Rejuvenate Your Passion for Teaching

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Well, I am so happy that most everyone got out for Christmas holidays today! It's time for you all to get some much needed rest if you can! This is a training session that I conducted about two weeks ago-- thought maybe some of you might need it! Merry Christmas!

Product Description: This resource consists of sixty-eight slides to serve as training and support materials for rejuvenating your passion for teaching. Many of the strategies discussed originate from the book, Unshakable, by Angela Watson. All educators will enjoy being a part of this training in helping themselves to rejuvenate at a grade level meeting, a professional development session, or a professional learning community!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rejuvenate-Your-Passion-for-Teaching-Training-and-Support-Materials-2264711

Check Out This Short Story: Christmas in the Barn! The Kids Will Love It!

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Well, things have slowed down just a little bit and I have some time here at home so I thought I needed to crank up the creative juices and get them flowing. While "junkin" the other day, I ran across this old Scholastic book published in 1968... magic year for me since that's when I entered this world... nevertheless, I have enjoyed reading all of the short Christmas stories, and I chose this one to design seven teaching and learning activities. I hope you all enjoy!

Product Description: This resource is perfect for the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Enclosed you will find five pages of a short narrative story that has a certain rhyme and rhythm to it that students will enjoy! It is a story told from a young girl’s point of view about how she wishes for a horse for Christmas. She is reminded in the story that she will still have a great Christmas even if she doesn’t get a horse; however, she is convinced that one secretly hides in the barn for her. Her mom reminds her about many other children whose parents might very well be away for Christmas. This is a very old Christmas story and was published through Scholastic in 1968. Again, the students will love many teaching and learning activities associated with the story! This story lends itself to several teaching and learning endeavors such as: (1) the use of personification; (2) great vocabulary instruction; (3) sequencing; (4) point of view; (5) Descriptive Writing; (6) research and investigation of several different states discussed in the story; (7) the use of similes to make comparisons; and (8) making predictions about what will happen next in the story based on the context clues provided! 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Short-Story-Narrative-Christmas-in-the-Barn-2259386

Check this Out Friends!

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My daughter-in-law and her teaching colleague converted their entire hall into The Polar Express... now this is what I call dedication! Great Job girls!

Happy Thanksgiving! ADHD Training and Support Material--

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Check out this resource!

Product Description: This resource is a set of training slides that serves to educate young teens, young adults, and adults on how to finish what you start. This presentation contains eleven strategies to help finish tasks! You can’t go wrong in utilizing this presentation with middle schoolers, high schoolers, young adults in college, and parents in a “Parent University” setting! 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ADHD-Training-and-Support-How-To-Finish-What-You-Start-2228748

Teacher Recognition Makes the Best Holiday Gift!

Nominating a teacher or school employee as a LifeChanger of the Year is a unique holiday gift that acknowledges their hard work and will make them feel special. It also provides the opportunity to win a cash award to be shared with their school.
LifeChanger of the Year is an annual program, sponsored by the National Life Group Foundation that honors K-12 public and private school educators and employees from around the country who are making a difference in the lives of students by exemplifying excellence, positive influence and leadership.
Nominating someone is easy to do. There is no cost and anyone—including parents, administrators, school colleagues, students (with approval from an adult), and other members of the community—can nominate any full-time K-12 public or private school employee.
 Additional details are included in the LifeChanger of the Year Holiday Campaign press release.  

http://www.prweb.com/releases/LifeChanger_of_the_Year/teacher_gift/prweb13076530.htm

Where Shall We Buy Our Christmas Lights?

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I have been thoroughly enjoying my Thanksgiving holiday at the beach house-- isn't great to just be able to relax and enjoy life! While here, I have enjoyed just getting to create a resource that I hope will be able to help you all during these next three weeks work on opinion/persuasive writing with your students! Check out this resource and let me know what you think?

Product Description: You surely do not want to miss this resource! This packet is 32 pages long and focuses on argumentative/persuasive writing. The students conduct research on the different types of Christmas lights and how to “elegantly” decorate their tree using the appropriate lights. After conducting research and reading articles which are provided including the source, the students develop a “hook” statement that will allow the readers to want to read more to determine the best decision to make in terms of buying and decorating with the proper Christmas lights. Next, after developing the “hook” statement, students utilize a graphic organizer that is provided, and develop their claim and actually state it. The next part of the graphic organizer allows the students to state three reasons why their claims is the best decision to make. As well, after stating and writing each particular reason, there is also a space on the graphic organizer for students to write their evidence in the form of a sentence that supports their specific reason for the claim. Finally, at the end of the graphic organizer, the students are to provide a concluding sentence for their claim. Students will enjoy this particular activity so much during the holiday season; you can’t go wrong with this teaching and learning activity!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Opinion-Writing-What-Type-of-Lights-Shall-I-Buy-2227035

November: National Picture Book Month.... Post Copied from www.picturebookmonth.com

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Check this out... worth your time...

Literacy Activity
Nov 13 ~ Numbers

Picture books aid students in visualizing mathematics within a narrative context. (from the Picture Book Month Teacher’s Guide: Why Picture Book Belong in Our Classrooms by Marcie Colleen, 2013).
Did you ever think of a number as being an important part of a story? Take the three little pigs, as an example. How would the story be different if there were six pigs? Or only two? Or what if Snow White stumbled upon a house of twenty dwarves? Change up the numbers in your favorite stories and see how it all adds up to creative writing fun!

Suggested Reading:
(1) Two by Kathryn Otoshi
(2) If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers by David J. Smith, illustrated by Steve Adams
(3) 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental, illustrated by Joelle Jolivet
(4) How Many Jelly Beans? by Andrea Menotti, illustrated by Yancy Labat
(5) Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford
(6) How Much is a Million? by David M. Schwartz

Be sure to download the Picture Book Month Teacher’s Guide: Why Picture Books Belong in Our Classrooms for more engaging ideas and activities to bring picture books into the ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies curriculum!

Have a great weekend!

Terri