Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Busy Teacher's Cafe



http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/

Busy Teacher’s Café is an excellent K-6 grade Resource website for educators. This colorful and inviting website, developed by Erika Gomez-Schanne, contains free worksheets, activities, lesson plans, suggestions for classroom management and much more. Its user friendly features are well organized which makes finding resources and activities convenient and easy.

Free Printables are available for Reading, Math, Language Arts, Writing, and Classroom Management and organization with customizable forms, monthly calendars, discipline letters, behavior charts, and classroom newsletters. The Theme Activities include worksheets, lessons, and activities for both content areas and holidays or seasons. There are also Literature Activities using Favorite Books which provides lessons, resources, and links for use with children’s literature. Several of the books listed can be conveniently purchased from Amazon.

Another amazing feature is the Teacher Resources section which includes both an array and abundance of resources. The Monthly Resource Page has a variety of resources for the themes of the month all in one page which takes away the hassle of digging up activities all over the internet. The Mini-offices section provides links and tools that contain information for students to use on writing, math, or science. Teachers are able to submit and share effective and useful tips and ideas. New teachers can also benefit with tips and links to help them get off to a good start. The Classroom management section maximizes effectiveness with ideas to organize students, space, time, and materials. For those teachers who want to create their own website, there are resources, directions, links, and graphics to make it possible. This feature also focuses on literacy with Literature Strategies and Activities, Author Studies, Literacy Centers, Writing Workshops, Writing Process, Journal topics, Test Prep, Recommended book lists and many more to effectively teach literature.

For more materials and resources, teachers can check out the BTC Shop, BTC Blog, Guestbook, Sites for teachers, and posted class websites. Busy Teacher’s Café has so much to offer educators by providing reliable, practical information in almost every aspect of teaching and learning. All K-6 teachers will appreciate the free on-line curriculum resources, materials, lesson plans, teacher forms, graphic organizers, downloads, and links which contributes to success in education!

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