Teacher to Teacher Blogs
Exciting lesson ideas, book lists, videos, classroom strategies, and reproducibles in a daily blog by mentor teachers
As you sit on the beach relaxing this summer, I encourage you to ponder how you can use technology in your classroom and give your students the opportunities to develop 21st century skills. Read on for some suggestions of how you might approach...
See how I used Laura Numeroff's circular stories to help my kindergartners understand cause and effect, and magnifying lenses to understand inference.
Earth Day is April 22, 2012. Our planet is a beautiful one, and it is all we have. This Earth Day take a look at some books, songs, activities, crafts, and recipes that will get your students interested in helping our earth.
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In this conclusion to a three-part series about kindergarten project-based learning, my class plans a fundraiser to help save the Javan rhino, advertises the fundraiser, and learns to count money.
Our endangered animal project is moving along! This week you will see how my students worked together to create their persuasive videos and how we presented them to the school. You will also find a link to all six student-made videos. They are...
This year my students are taking part in an endangered animal project-based learning unit. In project-based learning, students take an important outside problem or question and research to try to solve the problem or answer the essential question...
January 23rd is National Handwriting Day. What a perfect day to work on your students' handwriting. Read more to learn how my handwriting instruction has changed in the past few years and about a few handwriting tools that you can use in your...
Retelling stories is a common practice in early childhood education. It gives children the opportunity to work on comprehension, verbal language, and many other early literacy skills. When you take retelling stories to the next level with...












