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Post-it Patterns

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:59:39 +0000

Pattern recognition is an important ability, frequently evaluated on state standardized tests—and IQ tests.

Multicolored Post-it® Notes help students practice!

The teacher (or another student) sets up a pattern. Below the pattern, Post-its of each color become the multiple choices.

The student selects Post-it that should come next in the pattern.

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Post-it Possessives

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:57:11 +0000

Where does the apostrophe go? For many students, it’s an eternal mystery.

Post-it® Notes make it fun to practice!

Write one letter on each Post-it. Write a giant apostrophe on one Post-it.

Write (or say) the prompt: “the shoes of the girl,” for example.

Students place the apostrophe before or after the S. (in this case, before.)

As a variation, you can give each student only 2 Post-its, the apostrophe and the S. This conserves Post-its and lets students focus on the important element: the S.

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Classroom Stationery That Sticks!

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:45:37 +0000

This is a great “First-Day” activity I use in my third grade classroom each September! Distribute one Post-it® Note to each student (We use 1 1/2″ x 2″ size). Each student draws his or her own “self-portrait” in pencil. Student writes name under portrait (Students can use first names or both first and last names). Teacher collects the portraits, and arranges them around the outside border of a plain 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet of white copy paper. Teacher may add a title to the stationery, for example, “Mrs. Nessuno, Room 215, The Caring Classroom.” After attaching the Post-its, teacher creates a “master,” on the copy machine. Teacher and class can then use the master to create colored copies of stationery for use throughout the year! This stationery is perfect for classroom newsletters, notes home, thank you notes both for and from students, student letters– even class books! Note: this activity can be adapted for any grade level Pre-k-8. For younger students, the teacher can distribute larger Post-it notes and later reduce the student portraits (before attaching to the master stationery copy) using the copy machine. When you send a note home on your class stationery, parents (and kids!) enjoy seeing the student portraits, and your classroom stationery is immediately recognized– the parent knows that’s not just another flyer for the recycle bin, but it’s an important message from your classroom, which makes this the classroom stationery that “sticks” all year!

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Swatters

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:42:54 +0000

Get a large piece of bulletin board paper and mark it off creating a 5 by 5 grid so that there are 25 squares. Laminate the grid so you can reuse it for another day. In each square, put a large Post-it® Note with the answer to a Math, Science, Social Studies, or Reading question. I usually create my questions by topic, i.e. Civil War, Geometry to review at the end of the unit. After all your answers have been placed on the grid, break your class into two teams. Give the first player of each team a fly swatter (a sanitary one) and explain the rules…1) No swatting a classmate. 2) No swatting actual flies because that’s just gross. 3) The first to swat the correct answer wins a point for their team. Read off your questions and have your students swat away! The team with the most points at the end of the game win! My students love this game. They beg for it everyday and it can be adapted to any subject! You can take all the post its off at the end of the game and put them in a plastic bag to reuse again.

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Sticky Thoughts

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:58:37 +0000

I created a Venn Diagram including “Academics” and “Social” categories. I explained to my students that they would each have a pad of Post-It® Notes on the corner of their desk, and could write a note about any situations or questions they may encounter during the day. It really gave the students a voice.

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Sticky Portrait

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:24:18 +0000

Students will be recreating a portrait as a group project using the Post-it® Notes to draw on.

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The Year Is Important in History

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:22:22 +0000

Use two different colored Post-it® Notes. Put an important year from US History on one color and the same year on the other color. Each student takes a date and looks for what happened in USA History and other places in Europe, etc. They write the historical event on the backside of the Post-It. Put it on the Timeline.

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bulletin board

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:15:54 +0000

Create a wish list bulletin board for the holidays. Make a Christmas tree background and create “ornaments” with Post- it® Notes. Each ornament can have something for the classroom, such as pencils, paper, kleenex, or books. Instead of giving me a gift, when students ask what I want for christmas, I suggest that they can get an ornament off the tree and get something to help the class.

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Word Scramble

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:39:06 +0000

In an effort to reinforce the spelling of a word, place one 4 x 6 Post-it® Note that has one letter of the word on it, on the front of as many students needed to spell out the word. Have the students scramble themselves up and give them one minute to arrange themselves in the right order so that the word is spelled out correctly.

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Sustainable Development Learning

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:45:32 +0000

I’ve used this with children in 3rd grade all the way up to adults at Parent Association meetings held at the school. The most important principle of sustainable development is integrating environmental, social equity, and economic considerations (”planet, people and profits”). So when we have a decision to make as a class or a school, this is a way to bring sustainable development to life.

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