Items filtered by date: May 2012

Who? What Do They Look Like? DESCRIPTION please!

One thing students seem to need to do more of, in their writing, is expand it, and include more description.

Even at the college level, I’m constantly telling my students to add more interest by including adjectives.

Involve your reader’s senses and your writing will come alive!

I’ve designed a Sensory Word Anchor chart poster for each month, to help students practice that skill.

For some of their senses they’ll have to think outside the box and use their imaginations.  This can be a lot of fun, and their answers quite interesting!

Click on the link to view/download My Sensory Words Anchor Chart Monthly Posters.

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"The heart is happiest when it beats for others!" -Unknown

The Buck Stops Here!

You asked for it, you got it! 

I’ve had several requests to make an easy reader about the dollar, as a way of reviewing the various coins that make up a dollar.  I had time this week to check that off the “honey-do” list.

I did a little research on the “silver dollar”.  The US mint continues to keep coin collectors happy by minting different designs of that coin.

You may want to go to the bank and see if you can get a few examples to show your students.

In this booklet, students trace and write, as well as cut and glue. Encourage students to count all of the coins on the page that now make up the dollar, after they have glued that final coin to complete the dollar.

When everyone has finished their booklet, read it together to review concepts of print.

Click on the link to view/download My Buck Book.

There’s an interesting and informative 5-minute YouTube video of How you make coins, that’s well done,  that would be a nice culmination to this activity. Click on the link to have a look.

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"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today. Let us begin!" -Mother Teresa