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Notes From McTeach: August 2013
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Monday, August 19, 2013. Welcome to Seventh Grade! Now that you’re finally in seventh grade I have to tell you something:. I’m so excited to get to know each and every one of you! Not a day passed this summer when I wasn’t thinking about you and our seventh grade classroom (I hope you noticed I said “our” classroom because this space belongs to all of us! I know I haven’t gotten to know all of you yet, but I do know at least two things about each and every one of you:. You Are a Genius! You Are a Genius!
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Notes From McTeach: Photo Caption Contest
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014. One of my favorite writing activities to do with students is to provide them with a photo and ask them to write a caption for it. Yesterday, I shared a photo of a squirrel that I found on Pinterest. And asked them to write away. Not only did they love the activity, we all loved the captions they came up with. If there is no clear winner, then I'll create a second form with fewer choices. Thanks so much for your help! I like it.even though it should be Stop Hammer Time!
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Notes From McTeach: Helping Students Choose2Matter - Part 1
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Thursday, June 20, 2013. Helping Students Choose2Matter - Part 1. Power to the Peaceful. As the school year began, way back in August, I placed a question before my students and asked them to consider it throughout the year: "How will you choose to matter? At first I thought it wouldn't be a hard question for my students to answer. I teach at a Catholic school and our parish motto is to "Hear the Gospel and make a difference." They understand the idea. But asking students "How will you. I matter to my fr...
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Notes From McTeach: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014. One of my favorite writing activities to do with students is to provide them with a photo and ask them to write a caption for it. Yesterday, I shared a photo of a squirrel that I found on Pinterest. And asked them to write away. Not only did they love the activity, we all loved the captions they came up with. If there is no clear winner, then I'll create a second form with fewer choices. Thanks so much for your help! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Notes From McTeach: July 2013
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Monday, July 29, 2013. Let's Go, Team! It's almost GO time for me; two weeks from today I'll be back at school preparing for a new year with a new group of seventh grade lovelies. This, of course, means that I will be working diligently these next two weeks (in between naps) to create a year of Wonder (our new school theme) in seventh grade. I had the pleasure of giving a presentation on blogging to a group of teachers attending the MERIT program. Yes, I know it's cool.what else? And some non-C words:.
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Notes From McTeach: January 2014
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Saturday, January 11, 2014. Goodbye to Cliches Contest. Do you have one or two minutes to help me determine the winners in our Goodbye to Cliches contest? Last week I had my seventh graders rewrite some tired old lines and now we need your help to determine who gets the Smarties. I would really appreciate it if you, dear reader, could take just a moment and complete this form: Goodbye to Cliches Contest. And feel free to pass this along to all your friends and family members! Thanks for your help!
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Notes From McTeach: Using Padlet in Social Studies
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Thursday, January 1, 2015. Using Padlet in Social Studies. Videos. (If you haven’t seen one of his videos, I highly recommend it! This year, as we had just finished a video project, I decided to do something different with the Road to the Revolution project. Rather than have students create another video, I chose to assign a project that would use the website. Project Instructions and Rubric. Here is a Padlet that was created by one of my eighth graders:. January 2, 2015 at 7:14 PM. 365 Photo Project Wiki.
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Notes From McTeach: June 2013
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Monday, June 24, 2013. Helping Students Choose2Matter - Part 2. Here's the problem: Students are rarely asked the question "What are you most passionate about? So at the beginning of the year I use this question as a jumping off point for my paper blogging activity (you can read more about paper blogging here: Learning to Blog Using Paper. Another activity we do that focuses on our passions is to create heartmaps for our writers workshop binders (I found this lesson via Scholastic. Writing From the Heart.
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Notes From McTeach: Helping Students Choose2Matter - Part 2
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Monday, June 24, 2013. Helping Students Choose2Matter - Part 2. Here's the problem: Students are rarely asked the question "What are you most passionate about? So at the beginning of the year I use this question as a jumping off point for my paper blogging activity (you can read more about paper blogging here: Learning to Blog Using Paper. Another activity we do that focuses on our passions is to create heartmaps for our writers workshop binders (I found this lesson via Scholastic. Writing From the Heart.
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Notes From McTeach: Welcome to Seventh Grade!
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Monday, August 19, 2013. Welcome to Seventh Grade! Now that you’re finally in seventh grade I have to tell you something:. I’m so excited to get to know each and every one of you! Not a day passed this summer when I wasn’t thinking about you and our seventh grade classroom (I hope you noticed I said “our” classroom because this space belongs to all of us! I know I haven’t gotten to know all of you yet, but I do know at least two things about each and every one of you:. You Are a Genius! You Are a Genius!
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