Welcome to K-3 Teacher Resources Tips & Updates Newsletter No. 8
February 2008
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*Welcome
*Monthly Teaching Tips Winner - 'Teddy Bear Language Experience'
*Teachers Zone
*Teaching Tip - Using ANY Flashcards for Bingo
*New Resources
*Resources Coming Soon *Welcome..
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*Monthly Winner - Teaching Tips Contribution.. Congratulations to Sharyn from Tasmania, Australia who has won a free year of Membership to our Site. Thank you Sharyn for submitting your wonderful 'Teddy Bear Language Experience' Idea. You can view this winning idea here. Sharyn is also one of our Teacher Zonees - you can read more about Sharyn and what she is doing in her classroom - Please help our Teaching Community and be in the running to have your Great Teaching Idea in our next Newsletter, as well as your next Year's Membership for Free. SUBMIT YOUR GREAT TEACHING IDEAS/ PICTURES/ HERE - TAKE A LOOK! I am sure there are many fantastic bulletin boards ideas out there, please send us some photos of your boards and just of your classroom set up in general would be great - you can submit bulletin board pictures here, and general classroom pictures here. Thanks
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*Exciting New Concept -'K-3 Teachers Zone' Thank You to our fabulous 3 Members who have started us off with some terrific introductory submissions. We look forward to hearing more about your Teaching Journeys. We have had many other Teachers sign up and are awaiting their first submissions with much anticipation. If you have signed up and not yet submitted why not just drop us a quick first submission today - don't forget they don't have to be long submissions and often before you know it, you are off and running. Submissions can be a great way to reflect and consolidate your own Teaching / Classroom goals. (Please note: If we have not received a first submission from you after 1 month we will very sadly need to take your profile page down to make room for others, thanks!, please let me know if you did not receive your confirmation email) Also, it is great for our 'Zonees' to receive feedback, so please drop in a comment in the box after reading their submissions to encourage them. But, we would love YOU to become a 'Zonee' and share your teaching journey with us all - pictures of your classroom set up, what you are doing in your classroom, what has worked, what has not worked - it all goes towards helping our Teaching Community and it's fun to participate. We have hundreds of teachers from all over the world visit our site everyday and view our Teachers (your) submissions. Join Us Today at the Teachers Zone
*Teaching Tip Time... Using ANY Flashcards to play 'Bingo'....at ANY time.... Bingo boards can be made by the children at any time. Decide how many sections you need on each board. For example 8 sections is usually a good amount. Each child has a blank A4 piece of paper. Ask them to fold the paper in half - 3 times and press the folds well. Undo the paper so that the 8 sections are showing from the folds. (This can all be changed depending on the ages of the children, for example older children may cope with 16 sections, younger children may only need 4 sections.) OK, now choose the flashcards you want to use in the Bingo Game - usually the ones you are focussing on in your program at that time. As a rule of thumb you usually need at least 2 times the number of sections you have on the Bingo Boards. So if you have 8 Bingo Board sections, you need at least 16 different flashcards. Pop these flashcards up where they can easily be seen, and ask the children to copy 8 different flashcards, one in each section on their A4 page. Each child should now have their own unique bingo board. You can now go ahead a play Bingo by calling out the 'flashcards' - children then can put a cross on their sheet, or you can use counters. Winners can be first to make a row, or for younger children with only 4 on a page - first to have all of their 'flashcards' crossed. Don't forget 'Flashcards' can be anything really. Word flashcards, number sentence flashcards with the answer being called out, alphabet flashcards with a word or picture beginning with that letter being shown or called out. There are so many uses for this great little Bingo activity. This activity is also really great for group work. I also used this a lot when supply teaching - great impromptu activity. Hope this helps...Cheers
*New Resource Additions to Membership Site... Theme Word Sets ** Places and Spaces  
Nursery Rhymes Poems and Songs ** Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
  
Alphabet Printables Resources ** Supersize Alphabet Cards  
Primary School Maths Resources ** Addition Cards
** Subtraction Cards
** Division Cards
** Multiplication Cards         ** Printable Multiplication Tables BLANK MULTIPLICATION TABLE IS A FREE DOWNLOAD   
*Resources Coming Soon.... Themes - 'Gardening', 'Space', ' Weather' Nursery Rhymes - 'Little Miss Muffet', 'Simple Simon' More Yes / No Question Cards - Nursery Rhymes Concept Books - 'What is Short?', 'What is Tall?', 'What is Heavy?', 'What is Light?' , 'My Teddy Can...' Attribute Mats
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