We believe public speaking skills should be taught early on in the primary classroom. Giving students multiple opportunities to speak in front of their peers sets the foundation for lifelong literacy learning. Plus, it hopefully helps them steer clear of the, "Just pretend everyone is naked!" public speaking technique. :D We have never done the traditional “sharing” in our class. Instead, we use our sharing time each week to practice and develop beginning public speaking skills with ... VIEW POST
Public Speaking Skills Practice for the Primary Classroom ~ The Power of Sharing Pages
September Stinks…
There, We Said It! Somebody Had to… Teachers everywhere are already tired. Parents everywhere are already tired. Students everywhere are already tired. It's been 1 month since we started school...ONE month. But, we’re still going. We don’t give up. We don’t give in. We never, ever sit down. For if we do, we will crash or get sick...or both. September as a teacher... It’s like waking up one day and running a month long marathon. It’s like getting engaged, planning a ... VIEW POST
Shoe Tying Take Home Freebie
The BEST gift you can give a primary teacher is giving them a class full of students who know how to tie their own shoes. Seriously...The End. It may not seem like that big of deal. But, make this movie in your mind... A student has their laces undone... The teacher just bends down and ties them quickly and moves on with their delightful day. Only they don't...move on...because for every one untied shoelace, there is another. It's what some ... VIEW POST
Shoe Tying Take Home Freebie
The BEST gift you can give a primary teacher is giving them a class full of students who know how to tie their own shoes. Seriously...The End. It may not seem like that big of deal. But, make this movie in your mind... A student has their laces undone... The teacher just bends down and ties them quickly and moves on with their delightful day. Only they don't...move on...because for every one untied shoelace, there is another. It's what some ... VIEW POST
Class CHAMPS Classroom Management for Little Champions
About this time 5 days ago, the words, "We're getting our butts kicked by 6 year olds" might have come out of our mouths gone through our heads. But fortunately for three day weekends, we did what any teachers who are getting their butts kicked by 6 year olds have a 3-day weekend would do... We devised a plan! We've been using CHAMPS behavior management for a few years now. But, since we were getting our butts kicked by 6 year olds started school last week we decided to kick it up a few ... VIEW POST
Bright Ideas for the Classroom ~ Get Your Class Newsletter Read at Home!
You've probably walked down this road school hall before... You write a class newsletter... To thoroughly communicate with parents. You spend hours recapping all of your class events, providing important announcements and keeping all our students' families in the loop. Then you send it home... And hope...And possibly pray... That families will actually READ IT! But, they don't... Instead they show up at your class door and ask you questions to which you really wish you could ... VIEW POST
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