For an end-of-year wrap-up, ask kids to look back and write down (or draw, or photograph) one thing they can tell they got better at this year (academic, interpersonal, etc.). Then celebrate their progress by making a display in your classroom!
Peggy Hart, a teacher from Massachusetts, writes in to propose a homework assignment with a social element, in order to draw students into identifying sentence fragments and run-on sentences. “We are always asking students to self-edit their work for spelling, punctuation, run-on sentences, and the like,” she writes. But instead of having them practice on [...]
Here’s a True-False test where the kids don’t see the questions! Starts them thinking about probability (and tests).
