Editing marks lesson

Write the editing marks on the board and have students discuss and show which ones they know.

Have students guess what the other marks mean.

discuss their true meaning.

Hand out the editing marks sheet

Have students come up with two sentences that are written wrong.  

Pass the sentences to a partner and have the partner correct the sentences using the editing marks. 

Select a few students to share their incorrect sentences and how they corrected them with the editing marks.

Biography Unit

This is my unit plan that I will be using for my EdTPA requirements. The unit is spread out over a week- week and a half time.

I started the unit out by discussing bio poems. We had done a bio poem about themselves the day earlier so they would have some prior knowledge to do this assignment. I used this bio poem template for the bio poem about themselves and tweaked a few things for when I used it for the biography unit. For this lesson I read a short biography to the students and then printed out copies of the biography

OAE Social Studies

Here is a website, made by Pearson, the maker of the OAE that I think would be a great study guide for the Social Studies test that I have to take.  I have been searching the web everywhere for a good study guide and finally found this one. What can be better than something made by the test makers!

Study this

Biography Unit

One my my biggest tasks I must overcome during student teaching is the edTPA. For the edTPA I must come up with a unit between 3-5 days long, I must record myself, show evidence of my students as well as assess my students learning. 

I have decided to do my unit on biographies because that is the next unit that needs to be taught. My plan so far is to  have students finish the poetry unit and begin the biography unit by writing a bio poem of themselves.  I would then like to read a biography book to them and have the students then write a bio poem on the person talked about in the book.  Next I would like to have students visit the library and choose a biography book to do their biography project on. The person needs to be someone interesting and new to the students. Once they have chosen their person  I will give them a worksheet to help with the note taking process as well as a sheet to help them form paragraphs to discuss their person. 

The project will be placed in a folder to show off the students work. I have found a wonderful website to show how I would like to create these folders.

a simple book

Student Teaching

I am student teaching right now and absolutely enjoying it! The kids are so lovely and kind, the staff are the same. It truly has been an amazing experience.

We have had many snow days and two hour delays so I have also been having a rare experience.

Anyways, I thought it would be a good idea to write about my experience and the things I have learned so I wont forget it.

4th grade:
Spelling Words
I have recently taken on this task of choosing spelling words and giving homework and reminders for the spelling words. This will be my job here on out. So to help me out I have found a few useful websites.

Super Teacher Worksheet

Smart Board Exercises

Learn how to tie your shoes

I thought this was such a cute way to learn and practice how to tie your shoes. This was given to the Y by JoAnn fabrics but I think you could easily make this. The kids loved coloring it and can take it home to practice! 

Wordle

Wordle is a nice and cute way to make spelling words, vocabulary words, or bold words that are found in the text book. When you make a Wordle, and you want certain words to be bigger than the others, you simply write that word more times than the rest. With Wordle you can also customize the way it looks by choosing the color scheme, the layout and the font.


http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/7041257/spelling_words_wordle