Let's test some vocabulary skills!! Boggle white board game for Wordy Wednesday. Middle School Motivation.
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Bell work
Discover fun and educational bell work activities to engage your students and set a positive tone for the day. Start your class off right with these creative ideas.
In my last post, I started talking about Morning Work Activities that don't involve worksheets! Check out some other ideas!
Chrissy Anaya
We never know how our students' days have started before they enter the classroom. A Soft Landing may be exactly what many of them need to p...
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Denise Rodriguez
In the last couple of years I have gone through some teaching position changes that I never thought would happen to me. I taught self-contained 5th grade for three years (that included my student teaching). I knew nothing else, and honestly, at the time, I didn’t really want to. Long story short, I moved across ... Read more
Sandy Brooks
Bell ringers will get your students seated and working from the moment the late bell rings. Seated, silent, and on-task. This activity does not actually include the promise of silence, but you can dream. What are bell ringers? I've heard them called a lot of different names, and I've even called them different names myself - bell work, bell ringers, warm-ups, do nows, drills. Justin from SpanishPlans calls them entradas, Elisabeth from Spanish Mama calls them Para Empezar, Martina Bex from…
VICTORIA JOHNSON
Use these engaging bell work activities and websites to help establish a routine when your students enter your classroom!
Tessa Miller
For the upcoming school year I would like to revamp our Daily 5 “Word Work” options. Last year during that rotation our students completed worksheets on previously taught grammar, spelling, and vocabulary skills. I want to take less of a “drill and kill” approach for this year. I am working on a few different ideas.…
Sable Gaylene
If you're like me, you have tried a thousand options for bell ringers/bell work. No matter what, the bell work needs a home, and for a long time, the bell work "home" has been in a notebook. Then, what do we have to do to grade it? COLLECT 125 SPIRAL BOUND NOT
Amy Texley
Looking for practical ways to begin your ELA class? In this post, find 7 options that are manageable and meaningful.
Mandy Kyle
