Astrobrights Colorize Your Classroom

The Astrobrights Papers Colorize Your Classroom Challenge is back, and I’m thrilled to be teaming up with Astrobrights Papers for this campaign.  They asked me to share how I use color in my classroom to increase learning retention.  Now as teachers, we know that it isn’t ALL about memorization, right?  Gone are the days where you memorize facts, take a test, and then dump the memorized facts.   But as educators, we know there are specific topics and information that we do need children to retain.  Letter naming is definitely at the top of my Kindergarten list of things I want my students to retain.  I created this fun game of upper and lowercase letters. Notice they also have a beginning sound picture to increase that sound fluency, as well.

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I printed out the letters onto my bright and bold Astrobrights Papers . Then I used Teacher Created Resources Connecting Links found {HERE} to create a fun and engaging station. Students practice matching upper and lowercase letters, naming them as they work with their partner. Studies show that color can increase memory by up to 50 percent and help students remain engaged.  ColorizeYourClassroom.com gives teachers a go-to source for inspiration and ideas on how color can help transform their classrooms.  The Astro Bright Minds have issued four different challenges. They tackle problems teachers face. when creating the right environment for their students. They include: classroom décor, organization, differentiated instruction and memorization.  Think you have a bright idea? Check out the challenges on ColorizeYourClassroom.com, upload an image of your own solution using color paper. Then enter to win a yearlong sponsorship from Astrobrights worth $5,000. Enter up to four times, once for each challenge.

It was easy to punch a hole in them which works perfectly with the connecting links!

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Ready to colorize your own classroom?  Submit your idea. Astrobrights may feature it as the pick of the week on Facebook to help other teachers colorize their learning. Then visit ColorizeYourClassroom.com for details, official rules for entry and hundreds of ideas on how to Colorize Your Classroom.

 

Astrobrights Papers have become invaluable to me in the classroom! This is a phenomenal opportunity to win and AMAZING prize! Enter up to four times, once for each challenge. Find out more {HERE}