Fun and Practical Ideas for Primary Classrooms
Indoor recess? Gloomy weather? Increasingly complex concepts to learn? Students snapping at each other? The middle of winter is also the beginning of the second half of the school year and students may be stuck in a rut or acting out a bit. Here are some tried and true ideas I use every year to help keep students learning and… Read More
“Do you have any “nice notes” today?!” That is a phrase I hear often in my classroom! My students LOVE getting recognized in front of their peers AND taking their “nice note” home to show their family. What are Nice Notes? “Nice Notes” are cute little cards with a positive message and a cute clipart animal or person. I use… Read More
How does a Reward Catalog work? Well, let me show you one of our favorite things in 1st grade! The great news is, you can use a Reward Catalog with any management system that you already have in place, it’s low-maintenance, and it can be low cost and/or FREE for you. Here’s how it works in my room… We use… Read More
We all have our favorite attention-getters that we use in the classroom. I love having an array of them to choose from to keep my kiddos on their toes! Here are my Top 5, in no particular order! My Wireless Doorbell My students love my wireless doorbell. It has so many different chimes and I love to change it up… Read More
I love letting my students know about my life right from the start so I can start learning about them, too! This automatically helps them feel more comfortable in their new classroom, builds trust between us, and encourages them to share more with me, too! HERE ARE SIX WAYS I START RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING… 1. Postcard Before school starts,… Read More
