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