February 2019 – La Maestra Loca

Brain Breaks Part 14: Face-off!

I love Brain Breaks that give me an excuse to review our TPR for high frequency words.... Some teachers, like Paul Kirschling, and Mary Overton choose to use ASL gestures for their TPR, while others (like me) make our gestures up. Here is a blog on what gestures I use with lots of videos. :)…

February 15, 2019Brain breaks, Teaching Strategies, Videos

Lesson plans and resources Teaching Strategies Videos

Milking a Video Chat: Part 2

I love love love using short videos in class for input! I always try and milk the videos after spending a class (or many classes) getting through it... I do this with lots of reading... A couple of years ago I talked about one extension, and I thought it was about time I shared another!…

February 12, 2019Lesson plans and resources, Teaching Strategies, Videos

Lesson plans and resources

Valentine’s Day Plans!

I was looking through old lesson plans for ideas for Valentine's day and remembered I wrote this epic blog documenting what I did in 2017!!!! Brilliant! Thank you self! I plan to use those same infographs again and I had TOTALLY forgotten about that "paste of love" video! SO good! If you already did that,…

February 10, 2019Lesson plans and resources

Classroom Games Teaching Strategies Videos

Running Dictations: Power in Pairing & Extensions

My second ever teaching blog was on "sprinting dictation" way back in July 2016! We did another running dictation this week and I thought I would share some new classroom videos and talk about pairing and extensions I do to scaffold it for all the learners in your classroom. This week was Wooly Week 2019. I…

February 9, 2019Classroom Games, Teaching Strategies, Videos