Kids need approval. If they don’t get it from parents, they can try to get it in school. If not there, in a gang. They’ll find it somewhere because they need it. The approval doesn’t have to be huge. Just a little nod, a little glance to let them know that they are o.k. and […]
Not just the most common verbs, these two may be the hardest ones of all to gesture. I have never had success with them and am going to try this next year: For “to have” – left hand palm up placed at belly buttom, right hand in fist on top of left palm. Each time
In a press conference last month at the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, GA, Tiger Woods made a very simple response to a reporter’s question about why he wasn’t playing well: Q: I know you had a practice session on Thursday, but how were the rest of them? Was it just a problem with transferring
This link is pretty interesting. It supports what we do when we use questioning. It can help us when we do Kindergarten Day. The key part of the article is the middle section. Small Change In Reading To Preschoolers Can Help Disadvantaged Kids Catch Up http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/29/153927743/small-change-in-reading-to-preschoolers-can-help-disadvantaged-kids-catch-up?sc=emaf Listen/Watch on NPR.org. Many stories at NPR.org have audio
This is from a student with two years of CI, whom I no longer teach, now taking an AP class in her third year: Dear Mr. Slavic, First off I wanted to thank you for being my French teacher. No other will compare to your fun genius. Second I wanted to tell you that thanks to
I don’t know the science, but I feel intuitively that there is a correlation between kids who are forced to speak too early and stuttering. Maybe messing with the neurology that produces speech too early is not a good idea. When my level 1 kids, in April or so, start complaining about not being able to speak
Ben Lev has been very active in California this spring, holding parents to standards. He has been very much in people’s faces. I don’t know if the post below has even been published here, bc the queue has been so jammed lately, so I moved it the front of the queue. It picks up that thread that we
We were talking briefly here last week about if teachers signed “there is” to start a story. Today, I polled the DPS writing team (when school ends each year we write and refine assessments all day for ten days) and, of the ten teachers there, only two gestured the expression. Annick Chen puts her left hand flat
I recently got this email from a group member: I need to get someone else’s take on what happened to me a few months ago. Some months ago, I was in the middle of a story with my class (Tripp’s Refrigerator story), Charlie Sheen was hungry and looking for some food. He spotted a restaurant
Update on this post, Aug. 12, 2012. The list below has changed and both shorter and longer Word Wall collections can be found on the resources link of this website, click on posters. The text below is actually from months ago. It’s still a good list, but not as good as the ones on the
I got this from one of the those brilliant kids who wears tats and nose rings and suffers so much for it in school by others who judge them, including their grammar oriented teachers: Howdy Mr. Slavic, this is Richard Barnes, I was a student at Summit and I heard you teach a course in
• acheter (to buy) • aider (to help) • aimer (to like) • aller (to go) • apporter (to bring) • apprendre (to learn) • arrêter (to stop) • arriver (to arrive) • attendre (to wait) • avoir (to have) • boire (to drink) • brûler (to burn) • cacher (to hide) • changer (to
