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Teaching Ideas
Your lessons should always include components that provide the optimal learning experience for different learning styles. That is not to say that every lesson needs to have the children up and bouncing around but neither does it mean that the direct teaching method is preferable to teaching models that allow for different learning styles. Even direct teaching can do this with just a little creativity. On this page you find ideas to expand your lessons with little activities that can fill an extra five minutes. Some Ideas
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*Alternate
between slapping the knees and clapping the hands for multiplication drills.
*Get the kids
up and dramatize the math--built an array with bodies, subtract and add bodies
or build and divide groups of bodies. You give the command and the students
work together to form the group. This is extra fun outside and works with all
age groups. Older students may begin reluctantly but soon they let loose and
have fun and learn.
*Math/spelling/***- Baseball-For fairness don't allow children to choose their
own teams. You should use list to determine teams. Grab a piece of paper and
draw a line down the middle. Get out your class list. Find your weakest
speller and put him on one side. Now find your strongest speller and put that student's name on the same side. Do the same until you
have used up all the names alternating the side of the line you list the
pairs. So hard to explain in writing. The idea is to balance the teams. Create
a baseball diamond in your classroom. Each team is up to bat until all their
members are pitched a "question" Play continues for 9 innings. The winning
team is the one who gets the most runs.
*Teach
children about music-beat, 4/4, 2/4 1/3 Let them hear it!
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