Before teaching 5th grade for 10 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, though, that I knew I needed a student accountability piece during centers. During the time that I taught 5th grade, I had students who would play U-Know just like
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 just know. Boy was I wrong! Once I figured that out, I would stand up there and tell them about each one. This is how you do
Every year, right around springtime, we get hit with the big statewide test. To balance all of that stress out, I usually do fun activities in the afternoon. I load up on bunches of springtime candy such as peeps and jelly beans, as well as, some household items like vinegar, detergent, eggs, food coloring, salt, etc. Then we use those items to do lots of
There are many reasons that you may need to resort to having indoor recess. Rain, snow, sleet, and freezing temperatures all can put a big damper on going outdoors. I personally hate indoor recess; the noise, the moving around, the close quarters, the inability for the kids to get their energy out. At my school, we only have a play deck for outside time and
I love games! Since I started teaching, I’ve always loved making review and practice fun in my classroom. Students love games, too. With everything students are expected to learn and remember each year, I believe spiraling concepts is a MUST. So, why not make the review FUN by using games to engage and practice?! WHAT IS SPIRALING? Spiraling is when you take concepts that were
Rounding numbers always seems to be a challenge for many of my students each year. We create anchor charts, practice, and play games until they finally start to get it. Today I’m going to talk to you about a few of the activities we did to review rounding. We were working with whole numbers but these activities could be modified easily for decimals, too! First
Do you see all the colorful things on Teachers Pay Teachers and Pinterest and wish you had the budget and the color ink to be able to print them?! Well, I’m here to tell you that you can! My school had zero options for printing in color but I wanted all the pretty things so I researched printer and cheap ink. I’ve been printing in
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. So now that you’ve made them and organized them, how do you find the time to actually
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 day 1. Now that your Brag Tags are ready, what exactly are you going to
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 tips about storage and organization of Brag Tags. The final post will be about how
