Spelling practice video: Learn to spell 'donkey' with these eight tips

Do you want some great tips to help you to learn to spell various words? This video and article will give you eight fun suggestions to try. Choose three or four of the ones you like the best as you work on improving your spelling skills.

Simply as an example, this article and video focuses on learning to spell the word ‘donkey’.

Since not everybody learns the same, pick out just the activities that fit your particular learning style or the learning styles of the students you are working with. It is to be hoped that at least a few of these activities will appeal and prove to be successful in improving the spelling skills of you or of your target audience.

Here are eight spelling activities that are demonstrated in the twelve-minute video.

Click SPELLING ACTIVITIES to read the whole article and to watch the video.

Twenty questions about Andrew Jackson: Find the answers on Hermitage website

Here is a fun way to learn more about our former President, Andrew Jackson. Involve your students in an internet research project.

Here are the kid-friendly questions for them to look up. The answers can all be found on the Hermitage website, President Andrew Jackson’s former home.

Click ANDREW JACKSON for the list of twenty questions plus the clues.

How to reinforce spelling skills: Lessons 1 to 3

Are you a home-schooling teacher who would like access to some self-contained spelling lessons plus correlating tests? Are you a parent or classroom teacher who would like to reinforce spelling skills with your children or students? Are you a student who wants a fun way to work on your spelling skills? Then, you have come to the right place.

Each lesson comes with the following six features:

1. Complete directions for working with a set of ten spelling words

2. A fun and colorful spelling activities slideshow

3. An answer key for the definitions of each spelling word

4. Complete directions for utilizing the correlating spelling test

5. A fun and colorful spelling test slideshow

6. An answer key for the spelling test

To read the complete article and to get the links to the direction pages and spelling activities and spelling test slideshows, please click this link:

How to reinforce spelling skills: Lessons 1 to 3

Videos, slideshow, and music curriculum standards : K-5 songs for kids

Professional Storyteller and Certified teacher K-8, Debbie Dunn, shares six fun song videos for elementary students.

1. Song called “Head and Shoulders, Baby”

2. Song called “Hanky Panky”

3. Song called “Miz Lu”

4. Song called “Lollipop”

Debbie Dunn is also a conflict resolution and anti-bullying specialist. Here are two anti-bullying songs that will be fun and easy for the students to sing:

5. My Bully Buster song: Lyrics and video

6. Another Bully Buster song: Lyrics and video

For more information about her anti-bullying elementary school programs, please visit the BE BULLY FREE page on her storytelling website by clicking on BE BULLY FREE.

To see all six videos, the slideshow, and the music curriculum standards that help justify taking classroom time to teach these songs, please click on the following link:

Videos, slideshow, and music curriculum standards : K-5 songs for kids

A fun way to teach about Christopher Columbus

Are you a teacher wishing to teach a fun unit on Christopher Columbus? Do you want to make those lessons extra memorable? The way to do this is to make the students feel like they are a part of history.

 

How can you do this?

 

Involve the students in role-playing, puppet shows, and storytelling. The unit you will be sharing with your students is called “Travel through Time with the Story Genie: A Role-Playing Unit on the life and times of Christopher Columbus.”

 

To read more and to get all the free downloads and complete self-contained lessons, click CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

Slideshow – Spelling test for Lesson 9

In this slideshow, the students will take the Spelling test for Lesson 9.  Teacher or Home Schooling Parent should dictate the words as the child attempts to choose the correctly spelled word on this multiple choice test.

Prior to taking the test, watch the slideshow called “Slideshow – Spelling activities for Lesson 9.” Do the activities described in this slideshow for all ten spelling words.

Click SPELLING TEST to watch the slideshow and take the spelling test on Examiner.com.

Multiplication and Short Division game working with #53

This is the title you will see on my K-8 Classroom Activities site on Examiner.com:

Slideshow : Math Lollipop Olympics – Work with #53

This is a fun math trick that helps reinforce the basic math skills of multiplication and short division. For this particular math set, we will work with the number 53. After working eight multiplication problems and eight division problems, when the math trick is worked correctly, you will not only begin with the number 53, you will end with the number 53 as well.

Click MATH LESSON to read and watch the entire slideshow on Examiner.com.

Multiplication and Short Division game working with #52

This is the title you will see on my K-8 Classroom Activities site on Examiner.com:

Slideshow : Math Lollipop Olympics – Work with #52

This is a fun math trick that helps reinforce the basic math skills of multiplication and short division. For this particular math set, we will work with the number 52. After working eight multiplication problems and eight division problems, when the math trick is worked correctly, you will not only begin with the number 52, you will end with the number 52 as well.

Click MATH LESSON to read and watch the entire slideshow on Examiner.com.

Multiplication and Short Division game working with #51

This is the title you will see on my K-8 Classroom Activities site on Examiner.com:

Slideshow : Math Lollipop Olympics – Work with #51

This is a fun math trick that helps reinforce the basic math skills of multiplication and short division. For this particular math set, we will work with the number 51. After working eight multiplication problems and eight division problems, when the math trick is worked correctly, you will not only begin with the number 51, you will end with the number 51 as well.

Click MATH LESSON to read and watch the entire slideshow on Examiner.com.

Win a $75,000 Technology Classroom Makeover in Dec. 2012

This announcement is for all classroom teachers. Would you like to win a $75,000 Classroom Technology Makeover? The 6th annual eInstruction contest is being held once again.

Click TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS CONTEST
to read all the details. 

Good luck! eInstruction will be choosing 3 winners.