I believe in routine in my classroom. I find routines so important as they make my classroom management just that much easier. My morning routine is no different. I used to do a morning worksheet. Students came in and got their duotang out with their morning worksheet of work, but honestly, it wasn’t ever anything …
At our beginning of school year Professional Development Day, we did an activity about starting the day with soft start. This movement is becoming more and more popular, and it is easy to see why. Kids should start their day like we do, slowly. Have a chance to wake up and get ready for their …
Every teacher knows the key to classroom sanity is routines. Classroom routines are predictable and predictable means that the students know what to expect. When they know what to expect, they will follow the expectations and things go smoothly. It becomes clockwork. If done well, a teacher isn’t even necessary to be there. Kindergarten teachers …
I feel like in my corner of the world, Daily Physical Activity was the catch phrase about 8 years ago. We were mandated to add a phrase to our report card that reads something like: {student name} participates in Daily Physical Activity. And we were mandated that we needed to provide at least 30 minutes …
I was thinking about this post for a while before I started typing. What was important for to to say about Community Circle? I realized the best way to explain it was to tell you how I came to use Community Circle every day in my classroom. How it came to be in my Classroom …