Transition Words

What an important lesson! Transition words... the kids will be using these for the rest of their lives! It's our jobs as primary teachers to give them a good base foundation on grammar and functional sentences. I have thoroughly enjoyed using Pinterest as a teacher tool for my RILE project and in my placement. I probably would have never thought to use Pinterest to discover classroom ideas if it wasn't for this project! So many great activities to be explored :) I pinned a few ideas for teaching transition words. I found a few to be very useful! Especially the traffic light chart with so many choices of transition words for beginning, middle and ending. How about this for introducing transition words to the class? Perfect!

 

Now they can make their own...

 

Thanks Pinterest for everything, this will be my last post for my project! 

Keep it real peeps! Marisa xx

Happy Holidays!

Hey ya'll, long time no post.

Happy holidays! It's the most wonderful time of the year. 2 days until Christmas. I can't believe it's come so quick, as it seems to do every year. So after Christmas comes the new year, which can serve as a fresh start to everyone. I think this is a perfect time to set goals and really think about what you'd like to accomplish in the coming year. It's also important for our students to understand that they can also do this. So on Pinterest I re-pinned some great reflective activities the students can do on the first week back after the holidays. What amazing ideas. It gives the kids a chance to reflect, set goals and hopefully take action!


 

Letter Writing

Hey Ya’ll. This week I’m once again preparing for my Prof’s last visit to my placement on Monday. I’m so sad I’ll be leaving this class soon :(. My students are amazing and I have a really close and unique connection with each one of them. I think Grade 2 will be my grade of choice in my career for sure. So on Monday I am teaching a mini lesson on letter writing. I once again pinned some great ideas on my Pinterest board. I found some great anchor charts (templates) for their letter writing. I’m going to sing a song with them which explains the format of a “Friendly Letter.” It’s to the tune of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” should be fun stuff.

Until next time! Here's some of the stuff I'll be usin' in my lesson.

Maris 

Christmas!

As we all know Christmas is soon arriving. Time for a whole bunch of exciting activities in the primary classroom :)! I love Christmas. Possibly my favorite holiday along with Thanksgiving. This week I decided to pin Christmas craft ideas for the kids. So many cute, simple and fun activities to do. One that I will remember my teacher from placement doing was for Halloween. The students wrote out:

H
A
L
L
O
W
E
E
N

And had to make a sentence beginning with that letter. She wrote out tons of Halloween lingo for them to use on chart paper which they made reference to a lot. Then they had to decorate and colour it, I stapled them to a board in the classroom. For Christmas I want something that they can bring home to their parents, preferably put on their family tree!

How cute!

Week 3

This week for my Pinterest board I searched lesson plans for the Apostles' Creed. Tomorrow for my placement my Prof. is coming in to watch me teach a 20 minute lesson. Any ideas on what it might be on!? I'm teaching a religion lesson and going to try my best to help the grade 2 students to understand our beliefs as Christians within 20 minutes... sounds close to impossible, right? Well, my classroom teacher and I decided I would only teach them the first part on the Creed, and Pinterest helped me out a lot with some great ideas. I loved the pre-made lesson plan for starter ideas, a great hook into the lesson will be asking the students what exactly a creed in and who they believe God to be and what he created for us. I absolutely loved the "I Believe" picture cards I found. I am going to print them out and use them for my lesson. Thanks Pinterest :)

http://ministry-to-children.com/i-believe-wall-faith-building-activity-for-children/#sthash.DCzUtstU.qjtu

 

 The final product after my lesson... I posted it on my school's bulletin board!
 

My Teaching Pinterest Board

Today I made a new board on my Pinterest page named "Teaching Ideas." I am going to use this board for my future reference in my elementary classes! What a great idea. The other day at my placement I realized what kind of awesome inspirations I can get on it. My teacher asked me to find her some rubric templates so I searched it on Google and so many templates on Pinterest came up from fellow teachers. I really liked the one User's materials... I forget her username now but I will go on a mission to find it! Today I re-posted some ideas for my "Teaching Arts" class. I have to make a lesson plan for Thursday on Sculpting and found some great ideas and inspirations. Can't wait to make further use of my new board!

https://www.pinterest.com/marisapiccoli/teaching-ideas/