The Learning Tree Studio is excited to announce its very own New Year's Workshop!!
New Year, New Classroom will be exactly what teachers need to keep them pumped and energized to finish the year strong with activities that students will keep begging for. The morning will start off with teachers completing a variety of tasks ranging from 3rd to 8th grade and from all subject areas. What can you do with a hula hoop in a 4th grade Science and a 7th grade Texas History class? How about speed dating with some dead presidents and endangered species? You should come and find out! The best part about The Learning Tree Studio's workshops? After a relaxing lunch, teachers head back to dig into their lesson plans and curriculum to add in the activities from the morning. That's right! Who doesn't love time to actually plan and create something that they learned at a workshop? So, sign up today! Spots are limited and going fast!
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The Learning Tree Studio is excited to announce our first giveaway winner... Pam Whitaker We can't believe we had over 750 tickets in our first giveaway. We truly are delighted to see so much support pouring into our dream of providing quality, hands-on training to teachers.
We have some awesome news to share!! Because our clients loved this giveaway so much, we will hold one each month!! Continue to check back on our website blog for more tips and ideas from The Learning Tree Studio that you can use in your classroom. Sometime in November, we will host another giveaway!! ![]() The last post about using everyday items in the classroom, I talked about paper plates. Boy, do I love my paper plates! Today I wanted to share with you another one of my favorite things...paper airplanes. Wait, what? You allow your students to make and fly paper airplanes in the classroom? You bet! The other day I had some notes that my students needed to know about how to write a really awesome body paragraph in our essays. It was a lot of information to front-load on them. I knew that if I had just given them the notes and talked about them, they were not going to retain anything I taught them. I had recently attended a workshop from the Writing Academy. If you haven't gone to it, you totally should. In our training we used a paper airplane to write our notes on. First, we made the airplane and put our names on them. We wrote down one thing from our notes page that we thought was interesting, and then that's when the fun began. After they had their sentence written, my students chunked the airplanes into the air and it was mass chaos for a few seconds. We found an airplane that was not ours and read what the first person had written. We then added a second sentence from our notes that was different then the first. We did this about five times before we tried to find our original airplane back. Not only were my students engaged in the lesson, but they also had read over their notes quite a few times. They read what the other students had written, and they also had to read their notes page over and over to find new information to add. My kids had so much fun doing this activity, and based on my observations the next day, they totally understood what they needed to include in their essays. Have you ever used this strategy before? We would love to hear about it! Did you find this strategy helpful?
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AuthorLaura Gokey is the owner of The Learning Tree and is working towards her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Regent University. She currently lives in Livingston, TX with her husband of fourteen years and her two children. Archives
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