10 FREE Downloads; Cyber Monday Sale, up to 28% OFF‏

Have you looked at this week's 10 FREE Downloads on TPT yet? There are some great holiday themed FREEBIES, and six of the downloads this week can be used at the secondary level. I passed along the links to the two Geometry activities to that PLC at my school, and "Winter Creative Writing Activities" link to our English Department head. I included my two favorite activities of the week below. I liked that some of Tracee's activities had a Twitter theme which always increases student interest, and that Krystal's activity incorporated the real-world application of animation to Geometry.

Winter Creative Writing Activities by Tracee Orman Grades 3 - 10

Using Translations, Reflections and Rotations to Create an Animation by Krystal Mills Grades 6 - 9

Cyber Monday Sale!

Don't forget to stop by TEACHERS pay TEACHERS today to clear out your wishlists with the HUGE CYBER MONDAY SALE! 

Liz's Lessons is having a Sale for 20% off ALL products, and then enter the PROMO CODE: CMS28 FOR an addition 10% off, or 30% OFF TOTAL! Sales like this don't come along very often! Today would be a great day to get some bundled products such as: 

 

Technology Template Bundle! 

18 Formative Assessment Templates!

Spanish Holiday Bundle!

French Holiday Bundle

French & Spanish Winter Holiday Writing Prompt FREEBIES!

Tis' the season for giving and freebies, so I created some great winter holiday activities for you and your language students! Have your students practice their French, or Spanish writing skills with some holiday themed writing prompts! This document contains 65 different writing prompts centered around Christmas, Hanukkah, and the New Year. There are prompts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. It also contains a sheet for your students to write their responses on. If you are looking for some holiday vocabulary for your students to use in the prompts, or more winter holiday activities you may be interested in my "Spanish Winter Holiday Vocabulary and Activities" or "French Winter Holiday Vocabulary and Activities" products as well. 

Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale!

Don't break the bank today because TeachersPayTeachers is having a big CYBER MONDAY SALE. Liz's Lessons is offering 20% OFF today through Monday, and then the TEACHERS pay TEACHERS PROMO CODE for an additional 10% OFF will be CMS28, this Monday November 28 only. Stock up for the rest of the school year!

NEW Bookemon Instruction Sheet & Rubric! Make your own books online!

I just posted a brand new product for teaching with technology! It's an activity for using the site http://www.bookemon.com/.  With bookemon you can easily create free books online that you can share with students, friends, and parents.

Ideas for using bookemon in the classroom:

• Create a class book of student projects.
• Have students write their own stories.
• Have students write a book in the target language in a World Language classroom.
• Students can use bookemon to make ePortfolios of their work throughout the school year. 
• Create a book of student poetry.
•  Have students write a biography about themselves in a language arts class, or foreign language class. 
• Students can make a family history book in a World Language class to practice family vocabulary. 
• Students can create a “How To” book in a World Language class to practice the imperative tense. 
• Have students create a travel book about a city or country in a World Language, or Social Studies class.

YouTube bookemon Tutorials:

Bookemon 02

Bookemon 03

Advantages of bookemon: 

• Creating a book is free! There is no cost to join, and no obligation to purchase.
• You can add many types of multimedia into your book-documents, PDFs, photos, images, links, etc. 
• It incorporates technology into your lessons. 
• Books are easy to share. You can share with friends on a website or blog, via social networks, or through email.
• You also have the option of publishing, and purchasing your book.

10 FREE Downloads; Giving thanks for this amazing job called teaching‏

 I really enjoyed this week's newsletter because it made me stop and reflect on what I really love about teaching, and why I am thankful that I have the opportunity to work in the field of education. It really is a rewarding experience to help young people to learn, and to reach their goals. I love being able to share my passion for learning French and Spanish with them. It is awesome to see students that I taught Level I in middle school now taking AP Language courses in high school, or studying abroad in college. The feeling you get from teaching is not one that everyone is lucky enough to experience. Make sure you read the newsletter to find out why other TPT teacher love teaching!

This week's newsletter had five free products for the secondary level. As usual, a lot of them looked really interesting, but my favorite of the week was "Daily Wordplay" by Arik Durfee. I liked that it makes students think critically, but that it is fun at the same time!

Daily Wordplay! by Arik Durfee Grades 7 - 12

November Instructional Resource Update

Hello Teachers!

I have listed below some of my favorite instructional resources that I have come across in the last month. You can find more website links that I bookmarked in November at http://www.diigo.com/user/Ebucrek. I hope that you will find something below that you can try out in your classroom soon!

Documents:

Blogging Rubric

Website Rubric

Notebook Rubric

PowerPoint Game Templates 

Websites:

www.scoop.it  
Have your students make their own magazines with Scoopit! Students can choose relevant content from the Web, edit it, and share. The site is similar to www.paper.li, but is a magazine instead of a newspaper.

80+Google Forms for the Classroom
Scroll down to see some examples of Google Forms that other teaches have created, and check out the slideshow presentation called "71 Interesting Ways to use Google+ in the classroom & Tips".

Teaching Channel
"At Teaching Channel we believe what makes teachers inspiring is how they became experts -- the hours and years they've dedicated to improving their craft to benefit their students. Our mission is to capture their technique on video so that all teachers -- new or seasoned -- have a place to find inspiration." Search topics such as behavior, differentiation, common core, etc.

Articles:

Alternatives to Traditional Homework
Scroll down to the bottom to see a chart with useful ideas and tips.

Other Teaching Ideas:

Paper Plate Venn Diagrams from Mrs. Moore's Busy Bees

Dry Erase Board Plastic Plates from Walmart from Learning Pavillion

Schema, New Information, Misconceptions Anchor Chart
                                                                     from The Good Life

Videos:

Piano Stairs-The Fun Theory For a little inspiration :) from My World Language Classroom