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Just found and read this article that really helped me get a new perspective on relating math to the students.  I think these four habits can be used for all different subjects. 

This article was excerpted from Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners by Valerie Schiffer Danoff. These strategies are part good thinking and part best practices. They work for ELLs and EO students because they activate prior knowledge, encourage students to work together, and provide sensible foundations for teaching and learning in a classroom setting.

Pinterest is one of my favorite sites. I have come across so many great ideas for lessons and activities! I am about to look up reading fluency games for Teaching Reading and Integrated Language Arts.

These Social Studies lyrics are available from a variety of albums. Use songs to teach American geography, government, history, patriotism, and culture. American Geography Songs The 50 States and Capitals Song- Tim Pacific Directions to Nowhere (How to Read a Map)- Joan Maute, Ed.D. Gonna Name Our States- Music with Mar.

Wow, this site has so many fun ideas!! I'd love to use these in a classroom. I can even remember some from my elementary school and middle school days. I think it makes teaching and learning these "facts" more fun for everyone.

This website gives good examples of how to teach that will help students with ADD and ADHD succeed and want to learn in the classroom.

Lots and Lots of good ideas!

Scholastic has many resources and tools for teachers. Lessons ideas and strategies, book resources

NCTM has tons of resources for math teachers and for elementary teachers teaching math!

Pinterest has many education and teaching ideas! Very addicting website! HAPPY PINNING!

This is a different perspective and something that another country is doing, Singapore.

This website provides a collection of ideas and resources for hands-on learning

Strategies for teaching reading. Includes specific activities and suggestions.

We have been talking a lot about responsive classroom so thought I would post the website. My teacher uses it all the time. Check it out!

This is the official website of the Responsive Classroom program, a unique approach to elementary teaching.

A great list of formative assessment ideas. Many of these are perfect to use as the framework for building a whole lesson around.

Find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, etc.

Love this for teaching poetry units.

Resources Free Downloads Great stuff!

I found this website very helpful in my teaching science class. This site incorporates ways to get students out side and learn from the outdoors. It lists different learning activities students can do at home, or with friends to extend the learning of science into home life as well.