As regular readers will know, our son was a summer baby and started school shortly after he turned 4. This has meant that school has been a struggle for him and homework is no exception to that. In the early primary years, and the start of juniors in particular, homework would result in tears almost
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Now that your books are perfectly organized, you’ll need to teach your students how to keep them that way. :) Plan several lessons that outline your expectations for the following:
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Save the drama for theater class: Here are ways you can get your kids to finish their homework without an argument or tears.
An organized classroom runs like a well-oiled machine, and you don’t have to be the only one maintaining that machine. The most organized classrooms are made that way because of collaboration between the teacher and the students. You're all using the space, so it makes sense you work together to organize and maintain it.
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Chores are neglected. Homework sessions begin and end with tears. They stall and find excuses. You worry they don’t have the motivation they need to be successful in school, or [...]
As regular readers will know, our son was a summer baby and started school shortly after he turned 4. This has meant that school has been a struggle for him and homework is no exception to that. In the early primary years, and the start of juniors in particular, homework would result in tears almost
This morning routine will make the first moments in your classroom calm and productive each day while helping students warm up their brains for learning.
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Now that you have a bit of background, let’s focus in on how I introduce workshop to my third graders at the beginning of the school year. I hold off on introducing Math Workshop until the second week of school because I like to spend the first week introducing classroom routines, and building a foundation for respect in our class community. The following Monday, the first week of Math Workshop begins. My goals for this first week are completely focused on the warm up, mini lesson, and at your seat rotation of workshop. These goals include:
An essential ingredient to this tidy packing/unpacking process is purging. If I haven’t used something in the past year, it gets kicked to the curb! Actually …it usually ends up in someone else’s classroom where it becomes a “new” item once again. That’s the beautiful thing about being a teacher; when we don’t need something any more, we share it. >WarmFuzzies!!!<
