Would you? Conditional Tense Video

I'm mostly posting this for my future reference...

A safe and easy resource to help find G-rated versions of popular songs to help me teach my kids is Radio Disney. I was jamming to that sugary, poppy stuff the other day and came across R. City's "Locked Away." This could be an introduction or a close study of if statements and the conditional tense using the word would. I'll let you know if I come up with a firmer version of a plan using this song.

Video: Irish Folks Attempting North American Accents

As I'm searching for "impossible to understand accents" for a little presentation I hope to give during teacher work week, I came across this little beauty:

Word Sums with WordWorksKingston

We learned about this in my teaching program, but I didn't pay close enough attention to how helpful this word sum, or word matrix, method could be for building vocabulary in ELLs!

I've spent the last week drinking it in and planning to teach it to my upper grade ELLs this year.  Have you used these matrices in your classroom?  What do you think?

Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning

Brilliant, simple, and inexpensive hands-on toys that will help students understand concrete math and science concepts. I first watched this video a year ago and I continue to love watching his creativity.