Someone recently
asked me, “Are you working this week?”
I said, “What I do is never work.
I LOVE what I do!” It’s so
true and the reason I love what I do is because of all the amazing and
wonderful and creative teachers I meet!!!
Take a look at these great ideas from Roanoke and Richmond.
Tools for
Good Readers Bookmark (Tracy
Samosky)
Make a “tools
for good readers” bookmark for the children to keep in their reading
books. This will help the kids
(and parents) remember to:- Look at the picture.
- Sound out the letters.
- Go back and read it again.
- Look for a smaller chunk.
State Song (Jodie Slusher)
Tune: “Farmer in the Dell”
Virginia is
our state.
Virginia is
our state.
Richmond is
our capitol.
Virginia is
our state.
*Insert your
state and capitol.
U S A (Starlett Phillingane)
(Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”)
Our country is
the U – S – A,
U – S – A, U – S
– A.
Our country is
the U – S – A
United States of
America!
Silent
Signals (Skyler Fox)
Make a poster
with fingers for the things below.
Children hold up the appropriate finger for what they need. The teacher can nod “yes” or shake her
head “no.”
1 finger –
pencil
2 fingers –
tissue
3 fingers –
bathroom
5 fingers –
question (If the children nod they can’t wait and it’s an emergency.)
Missing Beans (Suann Strickland)
This is a quick
game to help children with missing addend. Count out 8 beans.
Show them three. Hide the
others in your hand. The missing
addend is ____? How did you get
the answer? Did you add or
subtract?
Mrs. Clock
(Karen Hunt)
Use this
story to help children learn to tell time.
Mrs. Clock had
two boys - Long Boy and Short
Boy. Mrs. Clock bought the boys
new bikes. Wearing a helmet was
the number one rule! A helmet
keeps your brain safe. When riding
bikes one hot day, Long Boy took off his helmet. Long Boy fell off his bike and got a boo boo on his
brain. Now he can only count by
fives. Short Boy tries to help his
brother and he always talks first.
So, when reading a clock, Short Boy talks first and says the hour. Long Boy talks last and tells the
minutes.
Sparkle (Elizabeth Rechenbach and Ashley
Hinkle)
Choose a mystery
number. Talley it on the board and
then have the students stand in a circle.
One child begins and each student says a number. When a student says the “mystery”
number she must sit down. The next
student starts counting and the game continues. The last student is the SPARKLE WINNER and they get a pinch
of glitter on their head.
*Adapt for skip
counting or spelling sight words.
Fraction Step
Book (A principal showed us this book, but I lost her name!)
Make a step book
from two sheets of paper. Write
“1” on the top sheet. Cut the
second sheet in half and write “1/2” on each section. Cut the next sheet into thirds and write “1/3” on each
section. Cut the bottom sheet in
fourths and write “1/4” on each section.
At the end of
the good-bye song say:
Sleep
tight – til the morning light
And
wake up with a smile!
See
you tomorrow!!