Category Archives: Teacher Tip

End of Year Activities

As the school the year starts to wind down, it’s a great time to bring in some of your parents to volunteer.  Have parents come in and teach the students about a hobby or something fun they know.  I once had a parent who was great at making paper airplanes.  My class spent an afternoon…

Teacher Talk

Teacher Tip Recently my computer crashed and the tech fixing it explained everything to me.  I understood none of it.  It was all technical mumbo jumbo to me.  Which brings me to my teaching tip.  When talking to parents, don’t talk “teacher lingo”.  They don’t need to hear about phonemic awareness and diagraphs and diphthongs,…