Boom Cards 

I am enjoying Boom cards for my English learners.  You ask, why that resource? I like them because as you probably know they are self-checking. It is a confidence building resource; not one that kids will dread because they can be successful with them and gain exposure to whatever concept they are assigned to do. I like the fact that when I cannot be there to help my newcomers, I know they will get something from doing them rather than staring blankly at an assignment they have no idea how to complete. I just created a new set. 

This set is certainly language arts but I marked the subject as science since it involves kids looking at habitat backgrounds and connecting them with the animal choices on the cards. There is a title card, direction card, and 15 animal cards. Each of the cards has three animal choices based on "first person" context clue type riddles. It is basic and will be great for kindergarten, first grade, and of course newcomers to the country. 

This resource along with my other resources on Teachers pay teachers will be on sale August 18 as a bonus sale especially for back to school. Here it is.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/BOOM-CARDS-Guess-the-Animal-INFER-IT-Distancelearning-5903176

0

Pat Bath

 

Dr. Patricia Bath

In the past few years I have had multiple conversations with Patricia Bath, the African American (heroine) who invented the laser-phaco probe. We talked on the phone several times and emailed back and forth. She had a lot of drive to succeed even though she was retired. She created a consumable book that describes how we can see light and rainbows. She sent me several for Christmas in 2018 I promptly set up a Donor's Choose to get more of them so I could send them home with some of my students. We also used a special refraction material I found on Amazon so that kids could get the experience of seeing rainbows. I emailed her a couple times in the past six months to tell her about it and wondered why she did not respond as she usually did. Last May 2019, she died of complications from cancer. I feel like I've lost a friend.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Patricia-BathTest-Prep-Close-Read-Core-Aligned-with-Text-Dependent-Questions-1080983

0