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Tutors too expensive for summer reading help? Consider the Red Apple Reading Program.You get a free 30-day trial, so use it all June and see what you think! Watch a quick video to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1JS4MlsLAANB6tS_uONTw Then sign up … Continue reading →

You have the ideas. Create your own book and then have the school order it for your class! https://www.createspace.com/diy?ref=1383688&utm_id=6072  

Using Video To Enhance Your Sustainability Lessons! Dean Kindig (dkindig@harleyschool.org), Learning Resource Teacher Kids love to be stars.  Making videos that document your sustainability lessons goes a long way to facilitating parent-child communication about this important topic, which bears huge … Continue reading →

Name the states: http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states Name the states in 60 seconds! http://www.sporcle.com/games/miyomiyo1/blitz_states Name the states from their Capital! http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states_bycapital  – We have a 2nd grader who’s done this in 10 minutes. Can you name the US states for each letter of the alphabet?http://www.sporcle.com/games/GAJM41191/States_of_the_Alphabe Can … Continue reading →

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/uscapitals Kiran got 48 capitals typed in in 10 minutes. He knew the other 2, but ran out of time. I double-dog dare you to try and beat it!

https://www.pinterest.com/dmilka/2nd-grade-music/ My student teacher, Courtney, has a game where her student goes around what is essentially a Monopoly board, with Post-Its that have this week’s spelling words on them. The student rolls a die with 1-5 on the faces, with … Continue reading →

I was fascinated by memory powers ever since seeing Harry Lorayne perform. I even bought a book, Good Memory, Good Student to see if I could teach some of his memory principles to my students. I found a PDF of one … Continue reading →

http://lemonlimeadventures.com/sensory-hacks-focus-fidgety-child/ This was sent to me by my good friend and previous Computer Coordinator at Harley, Jim Tiffin. Some good ideas in here which we can use in SSP…they might help you in class or at home, too! I’ll add inexpensive … Continue reading →

Yes, there is a developmental aspect to laterality, and almost no kids at the end of second grade reverse b-d (I have only 2 that occasionally do it in Gr.3, and none do in Gr.4). Because it is developmental (like … Continue reading →

We’ve been working on context strategies, and you may like this list of strategies we’re teaching for use at home or in the classroom. 1. Is it a word that means the same? (“The tourists were tr_ _ _ _ … Continue reading →