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1. Frog Art Center Art for your Frog Unit Study from how to draw frogs to painting, clay, sculptures, origami, frog cakes, Moche, Totem Poles and much much more... Children thrive with a hands-on. creative learning experiences that help them illustrate all that they a...
2. Penmanship: The Art of Teaching Handwriting As a child I remember Mrs. Thompson, my first grade teacher, gently putting her hand over mine and guiding me in forming the letters. We wrote on green lined paper with dotted lines down the middle. After we had practiced for a whole week we were all...
3. Skip Count, Skip Count, Count by Two's Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10's, 5's or 2's. All young children learn to Skip Count but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication. This lens has rhymes, songs and activities for teaching S...
4. Who Layed THAT Egg? Everyone knows that chickens lay eggs. Most people know that all other birds do as well but have you ever thought about all the other animals that lay eggs? Children may be surprised that some eggs do not contain birds. Other egg layers include frogs...
5. Homework: How Much is Too Much? In grade school, I didn't carry a backpack. Nor did any of my friends. If the dismissal bell rang and we weren't done with our math problems, we'd just shove the sheet of notebook paper into the textbook and carry it home. Maybe we'd...
6. Old Black Fly Unit Study Old Black Fly's been buzzing around and lands on an alphabet's worth of spilled drips and drops of food. This poem is fun to read aloud with it's lilting rhyme has makes you want to dance. Use Old Black Fly to start a unit on insects that will inspi...
7. K-12 Math Homework Help Websites These 12 websites will help your child learn math and help them with math homework. Math is the bane of many students. They (and their parents) often want to pull their hair out as the struggle through a problem or concept while doing homework. Help...
8. Morning Meeting and the Responsive Classroom Teaching good behavior involves breaking down into small steps the behaviors expected of children and actively teaching the skills involved. Start with an empty slate and build upon it step by step. You will find dozens of activities, suggestions,...
9. Beaver Unit Study Paddy the Beaver knew perfectly well that he would have visitors just as soon as he began to build his dam. He expected a lot of them. You see he knew that none of them ever had seen a Beaver at work unless perhaps it was Prickly Porky the Porcupine,...
10. Cover Your Cough With outbreaks of Swine Flu cropping up all across the country, how can you help young children remember to take the steps to prevent passing this fast spreading disease on to others? We tell our children to wash their hands and cover their cough but...
11. Creatures of the Woodlands Winter is coming on! The little Woodland Creatures are looking for winter dens, storing up food and preparing for the long winter ahead. The Thornton Burgess Books, such as Old Mother Westwind, are just full of charming woodland creatures that bring...
12. Rewards and Cheers You don't need to offer candy or presents to reward accomplishment. With obesity on the rise it seems unconscionable to continue the practice of offering candy or even food as a reward in the classroom. Teachers across the country are learning n...
13. Hey Teacher, My Child Can't Read! Get Answers about Learning Disabilities Here... 2. Do you feel like you are the only person who thinks there is a problem? 3. Have you attended a school conference to discuss your child's "progress"? 4. Have you attended more than one of these meetings? 5. Are you on a first name basis (yet) wi...
14. Pumpkins and Place Value Pick the biggest pumpkin you can find. Cut off the top and smell the fresh pumpkin smell. Carving a Jack O'Lantern leads into a mathematical unit study of place value that incorporates all five senses. Counting pumpkin seeds into groups of 10...
15. Pigloo: Penguins Sing in French These happy French-singing penguins will get your kids singing along and they won't even realize that they are learning French. We all know that learning a second language is very important but who knew it could be so much fun. Pop a Pigloo CD into...
16. Frog Eggs Each year we eagerly await the arrival of spring to listen to the Spring Peeper and anticipate the discovery of frog eggs in the vernal pools. Frogs lay their eggs in pools, ponds, and puddles. As snow melts, low lying areas fill with water and frogs...
17. Opportunities in Substitute Teaching Did you know that on every school day in the U.S., about 5 million children walk into a classroom with a substitute teacher? This means that by the time a student graduates from high school, he or she will have spent one full year with a sub! Many sc...
18. All 50 States Group Headquarters If you were given a blank piece of paper and a pencil right now, could you name all 50 States? What about their capitals? Learning the 50 States and their capitals can be lots of fun. What follows are a wide variety of games, puzzles and activities...
19. American Girl - Julie Albright See the newest American Girl historical character, Rebecca Rubin "Julie Albright doesn't want to move away from her San Francisco neighborhood near Chinatown, even if their new apartment is just a few miles away. Moving means leaving her best friend,...
20. Teacher Classroom Management, Help and Resources  All the best resources for classroom management success are right here. We have links to books, workshops, posters, on-site inservice professional development training, live expert help, bulletin boards, and more. We're Youth Change, Your Proble...