50 for the very best gift for your friend, teacher, or mother.... Find these and numerous other ideas to wind down your school year with creative classroom activities.
Encourage your students to read all summer long by handing out several of these colorful, summer-themed bookmarks.
This site offers a huge selection of illustrated bookplates by different authors. Take your pick and print them out for student or classroom books.
How much fun is this? Watch the adults go for it too - including myself! Simply cut out bubble wrap squares to form your hopscotch. You can paint the bubble wrap, but we suggest (unless you want patriotic colors in red, white, and blue for Memorial Day or 4th of July) that you simply use red and blue wide-tipped permanent markers to write the numbers on the bubble wrap squares. Then hop, skip, jump, and crackle-pop! for this wonderful hopscotch game.
1st in math internationally, 2nd in science, 3rd in reading - all this on fewer days of school, less spending per student, and half the working hours of American teachers?! What is Finland doing that's so special? You're in for a surprise; take a look at the way Finland approaches education.
