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Hi Teacher,
Need ideas for this week? Here you go!
- An idea that teaches students about identifying theme
- A fun game to practice coin values
- An activity that helps students build their opinon-writing vocabularies
Happy teaching!
Tina from The Mailbox
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Identifying a story’s theme
Help students understand theme by guiding each student to identify the most important thing about herself that she wants others to know. Next, have her personalize and display a desktag with that fact. Point out that each student's statement is an important message about that child. Then explain that in each book or story, the author is sharing an important message that he or she wants others to know. That message is the book's theme. Follow up by guiding small groups of students to read a picture book, determine its theme, and then make a desktag that shows the book's theme. Display the books and their desktags along with a definition for theme.
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Easy Money
Coin values
Fast-paced and fun, this partner game builds students’ money skills. To prepare, simply cut apart the provided game cards and key. Stack the cards facedown. To play, each student takes 12 cards and keeps them facedown in her stack. One player says, “One, two, three, easy money,” and both players reveal their top cards. Each child says the value shown on her card. The player with the higher value takes both cards and puts them on the bottom of her stack. If the cards have the same value, the cards stay on the playing surface and each student reveals her next card. The player with the higher value takes all four cards (or however many are still in play). The student with more cards at the end of play wins!
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Word Alert
Writing opinions
Students take a page from another author’s work to build their own opinion-writing vocabularies. To begin, tell students that some words act as signals for one person’s thoughts or feelings. Next, title a large sheet of paper as shown and write words like best and worst below the title. Explain that these are words often associated with an author’s opinion. Then present students with an opinion piece written by an older student at your school. (Be sure to keep the author anonymous.) Have students look for words and phrases that signal that his words are his opinion. After discussing why the words reflect an opinion, add the words to the chart. Continue to provide students with opinion samples until they have a long list of words and phrases to choose from when writing their own opinion pieces.
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