This is cross posted from the Connected Principals site. I wrote a post for our teachers on my blog talking about the opportunities that we still have before the end of the school year. At that point we had 16 days left and I gave 16 easy, free things that they could do that didn’t center necessarily with […]
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Have each student, on a sheet of notebook paper create different scrabble tiles. Then, go outside and play team scrabble! You can do a theme version, a nouns only, or verbs only version…best adjective wins a prize! So easy and so fun! Tile-y, Amber
One of the more fabulous reasons that personal learning connections are so worthwhile are those random moments when they can impact what you do, daily. I’ve responded to a couple of different hashtag requests that the reason I love twitter so much is that it allows me to connect with people who make me better
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Have you let your students create something this year? Have they had the opportunity to show off their high thinking skills? I loved 5th grades angry bird’s animal adaptations that they have up right now. It took something that students enjoy and allowed them to create an adapted animal. Remmeber that our fab fifth graders
A balloon pop is a cute idea for students to do at the end of the year serving as a countdown. Each student writes a reward/activity that they would like to do. Then they turn them into you and you can pick the ones you want to do inside a balloon and blow them up.
This activity includes a worksheet set up as an “end of year” activity AND a blank version for you to adapt as you see fit – I’ve used it for review questions / work and the kids like to use it.
Love this idea from Jo’s PhotoMojo. Snap a picture of each of your students holding a sign saying what they want to be when they get up. Then use PicMonkey (or another image editing service) to make a collage of the photos and send them home as year-end gifts.
We’re winding down and only have 16 days left for our 2012-2013 school year. Instead of thinking of it as “only 16 days till summer” what if we looked at it as “only 16 more days to make a difference”? We’re going to start a EOY wrap with some fun ideas for ya, but I wanted
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Here are all the links from todays presentation! Today’s prezi!
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Back in October’s #edcampdallas, we had the great fortune of meeting Todd Nesloney (@TechNinjaTodd), who had driven down from Waller, Texas. He & his ninja counter part Stacy, (@TechNinjaStacey) were so enthusiatic and engaged throughoutthe day, they decided to go back and host their own #edcampWaller. It was a resounding success. Much like Matt Gomez
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