January's Language Skills Focus is. . .

For our Speech Language Pathologist:
each month she works on lessons in the Learning Lab with her students.  January's focus, which I am just now getting to post. . .was on synonyms, antonyms, left/right, ordinal numbers and skipping.  Here are some resources that I found for her and I hope that you can use some of them as well :)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Smart Board Lessons:

Synonym/Antonym Song

Synonyms & Antonyms

Websites:

Synonyms & Antonyms Websites

Tons of resources!!!

Synonyms Game

Synonym/Antonym Game

Antonyms Game

Synonym Sam's Lab

Synonyms and Antonyms

BrainPOP:

Synonyms, Antonyms & Homonyms

Left/Right

Smart Board Lessons:

Left/Right

Screenshots you can use so that the children can circle left and right.

Ordinal Numbers

Smart Board Lessons:

Ordinal Numbers

Ordinal Numbers

This will link you to the search in Smart Exchange.  There were too many good ones to choose from!

Websites:

Ordinal Numbers

Squigly's Apples

Position & Location

Smart Board:

Position & Location

Happy Teching!

Maria

Animal Migration

Another of our teachers, whose students range in age from K-5, wanted me to find some resources on animal migration.  After some digging. . .this is what I came up with!

LOVE BrainPOP and you should too!

BrainPOP:  Animal Migration

Here are some games focusing on migration!

For this first site, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page to find a list of games your students can play focusing on migration.

Migration Games

Animal Migration

The Cat in the Hat's Animal Migration Game

Now we have a list of information websites.  Most include videos of the animals in action.  Also, there are many animal specific informational websites available and I've included a few. . .

Here's a cool project to do with your class:

Track Spring's Journey North

Power Point Presentation on Animal Migration

Sandhill Crane Migration

Tundra Swan Migration

Gray Whale Migration

Hummingbird Migration

Why Animals Migrate

Happy Teching!

Maria

Black History Month

A teacher in our building was teaching about American history from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement and asked me to find some resources to support her teaching.  Here's what I have so far. . .if you find anything else or have a great resource. . .please share it with us in our comments section.

This BrainPOP video is all about slavery from ancient times through it's time in the U.S.A.  Remember that you need a BrainPOP membership to view these videos, but look around you.  I'm sure either a local district or library has one!

Slavery

This book, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, has been mentioned in several blogs I've been reading.  Here's the link to one post from National Geographic:

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

Here' the link to Amazon:  Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

If you choose to read the above book, there's a Livebinder link to a resource for a Literature Circle on Slavery.  It's a wiki that you'd have to join, but it looks very promising!

Livebinder:  Literature Circles-Slavery

Here's a reference site for more Children's Literature related to African Americans.

African American Children's Literature

Here's a YouTube video entitled Slavery:  The Downward Spiral.

Here's another video brought to you by the Week in Rap crew.  It's called Ghosts of the Civil War.

Now, I have some websites/online games that you can use with your students.  Love the Smart Board for this!

Journey Through the Underground Railroad

Slavery and the Making of America

Great reference sites for your planning/teaching. . .

Black History and Heritage Month

Black History Month

Happy Teching!

Maria