Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Stories With Holes - Nathan Levy

The famous logic stories that make kids think! Each book contains new stories for children ages 7-77. Stimulate pupil critical and creative thinking skills. http://www.storieswithholes.com/natlev100inq.html

The Whose Clues? Nathan Levy

Whose Clues? is "The Famous Name Guessing Game" that provides a fun, change-of-pace activity anytime, anywhere! Identify a mystery person or character with the help of clever clues! This 'Famous Name Guessing Game" encourages deductive reasoning and cooperative learning. http://www.storieswithholes.com/whoseclues2.html

Great Spare Time Reading!

http://www.whygendermatters.com/
One of Peggy Swick's favorite books right now - very highly recommended! Check it out and if it interests you, contact me at CESA 6 for a copy!

Monday, January 29, 2007

Keeping skills current

A "new" idea we took from Harry Wong on classroom management also helps keep the students' skills current. We type up or copy various addition, subtraction, in & out boxes, rounding ETC.. for the students to do as they come in the morning. This way we have a quick check on the students who need more mastery, and it controls the morning chaos.

Robyn

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Math sites for your kids

G'day everyone, here are a couple of neat math sites that parents can use with their children at home.
http://superkids.com/aweb/tools/math
www.aplusmath.com
www.coolmath.com/parents
Hope that you guys get to check them out. The students really seem to enjoy the practice, and the parents are quite happy for an alternative to flash cards etc!!
Kind regards,
Neil
(Erin)

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Co Teaching

Hello everyone
As I remember there was some interest in the coteaching pilot program Jessi and I are doing in Ripon this year. If you are interested we have put together a short powerpoint addressing this model. If you are interested let us know and we will forward it to you. Also, there is a great FREE math site we have been using to create homework sheets and bell ringers. It is mathfactcafe.com.
Enjoy
Robyn & Jessi

Thursday, January 4, 2007

More United Streaming

G'day again, I just wanted to share a United Streaming link for those people working on habitats. There is a wealth of information in these little clips. They range from about 9 minutes to 12 minutes and my class really enjoyed the discussion that they presented us with. The link won't work if you don't have an account, but if you have an account with them you'll just have to sign in and it will take you straight there.
Hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year, this is just link winter back home!!
Cheers,
Neil

http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=E8538C42-0B7B-4020-8BA5-2C802803A244