Dragon's Den Curriculum: Force and Motion
Get links to free websites that will give you everything you need for your force and motion unit!| dragonsdencurriculum.blogspot.com
Get links to free websites that will give you everything you need for your force and motion unit!| dragonsdencurriculum.blogspot.com
Let’s get real, teaching prefixes and suffixes can be a real struggle. But when done right, it’s a game-changer for your students’ reading and vocabulary skills! Research from the Science of Reading shows that teaching morphology (studying word parts) helps kids break down tricky words, improve spelling, and become confident readers. So, if you’re looking for a fun and effective way to teach affixes, check out the ideas below:| Dragon's Den Curriculum
It's been said that teaching is like juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle on a tightrope. It's a whirlwind of lesson planning, classroom wizardry, and making sure students succeed. Fortunately, there's an easy tool that can make your life easier and ignite your students' learning. It's that simple tool called task cards. In this blog post, we're diving into the world of task cards and how they can sprinkle a little magic into your teaching routine, and make your life a lot easier ...| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Did you know that mastering homophones is actually the secret sauce to supercharging language skills for your students, not just for today but for their lifetime? Think of homophones as "brain food", because those small words have a big impact!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Maps! It's time to put a unit together that will really grab your 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade students' interest. Where to begin? (heavy sigh here). Rest easy! Read on for a few ideas to really boost map skills for your students while putting FUN into your unit. There's more... download the included great freebie to get you started!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Dry-erase boards are the one pice of equipment I just can't teach without! They are easy to carry anywhere, allow me to check answers for everyone in the class at a glance, and kids love to use them. It's a win, win, win!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
So! You're in the lion's den. You've been told to teach guided reading, given some materials and set free to create reading miracles. Cool. But as you sit at your desk, do you ask yourself, "How do I do guided reading anyway?" You are not alone!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
I may be crazy, but I love teaching text features! It's a great time to pull out the informational texts that kids love. Dinosaurs, bugs, monkeys, you name it! To make it even easier I've included in this post two of my favorite text feature teaching videos, plus a 14 poster text feature freebie. I hope you enjoy!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Our kids aren't little brains that come rolling in the door each morning, they have bodies attached to those brains! And those bodies need to MOVE, some more than others! In fact, movement "turns on" the brain! Sitting for too long hinders a kid's ability to learn, retain information, and control behavior. There are lots of ways to give kids the movement they need, without stopping the class for a 15 minute movement activity. Movement can be integrated into every part of your lesson to ...| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Every year Mother's Day has a way of sneaking up on teachers! Be ready this year with Mother's Day gifts that not only warm any mother's heart, but also use the curriculum standards as a super-duper bonus! Check out the great websites, projects and resources below, and help your students show their mom how very special they are!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Every teacher I know struggles with getting a rowdy class to quiet down, keeping kids calm when you despirately need them to be calm, and getting through those pesky transitions. Oh! and remembering all those fantastic lessons we have spend hours preparing! Me too, until I found my answer in music! In fact, muscic is just the ticket to make any teacher's day go more smoothly, and to help students be happier. It's a win-win!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
If you don't have their attention, it's like teaching to the air. The thing is, getting kid's attention isn't really hard if you know the tricks! Once you have their attention, it's time for that great lesson you spent all night preparing! How do you do that? My favorite technique is using small celebrations, which means chants and cheers. Chants get everyone on the same page, and eager to learn. Cheers are used to celebrate a great answer, or following the rules. Everyone gets in o...| Dragon's Den Curriculum
If you want to make learning not only easy, but fun, don't miss out on how games help students learn faster and easier. It's all about the brain!| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Exaggeration, repeating sounds and playing with language grabs attention. It just does! That's why people use it. It's also why teachers use figurative language to dazzle students with listening, speaking, or reading language. So what's the key? How is it done? Will it really make that totally bored kid in the corner sit up and take notice? You bet it will! Just check out the suggestions below.| Dragon's Den Curriculum
I LOVE teaching about insect and spiders. First, because they are facinating, plus the kids love learning about them! It's such a good time to teach about form and function, adaptations, and about predators and their prey! | Dragon's Den Curriculum
I'll never forget a student of mine, let's call him Jay, who could read words so well he could "read" at an eighth grade level in third grade. The problem was that he couldn't understand a thing that was going on! That's called "word calling" and isn't reading at all. Reading is understanding, so if the understanding isn't there, it isn't reading. Many times I have discovered that many students have variations of "word calling" that aren't as severe as Jay's, and have gotten away as being...| Dragon's Den Curriculum
There's all kinds on on-line games to help kids learn their multiplication facts, but sometimes you just want a great, easy to play, simple game that you can give to kids to play at school or at home. Sometimes it may need popsicle sticks, dominos, or even a game board. They are perfect to play with a buddy, and help develop interpersonal skills as well as math skills. I've scoured the Internet and here are my top ten to download today! Enjoy!! By the way....there are more than ten games, som...| Dragon's Den Curriculum
What Do the Kids Think of Conferences?| Dragon's Den Curriculum
Kids love to read about villains! Voldemort from Harry Potter, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Ursula from the Little Mermaid, Scar from the Lion King and so many more! So, why do kids have such a hard time creating villains for their own stories? They can be the most fun to put into stories, they are the delicious ingredient that makes a story really pull us in, and care about what is going on in the story. | Dragon's Den Curriculum
The morning of the first day of school, every student desk is neat and tidy. Every crayon where it belongs, every pencil in its place. Ahhhh, Heaven. Two hours later half of the desks look like a tornado struck them. I was pulling my hair out. I looked, and used, many different techniques to help students organize their desks. After all, how could they ever find their math book if it was at the bottom of an overflowing pile of....well, junk. Nothing worked for longer than a day, if that. ...| Dragon's Den Curriculum
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My Kids ALWAYS loved the solar system unit! I'm sure yours do too! It isn't just enough to read out of the book, they need hands-on activities to understand the tremendous distances in space, and games and videos to grab their attention and never let it go!! This is one unit that can ignite not only an interest for a lifetime, but a career in science as well! I hope you and your students enjoy the great resources below.| Dragon's Den Curriculum
