Teach Classically

Hi Teachers! Here is a free resource for you to use in your classroom! This awards set includes 26 different virtues or personality types, with a scripture matching for each one. There's a mix of humor in some of them. Hope you enjoy awarding your students for a wonderful year! Here's a list of awards included: -Bright Light -Burning Bush -Cheerful Giver -Classroom Comedian -Creative Spark -Encourager -Extra Manna Needed -Faithful Friend -Fearfully and Wonderfully Made -Finish Line -Fisher of Fr

Enjoy this peaceful poem from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass with your students. It invokes imagery of summer while reflecting on childhood innocence, imagination, and how quickly happy moments pass by like a dream.

Here's a little chant to brighten up the lesson on comparing numbers!

Print this out and copy double sided. Fold in half and staple into cardstock, scrapbook paper, or construction paper so your students can make books galore! Lined paper will keep their handwriting neat.

Memory work handout for the Nicene Creed.

If you are reading a book with the theme of friendship, or if you are teaching about how to be a good friend, use this resource! For our unit on Charlotte's Web, I had my students get into groups and practice elocution by reading the poem they chose aloud to the rest of the class. You could also use it as a memory work homework assignment. Includes 3 poems: The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spider's Web by E.B. White, and Hug O' War by Shel Silverstein.

Use this handy mat to teach your students about tens and ones place value with base ten blocks. You can also leave it in your math center in a sheet protector and have your students roll dice and fill out the form with a partner.

This song goes to the tune of "Ten Little Indians". Super easy and effective way of having your students memorize all our Presidents.

A math mat to teach multiplication as equal groups during the concrete portion of Singapore math. Use with any manipulatives.

This is a useful tool for guiding your students in summarizing. Once they are able to draw out the important ideas in the beginning, middle, and end, they are then able to put their sentences together to create a written summary that is 3-5 sentences in length.

Print this out to teach your kids the fun chant to memorize the doubles through 20!

Use this fun activity with your multiplication unit! This helped my second graders to understand arrays, repeated addition, and the communicative property of multiplication. It's a hands-on, tasty, and visual way to get those brain juices flowing. I used Cheerios for this activity- anything larger would limit your mulitplication fact choices. ;) Here's an example: Tell your class to build the number sentence 3 x 5. The students would take 5 Cheerios and put them in a row at the top of the first

Here is a wonderful poem to have your students memorize, especially at the beginning of the year, when you can speak to their hearts about persevering through many challenges they will be facing academically, socially and spiritually.

A beautiful poem by William Shakespeare! Have your students memorize one of his most famous sonnets to enrich your history, literature, or fine arts lessons.

A poem about perseverance to add to your collection.

Send your students on a little scavenger hunt during your measurement unit, rulers in hand.

A fun poem to memorize at the very beginning of the school year, or at the very end. Can't go wrong with Robert Louis Stevenson!

Get your students thinking biblically about the virtue of courage. Think of a Bible story in which the person had to show this character trait. Read the verses, discuss the questions, and write the answers.

Happy October! Enjoy this poem about leaves by poet George Cooper. It contains personification and imagery perfect for ushering in the fall season.

Simple, but easy way to help your student remember the rules for subject-verb agreement if you are teaching Shurley English Level 2 or 3! If the subject is singular, add an s or es to the verb. If the subject is plural, use plain form (no s or es).