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The beginning of the school year is the best time of the year to establish your classroom community and classroom procedures. If you are anything like me, I liked to use the summers to plan and prepare and dream about what my classroom would look like and feel like in
Early finishers…I don’t recall being taught about them in college, but the struggle of what exactly to have them work on is REAL. Teacher Struggles with Early Finishers When I started teaching, I would just have them read if they finished something early. Seemed easy enough. But some students don’t
Before teaching 5th grade for ten years, I taught Preschool (3-year-olds). So, using centers to teach and engage learners has always been a part of my lessons. It wasn’t until I taught 5th grade that I knew I needed a student accountability piece during centers. When I taught 5th grade,
I always knew as a teacher that I needed to teach my students the classroom procedures. What I didn’t know was that I should teach EVERY procedure. I just thought that there were some things that they should know. Boy, was I wrong! Once I figured that out, I would
You may need to resort to indoor recess for many reasons. Rain, snow, sleet, and freezing temperatures can all put a big damper on going outdoors. I personally hate indoor recess; the noise, the moving around, the close quarters, and the inability of the kids to get their energy out.
I’m back with my third and final post about Brag Tags or Braggin Badges…for now anyway 🙂 This time I’m talking about how I squeeze Brag Tags into an already busy schedule. We’ve already talked about how to get them started and organizing them in my two previous posts.
Hey all! I’m back here to give you some more information about Brag Tags…how to get organized with them! In my last post, we talked about getting them ready to use for classroom management before the school year starts so you can be ready to encourage and motivate your students from
This will be a 3 part series about Brag Tags, or as I like to call them, Braggin’ Badges. They are a great classroom management strategy for encouraging positive behaviors in the classroom. This first post will be about getting them ready before the school year starts. The second post will include
Spice up your secret student process with some fun apps. I only have my personal iPhone and an iPad, so we don’t utilize a lot of apps in my classroom. But, one app we do use that I’m going to talk about is Decide Now. It’s a fun, FREE app
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