If you have an extra 15 minutes you can accomplish three things in your classroom: Calm yourself and your students Engage them in a story Become more physically fit You can accomplish all of this through Storytelling Yoga. It combines … Read More
Physical education teacher Andrew Beckner shares this creative cosmic bowling activity that he uses for his PE class. One week per school year, the lights are turned out in the gym, but the students’ energy levels are turned way up! … Read More
KISS – Keep It Simple Strategies – Classroom Management for Middle School Teachers Now that we have covered the elementary grades, we now move on to Middle School. We can all agree; we’ve now entered a world of aliens, populated by … Read More
Today’s Keep It Simple Strategies (KISS) – Classroom Management for Library Media Specialists For discussion purposes, let’s assume you are a Library Media Specialist at the Elementary level. There is so much information about organizing school libraries in ways that will … Read More
April Book Activity – Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina Story Summary A peddler is walking up and down the streets selling caps. He balances many gray, brown, blue and red caps on his head. One day he is feeling tired and … Read More
We survey many of our customers and sometimes we ask them what they use the products they are buying for. We continue to be wowed by your creative, resourceful and genius ideas, so we want to share them for others … Read More
Today’ KISS – Keep It Simple Strategies – Classroom Management for 5th Grade Teachers When talking about classroom management for any grade, we can sometimes boil things down to a few words about what not to do. What NOT to … Read More
The month of May typically only means one thing for a PE teacher: Field Day! After months of preparation, students and teachers can finally enjoy a day free from assessments, observations, meetings and grading papers. A day for our school … Read More
The BFG – By Roald Dahl Story Summary A young orphan girl named Sophie lives in an orphanage run by the horrible Mrs. Clonkers. One night Sophie discovers a giant outside her bedroom window. He whisks her away to his homeland … Read More
Today’ KISS – Keep It Simple Strategies – Classroom Management for 4th Grade Teachers In my 3rd Grade blog for this series I said, “Let your curriculum be the framework for classroom management”. It was good advice for 3rd Grade, it … Read More
