HELP please. New to 4th grade and have NO idea what to do and not find much on internet. Our school is putting on a program in November, so it can be HARVEST or THANKSGIVING. I really need some help with what to do with 31 fourth graders for 5 minutes. Any suggestions???? THANKS!
Teach the...See MoreOn 10/20/13, HELP! wrote: > HELP please. New to 4th grade and have NO idea what to do > and not find much on internet. Our school is putting on a > program in November, so it can be HARVEST or THANKSGIVING. > I really need some help with what to do with 31 fourth > graders for 5 minutes. Any suggestions???? THANKS!
Teach them the oldie but a goodie song "over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go ". No one does it anymore but it's very quaint and any grandparents present will Love it.
Here's a pin I found that deals with rounding. A fun space game where kids are shooting asteroids that have the correct rounded numbers. You can round to the nearest 10, 100, or 1,000.
I don't know what else to do. I have half of my class which is below grade level. They don't do work,don't try, talked to parents, talked about them repeating the grade, offered incentives, and NOTHING works. Suggestions. I am going crazy!
Several questions - all of which center on taking a ...See MoreOn 4/23/14, teacherwi wrote: > I don't know what else to do. I have half of my class which > is below grade level. They don't do work,don't try, talked > to parents, talked about them repeating the grade, offered > incentives, and NOTHING works. Suggestions. I am going crazy!
Several questions - all of which center on taking a history. If you go to your doctor with a problem, the doctor takes a history. It's important to know things like - how long have you been coughing? Is anyone else in the family sick?
So if you want to come up with a solution you have to ask these kind of questions - unless you're just venting or looking for a miracle.
1. How many 4th grades do you have in your school? Is your class different from the others or about the same?
2.What kind of a community is this? There's no single magic answer that works for every class in every school and every school is different. Is it an affluent community? Inner city? Middle class? English language speakers?
3.And as important - have these kids traveled together since K or are the classes reorganized every year?
4.Have any of them ever repeated a grade?
5.Did they enter 1st grade below grade level or did it happen along the way?
6.Is every single kid below grade level and what percentage of your school is below grade level?
7.Have you ever read Mel Levine's book on lazy students?
8.How are their reading skills? If those are weak, then usually everything else is weak as well. And if they have weak reading skills, it's usually not lazy, it's learning disabilities.
9.How many of these kids have had a thorough, sound evaluation?
Psychologist B.F. Skinner was born in 1904. When asked about the future of ...See MoreWriting prompts by James Wayne for March 17 - 23 have been posted and are linked below. Following is just a sample of the stellar prompts for next week. (BTW, the first prompt for March 19 will resonate with some readers here. Perhaps we can discuss on this board.)
Psychologist B.F. Skinner was born in 1904. When asked about the future of computers, he said, “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” What do think he meant by that?
In 1942, two American scientists describe element 94, which they named “plutonium,” after the newly discovered planet. If you discovered a new element, what would you name it? Describe what a new element might be like, and why you chose the name you did.
French scientist Louis Pasteur began work on a vaccine against anthrax in 1877. Pasteur had already proved that microorganisms cause disease, and had invented a way to purify milk and other liquids that cannot be boiled. This process was named pasteurization, after him. If something was to be named after you, what would you like it to be, or to do?
Dealing with Learned Helplessness by Barbara Blackburn and Dr. Bradley Witzel
Learned helplessness is a process of conditioning where student seek help from others even when they have mastered information. Are your practices inadvertently fostering helplessness in students? What can teachers do to teach independence instead of helplessness?
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I am a k teacher who will be meeting an old school friend along with her newly adopted ten year old daughter. I am writing for educational gift ideas that you feel would be age appropriate. Thank you for your help.
Here's a fun way to play hangman with 3-6th grades. It gives the students the option of using different parts of speech to use as the missing word (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions).
With so much "heavy" news being reported this week, this is a great article offering interesting tips for using current events in the classroom. Please pass it on!
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