The five-finger rule is a strategy from a student agency to help early reader students choose a personal reading with the perfect difficulty for each one independently.

Tip: Paste this poster in the corner of the classroom library so that they can support themselves in the choice

Pick a Book: Choose one from your classroom library.

Open a Page: Flip to any random page.

Start Reading: Read word by word.

Count: Raise a finger for each word you don't know or can't say.

Check: At the end of the paragraph, see how many fingers you have up.

Decide: Use your finger count to see if this book is a good fit.

This booklet is a great way for working initial writing, pencil grip and fine motor skills while practicing school supplies vocabulary. I printed the pages, cut them in half and stapled them together as a booklet. Students have to trace the words, color the school supplies and at the end, they have to choose their favorite school supply, draw it and write it by themselves. 

After we read our literature book "My new boy" by Joan Phillips we played this comprehension game in Genial.ly where the students had to choose the correct answer. You can also use it as a fun way tu evaluate how much they understood from the book. 

Complementary with This is and These are class

Book "Family and Friends 1" unit 3.

In this Power Point you can find a game where you can practise the use of this is and these are. You need to show the students the picture with the two sentences and they have to choose the correct one. 

Daily Routine's are an excellent moment to build confidence and let our students express themselves a 100% in English. This is why I always use Mind Maps and choose one of my students (the "mini teacher") to guide the routine. 

In this pdf you can find 3 routines. The three of them includes a presentation. the presentation of the book main character (Bobby Bear from the AMCO program), feelings (differnt feelings in each routine) and days of the week (today is, yestreday was, tomorrow will be). The first routine also includes the favorite color.

This project is to be completed during all the unit of Solar System.
You might want to complement it with videos and Power Points, or any other source of information, because the idea is for students to take notes of thing that catch their attention about the Sun and Planets, and in the end they just colour and "build" the fact fan. If you want students to research, this is also a perfect project to get students started on it, but it needs to be really guided and give them the sources of information, to make sure they are reliable.
My 3rd graders really enjoyed this project, they learnt to take notes and they also acquired more autonomy.

They way I did it, was that I gave them 2 options: The fact fan (this project) and also a mobile (that is also uploaded) and they chose the one they wanted to do. Both booklets are organized in such a way that students have to do exactly the same thing in both, but the "format" of the final project changes. Students were also very enthusiastic about having the option to choose their final project.

This project is to be completed during all the unit of Solar System.
You might want to complement it with videos and Power Points, or any other source of information, because the idea is for students to take notes of thing that catch their attention about the Sun and Planets, and in the end they just colour and "build" the mobile. If you want students to research, this is also a perfect project to get students started on it, but it needs to be really guided and give them the sources of information, to make sure they are reliable.
My 3rd graders really enjoyed this project, they learnt to take notes and they also acquired more autonomy.

They way I did it, was that I gave them 2 options: The mobile (this project) and also a fact fan (that is also uploaded) and they chose the one they wanted to do. Both booklets are organized in such a way that students have to do exactly the same thing in both, but the "format" of the final project changes. Students were also very enthusiastic about having the option to choose their final project.

 

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The Six Thinking Hats by Bono is a powerful tool developed by the thinker, psychologist, and writer Edward de Bono in the 1980s to enhance creative and critical thinking in decision-making and problem-solving and to develop lateral thinking.

In the educational context, this technique can inspire a deeper and collaborative approach to learning.

This technique involves using six imaginary or physical hats to focus on the problem or challenge from six different perspectives.

It's also possible to ask each student to consider a situation or problem from the six perspectives if you want to conduct this activity individually.

PDF containing: 

• Explanation and theory of the topic 

• Posters with guiding questions for each hat and thinking style. You can project and explain these to the students or print them and place them in different parts of the classroom or a hallway to indicate the different workstations for each thinking type. 

• Interactive notebook format. Two formats of interactive notebooks with the guiding questions for your students to follow. Two blank interactive notebook formats for the teacher to add questions or even for asking students to think of questions related to the topic and each thinking style. 

Google Form with questions. You should modify the Google Form as per the instructions to add what you want your students to work on.

PDF with topic explanation, printable posters, and interactive notebook formats

Google Form

This is a Power Point about Travel Brochures.

The idea is that students get familiarized with the definition and elements they must include in order to reach their advertising aim.

Also, they have to choose a place, think about that place by answering some questions and then finally, write their own travel brochure.