Lesson Learned

Get Ready for a Sizzling Summer

Dear Teachers,

Thank you for celebrating you! Attached is your summer fun guide to get you ready for time well spent off. So many of us will be attending professional development workshops, yet do take time for yourself in order to refresh. Scrapbooks That Teach hopes that this e-handout will spark some brain flames beyond the grill!

TeacherLove,

Heidi

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Baseball in the Classroom

Peanuts, Cracker Jack, Chevrolet, and Apple Pie. All these things remind me of baseball. Have you thought about using a baseball game in your class for the end of the school year? Academic, social, and meets national standards. End your school year with a crack of the bat and your students will remember you always! Strike 3, batter up, it's a home run! Be sure to capture the play with a photo that shows the students skills and being successful on the academic skills in your classroom. That's academic scrapbooking!Download Using the Baseball Game in the Classroom 

Have a great end of the year teachers! And don't forget to send home the students' photos of their academic scrapbooking adventures through the school year. These photos will really capture the parents' interest as it shows their child's skills on a task and it shows the student being successful.

Remember, the keeps going until the second week of June and then Scrapbooks That Teach will return mid-August.

thank teacher colleagues

 Hello to Thursday Teachers,

Congratulations to teacher Blair E. who has won the autographed courthouse mouse book!

Surprise and bring a smile to a teacher's face as they grab their attendance from their mailbox in the morning. Use this card image as the front to a card to thank a teacher.  

Right click, copy and paste onto another document, print and fold into a card and trim. Easy! Write a  short sweet message on the inside thanking the teacher for something they do very well in their classroom or being a mentor. Pop into their staff mailbox-- on the secret of course.

The recognition you give others will come back to you in osme form!

Happy teachers week!

create bubbles with bleach

Here's a really cool idea: use a bleach pen on a dark colored piece of paper. Smear it all over as if it were glue. Then take a piece of bubble wrap (or any other textured material) and press it into the smeared bleach. Press gently and lift. Did it create the bubbled effect you wanted? If not repeat by smearing the bleach on the textured material this time, and again turn it over onto the dark piece of paper.

Another idea is to use the fine tip of the bleach pen to write words on dark paper (black, brown, red, etc).

 

Give Away Gifts Day

Dear Teacher Leaders,

You're awesome! Scrapbooks That Teach also thinks that you need some positive reinforcement. While we too know of 201 ways to verbally say "way to go", "that was a perfect lesson", "your kids love you", we also think a tangible here and there is always fun!

Surprise! Look below at the images and decide what you'd like for your classroom. Send you name and preferred gift to teacherscrapper2008@yahoo.com for your opportunity. If we draw your name from the emails, we will contact you for a mailing address. We will ship free to your school. Simple as that!

 

 

 

Making Writing Bubbles

These fun bubbles  are called adhesive and ink accents that students can use to make writing fun. Reading-Writing connection in the curriculum.

Directions for Older Students: Cover a chipboard accent with a clear liquid adhesive, such as Diamond Glaze, and immediately add a few drops of two colors of alcohol ink. Use a paintbrush to swirl the ink in the liquid adhesive until you get a marbled effect.

OR

Directions for Younger Students: Using a transparency and a circular template, draw several circles with colored marker pen that will be used as accent bubbles. Cut and trim on the outside of the marker pen. Using glitter glue, outline the marker pen and let dry. Students will be able to practice writing dialogue with vis-a-vis pens, erase with a dry cloth, and try again until happy with the results.   

Here are more photos.

Creative Visual

Download Splat creative visual

Dear Teacher Leaders,

Double click to open up the creative visual. Here's a hint: be sure to print the actual image as a whole page.

Here's how to use:

1. warm up journaling

2. on scraPPage as a teacher sample of a completed product.

3. in a rotation station

4. print multiple copies in color and give as group work

5. print multiple copies in color, cut into different shapes and use as jigsaw pieces to put students into groups

6. Hold up copy for making whole class inferences about the bubbles and wind lesson.

What else can you think of?

Happy National Teachers' Day!

Download Bubbles and wind Teacher Wk lesson

Dear Teacher Leaders,

It's that time of year again! We are celebrating YOU! At Scrapbooks That Teach, we celebrate all week, so be sure to check back each day for your FREE goodies!

Again, thank you for being a teacher!

Q4 Field Trip: Ok Corral

Hello Teacher Leaders, Our field trip to Tombstone, Arizona occurred on a windy, freezing cold day in March. We can't believe how darn cold it was in the southeastern corner of Arizona. Expecting warm weather and guess what! we weren't dressed warmly enough. Russell, our photographer, was so cold that the camera kept shaking and we would all gather around him to help brace him from the wind. Lesson learned about regional weather!

We have 3 photos for you to use royalty free in your classroom, plus a bonus one to use for compare / contrast skill building. See below for the activities.

Here's the bonus photo! Activity #1: Compare the old wild west as seen in Tombstone with that of present day contrast as seen in the same photo. Even our elementary aged students will appreciate this one as the effects are so glaring. It's perfect for building skills.

Activity #2: Apply the present day modes of transportation to that seen in the photos of the past. What generalizations can be made about the changes in transportation over the years. Can you build a timeline from the 1800's to current day showing these changes? What inventions needed to have been made in order for the changes in transportation to have occurred? What invention would you make today to help facilitate a modern mode of transportation that is more efficient for the natural resources we have available today,

 

Activity #3:  Explain the process step by step on how we resolve disagreements today. This is an excellent activity with this photo as a creative visual to use  after a conflict on the playground or in the classroom between older students. 5-10 minutes to teach a skill from the issue is life altering for some students who otherwise might not learn the skill.

Activity #4: These look like a bunch of scruffy rascals from the wild west days! Ask students to engage in the process of making a friend with one other person in class that they don't typically spend time with. The person now becomes their clock buddy for the rest of the school day. The point of this activity is the actual process that takes place. How do they know who to choose for a friend? What values and morals are they looking for in a friend? How did they find something in common with the person they chose (or were assigned to by the teacher)? Teachers, build some safety skills in this activity. Not a full lesson necessarily, but an activity that allows students to not do role play, but actually engage in the process of making a friend and then as a whole class discuss the process that everyone engaged in. Provide whatever guidance is needed so that this activity will stay with the students.

{Teddy}Bear with Us Please

Hello,

Please {teddy} bear with us as Typepad fixes our new signature at the bottom of our entries. We are sorry that the photo signature seems to have taken over the entries making it more difficult to read. Thank you for your loyalty!

TeacherLove, Scrapbooks That Teach

National Parks Travelers Club

Hello Teachers!

In my quest for summer preparation (hee-hee) I have found the most awesome club on Facebook. www.facebook.com/NationalParkTravelersClub

You must check it out and like! What a fun way to spend the summer and days off. I have the national park annual pass which cost me $80 for an entire year. I buy it every year at the end of March. That way I get an extra week free as the annual park pass is valid from April 1 to March 30. I also have stamps in my national park passport book-- I have like over 200 stamps. I have been visiting national parks since I was a little girl. My very first national park was Grand Canyon-- I still remember it. And, my beloved grandmother Mimi bought me a camera for the trip. I was 8 years old. Ok, enough sentimentality! :)

Get out there and start visiting, teachers!