Australia-themed printables gathered here would help you to organize fun and educational activities for kids. Australia Day is just around the corner – it is a perfect time to stock […]
This post contains affiliate links to products that I have personally used and love! 💕 Crying kinder: "Art teacher! He pushed me!!" Me: "Why did you push her?" Other on-the-verge of crying kinder: "Because I'm number 7! She was in my spot!!" Crying kinder: "Nuh uhhhh!!" Let's be real people. We get this EVERY. TIME. KINDERGARTEN. LINES. UP. While I normally use moments like these as opportunities to teach students good manners (like saying excuse me instead of pushing someone over), wouldn't it be great if it didn't happen at all? What if we could call our students to line up and they immediately knew exactly where to line up to get into line order!? In comes line-up dot spots. The best classroom management idea I've seen in quite some time! Special thanks to @2art.chambers and @mrsdow_artroom for the awesome inspiration! To make these beautiful floor spots I used some very colorful vinyl that I found on Amazon (of course). And to make it even better.. it's on Prime! 💕 **Update: Since writing this post the vinyl has become unavailable. It looks like this vinyl might be a good alternative (though I have not personally tried it). So two days after I placed my order, I received a package with 30 sheets of vinyl in a plethora of colors (including 3 black sheets - 2 glossy, 1 matte). My initial plan was to cut out the circles on my own but then my mom suggested that I use the Cricut that she had just bought. I gotta say - I LOVE the Cricut. It saved me SO much time cutting and to top it off - all the cuts are absolutely perfect (which is great for a perfectionist like me)! I cut out (okay the Cricut cut out) 26 8" diameter circles, a star for the line leader spot (which I forgot at home today), and then numbers for each spot. To install the spots on my classroom floor, I began by spraying the floor with rubbing alcohol (to help remove any oils or residues). Then I peeled off each circle from its sheet and slowly lowered it onto the floor. To help reduce air bubbles, I used my rubber clay smoother to flatten the vinyl down gradually. Then once the dots were down, I just placed the numbers on top. The numbers were probably the most frustrating part of the whole project. Getting the two-digit numbers aligned to each other and in the center of the dot was tricky. Guys I cannot wait until my kids come in tomorrow! My plan right now is to have my students find their number and then stand NEXT to it. I figured this would help prolong the life of my dots. 😊
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A few years ago I started doing term planners. A place where I could record the main idea that I was going to cover for particular lesson each week. They have been such a HUGE time saver for me! I look at the Australian curriculum outcomes and pull out the big ideas. I sequence them in an order that works best and make sure I take into account what I have to report on and when. Each week I have a new focus for each of my learning areas and in first term I like to try and cover as wide a scope as I can in terms of curriculum content while reviewing what they should have learnt in the previous grade. Having a term planner makes my life soooo much easier when I go to do my weekly planners. It means I don’t have to keep referring back to the Australian Curriculum documents and waste time working out what content to cover each week. Not all topics are explicitly planned out on my term planner. For some topics, like text types, HASS and Science I do unit planners as each lesson can differ a lot from one another. Where as the ones that are planned out in the term planner are lesson that tend to follow the same style each week or in the case of maths are so big and dependent on the student level that I am not able to plan them out more before the term has started. I know the beginning of the year is CRAZY! (Who am I kidding- the whole year is CRAZY!) So I thought I would give you term planners for years 1 to 6 FREE to help you off to a great start this year! These planners are editable so you can change and tweak them as you need but we all know it is easier to go from something already started then to start from scratch. Just click here to sign up to my newsletter and I will send you the link to Year 1 - 6! Including specific planners for composite classes of two year levels ⇨ Like us on Facebook ⇨ Follow us on Pinterest
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A collection of FUN and mess free ways to incorporate sensory play at home and at school. Sensory bags are the way to go if looking for less mess sensory!
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
