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Teen Anxiety Relief That Works: How One Journal Helped My Pre-Teen Cope with Big Feelings
The Day That Felt Too Much: From the Teen Anxiety Workbook. Have you had one of those days yet? The kind where your pre-teen climbs into the car after school, quiet, eyes watery—or worse, bursts into tears and won’t tell you why? I remember the first time it happened with my daughter. She had just started middle school. A new schedule, harder homework, a bigger building with kids who suddenly cared a lot about clothes and followers on social media. It was overwhelming—and I could see her shutting down. I did what so many of us do. I said, “It’s going to be okay.”I tried, “Everyone feels this way sometimes.”I…
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Big Feelings, Little Kids: An Anger Management Guide Through Storytelling and Support
If you’ve ever found yourself face-to-face with your child’s outburst—yelling, stomping, throwing, or shutting down—and wondered quietly, “What am I doing wrong?”, you’re not alone. These intense moments, filled with big emotions and even bigger reactions, can leave any parent feeling overwhelmed, discouraged, or guilty. But the truth is, having a child who struggles with anger doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. It means you’re raising a little human still learning how to handle life’s big feelings.
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Adverbs vs Adjectives Example: 3 Ways to Teaching Grammar in Context.
Teaching grammar in an elementary classroom is an important component of literacy education. Kids are known for hating grammar or ignoring it altogether, especially when explicitly taught. While kids may intuitively know when to use adverbs vs adjectives, the goal of literacy education to bring this implicit knowledge to the level of metacognition so that kids can learn to play with the language on a more creative level. The problems of many teaching resources I encountered are not often evident, but the way grammar is treated is either not student appropriate, or exercises on a specific language phenomenon are given in isolation. Take teaching adverbs vs adjectives example. When adjectives are…
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Worksheets For Fun: Homework That Makes Sense.
In this article, you will read about some fun alternatives to homework for second, possibly third graders (depending on where your kiddos are) – worksheets for fun. These fun worksheets were born from an idea that I had as a second-grade teacher, and that has been on my mind forever. Every time the new school year begins, I just start getting overwhelmed by the idea of homework. The truth is I do believe in homework and parents of my second graders want homework too for their kids. I’ve tried high frequency words worksheets, short reading comprehension stories, word lists to practice spelling and sentence writing, and so did you, perhaps. It all sounds…
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Reading Comprehension Worksheets: The Basics of Text Comprehension to Teach.
Why Reading Comprehension is Hard. Download this free sample of the reading comprehension worksheets to use with creating a summary. Elementary school students usually have a hard time responding to literature and being engaged in reading comprehension activities. This may be explained by a couple of reasons: Students who are still learning to decode put a lot of effort and attentional resources into reading the letters and words. It goes without saying that thinking beyond the code of text for emerging and beginner readers is often hard. Understanding the text beyond the code (letters, words, sentences) requires metacognition, or thinking about their own thinking. Elementary students just start developing their…
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What Are My Strengths? Individual & Group Activities for Social-Emotional Education in “My Strengths” Journal.
“What are my strengths?” is one of the most important questions to ask yourself because the answer to it may determine your life trajectory. Seemingly complicated for a child to answer, the question is worth asking. A simple response “I’m good at riding a bike” can not only be a reassurance of one’s strength in one particular area, but it may really push learners in your classroom to see the best sides of themselves and focus on interests and skills learner might have previously dismissed as ordinary and boring, thus reinforcing skill building, practicing and raising one’s self-image. How can you make sure every learner in a classroom or your…
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Outer Space Coloring Pages and Other Coloring Worksheets for Kids.
Printable outer space coloring pages. Outer space coloring pages have been a hit in my little teacher shop. I don’t know what exactly makes space so attractive for kids, but once there is a coloring worksheet fresh off the print with some bright crayons on the table, children’s imagination runs free and the exploration of planets, aliens, starts, aquanauts, and space shuttles begins. Space coloring sheets keep kids busy in my house as well. My 2nd grader and a toddler can spend good 40 minutes trying out all the colors while carefully filling in all the shapes on the giant space coloring sheet that I print for about $3 at…
