Celebrations!

Celebrations! Session 1- Junior High School ABC brainstorming homographs and an activity using index cards to accompany it A jar with slips of story starters > Anchor activity in Spanish class: > > 1. Question of the Day at beginning of class. > 2. folder games-student can open the folder and do a review activity on a concept. I.E. written numbers scattered across the folder, and student puts them in order from smallest to largest. > > > I had just started working in stations this week and next week for a unit on Modern Art and various forms of it. Students have 5 stations they can choose from and must complete 4 of them, so they will choose the four they would like to work with. The level at which they choose to work, as well, is their own choice. They also have a fall-back project that they work on if they finish up early. So far, I like the various activities that are simultaneously taking place. > > MathCounts activity sheets (3) > > > Bowman Primary School > > Berry Intermediate School > > A teacher writes: //Here’s a few of the anchor activities I’ve come up with so far. I am creating a Treasure Chest that students can choose from. I think I am going to do two different colors; blue for activities that take 10 minutes or less and yellow for activities that will take longer. This way, my higher students can choose activities that might take a few days and some of my students who are struggling will still get a chance to do activities they can finish. I didn’t label the longer activities, but I’m sure you will be able to tell which ones are which.// > > Allison shares: > > //I have a scholastic book titled, “Spell Well! With 50 Quick Fun Filled Ways to Help Kids of All learning Styles Master Their Spelling Words”. (you are welcome to borrow it and copy it) It will take some initial planning to create different levels of spelling word lists so our students have the right level for them. We all have our own lists and you can go on line and find all sorts of spelling lists for different grades and words that suit your classroom and teaching. And let them chooses one of these activities to use with the list each week. The activities in the book are creative and varied. Just a start up idea and a nice way to add that spelling/vocabulary component in a non-traditional way.// > > > __ ** Donovan ** __// The following has been shared or observed: // > > Variety of games that students can complete when they are done with their classroom work. Math games was observed. These are taught at the beginning of the year and added to as the year progresses. Some games include: Garbage, Dice War, Card War, Close to One Hundred and Close to a Dollar. > > Alphabet books have been done for writing. > > A teacher also shared a game using the numbers 1-10. You can only use each number once. The goal is to arrange the numbers in a bowling pin type setup with 4 cards then 3 then, then 2 and ultimately 1 card. As you move from 4-3 the two numbers next to each other subtract to equal the card below. And continues to you only have one card at the bottom. One solution is: > > 8 10 3 9 > 2 7 6 > 5 1 > 4  “Dollar words". I will have a chart with the alphabet and the corresponding value of each letter. A = .01, B = .02, C = .03 all the way to Z = .26.
 * Anchor Activity (Writing) – We have several writing pieces in their binder and composition notebook that are in working progress. Whenever a gifted student works ahead of the rest of the class, he or she pulls those writing pieces to work on skills like figurative language, vocabulary usage, description, dialogue, etc. to improve their personal writing.
 * Picture dialogue activity where students use the picture on the handout to create a scene in a story. They must include dialogue tagged with action. All pictures are different
 * Bell Ringer questions daily in Reading class to practice literary concepts
 * Silent Reading
 * Journaling
 * The students wrote and illustrated sentences that contained different types of figurative language. They attached a card to each with a flap that you open and it gives the type of figurative language used and I hung them on the wall. When they have extra time they can go back and read them, write/explain what figurative language is being used, and check their answers.
 * 15 Questions Reading Activity
 * I sometimes offer a 5 point journal writing for students at the beginning of the bell. Also I have extra credit if students want to do it which is additional research of some sort about visual art.
 * A teacher that splits her kids into math groups, arranges the groups so they are mixed ability. Each group works on a math manipulative game that is focused on a specific skill. All of the students “play” the game together and then they have an individual activity that builds on the game. Each activity is leveled as low, medium and high. She assigns the activity according to the students ability.

 They have to find any word that adds up to exactly $1.00 when you add up all the values of the letters. For example "the" would have the value of (t) .20 + (h) .08 + (e) .05 equals $ 0.33. Shooter adds up to $1.00 exactly. The words cannot be a penny less or a penny over or it does not count as a dollar word.