Picture+Ideas



For this activity, my mentor teacher, in kindergarten, gathered the students around the carpet and asked their opinion on what ways they thought you could sort things. Asthey gave their ideas, my mentor teacher, wrote it on this chart paper. She also drew pictures to help the students better remember it.

This was a chart that my mentor teacher made that describes the qualities of a good writer. Often she would ask the students, while they were writing, what makes a good writer. The students would quickly respond with one of the qualities listed on this chart.

This is an interactive bulletin board that I created for a kindergarten classroom. It helps student to be able to count their dots and then at the bottom of the board, it has a place where they can physically count out the beans into the cups based on the number above the cups.

This is for "how to" papers. For this activity, my mentor teacher explained to the students that we were going to be writing a "how to" paper on how to blow a bubble. She then gave each student a piece of bubble gum and had them try to blow a bubble. While they were trying, she asked them to explain what they were doing. When they explained what they were doing, she wrote the process down in four steps for them to copy it. The next part of this activity is having them draw a picture about each step. The blue sticky note is a "new word" for the students to learn. They are allowed to keep this list of words with them while they are writing their "how to" paper.

I would use this chart to really challenge the students to think together and think deeper about a text. It also allows students to be able to verbalize what they are thinking and to show that they were really absorbing the text when it was being read to them or when they were reading it. [|Pinterest]



I would also use this as a way for students to learn how to tell time. I would assess them on these important times every day to reinforce their knowledge. [|Pinterest]



This is an anchor chart to remind students what a memoir is. Before a student could ask me a question, they would have to refer to their classmates and/or this anchor chart that we would have made as a class.

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