Four simple rules for audience behavior! Whether your class is doing a performance, report, or attending an assembly, these rules are the basics for a being good audience member! Four posters include: Eyes on the Actor Stay in Your Seat No Talking Applaud at the End Be sure to follow my store to be alerted to new products! AND Don't forget to leave a REVIEW for TPT credit on your next purchases! Let's be friends! Follow on Instagram to see how I use these products all the time!

Kids Be Active Pyramid Poster Learning objectives & benefits: This fun and vibrant 18 X 24 poster encourages kids to get out and be active! They should take part in aerobic exercise for 60 minutes each day (Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans). The middle section suggests 30 minutes or of vigorous aerobic exercise. It also mentions the best bone building and muscle building activity for 3 days a week. Enjoyable activities such as jumping rope, skateboarding, team sports, swimming, bicycling, dancing, running and skating count, too. The bottom section suggests enjoyable aerobic activities with family and friends. This is fun unstructured play. All activity adds up and it is easy to get to 60 minutes or more per day. Every kid can find ideas to enjoy 60 minutes of exercise each day no matter their fitness level. Everyone plays, everyone wins. Teaches kids that active play should also be a part of their day! Walking with family, pets and friends, or helping around the house every day is good for them! Shows children how sitting in front of the TV or computer should be limited to one hour of less per day, not including school or homework. Turn off that video game and go play! It also makes a great classroom poster plus it can be used as a school cafeteria poster. Target population: In English, for general audiences, ages 8 - 100 This poster comes with a free handout download PDF shown in the images above.

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We had a lot of fun this week with our 2D shapes! We really focused on 2D shapes that we see in the real world this week. We could not believe how many shapes we see all around us! We did activities from my 2D Shapes Galore pack. Here are some activities that we did […]

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Help students understand numbers better with these number sense ideas for Kindergarten. Students will learn how to represent numbers in many ways.

Today my gorgeous class increased their knowledge of 2D shapes by making a 'Shape Pizza'. We used paper plates as the base of our pizzas. Students then coloured the paper plates to make the pizza base. I printed off the shapes onto different coloured paper and students cut them out and added them to their paper plates (pizzas). Students then completed the worksheet provided by recognising and counting how many shapes they had used to make their pizza. What a fun time we had! If you wish to create this with your own class here is a link to my activity on Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mrs-Steffensons-Kindergarten

Looking for new and fun ways to engage with your kids? Try these fun conversation starters! I don’t know about you, but we spend an awful lot of time in our car. As soon as the kids get home from school we are jumping in the car to go to dance and music lessons, cross...

Teaching music with fun, tried & tested lessons, DIY classroom projects & ideas your students will love with Tracy King, the Bulletin Board Lady.

Here's a simple way to teacher less than, greater than: with toys! Free printable included.

Back door display. Another check mark on my list of things that needed to be completed. I created these over the summer and finally have them hung in my room. These will be great as I prepare my 2-5 graders for their music field trips.

I saw this great poster floating around on Pinterest. The pin I re-pinned didn’t link to the author so I don’t know where this came from but it’s great! Do you have any cute idea…

I HAVE MOVED MY BLOG! CHECK IT OUT HERE: KINDERWORLD TEACHER HAUNTED HOUSE This is our 3D Haunted House this year!!! The kids did a grea...

Behavior Management Tips for New Teachers! Behavior Management is a challenge that every new teacher faces. Unfortunately, teachers cannot be 100% prepared on how to effectively manage an entire classroom in their credential program alone. It is something that we have to put into practice and figure out as we go! It involves

Since we returned from spring break, we've been diving into some Geometry! I always love teaching this! So many fun activities to go along ...

Kindergarten addition activity cards with a snake theme. Free printable snake themed addition poster for making 10.

Autism effects a wide spread demographic. One therapy that is often sought out to help those effected with Autism. ABA refers to Applied Behavior Analysis. It used to be referred to as behavior mod…

Audience etiquette tips to ensure you and everyone else gets the most out of listening to a speaker.

Sold by  Create your own from scratch  Shape: Square Stickers Create custom stickers for every occasion! From special mailings and scrapbooking to kids’ activities and DIY projects, you’ll find these stickers are great for so many uses. Add your own designs, patterns, text, and pictures! Dimensions: Available in 2 sizes: Large: 3" L x 3” W, 6 stickers per sheet Small: 1.5" L x 1.5” W, 20 stickers per sheet Printed on white acid-free paper Vibrant full-color, full-bleed printing Scratch-resistant front, easy peel-and-stick back Available in a matte or glossy finish Choose between 7 different shapes

Counting is one of those skills that seems so simple, but it's so incredibly important! It's truly foundational in nature because our kids need to know how to count in order to learn to add/subtract and eventually multiply/divide! In my normal grown up life, I count every day. I'm also guilty of counting too fast and having to count the same thing 3 or 4 times. Many of our kids come to us with the ability to rote count... maybe to 10... maybe to 100. But even those amazing rote counters can have some difficulty with one-to-one correspondence. So we practice. A LOT. The biggest problem my kiddos encounter when learning to count one-to-one is that they go too quickly or forget which items/pictures they've already counted. I like to teach them different ways to keep track. I can count like I read. Since our counting unit hits at the beginning of the year while we're teaching print concepts, this is an easy way to help kids understand how to count in an organized way. I tell them to count left to right, top to bottom. I tell them to touch the objects/pictures they are counting just like we touch the words we are reading. I can cross things out. If we are working on a paper or they are counting something written, I tell them they can keep track of what they have already counted by crossing an item off for every number they count. As they count 1, they will cross out an item, 2... cross out another... and so on. I can move things over. When we are counting something tangible, I teach them to move the items over. For example, on the chart above, we practice with post-it notes. I put some post-its in the first box, and we practice counting while moving them to the next box. We practice this with unifix cubes, counting bears, and even candy or goldfish crackers! They know that once they've moved all items over, they have reached their total. We practice counting with lots of different activities. I have put a few of our favorite stations together in a mini-unit that you can check out on TPT! Click the picture below to get a closer look. The kids LOVE this station and you can put all sorts of little trinkets in the bags to be counted. They can practice the move it over strategy while counting. These sorting mats are for numbers 1-5 and allow students to practice touching while counting. Love these cute little puzzles. Kiddos can practice counting the shapes like they read. Count and clip is a big favorite in my classroom. Put a smiley face on the back behind the correct answer to make it self-checking. My kids love getting up and around the room. In this station they search for the ten frame kids and count like the read to answer How Many. We practice counting all year long but really hit it hard in the first semester of school. It's so important and never goes away, so having these strategies in their back pocket is a huge help and you can refer to them all year long!

This year I wanted my geometry unit to be FUN so I packed it with hands-on exploration.

What is a gifted kid? Has anyone told you one of your students is gifted and you thought, "No Way!"? We all have preconceived ideas about the concept of giftedness. For example, many people believe they all make straight A's, are well behaved and motivated. While many gifted kids display these behaviors, your class clown just might be a gifted kid in disguise.

Countdown Chains: Might as well count it down. . . all they can think about is CHRISTMAS! Trying to get SOMETHING academic in: Notice how many of things we "know" about reindeer has to do with CHRISTMAS! After a week of explaining that wild reindeer are different than Santa's reindeer we finally understand the difference (I think): CHRISTMAS! Wish I could take credit for these cuties. I just draw them how my coworker Jill tells me to! And still trying to get something academic in: I got the shape posters FREE from the blog Guided Math. Lots of great math stuff! Check it out HERE! More updates soon. . . if I survive CHRISTMAS!

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Over the years, I have created dozens of anchor charts in my classroom. I am a huge proponent of creating anchor charts with my students, and I strongly believe that the perfect anchor chart isn't always pretty. The posts below feature many of my anchor charts.

Help kindergarteners compare length & use appropriate vocabulary with this FREE "Shorter and Longer" activity. Great hands on practice for comparing length.

Graphing and Data Analysis in first grade can seem daunting but it is actually a really fun math concept because it is so visual. Kids "get ...