Search results matching tag 'vocabulary'

1089. How to train memory

Anonymous — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:50:00 GMT

Teacher A said to teacher B, “About memory and learning new vocabulary by students I can assure you that memory can be trained.

It’s in some way like chewing gum: it can expand itself. I can tell you that my memory has expanded: I see a new word once and I can remember it for long.

This is due to studying and memorizing for long.” / Photo from: yohagomusica blogspot com. trabajo en equipo

1086. He achieved to have a big tank of vocabulary

Anonymous — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:45:00 GMT

Teacher B said to teacher A, “I knew a teacher who used to look up and learn some of the words that came up in some text he had just read, like ‘eviction’. In this way he pulled off a big plan of enriching vocabulary.” / Photo from: litstack com. colorful pile of books

Word Central Games

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:36:00 GMT

Merriam-Webster's Word Central has the Games section with Alpha-bot, Robo-Bee, BIGbot, Jumble Kids games - nicely designed and funny, these games will help students improve their vocabulary skills in an easy and active way. The games are a good thing to make vocabulary practice the students' favourite.

Food Chain and Food Web Vocabulary Words - Literacy Station for Science

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:03:00 GMT

What is a food chain or a food web? What is a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore or scavenger? To answer question like these I made a set of food web science definition cards for my students. Each card has a picture of an organism to represent each term along with a simple, easy to understand definition. See the sample picture below. It is a total of eighteen cards available at TpT and Teachers Notebook for $3.00. I color coded each card so that the words match the colors of the theme in the definition. What do I mean? For example, the green cards have words like producer, herbivore, and photosynthesis. These cards encourage reading and will be a great addition to your science literacy station. Here is a list of all of the food web terms in this set: habitat, organism, producer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, consumer, scavenger, decomposer, predator, prey, food chain, food web, micro-organism, fungus, energy and photosynthesis.

Speaking of reading, I also have these word wall cards that have the following terms: habitat, organism, producer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, consumer, food chain, food web, scavenger, decomposer, predator, prey, energy, and photosynthesis. This illustrated word wall set is perfect for helping your students to remember the spelling and meanings of key food chain and food web terms. I used cute but realistic clip art of animals, plants, and micro-organisms. Some of the clip art used were created by Oxana at Teacher’s Clipart. Here's a preview (below) of one of the word wall cards - the food chain card. This one shows the words 'food chain' along with an actual food chain starting with a leaf that is by a caterpillar which is eaten by a bird which is eaten by a snake. Wait till you see the food web card. Yikes! You can click here (TpT) or here (Teachers Notebook) to see more sample pictures of this set.

If you need some books that you can have as supplementary information for your students, you can check out the full range of food chain book series available at amazon. I saw these "What if..." books that will take learning to a deeper level as students discover the calamity that happens when one organism is removed from the food chain. These are some of the books below.

What if there were no Bees? What if there were no Sea Otters? What if there were no Lemmings?

What if there were no Gray Wolves?

Here are some other things that can be included in your food chain science station...

Food Chain Bulletin Board Set Food Chain Craft Kit

Cut out each piece and make a food chain! I love this idea for younger students.

Chomp! - Food Chain Card Game

This won the Gold Seal award for best educational toy.

I will be doing a new post soon which will teach you how to teach students to make their own food chains and food webs so look out for it. It should be really helpful.

Food Chain and Food Web Vocabulary Words - Literacy Station for Science

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:03:00 GMT

What if there were no Bees? What if there were no Sea Otters? What if there were no Lemmings?

What if there were no Gray Wolves?

Here are some other things that can be included in your food chain science station...

Food Chain Bulletin Board Set Food Chain Craft Kit

Cut out each piece and make a food chain! I love this idea for younger students.

Chomp! - Food Chain Card Game

This won the Gold Seal award for best educational toy.

I will be doing a new post soon which will teach you how to teach students to make their own food chains and food webs so look out for it. It should be really helpful.

Big, Bodacious Words

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:27:00 GMT

BIG, BODACIOUS WORDS

The idea came to me as I was stuck in sleet-induced, rush hour traffic, on my way to work. This is springtime in Colorado! Whilst pondering the question of how to improve the content of my young writers, I saw a bumper sticker with "supercalifragilistic....etc. " and the idea was born.

Some choice words while sitting in traffic sprouted the idea.

Big, Bodacious Words in the Classroom.

The idea is to increase the vocabulary of the children and to bring their writing and reading skills to the next level by being able to use these words comfortably. By creating a safe zone for experimenting with these words, through their own personal journal, and a central class word bank, I feel that this will enable greater use of "big" words and move away from the safe and "boring words such as "nice, good, bad "etc.

Through games, such as an adaptation of "The Minister's Cat", literacy centers and other fun, hands on activities the children are engaged in the subject and become motivated to use their Thesaurus and explore avenues within writing that will improve the content. This literacy packet "Big, Bodacious Words" can be found in both my TpT and Teachers Notebook stores.

Let me know if you have specific questions about this material.

Enjoy!

~ Susan

1015. A demanding teacher got a lot

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:17:00 GMT

Teacher A said to teacher B, “If no words, no communication.

I knew a teacher, a committed one, who used to assign as homework to study lists of vocabulary (and other homework). His students achieved to learn a lot of words, usual words, common words, so those students were able to speak in English more fluently than just single sentences.

They were able to make presentations or describe objects for example. He was a demanding teacher.” / Photo from: fallsrivermusic com. flute pic2

Shades of meaning for the verb 'Say'

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:21:00 GMT

There are many words we can use in place of the words 'say' and 'said' which would be more suitable in some sentences than others. It’s all about using the right word in the right place. These words are: explain, grumble, answer, mutter, plead, reply, shout, ask, exclaim, cry, drawl, sputter, stammer and whisper.

I created a bulletin board set and a card game to introduce my students to these new words. It fulfills the CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.5b which is for students to distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (second grade standard).

The set includes:
- illustrated vocabulary matching cards which come with a complementary storage box.

- a bulletin board poster set to brighten up your walls. It creatively displays the new vocabulary words in colors of your choice. (See picture at the top of this post)

- an illustrated word wall

If you are in need of something like this you can preview it here by clicking on the orange 'Download Preview' button on the page.

Shades of meaning for the verb 'Say'

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:21:00 GMT

The set includes:
- illustrated vocabulary matching cards which come with a complementary storage box.

- a bulletin board poster set to brighten up your walls. It creatively displays the new vocabulary words in colors of your choice. (See picture at the top of this post)

- an illustrated word wall

If you are in need of something like this you can preview it here by clicking on the orange 'Download Preview' button on the page.

Quadrilaterals

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:50:00 GMT

So I thought over spring break I would catch up on all of my blogging, find cool new activities to do with my math students, and create some new ISN pages. Well needless to say that never happened...

We covered Quadrilaterals in Geometry class, however we only went with regular quadrilaterals for the time being.

My students love charts, and when I say love I really mean LOVE!! It's weird how excited they can get about a chart, but whatever will make them happy. So to cover the characteristics of the different types of regular quadrilaterals I had my students fill in the following chart.

We started off drawing a picture of each shape and from there the students told me what to write in both the "Angles" and "Sides" boxes. It turned into a whole class discussion where all I did was fill in my chart as they told me what to put in it.

My students will admit that they are not the best artists (frankly neither am I ), so made these shapes on the computer for them to cut out and tape into their notebooks. We went through in the beginning identifying each of the shapes by name, then color coding their different characteristics (color chart at the top). Afterwards we went through and wrote the information below and to the side of each of the shapes.

They found this part to be really easy after having done the chart. Which is what I was hoping for.

Quadrilaterals Characteristics Chart

Quadrilateral Shapes