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Are you on the Sunshine Committee this year? Some schools call it Social Committee. Whatever the name, it serves the same purpose. Usually there is a little arm twisting at the beginning of the year to get staff members to pay their dues. If your school normally doesn't allow the staff to wear jeans, you might ask your administrator if your committee could give people who pay dues a "Jean Day Coupon" that allows teachers to wear jeans on one day of their choosing. It's like a "get out of jail" card. Through the years, there has been some grumbling at some of my schools about our committee. I think this happens when there are not clear cut guidelines. There needs to be guidelines in writing and transparency with the finances. Here are a few topics to discuss when you are ready to write some guidelines: Leadership: officers and their duties I highly recommend the treasurer giving a report at the faculty meetings at least quarterly. Boss Day in October: Will the committee purchase the gift? If so, what is the budget? Appreciation Day/Week: Which staff members do you recognize? How and what is the budget? Morale booster activities: when and budget Staff parties: When, where, budget Showers: baby/wedding - Does the committee provide anything for the shower, if so what is the budget. Is it for the first baby and first wedding or other? Death: Does the committee send something from the faculty? If so, what and what is the budget? What relationship to the staff member should it be when you do this? I.E. Immediate family member Holidays: Does the committee purchase holiday gifts for any staff members? If so, who and what is the budget? I typed up a few things that I have done at some of my schools that you might like, too. These are fun activities that boost morale. Do you have a staff member that is your PTA representative? If the PTA ask you for suggestions, you might suggest that they organize food during your conferences. I helped organize this at my daughter's middle school. Her school had a week of Parent-Teacher Conferences. Students had school for half a day and then teachers met with parents the other half. Our PTA organized food the first three days for the teachers. We knew that the teachers had conferences at different times and wouldn't eat at the same time so the food had to stay fresh for a long time. We organized a salad bar one day, a nacho bar another day, and heavy appetizers the final day. This was the most popular thing that our committee organized. Click HERE to download this freebie. Looking for more tips? Check out my Beginning of the Year Pinterest board. Click on the picture below. Fern has a few tips to share with you, too. Be sure to hop over to her blog! Each week, Fern and I will share a teacher tip. We love to read teacher blogs and the latest teacher idea books and hope you do, too! Stop by Fern's blog and my blog each week for our latest tips. We hope you will share your ideas, too. Each week we will choose one person who shared a tip on our blog who will get a $10 shopping trip. We will announce the winner on the following Tuesday's post. Click HERE to read Melinda's tip. Do you have a staff morale booster tip to share? Be sure to include your email so I can contact you if you're the winner of the $10 shopping trip. You must leave your email address in order to win. Looking for more ideas? Click on the pictures below. An InLinkz Link-up Sources to make my blog post graphics can be found HERE. Click HERE to read my blog's disclosure statement.
This product will help you to teach your sixth graders how to analyze the introduction, illustration and elaboration of an idea, person or event is presented in text. It includes: Lesson Planner with standard UNPACKED Anchor Chart(s) to guide lesson or for use as student handout/guide Student Activities to be used with the text of your choice Formative and/or summative assessment of standard Student Progress Tracker Ticket to Mastery This is a small part of the Toolkit for teaching Informational Reading, and is GREAT for teachers of science and social studies! You can use any of these activities to support teaching reading standards with your own content and texts. The entire toolkit can be found here: Informational Reading Toolkit - BUNDLE
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This story is a great way to teach your students how to follow directions at school. The story talks about how to follow directions. You have to look at the teacher, listen, think, and do. The book gives examples of following directions like cleaning up and getting quiet. Social Narratives or Social Stories describe social situations for students with Autism. Social stories use simple language and visual cues to teach expected behaviors. They can also be used to give instructions for a specific event or routine. What's included: -12 page social story, ready to print PDF Let's connect! I would love to hear how you are using my products in your classroom! Instagram: @_teachingfutureleaders Pinterest: @teachingfutureleaders Thank You! ♡ Copyright© 2023 Teaching Future Leaders
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Part of our social studies standards are to learn how cultures from around the world affect our culture. There's no better way to start this standard than to learn about cultures from around the world. The problem for me was how to teach the students about several cultures within the time that we had available. This is when I thought of a cultural fair. I talked my team into teaching each of their classes about a different country and some of the different cultures within that country. We had the students research: food, art, music, clothing, customs, and language. Each class put together a science board with some of the research. We also hung other research on the walls outside of our classrooms. This way the students had plenty of room to read about the different cultures. We chose to hold the fair the day before Thanksgiving break. The cultural fair was so engaging, the students were sure to learn all the way through the end of the day. We weren't so sure that would happen with our every day lessons. Each class prepared one of the more popular food or drinks from their country. I bought prepackaged food from Ikea for my country. This helps to satisfy the rule in some schools of prepackaged food. The year before we had a parent make our food at home. (I did not serve the pear drink.) Each classroom can have a quick craft inside for the students to complete. We made floral headbands for Sweden. Most countries have flowers in their culture so this is a wonderful go to craft. If you search on Pinterest, you will find a plethora of cultural crafts. We also used the folders that you see below to hold all of our research in reading and writing. Every student was given a passport with the countries listed inside. The students were to record details from every country that they visited. So we allowed students to roam the hall. They went into the rooms to enjoy food and a craft. They read information on the countries outside of the rooms. Their teachers held them accountable for details by checking their passports. We had parent volunteers to come in to assist the students in moving throughout the hall and into the appropriate rooms. If you can't do a whole grade level Culture Fair, you can set up centers in your classroom. You can have groups of students research different countries and share with each other. Putting together the materials for this unit took quite a while. If you don't have time to put them together, check out the units below in my store.
Does your school have a social committee? Sometimes it is called a sunshine committee. This is the committee that sends flowers when someone is in the hospital or has a death in the family. I thought it would be fun if we share activities our committees have organized. Luncheons If you are planning a luncheon, remember the teachers with the last lunch period. Many times it is "slim pickings" for those poor people. We tried two different things to solve this problem. We asked for at least 3 different foods of each category (if you have 3 lunch periods). We numbered the bowls/containers #1, #2, #3 with post-it notes. Those bowls were taken out of the frig during those lunch periods. We also held the luncheons on our early release days. Everyone could eat at the same time which was a nice bonus. Another problem we had with luncheons was people who came to the luncheon but didn't bring any food to share. We found a compromise. People had a choice of donating $5 or bringing a side dish or dessert. The money was used to purchase paper goods, drinks, or the main course. We ordered food like pizza or 3 inch sandwiches from Subway for the main course. Sometimes we had themes for the luncheons. We had a baked potato bar for St. Patrick's Day. This is one of the easiest luncheon to plan and cheapest, too! Read more about it HERE. Activities We organized activities such as: ***Secret Santa ***"You've Been Booed" ***Christmas cookie exchange Expressions of Support How does your school show support when a faculty member falls on hard times? Have you heard the story The Bundle of Sticks? Read about it here: click You can show support different ways. We organized meals on a schedule when a faculty or staff member (or their family member) was in the hospital. Example: Kindergarten team provided the meal on Monday, First grade provided the meal on Tuesday, and so on and so forth. Sometimes teams collected money and gave the family a gift card to a restaurant that delivered instead of home cooked meals. I asked the teachers on my facebook page if they had suggestions for this post. Here are a few suggestions: Tabitha Opio: *Breakfast with a theme each month *Cookie exchange at Christmas *During testing season they brainstorm different ways they can stump the students. *Teachers get birthday bags, too. Denise Dormer Dauphin: *Teams take turns to host a payday breakfast. HoJo's Teaching Adventures: *Tree of thanks - each teacher filled out a leaf when they wanted to recognize another staff member. *She had a principal who gave everyone apples on their birthday. Another principal gave everyone enough money to buy a pop/juice/water with a little note of thanks. Kris Weimer Cruzen: *Faculty and staff members are divided into 8 groups. Each group is responsible for organizing activities for one quarter. So, each group is responsible for 9 weeks every 2 years. *Pot luck breakfast *Happy hour *Chili cookoff *Dinner prior to conference *Christmas party *Secret Santa *Bowling after school *Trip to winery after school ****Usually has 2-3 activities each quarter
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