Jayne Robbins

This Powerpoint will guide your students and parents through this engaging poetry activity and emerge twenty-five minutes later with a smile on their faces and an original poem in their hands! First, the writers in your room will be invited to think about how enjoying a poem is like eating a chocolate chip cookie. Then, using the well-known poem "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" (which is in the public domain, so no copyright worries) they'll explore rhythm and rhyme. You'll all be tapping out t

This PowerPoint will guide your students through the process of partitioning a rectangle into same-size squares using a ruler to measure columns and rows in inches. Most of it is animated and proceeds without mouse clicks. Follow up this presentation with the activity sheets posted separately: Partition A Rectangle Into Same-Size Squares: Four Activity Pages.