Classroom team-building games are a must at the start of a new school year! Here are 16 of my favorite icebreakers and classroom team-building activities!

Here is a list and description of Drawing Games for Kids that I have discovered around the web. I have also included some drawing games for kids online. If you know of any more drawing games, please comment below and share with the rest of us. ...

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Have you heard of all these different tag games for kids and chase games? These fun ideas are great for summer camp and backyard play.

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Here is a silly drawing games that is a lot of fun for kids to play. In this drawing game, you use dice to decide what parts of the drawing you will draw. We have included a face drawing game and a landscape drawing game. This is a lot of fun and it helps children who might not be able to draw freely and creatively...this will help them draw more freely and creatively. This will also increase silliness.

I call this printable Spanish card game Batalla de tamaños. It is based on the traditional game where two players each have a stack of cards and turn over the top card at the same time. The higher card takes the lower card. This version teaches country names and

Below are three different Zoom-based Scavenger Hunts that you can do in the home with your child and then share with other participants via Zoom!Scavenger Hunt 2To print these pictures simply cl

Use these 10 games for handwriting practice, allowing kids to improve legibility, sizing, placement, and more as they play.

The best starter list of large group games that are fun to play and allow everyone to join in! These are perfect for summer camp, youth, kids, etc.

This is a fun little incentive for kids who bring their homework back to school finished and on time. It works exactly like the game Monop...

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I've been working on a few things for Behavior Management so I thought I'd join the party! Check out The Lesson Plan Diva to see others who have linked up! I've seen a lot of clip charts and stop lights in blog land and I have to say that I am not a fan. Don't get me wrong--I think they are pretty, easy to use, and a quick visual for the teacher at the end of the day when getting things ready to go home. BUT I strongly believe that kids should not be publicly embarrassed for their behavior. EVERYONE makes poor choices from time to time. Would you want the entire staff to know when you missed a deadline or made a mistake? I know this is not the intention, but it happens anyway. Instead I use a binder. I wish I had a photo to show but sadly it is locked up at school. In the binder is a chart with student numbers instead of names. When students make poor choices, they are asked to visit the behavior binder where they place a check mark next to their number. There is also a copy of our Quality Student they should quickly review. When sending students to the binder, I make sure to do it privately so the student is not embarrassed. Each Monday we discuss the previous week's data, celebrate if we made a goal, and make new goals for the coming week. The binder is also handy at conference time. As a class, we set goals for the number of checks we will try to stay under per week. Students also may have personal goals for how many checks they will have each week or grading period. Recently I found Homeworkopoly on Ladybug's Teacher Files and decided to teacher-lift it. She uses this for students who consistently complete their homework, but I decided to use it as a behavior incentive. ALOT of people have been posting about doing away with the prize/treasure box and this could work for that too. I included two "prize box" places on the board but you could easily replace them with something else. I am still working on the Chance cards and I also added a spot for "Student-written questions." My plan here is to have students write their own review questions for topics already covered. So my printer is running low on ink and the colors are a bit distorted but this is the basic idea. My plan is to post it on the chalk board and use pictures of the kids faces to make magnetic playing pieces. Students who made it the entire week without any checks in the behavior binder (or who met their personal behavior goal) will get to take a turn on the Behavioropoly Board. Check out Ladybug's Teacher Files to see how she runs the game. ***Update*** Due to a high volume of requests I am no longer sending out my template by email. You can go to my TPT store and download the files for free!

Developing listening skills is an important task. You'll love these listening games that practice listening through play.

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What better way to celebrate Pioneer Day in singing time than by playing some classic pioneer games? Your primary children will have loads of fun trying these

Use these 10 games for handwriting practice, allowing kids to improve legibility, sizing, placement, and more as they play.

Looking for a long-term and utterly rewarding DIY project? Longing for childhood video games? These DIY Arcade Cabinet Plans could inspire you.

A few months ago, I published a video/blog post in which I shared how I use Plickers and my Assessment Magnet system in my teaching for assessment purposes. If you haven’t seen the video yet, here it is below (be sure to also check out the full blog post for additional examples of how I use these two tools in physical education). A few weeks later, I shared how I combined this magnet system with my Mini-Coaching system and QR Jump Rope Cards in my jump rope unit to help students set goals, track progress and learn independently in P.E. class. Here’s the Quick Look video I made to explain how this works: After sharing the videos with the #physed community, I was super pumped to see how many teachers were excited about trying out the magnet system in their teaching! The Remix One of the cool things about sharing your ideas online is that you never know how the idea will grow from what it once was. That said, one teacher in particular, Mike Ginicola of Connecticut, decided to try the Assessment Magnet system out in his own teaching: Thanks to some of our pioneers, I’m getting closer to my vision of a meaningful #physed program. Magnets rock @JoeyFeith! pic.twitter.com/8kmT0eMUlc — Mike Ginicola (@PhysEdDepot) March 22, 2017 Mike then took things a step further in order to solve a problem with the original magnet system: the fact that it was hard to quickly track student magnets after each class (something that I was doing manually after my lessons). Mike reduced the Plickers card images until they were small enough to be placed on a magnet. By having these mini-Plickers assessment magnets, a teacher can simply scan the whiteboard at the end of a lesson to quickly log where each student’s magnet was placed at... Continue Reading

Being able to both follow and give directions is an important skill in school, and in life. Kids with language disorders often have trouble with processing the directions we give them, or with being able to formulate accurate directions or descriptions so that another person can complete the task or find the object. This is ... Read More about Susan Berkowitz’s Free Mystery Picture Hunt Game for Following and Giving Directions

Number sense is CRITICAL in the younger grades. It is so important for my students to be able to understand what numbers mean and their relationship to one another. Once they have a solid number sense they can then build upon their mathematical skills both inside and outside of the classroom. I have a […]

For the final day of our Craft Closet Boredom Busters series, here are four fun tricks to do with a penny and just a few other household supplies. One is a magic trick, one is a brain bender, and two are neat science demonstrations. All of them are fun to try, and kids will enjoy […]

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Learning multiplication facts can be such a chore. Make multiplication for kids fun and engaging with this simple card game! Only takes 2 minutes to set up.

Introduce nocturnal animals to your kids including owls, bats, and raccoons with these educational activities. Learning about nocturnal animals is fun because we don’t often...

Kids will love learning about the components of blood with this fun and memorable activity - make a blood model!