IT'S ABOUT TIME for TRIADS!

 

If you are not familiar with TRIADS, let me introduce you to your newest addiction. LOL TRIADS combine critical thinking with vocabulary development, while building word relationships. Teach your students to use Bloom’s upper level thinking skills –analysis, synthesis, and evaluation – while having fun!

Here's how TRIADS work: Find a word that can be added to each of the words on the TRIAD. The common word comes before or after each of the 3 words to make a familiar phrase or a compound word. 

For example: the common word for the TRIAD of litter, nap, and black is CAT -- CAT litter, CATnap, and black CAT. You will absolutely love watching your students' "light bulb" moments.

Here's a FREEBIE to let you try them:

If you like love them, as I'm sure you will, I have a plethora of TRIAD task cards ready for you and your learners to enjoy.

My GATE/enrichment students can't get enough of these word relationships. They love them so much, they started creating their own to challenge me!

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for WINTER RESOURCES!

 

Before I start winter break, I ensure that I am ready for at least the 1st week of school in January. If you're of the same mind, here are some resources to help you prepare.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PUMPKINS!

 

                     

It's pumpkin season! Fill your classroom with pumpkin resources:

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for CREATIVE THINKING CHALLENGES

• Are you looking for weekly challenges to your learners' creative thinking? 
• Would you love it to be a home assignment?
• Would you be thrilled to get a full year of challenges that are print and go?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you should check out Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking.

This eclectic collection of activities was created for use in my gifted and talented classrooms. The goal is to promote the 4 traits of gifted children: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. But really, what child wouldn't benefit from working on those aspects? I have found these projects works very well with heterogeneous groups and have successfully used them with 1st - 5th graders.

These challenges are also a wonderful home-school connection that directs eager parents to work with their children in a constructive manner. Another benefit is that children learn to share their products with purpose and confidence. 

All of the project assignments are ready to print and send home.  Also included are notes to the teacher to help ensure the success of your students.  These notes are based on years of experience with the challenges.

TRY IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT.   You can get a better sense of what this project offers by checking out this FREE activity that is included in Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking Vol. 2:

 

IT'S ABOUT TIME for MORNING BELL-RINGERS!

 

• Are you looking for a daily bell-ringer activity?
• Would you like it to be digital (no printing)?
• Do you need something your upper elementary learners cannot speed through but must actually use Higher Order Thinking Skills to complete?

Then, it's about time, teachers, that you discover  this FREEBIE!  Available absolutely free on TPT Easel, you can find it here.

If you love it, and I think you will, you can get an entire year of daily, morning, thinking challenges.