Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Teachers
For social studies last week my students made digital riddles on important places in Oregon. I made a list of those places (although the kids could have, but it would have added a day to our project). The students worked Continue reading Oregon Geography Riddles
To do this poem, I first start with students writing a floor plan of their house. They label on it memories they have. The next day I share I am from poems previous students have done and I share mine.
My students are just starting to learn about Oregon and its regions. To get them fired up about Oregon and all the things that are special about it, I created a Kidspiration they needed to fill out.
My students learned how to use the application Garageband for peer editing. They were all in the middle of working on stories and were at a perfect point to get some feedback on their writing.
Fourth graders across the state of Oregon get to participate in a writing assessment during the month of February. In preparation for this I spent a day teaching them how papers are graded using the state scoring guide. First I Continue reading Technology and the Writing Scoring Guide
I do a unit every year where students create a mental map of the world in their head. Part of the process of doing this is experiencing the world map in many different forms, from drawing it on white boards Continue reading Virtual Map of the World
I have been getting my students ready to take the Oregon State Writing test and wanted to introduce 3 different ways of looking up misspelled words. In order to give them a chance to do all 3 choices in short Continue reading Editing Contest!