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Middle School Freebies ~ Lessons, Activities and Printables

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:00:03 GMT

I’ve been getting lots of traffic on my “Freebies” page from blog followers and visitors. It occurred to me, though, that maybe not everyone has looked beyond the homepage of Lessons From The Middle. I just had a peek at the Middle School Freebies collection that I started a while back, and I noticed that [...]

Don’t Let the Pigeon Play

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:31:39 GMT

There’s nothing a teacher dreads more than being absent and having to prepare for a substitute. In addition to the preparations you have to make in advance, often while you’re sick, there’s always the fear that your students will go bonkers in your absence. I’m sure this has never happened to you, when you’re absent your little cherubs sit still and blink their wide, innocent eyes at the substitute teacher while patiently awaiting your return. If you are in the minority like me and your students need a little reminder of how to behave in your absence I made a special PowerPoint just for you. I was inspired by my friend Karen of Prekinders; her recently released Pigeon packet hooked me on the popular Mo Willems books.

This is how it works, just click on the picture above to download the PowerPoint and insert your students’ pictures in the empty boxes. Click on the talk bubbles to change the text. I gave you just a few examples to get you started, but having the students actually come up with the ideas for the text will be more meaningful. Insert duplicate slides and change text and pictures to create as many pages of the book as you will need. You can show the PowerPoint to the class or you can print the slides, insert the pages in page protectors, and place them in a binder to create a book that you can include in your classroom library and leave for your substitute.

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Spring Race to the Top Game

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:59:41 GMT

Race to the Top is a fun game that can be adapted for many different skills and levels. You can use these types of games to practice letter recognition, sight words, or even numbers. In the picture above you can see the Spring Alphabet Race to the Top game, in the picture below you can see the sight word version of the game.

To prepare this game use a pocket die as shown in the picture, or you can create your own for free using a small box. Select which letters, words, or numbers you want to use on your die and then write your selections on the flowers before you make copies. To record their answers students can use Do-A-Dot markers or crayons.

Race to the Top can be played in a small group or by an individual child. To play the game the students take turns rolling the die and recording their rolls on their sheet by placing a dot in the square or coloring it in with crayons. When a particular word, letter, or number has been rolled five times it reaches the top first and is declared the “winner”. I like this game because the students don’t compete against each other, the skills do. When a word wins I encourage the children to keep playing to see which one comes in second place, third place and so on.

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New addition to Classroom Printables (ALL Free!)...

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:37:34 GMT

New addition to Classroom Printables (ALL Free!) LiveBinder.

Math-Salamandars is a great site with an abundance of math printables. They are categorized according to grade (K-5), topic and resource. Their worksheets are terrific and I especially liked their collection of printable games.

I was immediately impressed by the FREE printables available on...

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:30:47 GMT

I was immediately impressed by the FREE printables available on Ms. Leslie’s Teacher’s Zone. One feature that caught my attention immediately was the Writer’s Workshop. It has a wonderful variety of tools (printables) that can be used with students learning how to write and for assessing their own writing. This is a really nice collection.

There are many more wonderful printables and resources available on Ms. Leslie’s Classroom Website. I have listed them with links below.

Word Wall Words

Sight Words

Literacy Centers

Theme Units

Portfolio Assessment

Balanced Literacy

Word Wizard

Guided Reading

Graphics

I have added all of these to my Classroom Printables LiveBinder.