Our Listen Up Family is growing! wink emoticonListen Up 3 has just been added to our collection. We're so excited to start the school year with daily listening practice because our class needs a lot of practice learning how to listen! Over the years, we've found listening is a skill that can be challenging for our little learners...But, they do LOVE to talk! :) We really don't blame them...Life's moving fast nowadays and stopping to listen seems to be a thing of the past. But, this can make ... VIEW POST
Listen Up 3…Yippee!
Listen Addition
Don't you just love a quiet classroom from time to time? No, that is not a trick question. ;) If you've been following our blog for awhile, you know we're kind of what they call "Lovers of the Listening"...You can read about our listening love affair {here}. We've sort of made it our teaching mission to actively teach kids to listen whenever little humanly possible in our classroom. So, when they were having a hard time fully embracing the concept of listening last week and math time ... VIEW POST
Visual Reminders for Listening
Teaching our young learners how to listen is a true teaching passion for us. For years, we have felt that for whatever reason, our students have become more and more disengaged from their own learning. Yet, the deeper we dug into our concerns, the more we realized that for whatever reason, many of them truly didn't know how to listen. So, we made it a point to start purposefully teaching kids the who, how and what of truly good listening skills both in and out of the classroom. But, let's be ... VIEW POST
Listen Up 2…Yahoo!
Yes, you are seeing double... It's Listen Up 2... More Auditory Activities for Little Listeners! The sequel to our BEST selling Teachers Pay Teachers unit, Listen Up! You've asked...We've answered! Thank you and your principal too! Our class also loves working on listening skills with our Listen Up activities. So much so, they blazed right through them. And, we still have many weeks of school left to go! So, we needed more... Listen Up 2 Includes -2 Listen Up 2! Binder or Folder ... VIEW POST
Listen Up! We’re Listening!
We're in the middle of an epidemic, teacher friends. Yep...An Ignoring Epidemic. It's bad. Really, really bad... ...Wait...We're sorry...What did you say? We weren't really listening to a word we were just saying... We just couldn't sit back any longer. We couldn't listen (yes, really listen) to one more Mommy or Teacher friend say, "It's just our society now." or "It's just kids nowadays." Nope. Sorry. We are teachers and our job is to teach. If they need to learn how to listen, we need ... VIEW POST
Listen Up! Auditory Activities for Little Listeners
Have kids who have trouble listening? No, that's not a tricky teacher question... LISTEN UP! We're so excited to tell you! We've FINALLY finished our latest project~ Listen Up! Auditory Activities for Little Listeners AND you can win one RIGHT NOW! Just head over to our Facebook Page {here} and leave a comment on our post. But, better hurry! We're picking 5 winners tomorrow. We are so happy to have this one out of our brains and are super excited at our students' responses to these ... VIEW POST
