To the Lesson!: Back to the Basics This blog post shows all kinds of Montessori materials in use, but I was most excited by the use of a kitchen shelf-extension rack to learn the basics of weaving! Great idea!
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.