Flowery Elementary School

Flowery Teachers' Resources

Educating Students for Success in a Global Society

Flowery Elementary School’s talented educators are dedicated to empowering and enriching all students. The language and culture of every member of the Flowery community is valued. To accelerate second language acquisition and academic achievement, teachers target students’ multiple intelligences, providing a range of activities that appeal to varying learning styles.

Teachers

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- California's Common Core Content Standards for Math
- California Mathematics Project
- Clearinghouse on CCSS Resources
- Core Challenge
- Inside Mathematics
- Inside Mathematics - recommended MARS Tasks and Problems of the Month organized by grade and content standard
- Institute for Mathematics and Education - from the University of Arizona
- K-5 Math Teaching Resources
- Khan Academy - Developmental Math Videos and MORE
- Math Reasoning Inventory - Marilyn Burns
- National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics
- Overview of Common Core Standards - Teaching Channel
- Resources for Common Core Standards
- Silicon Valley Math Initiative
- Tools for the Common Core Standards
- AB 815
- School district inititates new Seal of Biliteracy - Sonoma Sun article
- Californians Together - sample board policies, award criteria, etc.
- LinguaFolio
- What is a LinguaFolio - from the National Council of State Supervisors for Languages
- Resources for implementation
- Conjugation. org
- Gramática y ortografía en español
- No Excuse Words Gr4-5 Spanish
- Reglas de ortografía
- SLAnontransferablesMapK-2.pdf
- SLAnontransferablesMap3-5.pdf
- NontransferablesGuideK-1.pdf (grades K-1 to be revised to reflect the adoption of "Tesoros" and the CCSS; grades 2-5 to be completed during the 2012/2013 school year)
- KinsellaOralLangStrategiesSpanish pdf
- Spanish Language Exercises
- Tesoros online - AKA ConnectED
- Academic Vocab in Spanish & English
- Academy of Achievement
- ACCENT RULES from Dr. Jill Kerper Mora
- Animoto
- AR Book Finder
- AR Book Guide - to organize and manage classroom and school libraries
- Bilingual Web Resources for Teachers
- Book Trailers for Readers
- The Brain Connection
- Busy Teacher's Cafe
- California Learning Resource Network
- California Reading and Literature Project
- California Reading List (STAR reading list # required)
- California Recommended Literature (K-12)
- Clip Art Gallery
- Collaborize Classroom
- ¡Colorín colorado!
- Common Sense Media Scope and Sequence
- Content Based Language Teaching with Technology
- Coss-cultural Language & Academic Development - Dr. Jill Kerper Mora
- Curriculum Compacting pdf - by S.M. Reis, D.E. Burns & J.S. Renzulli
- Differentiated Instruction - Marzano's Strategies
- Differentiating Instruction - Enhance Learning with Technology
- Digi Blocks
- Discovery Education
free educational videos in Spanish
- Environmental Education for Kids - (in Spanish)
- Fed Resources for Edu Excellence
- Las formas geométricas - 1st grade geometry unit
- Garden ABCs
- GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design)
- Graphical Dictionary
- Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs - informational resource
- Houghton Mifflin ELA Vocabulary Cards
- Illuminations - resources for teaching math
- Image Search
- iPad Apps for Education
- Jeannine Heron - Let's Talk About Reading, Writing & the Brain
- Journey North - a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change
- Kids Gardening
- Learning is Messy - teacher blog
- Lesson Plans
- Links to translated standards & documents from the California Dept. of Education
- Long vowel sounds
- "Meeting the School Readiness Needs of Latino Dual Language Learners in the Early Childhood Classroom"
- La migración de las Mariposas Monarcas
- Mi primer jardín
- Multilingual Mania - "blogging the state of multilingual education in the new millennium"
- National Geographic en español
- National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center - thematic units in Spanish
- Next Generation Science Standards
- Pete's Power Point Station - free downloadable Power Point presentations
- Pics4Learning
- Resources for teaching and learning Spanish
- Resources in Spanish & English to Encourage Parent Involvement
- Schoolwide Enrichment Model - Reading - UConn
- Socrative - (icon above) engage and assess students as learning happens
- Sonoma Valley Education Foundation
- Spanish Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises
- Stopwatch
- Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)
- Teacher Reboot Camp - fantastic blog packed with teacher tech ideas & support
- Teacher Resources from the Santa Maria Bonita School District
- Team Building Activities
- Time Toast - timeline creator
- Virtual Math Manipulatives
- Visual Fractions
- VocabGrabber
- Vocabulogic - Bridging the Verbal Divide
- VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies)
- VTS subscription website (requires username and password)
- Wolfram Alpha - computational knowledge engine
- Wordle
- WordSift
- Worksheets from Super Teacher - includes games, too (for all subject areas)
- World Language Resource Center
- The Write Source