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I spend hours writing stories for my students and, after going over it with them, I usually don't want to just hand them a worksheet. I want to play with the story more! Get them more involved in it and more hands on. And I don't want to work too hard to make that happen! lol Here are some activities your students can do with a story after you are done reading it. Some take very little time and some are more time intensive. Alpha Boxes: Basically, the students need to come up

I love playing games in the classroom but I will only play games that require a minimum amount of resources. I'm like The Lorax, I speak for the trees, and I just can't handle anything that uses paper that will just be thrown away. Most games require some kind of scoresheet but not this one! Hooray! I got the idea for El Toro Enojado after playing Exploding Kittens with my family one night. This version isn't nearly as complicated but it's still loads of fun! What is this gam

I love love love traveling but what I do not enjoy, in any way, is navigating the airport system. This is a list I'm starting to compile of the airports I have gone through and what you can expect in each airport. I have each airport in 3 sections, if possible; Departing from, Arriving to, and Connecting. I'd love to add on your airport experience! Atlanta, Georgia Departing: This is a big airport but one of my favorite ones to fly through domestically. It is well laid out a

I tried something new in class today and it turned out well! I combined an Annotation Activity I read about on the ComprehensibleClassroom.com website and another activity I had read about called Cutting Up Text Evidence on Senora Jota Jota’s website. The kids understood this was new for me and they were game to give it a try and to help me write the instructions for it! Why do it at all? As my lovely 16-year-old son said, when I told him about it, “Mom, you should call it

I recently attended a local presentation and was blown out of the water by the ideas the presenter, Deb Blaz, shared with us on no- to low- prep activities. Below are the ideas I thought would be most useful to me in my classroom. I also loved the idea of having the Special Person of the Week be able to choose from the list of No-Prep ideas if they didn't like their song. I was thinking about posting 4 different signs on my board that would read: Song, No Prep Idea 1, No Prep

I'm sure you know this pain. You've been teaching Spanish to your students all year; maybe even for multiple years, yet they still come up to you and ask their question in English. Argh! I sometimes wanted to make a sign that I could hold up that would say, "En español, por favor." I let this challenge simmer in my brain and what I came up with is to give my student's a cheat sheet. So I made one! I'm going to use this handout when school restarts in the Fall and see if it he