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The Rise and Shine Binder uses interactive morning activities to wake up with the standards! This is a year long hands-on math and literacy interactive notebook that will engage your students each morning! Great for Kindergarten and First Grade.
Last year Talk Like a Pirate Day snuck up on me - not this year! I'm planning ahead!! First up - a morning message to get the day started. Students will solve the message using a secret pirate code. I may put it on the Smartboard and solve as a class, but perhaps I'll print them each a copy. Once I meet my new class I'll decide. You can download a copy here for FREE. :) Then, we'll do some pirate talking with this YouTube video. Students will have a chance to learn some pirate sayings. I've created a new math activity that I think will become a go-to math station. I created my game board on a remnant two by four to resemble a plank, but paper would work too! This race to the treasure game will have students trying to walk the plank. It is easy to differentiate with dice, spinner or even a deck of cards. The possibilities are endless once the game is created! Really, who can resist these pirates?!? You can find this activity HERE in my TPT store. I'll also be using my Tens and Ones Mystery Picture for some place value practice that you can learn more about HERE. Then there's this song for talking like a pirate ... I have created a new Pinterest board to pin more ideas for Talk Like a Pirate Day. You can follow me on that board HERE. Did you know that Talk Like a Pirate Day has been celebrated on September 19th since 2002? As always, I'd love to give away 3 copies of my newest learning pack (Walk the Plank Math Game). I'll send a copy to the first 3 people who leave a comment with their email on this post.
This How To guide will teach you everything you need to know about using morning tubs in your preschool or kindergarten classroom!
One fun way to start the day and get everyone talking is by using would you rather morning meeting questions
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Are you ready to transform your daily routine with engaging "question of the day for kids" activities? Not only do these activities spark conversation, but they also foster critical thinking skills, enhance communication, and create a
Speed Chatting: some children just need to talk, and here's a chance to let them talk without wasting class time. Perfect for Morning Meeting!
Boggle! I love this. This is so easy and fun for the kids. Boggle Upper and lower case letters match This is a simple activity that can be put together to create a center. You will need to print laminate and cut out the wheels. You will then create a set of clothes pins with each letter of the alphabet on them. One set upper case and one set lower. The students will match the pin to the correct spot on the wheel. Upper and Lower case letters Beginning and ending sounds This activity is the same concept as the upper and lower case letters. You can reuse your clothes pins!!!! This time students will find the clothes pin with the correct ending or beginning sound. Beginning and ending sounds Sight words are a very important part of grades k-2. A great way to use them in your ABC station is to have students build them with cookie sheets and magnetic letters. In your station you can have a variety of list so the students can pick the list that is just right for them. Then they begin to build. You can do this very easy to put together activity with sight words, math, science, or vocabulary from different books in class. The attachment I have on here is blank and an open file so you can save a blank document and then add the words you wish. In the Very Hungry Caterpillar unit there are vocab cards made and ready to use. Blank sight word cards At the start of the year another activity you can do in the ABC station is working with the students names. Each student will get an apple card ad write their name on it. Then you can take a picture of each student and put it on another apple. Picture taking is a great thing to come and let parents do and often they will even take the pictures and have them printed. Once the names and pictures are on the apples I would laminate them. Put the apples in center and have the students match the names to the pictures. If you are going to let students help pass out papers this is a great way for them to start learning each others names. Once they master this they can begin to put the apples in ABC order. Apples Here is a cute upper and lower case letter matching activity. I am working on a basketball match and it is coming soon! Upper and Lower case letter match Here's basketball! upper and lower case match
Using Secret Student or Star is an easy and effective classroom management strategy that only takes a minute to implement. Download this free resource
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Five simple ways to tweak morning meetings for upper elementary to help build a strong class community and student-student relationships.
Matt Maltese \"Good Morning It's Now Tomorrow\" his third album. In the last year Matt has enjoyed incredible growth the past 12 months over the last year after becoming an unlikely Tik Tok sensation, seeing his streaming increase by more than 5 times as he reaches a new and increasing fanbase. With this album, Matt re-establishes himself as cultural moment, with sharp and humorous lyrics and sincere declarations of love and togetherness. TRACK LISTING: 1. Good Morning 2. Shoe 3. Everyone Adores You (at least I do) 4. You Deserve an Oscar 5. Lobster 6. Outrun the Bear 7. 1000 Tears Deep 8. We Need to Talk 9. Mystery 10. Oldest Trick in the Book 11. Looking 12. Rat Race 13. Krakow.
Teach kids to be kind more often with this trash or kindness game so they decide if social actions are unkind or kind.
At the British Wildlife Centre, Newchapel, Surrey, it is 11.00, and 'Frodo' is awaiting the morning Keeper talk.
I’ve always struggled with showing kids that they don’t need to SCREAM at the person sitting right next to them, or that they can talk to the people at their center, but they have to use a whisper voice. My kids have always seemed to have an all or nothing view of talking in our ... Read More about Controlling Those Voices!
These 10 Ted Talks from teachers who are changing the world around them will inspire you long after September has passed. Watch when you're feeling tired..,These 10 Ted Talks from teachers who are changing the world around them will inspire you long after
Too many classroom icebreakers require students to take big social risks with people they barely know. Or they don't really help students get to know each other. Or they are just plain cheesy.
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Take a minute and think about what your students do during their first ten or fifteen minutes of class. Are they getting started on their morning work? If we
