5 Things To Do Before School Starts!
Hello everyone, August has arrived and one way or another we will be in school! Here are 5 things you gotta do before school starts! 1. ) Take a look at your pacing guide for the year and gather the supplies,…
Lori
I am Lori Wolfe, the teacher behind Fun to Teach. I live in Ashland, Oregon with my husband Sunny. Oh gosh, my Sunny and I have been married longer than we have not been! I love to garden and play around with mass plantings. Gardening is like teaching and every year I get to recreate my garden just like my classroom! It blows my mind, but I have taught for 23+ years. Time really does fly when you are having fun. When I began teaching I was head over heels with bilingual (English and Spanish) 1st and 2nd grades. I graduated to third grade some years later and finally moved to teaching English to English language learners. That is when I found my true calling! ❤️. The creation of this website and my 2 blogs help me keep my educational practices sharp, my resources fresh and the motivation for teaching, dynamic and FUN! I’m so excited to share my love for teaching, resources, and ideas with you.
☝Distant Learning Tip
☝Distant Learning Tip ☝ Provide each family with a list of basic virtual classroom etiquette for your online classes. Include in your lists things such as, muting microphones, using sidebar chats (if you provide them), adding classes to a google…
⏰ ELLs and Specific Learning Disability
English Learners and Specific Learning Disability As ESL ELD teachers we are always worried about misidentification of English learners. Specific Learning Disability (SLD) is a language and literacy-related disability referring to a psychological processing disorder. If focuses on understanding or…
🌻 Masking Techniques 🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 🌻 Masking Techniques 🌻 Hello Teacher World, Recently a classroom teacher asked me about tips or suggestions I had for English Language Learners that have developed masking techniques to cover their lack of oral language understanding during lessons. Do…
Great Learning Websites for Elementary Kids
Hello everyone, Wherever you are, my wish is that you and your family will remain safe from the COVID-19 virus. As we teachers scramble to create remote and distant learning opportunities for our students I thought I would compile a…
💕 Phrasal Verbs & Academic Equivalents
Hello everyone 💕💕Let’s talk about Phrasal Verbs! Phrasal Verbs are very common in oral English, their understanding is essential for communication and reading comprehension. Furthermore, when writing formally there are two reasons we strive to use the academic or formal…
📚Something good to read! 📚
Hello everyone! Are you looking for 📚Something good to read! 📚 I am reading Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond. I thought I would share my…
What to teach and when!
Hello everyone,We are entering October, we are getting to know our students and starting to reevaluate our curriculum guides to match where our students are now. As I review my curriculum and make changes I reviewed a poster from a previous…
⏰Time for Past Tense Verbs⏰
Hello everyone and thanks for joining me! Teaching irregular verbs can be a boatload 🛥of fun. Students quickly understand that irregular past tense verbs don’t end with ed but make the past tense more creatively! Sometimes past tense verbs are…
🌻 Passive Voice versus Active Voice 🌻
Hello everyone,I was doing a bit of investigating the other day into the differences between the active and passive voice. In a nutshell this is what I found! I would love to know some of your favorite ways to teach…
