Elizabeth's Posterous

Elizabeth  //  Do What You Love, and Love What You Do!

 
Jan 26 / 11:44am

Word Families- Teacher Website

Hello again everyone. Today's website it helpful for teachers who are teaching primary grades. It lists all the possible "word families"; once you click on a word family, it then lists a whole bunch of words that are formed with that family. You can print these out, laminate them and paste them on a word wall, or give the kids these words to sort, learn with, or read as sight words. This takes a lot of the work out of creating word families. It's as simple as click, print, and teach! Happy reading :)
 
 
Jan 19 / 2:43pm

Website- Letter Formation Poems

Here is a great website that I came accross to help students memorize how to write the letters. It has one-liner poems for each letter and describes what you should be doing with the pencil in order to write the letter correctly. Thought this would be great when teaching K and 1st grade.
 
Dec 31 / 3:05pm

Thematic Units-Teacher Website #4

This weeks website is two for the price of one! Actually, they are both free :) The first site is for grades K-2nd, and the second is for grades 3-5. The sites basically list unit plans that were made from other teachers to fit the standards and these grade levels. The part I like best about it is that many of these units include technology! Plus, they are thematic, which means the can be spread across the subject areas and meet multiple standards all under one common theme. Kids (and people in general) learn best when they can connect one idea to another that was previously learned, so using thematic units is a great way to help students make connections. Happy unit planning :)
 
 
 
 
Dec 18 / 11:31pm

What Do You Wanna Be When You Grow Up?- Website

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This podcast is an overview of a website that is helpful when searching for your perfect career. It is an excellent resource to use for yourself or students. Here is the link to the website:
 
Occupational Outlook Handbook- http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
Simple Version for Students- http://www.bls.gov/k12/teachers_guide.htm 
 
Dec 18 / 4:12pm

Need a teaching job? Well here's how to get one! - Teacher Website #3

This weeks website is for ALL wanna be teachers! "The Apple" helps teachers get their jobs, and keep them. I came across this website when I was searching for possible questions that I would be asked in an interview to become a teacher. It provides 100 Teacher interview questions. If you click on the link above entitled "Interview Tips" you can see other posts such as; "Top 15 toughest interview questions and their answers," "What NOT to do in an interview," "Ultimate interview advice for teachers," and much more. Now get out there an find those jobs people! Good luck!
 
 
Dec 14 / 6:33pm

What Do You Wanna Be When You Grow Up? - Chaplain

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Dec 10 / 10:50pm

Sing Songs!- Teacher Website #2

Hello again everyone! This week's recommended website for teachers is http://www.mrsjonesroom.com/songs/alphlist.html. A fellow teacher friend recommended this website to me, and it is most helpful for Kindergarten/1st grade teachers (MAYBE 2nd grade) and especially teachers who aren't afraid to belt it out in the classroom! It provides songs to nearly every single phonetic letter sound in the book, as well as consonant digraph songs and short and long vowel songs. The songs are set to familiar tunes like "Mary Had a Little Lamb" or "Skip to my Lu" etc. It even provides a section on "How music promotes learning," in case anyone asks you why you and your kids are always singing so much!I can see kids really getting into this and using it to help them remember how to spell and sound out letters and words. Happy singing :)

 
Dec 9 / 8:46pm

Podcast II- What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? - Nurse

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Dec 4 / 11:43pm

Puzzled?- Teacher Website #1

As I have gone through my degree in Child Develoment, my teaching credential, and now this technology masters program...I have come across some great teacher friendly websites that have been very helpful. So these blogs from now on will share some of these websites that I think anyone interested in helping or teaching children may be interested in. This weeks website is: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ . This website is awesome for creating your own custom word searches, criss-cross, double puzzles, fallen phrases, math squares, mazes, letter tiles, cyptograms, number blocks, and hidden messages. It's so easy you can even have the kids go on this website to make their own! Perfect for time fillers and vocabulary words. Search around on the site and you'll find a lot of other teacher friendly resources. Happy creating :)
 
Dec 2 / 7:51pm

College Interview Podcast 01

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This is my first podcast for EDUC 515. In this podcast, I interviewed a freshman college student to find out what she enjoys best about college. This is in hopes to modivate younger students to get excited about attending college.