All Spanish Products on Sale until Oct. 4th!!

In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, I decided to put ALL of my 19 Spanish TPT products on Sale until Tuesday, October 4th as a little gift to Spanish teachers.  Here is some information about my Top 3 Selling Spanish Products:

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Remember playing MASH when you are in school? Have your students play in Spanish in order to practice the future tense, profession, residence, and transportation vocabulary. This activity will get your students' interest and they will enjoy sharing their future with the rest of the class!

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Show "Casi Casi" in your Spanish classes! Your students will love it! The activity includes 17 fill in the blank comprehension questions in Spanish and also includes an answer key.

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Teach your students some new vocabulary for Easter in Spanish! This document includes Easter vocabulary and expressions, and a crossword and word scramble with answer keys. Feliz Pascua!

French and Spanish Halloween Vocabulary and Activities!

 I posted a new Spanish Holiday product today! Go to Teachers pay Teachers or Teacher's Notebook to see Spanish Halloween Vocabulary and Activities. The product includes 35 vocabulary words with clipart, blank Halloween Bingo cards and directions for how to print off your own Halloween bingo cards online, bingo word list, wordsearch, word scramble, and directions for making virtual Halloween Greeting cards in Spanish. Feliz Halloween! 

There is also a French version of this product on my page that I posted a few weeks ago. 

TPT 10 Free Downloads featuring my "10 Active Games" Freebie!

Make sure you stop by TeacherPayTeachers to check out this week's 10 Free downloads. You will see that my "10 Active Games" product has been featured this week. I posted the product for grades 6-11, but I received some feedback from an elementary teacher that they are also applicable to lower grades. I edited the grades to now show 3rd-11th grade. 

Incorporate movement into your class to increase learning! Games that incorporate movement can help increase academic performance and long-term memory, help awaken the mind, and are fun and engaging. Includes explanations for how to play the Plunger/Flyswatter Game, Concept Relays, Paper Basketball, Catch and Throw, Snowball Fight, Hot Potato, Tic-Tic-Boom, Spelling Race, the Circle Game, and Magnetic Darts. These games were some of my students' favorites!


(Linking up to Mind's in Bloom "Get Those Kids Moving Link Up!"

Technology Template Bundle on Sale for National Keep Kids Creative Week!

My 3rd best selling item is on sale for only $6.50 for the next week for National Keep Kids Creative Week! Teaching with technology has many great benefits such as making assignments more engaging and interactive, increasing interest and motivation, facilitating the transfer from teacher-centered to learner-centered environments, enhancing the authenticity of the learning process, and helping develop 21st Century Learning Skills. All of the activities in this bundle also give students the ability to be creative as they choose the design for their final product! 

This document contains student instruction sheets/templates for eight popular websites used in education: Wordle, Glogster, Wallwisher, Stripgenerator, Bombay TV, Blabberize, Voicethread, and Xtranormal. Just write in the concept students should demonstrate understanding of in the assignment and you are all set! The document also contains a list of links for teaching ideas for the sites, and checklists and rubrics for most of the assignments. Checklists can be used as a formative assessment check on a rough draft, and rubrics can be used for the final summative assessment. 

Go to the Teacher 2 Teacher Blog to see more creative thinking assignments on sale on Teachers Pay Teachers, or add your own assignment!

Hispanic Heritage Month Resources

As you may know, Hispanic Heritage Month is from September 15-October 15th!  I have been coming across many activities online for Hispanic Heritage Month that you can use across the curriculum, so I put them all together in one spot for you. Here are they are- 

• Hispanic Heritage Month | Thinkfinity

• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage!  Scholastic's Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Online Activity provides your students with an opportunity to discover the contributions and rich cultures of Hispanics in the United States. Hispanic Heritage Month honors the diverse peoples of Spanish-speaking backgrounds who have come to the United States from more than 20 countries. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage is designed to coincide with this special month or be used throughout the year.

• Latino Virtual Gallery an interactive learning environment that enhances vistitor's knowledge and appreciation for Latino cultural heritage. LVG is a 21st century interdisciplinary approach to science and humanities.

• Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Home

• Hispanic Heritage Lessons, Worksheets and Activities from Teacher Planet

• National Hispanic Heritage Month 2011 | EDSITEment

• National Hispanic Heritage Month

• Images for Hispanic Heritage month (maybe some you can print off and hang up in your classroom, or use on a bulletin board)

• Smithsonian Education - Hispanic Heritage Month 2011
  

• Hispanic Heritage Resources for Teachers From Teacher Vision The study of Hispanic heritage offers you the chance to explore many diverse and rich cultures with your class during Hispanic-Heritage month. These lesson plans, printables, activities, and references will enrich your classroom study. Inspire your students to get excited about diversity!

• Education World: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

• Hispanic Heritage Month begins today. - ReadWriteThink

• Hispanic Heritage Month - FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format .. 

• PBS Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2011 : PBS

  
  
• Discovery Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month                                                            

September Instructional Resource Update

Each month as Student Achievement Coach, I send an email to the teachers in my building that includes some of my favorite resources for teaching that I have come across recently. Since I now have the Blog, I'll be sharing those updates with my followers as well! I have already blogged about some of the items below in the last month, but in case you missed them, or prefer to see them all together, here they are!

Useful Documents:
1. FREE Facebook "Like" Comment Notes - Fun for Everyone! 
(By Rachel Lynette of TPT) Bring Facebook to real life!  Fill in the blank on the card with your name. Write a comment about something that you like that one of your students did. Give them the note. Great positive behavior support technique. You could also have the students write them for each other. 

2. The Learning Pyramid. Check out this Pyramid of Average Learning Retention Rates based on the learning activity. It is interesting how lecture comes in last at 5%, and Teaching Others (90%) and Learning by Doing (75%) come in the highest.

Great Websites!
3. Mastery Connect makes it simple to share and discover common formative assessments and track mastery of state and Common Core standards. Built-in grading tools save teachers time. Looking for an assessment based on the new common core standards? Search for assessments that other teachers have already made! This is also a great way to share common core common assessments in your PLC and across the district. FREE to join!

4. Stroome Web's first collaborative online video editing platform! Mix it up. Mash it out. Edit videos online anytime, anywhere with anyone. Upload your own footage or remix thousands of user-submitted -- for free.  Work on projects alone, or with others. Kind of like Google Docs, but with videos. This is a great site for group video projects because students can collaborate on the same video.

5. Class Dojo Manage behavior and keep your students engaged with ClassDojo. I think this system would be especially good for Freshmen Experience Teachers and 9th grade teachers. I think that our students will enjoy it, and it is a good tool for positive behavior support. It is also a good way for teachers to track student participation.
Class Dojo Tutorial on YouTube

6. Online Stopwatch Do you need to keep your students on task? Try putting this digital stop watch up on your projector screen. It is nicer than a regular time because your students can see how much time is left. Good for pacing individual, pair, or group work.

7. Differentiation Sqworl Sqworl makes it easy to organize and share multiple links with just one url. Easy and clean visual bookmarking. I created this Sqworl on Differentiation for one of the PLCs here. It contains 13 useful sites related to differentiation. Using Sqworl in the Classroom YouTube Video

Educational Apps:
8. Common Core Standards App-FREE

Educational Articles:
9. 5 Simple Steps to get Students to do Work (even if they don't want to)

10. 6 Traits of Quality Pre-Assessments These tips might be useful for teachers of honors classes, or classes with a wide range of mixed ability.

Google Voice and Remind 101-Options for texting students and parents

There are a few great options out there for using text messages to communicate with students and parents. I know that it is not something that many of us ever expected doing in the past, but it does have a lot of advantages. Students are always looking at their cell phones and other mobile devices more than their school planners. Why not take advantage of that and remind them of important tests and project due dates on their phones? Also, it is a helpful option for shy students to have the opportunity to ask questions that they were afraid to ask in class. I know we have all also played phone-tag with parents, and always have work email coming out of our ears! Texting with parents can save you time making phone calls and sending emails. Here are a couple of videos to tell you more about Google Voice and remind101.





Remind101 from remind101 on Vimeo.