The Welker Family » Teaching

Handy Sight Word / High Frequency Word Lists

Glenn Welker — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:54:52 +0000

Our kids are at that age where learning to read involves learning common words. These common words are often called sight words or high frequency words. You can readily buy flash cards but I decided to make my own. Below are links to 8 different documents with common words increasing in difficulty. The documents are formatted to print labels on Avery 8066 labels. Just stick them to blank index cards and you are done. You might want to write the number of the list in the corner of the cards to keep the flash cards separate.

PDF Files
high-1, high-2, high-3, high-4, high-5, high-6, high-7, high-8

Word Files
high-1, high-2, high-3, high-4, high-5, high-6, high-7, high-8

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
a	eat	this	has	than	think	turn	try
I	an	that	two	put	great	away	kind
the	look	when	more	their	these	begin	hand
is	come	there	way	where	help	every	book
it	here	get	first	would	much	don’t	never
in	of	got	who	time	before	run	animal
to	was	why	call	many	line	car	house
go	are	what	lkittle	only	right	let	letter
can	for	as	give	long	old	girl	tree
at	his	did	take	use	any	were	found
see	be	so	down	know	same	stop	still
like	have	some	day	may	tell	again	people
and	or	out	find	part	boy	took	should
my	had	now	came	set	ask	until	point
up	but	play	could	live	show	end	oil
me	not	how	make	back	also	does	talk
she	all	if	other	most	around	another	write
no	will	big	about	after	three	well	along
we	do	off	good	thing	mother	must	always
on	your	then	too	out	made	even	soon
he	one	them	each	just	because	such	almost
am	went	saw	over	name	us	men	above
by	with	her	new	many	small	read	began
you	they	him	very	under	father	need	those
said	from	into	want	say	keep	home	walk

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

Glenn Welker — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:33:43 +0000

It is never too late to learn something new… or so I’ve been told. MIT provides almost all of their courses online for free. They provide these free of charge partially because they aren’t credit based courses. Just think, a free education at one of the country’s most prominent schools. Take a look at all they have to offer.

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

Writing contest

Glenn Welker — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:10:11 +0000

While I don’t even know where to start commenting on Kathy’s last post, I do know that one teacher can make a difference.

Kathy, this might be something that would be exciting for your kids and something that you could integrate into your curriculum.

Amazon is sponsoring the Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest. Here is a short description from their web site.

Want to get your (gloved) hands on J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard? Amazon.com wants to send you and a friend to London, England to spend a weekend with the rare and delightful book of fairy tales (security guards included, of course), handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling herself. Open to muggles ages 13 and older in 24 countries, the Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest challenges you to creatively answer one of the following three questions in 100 words or less:

• What songs do wizards use to celebrate birthdays?
• What sports do wizards play besides Quidditch?
• What have you learned from the Harry Potter series that you use in everyday life?

Click here for more information

Write and send a letter for free!

rock — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:05:35 +0000

When did you last get out a pen or pencil and write a real letter? Now you have an opportunity to do it for free. This is a teacher’s dream – an entire class can write a letter to someone special and it won’t cost the teacher a penny. HBO is sponsoring the free cards – available at http://www.poweroftheletter.com.

This offer is available until March 31, 2008.

INFOhio, a virtual library

Glenn Welker — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:01:36 +0000

INFOhio is according to their web site, a statewide cooperative school library and information network, supports and enriches teaching and learning by providing equitable access to quality resources for Ohio’s PreK-12 community of students, educators and parents. INFOhio’s components include electronic resources for schools, instructional development for teachers, and school library automation — all promoting information literacy and media literacy through the use of technology.

All resources are available to all of Ohio’s K-12 students and faculty. Parents, please take the time to look at the available resources. After all, it is your tax dollars at work. Take advantage of this resource.

http://infohio.org/

Help Kathy McQuate’s classroom

rock — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:51:33 +0000

Dear Friends:
I am reaching out to you to help me inspire my students to reach their highest potential. Adopt-A-Classroom (www.adoptaclassroom.org) is a non-profit organization that offers an easy and accountable way for you to donate funds to my classroom and make a real difference for me and my students.

All donations are tax-deductible. 100% of the donation goes to my classroom. Adopt-A-Classroom takes $0 out for administration.

Here`s a description of my classroom and our specific needs:

School: North Education Center
Grade: All high
Subject: English literature
Number of students your donation will impact: 128

East High School is currently being remodeled and so we are temporarily being housed at the North Education Center, currently called “East on Arcadia”. The school population has a 54% attendance rate, is 96% African American and 86% of the students are economically disadvantaged. This is my 13th year teaching high school English but my first year working for Columbus City Schools. My main goal is to get the students to attend class and so I want to do all I can to engage them when they are present. I have spent my own money on classroom journals, pencils, markers, paper and new books and I am running out of funds. The latest item on my wish list is a class set(26 copies) of Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. I would also like to be able to pay the $150 fee to have my students participate in the Books of Hope project, where students write and illustrate books for other children in India or Uganda. Thank you!

To learn how you can support my efforts in the classroom click on the link below.

Kathy McQuate Adopt-A-Classroom Homepage

I greatly appreciate your consideration in adopting my classroom. Please pass this email on to your employers and friends.

Thank you for your time.

Kathy McQuate
North Education Center
Classroom: 311

Give a laptop, Get a laptop

Glenn Welker — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:48:29 +0000

Now through December 31st you can give a laptop and get a laptop in exchange. The cost is $400 and you get a $200 tax deduction. This is the laptop formerly known as the 100 dollar laptop. While it hasn’t quite made the $100 price range, it is currently about $188 for a laptop.

This isn’t a normal laptop. The screen is fully visible in daylight or inside and the screen can be inverted for reading books. It has no moving parts and is impervious to dust and water. It is meant to go into the worst environments. It has cool networking features that allow it to find all other laptops around it if a network isn’t available (think classroom).

The give one get one program will directly benefit the children in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia and Rwanda. Go to the web site and take a look.

XO Laptop

If you are more visual there is a video in the article here showing details of the laptop.

New York Times

Kathy speaks at school board meeting

Glenn Welker — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:42:37 +0000

Kathy spoke at a Whitehall school board meeting to voice her concerns over a possible move to school uniforms. I had always thought that uniforms would be a positive move for a school system. However, I’m not so sure after listening to Kathy talk about possible issues.

Columbus Local News: > Debate on uniforms will be settled by Jan. 10 vote