[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Schools and families all over the nation are spending billions of dollars on hand-held mobile devices. In the United States, ninety-one percent of adults have the world at their fingertips 24/7. These […]
Lori H Rice
Lori Rice is a fourth-grade teacher at West Elementary in Wamego, Kansas, who has taught K-2 reading as well as kindergarten, first grade and fourth grade since 1996. She has a passion for creativity, learning, questioning and the whole child. Her classroom is a place of acceptance and celebrating differences.
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Communication: It’s Not Just Newsletters Anymore
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] The first newspaper was published in America in 1690.* This changed the way information was shared: from tales and gossip to written word. Beginning in 1885, newspapers were delivered daily by train. […]
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Let Them Think!
A few years ago I had a student in my classroom with a scrappy personality who was unafraid to speak his mind. One day, towards the end of the year, my fourth graders were working and one student came up and asked me an obvious question. From across the room Mr. Scrappy yells, “She’s not […]
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Back to School Tips for Elementary Teachers
Every year the back-to-schools sales start and I am excited and yet apprehensive about beginning a new school year. This is my 17th year teaching. Seventeen years of setting up a learning space for students and families. Seventeen years of a new class list, Open House, Parent Night, and the first week. Every year I […]
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Extend the Learning: An Important Classroom Management System
Learning is an ongoing process involving effort, failure, persistence, and growth. I have been teaching for seventeen years and I learn new things from my students every year. I am an exemplary teacher and yet I am not done. This is what I model and expect of my students as well. Learning is never “done.” […]
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Activities for Making It through the First Week (and Beyond)
The night before the first day of school I can’t sleep. I have my outfit decided and sitting out. I have my room arranged and decorated. I have read my student list and written names on lock tags, name tags, mailboxes, and the birthday poster. This class is mine. This will be my seventeenth “first […]
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“How to Use Problem-Based Learning in the Classroom” – A Book Review
Book: How to Use Problem-Based Learning in the Classroom Author: Robert Delisle Publisher: ASCD, 1997 [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] My classroom is an active room full of creative fourth graders. I spend the first month teaching them […]
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Is There A Doctor In The House?
Elementary teachers should wear a stethoscope, carry an abundant supply of bandages, and it would probably be beneficial to have access to a prescription pad too. Sometimes I wonder exactly what happens in that nurse’s office. It is a popular request by many elementary students, “Can I go see the nurse?” I have taught reading […]