Families as partners

To continue this month’s focus on collaboration, I am featuring a short article on helping families understand differentiation. This piece from Reading Rockets includes websites that can be shared and ideas for roles that parents can play in the differentiated classroom.

FUN FRIDAY: Tactile landscapes

We are over at the Crayola website today with a lesson that could delight your sensory-seeking students. Artistic learners will love it as well. The lesson involves having students analyze different landforms and match them to textured materials (e.g., wax paper to represent waterfalls, sandpaper to represent the desert). Once they decide on a range […]

Collaborative art (and recycled too)

I love art that is collaborative in nature because it builds community and a sense of togetherness while allowing different students to contribute in different ways.

FUN FRIDAY: Tactile landscapes

We are over at the Crayola website today with a lesson that could delight your sensory-seeking students. Artistic learners will love it as well. The lesson involves having students analyze different landforms and match them to textured materials (e.g., wax paper to represent waterfalls, sandpaper to represent the desert). Once they decide on a range […]