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 …