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Feliz de septiembre!

September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Social Studies, Content- Foreign Language

Along with back to school, September is also Hispanic Heritage month! Scholastic has combined a series of classroom resources in Celebrate Hispanic Heritage!  Your students can explore history and culture.  There are mini profiles on famous Latinos as well as piñata concentration game (which would work well on an interactive whiteboard!) (from MiddleWeb) .

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PBS Media

September 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts, Content - Math, Content - Science, Content - Social Studies, Content- Cross Discipline, Content- Foreign Language, Content-Art, Video/movies

PBS Learning Media hosts a diversity of material from PBS programs.  You can search by subject (and then by grade, media types, language, and features). You can sign up for a free account and then bookmark your favorites!

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I am, you are, he, she , it …

April 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts, Content- Foreign Language

  I can remember verb conjugation – I can do some of it in my sleep.  But how about in German, French or Spanish?  Verbs Online provides an easy way to practice verbs in all their wonderful tenses and in several languages.

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Putting your words in a cloud!

February 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Content - Language Arts, Content - Science, Content - Social Studies, Content- Foreign Language

  Last week I had the chance to work with Lori Belotti’s sixth graders.  They had created poems and we used Tagxedo to create word clouds. The students entered the text and then unleashed their imagination!  The results word clouds were then shared with the call via edmodo.  These are just a small sample of [...]

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