YOU HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!

CLICK HERE to visit Mastery Connect, a website that will provide you with ALL KINDS of quizzes, tests, and activities aligned to the new Common Core Standards!

Once you register for free membership, you can simply add your area of content interest, grade level, and particular area of study in that content; and you will discover all kinds of things that can be incorporated into lessons, quizzes, or even common assessments.

This website has the potential of being the most beneficial website we have been introduced to this year!

THANK YOU, JOHNDA, at Olive Hill Elementary for sharing this website with us!!

SOME GREAT RESOURCE LINKS!!!

Thank you to UTES for sharing all of these resources at a recent academy!

 COMMON CORE NATIONAL STANDARDS RESOURCES

READ TENNESSEE WEBSITE

READING A - Z

READING EGGS 

SIGHT WORD WEBSITE

CHECK OUT THIS FIRST GRADE BLOG!!

If you're looking for some inspiration and great ideas, visit Mrs. T's First Grade Blog!

We added a link to the right entitled, "First Grade Blog - Awesome Ideas!"

Have a great week!

WRITING TEMPLATES FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

We've added a site to the list of education blogs today that is loaded with templates to get your elementary kids writing!

Check out this PreK-8 website and see what you think!!

Getting Your Students' Attention!!

If you're looking for some great techniques for gaining the attention of your students,

consider using the approaches from Doug Lemov's book,

Teach Like a Champion, 

which are discussed and demonstrated below in various classroom settings.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

We have added many new links to the blog in the past week.

Hoping some of them will help you as you continue to plan great lessons!

Edible Cars in Science Class!!

 WCMS students had fun creating edible cars this month.

Here's what Sarah Hall, one of Mrs. Knipp's 7th grade students, had to say about the project:

    Here is some of what we learned during this unit and with our edible car project:

 First of all we learned that friction is a force that holds back the movement of a sliding object. We realized that in our car we did not want friction, because our car wouldn't roll down the ramp as well. Therefore, we used slick wheels (Salami, in the back), and placed some marshmallow pieces in between the wheel and the banana we used for the body. Also, we learned that acceleration is the rate at which an object changes its velocity or vector quanity. To increase acceleration with our car, we used smaller wheels in the front and larger wheels in the back. Next, we were taught that momentum was mass, or weight, multiplied by velocity which is the rate at which an object changes in position. To increase our momentum, we used a banana for its higher weight and once again, the smaller wheels in front and larger wheels in the back increased our velocity as well which helped our momentum. Then, we learned that inertia was the tendency to resist changes in their state of matter so we froze our banana car to keep in solid and to prevent our marshmallow fluff from melting. Lastly, we expanded our knowledge by learning that aerodynamics is the study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air, so we used the banana because of its pointed front and stem in the back.

Check out all of the creativity!