Miss B., Busy Bee

Monday, May 18, 2020

Hands-on Reading Projects

Looking for some hands-on reading projects for intermediate, middle, and high school grades? These engaging ideas include templates, examples, and explanations for students to show what they know. They can all be done on paper or digitally!

Projects include:

-Diorama

-Triorama

-Character Interview

-Scrapbook page

-Movie poster

-Newspaper

-Yearbook page

-Timeline / Plot diagram

-Diary entry

-Travel map

-Song Scenes

-Foldable book

-Pop-up book

-Cell phone dialogue

-Play

-Comic

Students can be given the ability to choose between 16 projects or all students can complete the same project with different books. This Google Slide presentation includes links to Google Docs templates that students can use to complete projects as well as links to other websites where projects can be completed digitally. Rubrics are also included for some projects.

Download these projects here.

#projectbasedlearning #PBL #remotelearning #distancelearning

Looking for other digital projects and lessons? Check these out:

-Bitmoji Bookmark Projects

-Digital Memory Book

-Digital Escape Rooms

-Concrete Poems

-Meet an Author Opinion Writing

-Digital Escape Rooms

-ABC Research Book

-Country Research Report

Friday, May 15, 2020

Daniel Day, a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood! We were disappointed that Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Live was cancelled, so we made one special day all about him and his friends... but really, isn't every day a Daniel Day? We sing his songs all day long!

Our little man wore his new socks and shirt and slept on his new pillow case / sheet set.

We watched Daniel Tiger shows,

read Daniel Tiger books like Day and Night and What's Special at Night?

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as well as Daniel Tiger 5 Minute Stories.

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played Bingo and Welcome to Main Street game,

used the Color Wonder pages and markers,

sang his songs,

added stickers to his ABC book,

and best of all, helped his friends ride on Trolley.

We even found backgrounds to print for more character play and Colorforms (put them in sheet protectors or Ziplock bags if you don’t have a laminator). Ugga Mugga!

https://pbskids.org/daniel/games

https://pbskids.org/daniel/art-and-songs/printables

Check out some other fun preschool activities!

Food Fun

Music Mania

Moose Muffin Monday

Sesame Street Saturday

Firetruck Fun Friday

Digging Dinosaurs

Earth Day activities

Pig Pancakes and Pudding

Going on a Bear Hunt?

Frog Fun Friday

P is for Potty Printables

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Digital Memory Book

Looking for a fun way to end the school year? This 18 page Google Docs digital memory book is such a fun and engaging writing activity. Students will love it. Create a digital Google Docs memory book for your younger students or with your child or have students create their own! This resource includes 18 pages of activities, including a place for students to publish their best story and poem, to record favorites and interests, awards for themselves and classmates, and to record events. Perfect for remote, virtual, or distance learning.

Easily editable! Currently set for 2019-2020 school year in fourth grade, but can be changed in minutes.

Download this resource here!

Looking for other digital projects and lessons? Check these out:

-Bitmoji Bookmark Projects

-Digital Memory Book

-Digital Escape Rooms

-Concrete Poems

-Meet an Author Opinion Writing

-Digital Escape Rooms

-Digital Memory Book

-Digital ABC Research Book

-Country Research Report

-Hands-On Reading Projects

Bitmoji Bookmark Project

Looking for a fun way to motivate students to read or summarize what they've read? This project is so fun! The purpose of this project is to encourage kids to check out books that they may not have considered in the past. They will also get to know the names and faces of the classmates in the classroom or building. This is a great project for virtual or remote learning and to motivate students to read during the summer or all year round.

This resource features step by step directions to create a Bitmoji, 3 examples, and 25 sets of 3 bookmarks for your students to create digitally. Download it here!

Projects like these work best when students are preassigned page numbers. For third graders and for teachers working remotely, I suggest having the teacher type student names underneath the "Recommended by" so there aren't arguments over who is typing on each slide. One requirement I had was that students could not repeat books, so it was motivating to complete bookmarks before anyone else could "steal" their ideas.

Want to get staff members involved? Download my Staff Bitmoji Bookmark Project. These are great to laminate and have on hand in a school library.

Need a video to learn how to create a Bitmoji?

Download the Bitmoji app here.

Already have a Bitmoji and looking for learning / teaching ideas?

Create your own Bitmoji stickers, paddles, posters, bulletin boards, and more!

Looking for other digital projects and lessons? Check these out:

-Bitmoji Bookmark Projects

-Digital Memory Book

-Digital Escape Rooms

-Concrete Poems

-Meet an Author Opinion Writing

-Digital Escape Rooms

-Digital ABC Research Book

-Country Research Report

Monday, May 11, 2020

Meet an Author Opinion Writing

Are you tired of the same old opinion writing prompts? Here is one my students love. They write to tell which author they'd like to meet and explain why. They also tell what learn about the author from research as well as write about what they still want to know.

Students are expected to provide reasons and evidence to support their opinions. You can also have them write an introduction paragraph persuading their audience to fundraise money to bring the author to their school.

Click here to download the document.

Check out my author study on Teachers Pay Teachers!

Here are some famous authors I've met as well as their websites for research:

Patricia Polacco - read all about her author visit!