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Hello! This is probably the wrong time of year for this, but if there's anyone from Australia, the UK or other places that still have a while to go for the school year, well maybe you can use this.
English homework.
Sometimes I struggle to make it interesting.
I'm required to give it once a week and I wanted to make it more interactive and possibly fun.
I saw this idea for having an on-going project that incorporates many of the features of text that we'd previously worked on in class. I tweaked it for my Year Six class for half a term and put the page along with the required paper in small folders.
Would you believe they loved it?! They loved the idea of choice, they loved adding onto to it each week.......they said it was actually...fun!
Even better...I didn't have to sort homework week after week. They had their homework assignments for the next 6 weeks!
I've uploaded it to google docs in Word so you can change it to what you need. Please tell me if that works. I haven't used that in ages. I was too lazy to upload it to TPT. Click here for it.
One more thing for homework.
We recently returned from Easter holidays (off for 3 weeks). Again, I'm required to give English homework. This time I gave a letter with choices.
They had to pick 3 writing choices (to average 1 a week). I did mention reading in the letter, but focused more on writing for this holiday. I copied this cover sheet on bright yellow colored paper, along with several pieces of blank writing paper, and put it in a folder. Easy. Except for grading them when they come back, but hey.
Can you believe they came back showing each other what they picked and what they wrote and were so proud?! I was speechless. I was just so happy to see them enjoy writing and even want to share it with their peers!
Click here for this document in Word so you change it for your needs.
Hope some of you can use this and I can save you some time!
Have a good one xx
Oops, a day late.
Hope you're happy and healthy today! I'm enjoying my Easter break. Love it!
Here are some book review forms I created for 3-5th grade at our school. I have a few other options too, just have to round them up. I make a bunch of copies of them and put them in the folder on the bulletin board for our Reading Challenge. Maybe you can use them!
Hello!
I am finally on Easter Holidays/Spring Break! It could not come quick enough.
There is some yucky stuff going down at my school.
I can't say much, but let's just say between student bullying allegations and nearly half the staff leaving at our very small private school (including our Head/Principal)...school life has been stressful to say the least.
In all honesty, several of the teachers are leaving because of maternity leave/staying home with new baby.
However there is other crap stuff going on too.
Needless to say...school morale is low.
It's hard to get away from low morale when it seems to be everywhere. Does anyone else feel like this at their school at the moment?
But anyway, we've got 3 weeks off, then 1 term left (schools go til mid/late July here). It is great to change environments for awhile.
Therefore, on a positive note-I've decided to get back into blogging a bit more and am starting with [trying] to post a freebie every Friday! I know that structure might help me blog more regularly like I want to do!
I would like to blog once more during the week. I was thinking Memory Monday or Wordless Wednesday? I think I've heard of those before. What do you think?
So here is the freebie for today! A spelling menu (one for second/third grade and one for fourth/fifth grade).
Now I have a love /hate relationship with spelling lists and spellings tests, but hey. My boss says I have to do it. Now while I do have differentiated spellings lists, I have not been satisfied with the ways I've seen for practicing it.
I'm not sure how it will go, but I'm going to give it a try. Maybe you can use it too. (We have a spelling notebook/journal for all their spelling homework so it's all in one place. I will have them glue their spelling menu into their notebook)
