Predicate Dice Game and Daily 5 Tip.

          On Friday I was looking for a fun and engaging way to teach my students subject and predicate (which in our reading series is called naming part and action part.) While the children were watching a subject/predicate song from good old School House Rock, I quickly whipped together (hence why it looks so sloppy) a die with predicates written on it. I then picked the students randomly and those students had to do the predicate while the class a.) Said the subject part of the sentence (the students) and b.) guessed what the predicate part was. This was a quick little activity that the students had a blast with. If you wanted you could make several different predicate dice so that you wouldn't have too many chances of a repeat predicate.

          This year I am implementing Daily 5 and CAFE into my classroom for the first time. So far so good. We are going to start our first cycle tomorrow. I am nervous, but excited at the same time. A tip I wanted to mention is that if your school has iPads that the students can access you can do Listen to Reading with them. If you are familiar with TumbleBooks, you can have the students use their site to listen to a wide variety of books. You can usually access TumbleBooks for free through your local library. Another site I stumbled upon, I believe through Pinterest, is Kids AOL. They also have a selection of books including many Arthur books. Now, here's the trick. Both of these sites require Flash Player to work. iPads are not Flash compatible.....or are they? For $3.00 you can download a web browser called Puffin that will run flash on it. It is sssssooo worth the money. There are so many more things I can do on the iPad now that it can be Flash Compatible. Definitely worth checking out!