Givin' It a Try... Manic Monday

I've been a fan of Classroom Freebies and Classroom Freebies Too for quite some time. In fact, it was these two blogs that encouraged me to turn from a traditional website to a blog myself. I've followed Manic Monday nearly every week, checking out what's available, who the bloggers are, and downloading MANY wonderful products. Now that The Teacher's Desk 6 blog is up and running, it's time for me to be an active participant in Manic Monday. I'm offering a St. Patrick's Day Take Three. This is a simple activity that is easily adapted to nearly any grade. I'll be using this with my fifth and sixth graders this week, and our fourth grade teacher is using it with her students. My kiddos will be doing some quick internet research, writing sentences and paragraphs, and doing some spontaneous speeches about the material. It's a great filler activity, homework assignment, cooperative group project, etc. I hope you can find some use for it. You can download it HERE, or by clicking on the link below the graphic.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6Q14Z2f7SoAMWpwZzRfLWZXZXc/edit?usp=sharing

Enjoy all the wonderful items available for this Manic Monday! Just click on the button and off you go!

Happy Teaching, Angela The Teacher's Desk 6 teachersdesk@yahoo.com

Mystery Picture Parts of Speech FREEBIE

My sixers love them! Mystery pictures! I first used them years ago when I taught math for a brief stint. I had an OLD packet of color-by-number math sheets that took the drudge out of routine computational work. When I no longer taught math, I passed the packet on to the math teacher who, by the way, never used the sheets.

I saw these mystery pictures again this past Christmas. Only instead of a math orientation, they were designed for students to practice parts of speech. And they were aligned with the Common Core State Standards. YES, right up my alley! I purchased a few sets on Teachers Pay Teachers and presented them to my fifth and sixth grade Language Arts students. They were a hit! The kiddos asked for more.

Instead of returning to Teachers Pay Teachers for more, I decided to try my hand at creating my own Mystery Pictures. I came up with a few that were quite acceptable and a bit more challenging than those that I had purchased. My sixers were impressed so I offered them at my own TpT store and they've been selling nicely ever since! Especially my Angry Birds Mystery Picture. Check it out HERE. With this one being so popular, I've been developing yellow and blue angry birds and a green piggy mystery picture for parts of speech. They will be ready in a few days and will be available for purchase in my TpT Store.

The luck of the Irish touched me and I got into the holiday spirit so I developed several mystery pictures for St. Patrick's Day. These are offered separately and as a bundle in my TpT store. They feature a leprechaun, a leprechaun's hat, and a rainbow. You can view them in my store window to the right of this post. I also created a pot of shamrocks and have decided to offer it as a FREEBIE! This Language Arts mystery picture features VERBS: helping/linking, present tense, past tense, and future tense. You can download it HERE or by clicking on the link below the picture.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Mystery-Picture-Parts-of-Speech-4

Happy Teaching,
Angela
The Teacher's Desk 6

Paragraph a Week

I wish I had a dime for every email I have received during the past year since I closed the original Teacher's Desk website that asked about Paragraph a Week (PaW). I probably could've paid for my license renewal that is coming up at the end of this school year. Some of the emails were teachers desperate for a prompt that was needed for a lesson. Some were not so pleasant, one even to the point of threatening me with a lawsuit. While still others wished me well with my endeavor to "publish" the program and offer it on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Paragraph a Week is still available... if you know where to look. HINT: Check out the blog post below, the one about the life-saving website, dated February 20, 2013. It's tucked away in the Lesson Plans drawer, in the Writing File.

I have been working on Paragraph a Week during this past year, coming up with a fresh user-friendly format. I'm only about a tenth of the way through the extensive warehouse of prompts. At last count there were over 100, many original to me, many submitted to The Desk by visitors, and many created by the 5/6 Connection user group! It is my plan to finalize the program and offer it in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store sometime during the summer of 2013.

Until then, I'll periodically post a prompt for you to read, use, or comment upon. The first, not actually a paragraph assignment, is for St. Patrick's Day and features a story starter. You can download the file HERE or by clicking on the link below the picture. Erin go bragh!

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6Q14Z2f7SoAbkxEMU42VDRaZ2M/edit?usp=sharing

Graphics From the Pond 

http://frompond.blogspot.com

Happy Teaching,

Angela

The Teacher's Desk 6

teachersdesk@yahoo.com