Alana Richards

Scaffolding Winter Holidays/Solstice

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Winter is the time of celebrations of light and a wonderful opportunity to teach our young students about these celebrations all over the world. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise  the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish the […]

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Scaffolding Winter Holidays/Solstice

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Winter is the time of celebrations of light and a wonderful opportunity to teach our young students about these celebrations all over the world. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise  the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish the

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Rainbow from the Ashes!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the essence of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your young students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving. Help your students

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Rainbow from the Ashes!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the essence of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your young students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving. Help your students

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Rainbow from the Ashes!

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the essence of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your young students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving. Help your students

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Pop-Up Images! – Finding Differences

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Make learning visible by challenging students to find the distinctions between the images in two montages. Studies show that giving pre-schoolers the opportunity to learn how to discern what differs is just as important as them learning what is similar when meeting new phenomena. We can help

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Pop-Up Images! – Finding Differences

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Make learning visible by challenging students to find the distinctions between the images in two montages. Studies show that giving pre-schoolers the opportunity to learn how to discern what differs is just as important as them learning what is similar when meeting new phenomena. We can help

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Pop-Up Images! – Finding Differences

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Make learning visible by challenging students to find the distinctions between the images in two montages. Studies show that giving pre-schoolers the opportunity to learn how to discern what differs is just as important as them learning what is similar when meeting new phenomena. We can help

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Scaffolding Halloween (Pre-School)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of this scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… We’re going to address Number Sense.Number sense in a Halloween activity?Yup. It will make sense right away…Students don’t develop number sense by accident or even as a side effect of engaging in informal activities such as puzzles or songs

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Scaffolding Halloween (Pre-School/lower primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of this scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… We’re going to address Number Sense.                   Number sense in a Halloween activity?               Yup. It will make sense right away…               Students don’t develop number sense by accident or even as a side effect of engaging in

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