Teachers Have Class! Issue #4/January 2010 January Teaching Resources and Ideas
Welcome to the fourth newsletter of Teachers Have Class from Unique Teaching Resources!
I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and a wonderful teaching year for 2010!
As I look on this new year beginning, and the start of a new decade, I feel like I have already embarked on a new beginning and challenge for myself with starting my own web site. I want to thank all of the teachers who have written to me with words of encouragement as I was just starting my website in 2009. At the beginning of each new year, people traditionally set a lot of goals for themselves, and I have set many for myself and for Unique Teaching Resources.
I took a bit of time off during December to enjoy the holidays with my family. I feel enthusiastic to start back to work again and the possibilities and challenges that this new year will bring to me. I hope that you enjoyed your holidays with your family and friends, and that you feel refreshed and revived to begin 2010 with your students.
As you re-enter your classroom on your first day back in January, look around at your students and remember that you teach the future. In your students you could have the first female president, the austronaunt who will fly the first space craft to Mars, the scientist who will discover the cure for cancer, or the humanitarian that will reach across borders and oceans to help those in need.
Special Reminder:
The links to download the free teaching resources that are found in this edition of Teachers Have Class will only be available for 5 days.
So, be sure to download your free January teaching resources promptly!
The first thing that teachers do each month is change their calendar. Below is my January Penguin Calendar Set and the link to download it.
"Reading is SNOW Much Fun!" is a snow globe reading sticker chart set that will motivate your students to read at home during January.
You can cut out these reading sticker charts along the thick black lines to have uniquely snow globe shaped reading sticker charts. There are separate templates to use for boys and girls.
I added more resources to my sticker charts web pages, including a math incentive chart in the shape of an ice cream cone that grows as students master learning each multiplication times table.
I added a large cooperative group project to my Charlie and the Chocolate Factory web page. On this page you will find a large Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory Group Project for students to complete. For this activity, students describe the main events that happened in the Chocolate Room, Nut Room, Inventing Room, and the Television Chocolate Room. For this section, students describe what happened to August Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, and Mike Teavee in these 4 rooms. They also describe Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and the Oompa-Loompas.
Below is an example of my students with their finished projects.
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Please be sure to check out the other pages on my website for a large variety of other teaching resources that will engage your students in learning and save you valuable time.
Sincerely, Heidi McDonald
Creator and Site Manager
Unique Teaching Resources
Welcome to the fourth newsletter of Teachers Have Class from Unique Teaching Resources!
