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Beginning Learners Chatboard

Welcome to the Beginning Learners Chatboard!

by Bob Reap (Teachers.Net)

Jun 14, 2011

Welcome to the Beginning Learners Chatboard. This chatboard is for teacher to discuss classroom methods and lesson plans for teaching beginning learners.

Bookmark this resource and contribute often!

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PictureBookWoman Looking forward to this chatboard--appreciate the focus.

Jun 20, 2011

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PictureBookWoman "beginning": an act or circumstance of entering upon an action or state "learner": a person who is learning; student; pupil; apprentice; trainee.

I have raised three children to responsible adulthood and taught nursery school, kindergarten, first, second, third, and fifth grades, high school home economics, and college education and metho...See More

Jun 20, 2011

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I have great respect for the teachers of beginning learners

by VET

Jun 15, 2011

Our K teachers at my old school were nothing less than remarkable.

I knew that I would not have made a good teacher of the little ones. My niche was definitely with the older kids who could sort of tale care of themselves.

Once I was in one of the K's room at the first of the school day. Teacher was calm, organized and had their a...See More

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Jace's Mom On 6/15/11, granny wrote: > On 6/15/11, Jace's Mom wrote: >> They make it look a lot easier than it really is! > > I thought beginner learners would be birth to age 3. You guys are > talking about kindergarten aged children, definitely not my idea of a > beginner learner. I taught multi aged children between the ages of 2 > ...See More

Jun 15, 2011

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DeAnn Speaking as a kinder teacher, I am sure glad other educators want to teach middle and high school. It's great that we each have our own age we like to teach. What a shame if we all liked the same age!

Jun 16, 2011

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Music! Use Music!

by Wonderdora

Jun 15, 2011

There is a little song written for everything. Use music! For 100 days of school, there are lots of songs that you can Google. One of my favs are counting by 10s- "10, 20, 30 school days, 40, 50, 60 school days, 70, 80, 90, school days, 100 days of school" to the tune of "10 Little Indians". Also, using music to signal certain parts of the day like...See More

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Gayla King I use YouTube video every day in kinder. I download what I want, in unit folders, on my portable hard-drive. When I am teaching the unit, I put the unit folder on my desktop, at school. Easy AND organized for use! gintexas

Jun 15, 2011

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Mrs. B How do you download from You Tube. I can't seem to figure it out.

On 6/15/11, Gayla King wrote: > I use YouTube video every day in kinder. I download > what I want, in unit > folders, on my portable hard-drive. When I am teaching > the unit, I put the unit folder on my desktop, at > school. Easy AND organized for use! gintex...See More

Jun 28, 2011

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These teachers are awesome

by Rin

Jun 15, 2011

In my younger days, I thought I wanted to teach the little ones. I have had extensive experience in primary and intermediate classrooms.

In the past week, I have been working with 2 year olds at VBS. I had forgotten how much you had to be withit to work with these kids. It is such a challenge.

Teachers that do this every day are...See More

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VET I so agree!

On 6/15/11, Rin wrote: > In my younger days, I thought I wanted to teach the little > ones. I have had extensive experience in primary and > intermediate classrooms. > > In the past week, I have been working with 2 year olds at > VBS. I had forgotten how much you had to be withit to work > with these kids. ...See More

Jun 15, 2011

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meep I got my start teaching K 25 years ago. After moving to a new state, I ended up teaching the middle to upper grades in elementary for the last 20 years. I have wanted to move back down to K for years, but no principal would move me (testing and all* ya know?) Finally, I got to move back down. My first year back was tough physically. After all, the ...See More

Jun 23, 2011

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for fun

by BJ

Jun 15, 2011

This is a great resource for early learners!

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New 6th grade teacher

by Bridget

Jun 15, 2011

I am going to be teaching 6th grade reading this year for the first time. HELP!!! Does anyone have any great ideas or suggestions??

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mary You might want to check into Web 2.0 tools that you can implement in your lessons. They can be used in any subject that you teach. On 6/15/11, HootOwl wrote: > I really like Laura Robb's "Teaching Reading in the Middle > Grades"--it provides strategies for helping students move > toward becoming fully independent readers.

Jun 15, 2011

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Cheryl On 6/15/11, Bridget wrote: > I am going to be teaching 6th grade reading this year for > the first time. HELP!!! Does anyone have any great ideas > or suggestions??

Check this site for helps, also use Literacy Stations (Debbie Diller) to keep your class running smoothly while you work with small groups.

Jun 16, 2011

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new preschool teacher

by lisa kakish

Jun 15, 2011

i plan to teach my preschool children fun things, and things that arent fun but its education and learning.

lisa

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lisa kakish okay so what do i get for free. i need an ipad for my classroom, can you send me a free ipad for my classroom? please email me back rightaway? have a great week.

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Jun 15, 2011

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Leah Lisa, What you get on these chatboards is more valuable than an ipad. You will get excellent ideas that you can use successfully with the children you are teaching.

On 6/15/11, lisa kakish wrote: > okay so what do i get for free. i need an ipad for my classroom, can > you send me a free ipad for my classroom? please email me back &...See More

Aug 31, 2011

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A funny saying from a K eacher

by VET

Jun 15, 2011

One day I met a line of K's very late in the school year. They were quiet, keeping their hands to themselves and all that they were supposed to do, except for one little boy at the end of the line(new student) who was doing his own thing, but doing it quietly, at least.

The teacher, smiled as we passed and whispered, "We didn't raise him".

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Last Day of the school year with students

by Susie Van Buskirk

Jun 18, 2011

What do you do to have a good last day of the year? The students are: excited, anxious, proud, silly, loud, energetic and sad. Even after 167 days of procedures and routines the last day is often a disappointment. Is it because there is nothing routine about emptying desks and saying good-bye for 10 weeks? What have my colleagues done for a good, m...See More

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Leah You don't say what age you teach, but perhaps they could write a letter to themselves. You could have them brainstorm what they are looking foreword to in the next school year and what goals they might have for the summer before they write their letter.

You could ask them to think about their year and tell you what they liked learning abo...See More

Jun 25, 2011

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ruth Finnie On 6/18/11, Susie Van Buskirk wrote: > What do you do to have a good last day of the year? The > students are: excited, anxious, proud, silly, loud, > energetic and sad. Even after 167 days of procedures and > routines the last day is often a disappointment. Is it > because there is nothing routine about emptying desks and > sayin...See More

Jun 26, 2011

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alphabet

by ruth Finnie

Jun 26, 2011

I always match sign language to teaching the alphabet in my class as well as an action. Then the students go into pairs or teams to make the shape with their bodies. IT seems to help the kindergarten students to match sounds to the letter shapes. Ruth

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