winter tree drawn with oil pastel--suggests Y-trees; draw large Y for the trunk, add more Ys using the branches of first Y, keep adding them, make trunk thicker at bottom tapering as it goes up.
Mr. Potato Head Building Variation. Take pictures of Potato Heads with an iPad. Students can scroll through pictures to choose Potato Head. Have the students make matching potato heads. Goals - requesting, WH questions, describing, sentence building
Bloom's Taxonomy / new teacher evaluations require evidence of lesson planning for higher level thinking ~ I like thinking of it as a ladder and not a pyramid. All students can get to the top, with a pyramid it feels like only a few can.