Works best when the students work as a class to develop a list of what real and fake reading look like. When complete, it can be a useful chart to have on display so when students aren't focussed at reading time, it can be used to redirect them back to 'real' reading.
Link for slide show: Real and Fake Reading These 2 Reject Shop (or maybe KMart - I can't remember!) shelves have been with me for years and been used for anything and everything. I liked this idea...
For those making slide shows that contains all the learning in a day or a week, these title slides may be a time saver for you. There are 46 that can be copied and pasted into your own.
Link to Google slide: Daily Slide Show Title Slides w Sayings I found the easiest way to deal with all the notes, forms, assessments and paperwork that landed on my table was a vertical file. Having categories to slide sheets into prevented the dreaded stack of paperwork growing to mountainous proportions until it eventually toppled - especially when you were looking for something!
Apologies for my obvious OCD in the photo! And I didn't really use the alphabetized names of all the students so I wouldn't bother with the pink part again. Handy list for kids to make of the books they'd like to read. Helps a teacher learn their students' likes and dislikes and to source the books. The bookshelf pictures can be used as a record of what books students have finished. You could even use a colour coding system for recording what students thought of books and whether books were finished or abandoned. Kids can take great pride in filling in their bookshelves. Books to Read link to download (word doc)
If your school isn't using Matific for maths (Australia and New Zealand), you are missing out! It is brilliant and helps teachers in so many ways. Matific gives you lots of options for setting up classes and groups within classes and setting appropriate work. We don't use it everyday but it is always an option for any spare time in maths lessons and 'Matific Friday' has become a regular session.
The kids can access it from home as well so when parents ask what they can do extra at home or what work the kids can do if they're going on holiday, Matific is always a great g0-to option. The activities are 'game-like' but the maths is real and really make the kids (and me too!) think. My co-teacher Matt was showing me that while the kids are working, he can check on their progress in real time and even see which kids are inactive - no room for slackers with that tool! Each year they have a 'Matific Games' week.I think they call it an Olypmpiad now where schools can compete. Our kids get right into it and I open my classroom at playtime and lunchtime each day for the week so any kids in the school that want to do extra can. For each day, my room is chockas with kids and we check the live leaderboards religiously! This one's called 'Two Stars and a Wish'. Works as a good reminder of what should be checked in a piece of writing before kids come to you saying they're finished! Works best if you come up with the categories as a class.
I've always loved doing classrooms for Christmas. It's the most tiring part of the year, everyone's exhausted and it's a lot of effort for a couple of weeks before you have to pack it all up again, but somehow it is always worth it. The kids come in on the Monday after I've spent the weekend setting it all up and they are just overjoyed and it gives us all that little bit of extra spark to get through to the finishing line. I like to make the classroom just as functional as usual but with a Christmas theme; Christmas books to read, Christmas writing ideas (including KK / Secret Santa cards and letters) Christmas poetry for reading and for handwriting. resources for spelling Christmas words, nativity art to used as provocations in RE and plenty of craft ideas that inspire collaborative and creative work. Our technology inquiry unit culminated in the kids designing and producing packaging for their KK gifts.
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