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3rd Grade Grammar Activities ROUND-UP

3rd Grade Grammar Activities Round-Up Looking for 3rd-grade grammar activities? I got you! I put together blog posts, interactive notebooks, and Google Classroom products that will make your grammar activities and lessons easy-peasy! Read below to find a treasure trove of ways to make your back-to-school season engaging AND easy to prep!   3rd Grade Grammar Blog posts Digital games and activities for subject and predicate How to make teaching grammar fun How to teach common and proper nouns The 4 Rules to live by when teaching singular & plural nouns   3rd Grade Grammar Digital Resources Grammar for Google Classroom Grammar Digital Mystery Pictures 3rd Grade Grammar Interactive Notebooks Grammar interactive notebook   Have questions about a particular 3rd-grade grammar...

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6 Ways to Gamify your English Language Arts Classroom

By Presto PlansSome of the most memorable moments I've had as a teacher—and as a student—were class activities that had competitive elements to them. Maybe you've had a similar experience. Games in the classroom not only serve to entertain and build connections, but they also help students retain important information.WHAT IS GAMIFICATION IN THE CLASSROOM? Gamification is the pedagogical strategy of bringing elements of games into a learning environment in an intentional and thoughtful way in order to improve student skills. This kind of game-based learning helps students to become further engaged in the content while also developing their critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, it provokes students to become more accountable for their own learning, seeing themselves as important...

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Music and the Mystery of Being Alive

“We are a music-making species — always have been, always will be — and music’s capacity to explore, express and address what it is to be human remains one of our greatest communal gifts.” “Sound is sea: pattern lapping pattern… Matter delights in music, and became Bach,” the poet Ronald Johnson wrote as he contemplated matter, music, and the mind. A generation after him, a young woman discovered that when the mind is suddenly unmattered, Bach remains. One midwinter day shortly before the pandemic paralyzed the world, Clemency Burton-Hill — an underground London garage DJ turned BBC host turned creative director of America’s oldest public radio station for classical music, and a lifelong lover of Bach — suffered a catastrophic...

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100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Child: Advantages of Home Education

Why do some people go to all that trouble and educate their children themselves? Why not take the easy route and send your children to school, especially as it’s already funded in so many instances? It can be difficult to understand sometimes, but here are 100 reasons to homeschool your child. By the end of the article, you’ll be able to see why this educational pathway has grown so much in popularity of late! Below we’ll break up the reasons for homeschooling into 7 categories, namely: Social Reasons Religious (Christian) Physical Relational Mental  Academic Practical  Let’s dive in and get started!   Social Reasons to Homeschool Your Child 1. A home learning environment will generally have far less peer pressure...

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31 Top-Rated Online French Courses: Tested and Proven

With 29 countries and territories that use French as their official language, and with France having some of the world’s most highly regarded literature, it’s no wonder that there are a multitude of online French courses available. Sourcing the right one can become incredibly tedious, so to help you make your decision on the best one for you, we’ve put together a detailed list of the highest-rated language learning courses that encompass both French language and culture. 31 Top-Rated Online French Courses Table of Contents 1.  I Will Teach You A Language 2.  French Uncovered 3.  Pimsleur 4.  Coffee Break Languages 5.  News in Slow French 6.  Babbel 7.  French in Action 8.  Duolingo 9.  Learn French with Alexa 10.  Memrise...

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