If you want to keep your students engaged try to mix things up when you can. We’re going to give you a few homeschool routine ideas to help!
Impulse Control Activities for Kids: Fun activities, games, and resources that will help your kids practice self-control
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Kids and young adults need extensive practice in strengthening their executive functioning skills. Executive functions are the processes in our brains that help us accomplish all tasks from beginning to end. We use them when we plan our day, organize our materials, begin a chore, focus on important
Zoom games for coworkers, friends, family, + kids. Easy + fun virtual games incl. puzzles, quizzes + trivia to mix up conference calls!
Want to seem like an excellent math teacher? Play the substitution game. It is worth 1000 worksheets. It's never boring and it's different every time.
Anger games are great resource to develop coping skills at home, school or in a counseling environment. A review of anger management games available in the market.
Updated with more free educational subscriptions! School closures due to the spread of this virus is leaving parents, teachers, and students looking for options. While many of us will be homeschooling our children, we will also be looking for resources. Thankfully, many gracious companies have dropped the price to join their website, allowing students to
SAME spelling; SAME pronunciation; DIFFERENT Spelling.
We had so much fun putting our riddles for kids post together. I am always pulling the riddles out randomly to challenge the kids. They love it! But our latest fascination is tongue twisters for
What are your methods for teaching vocabulary? Drills? Flashcards? Yuck! Boring! While these can certainly be effective, they can be a quick way to lose your student’s attention if you spend too much…
Develop speaking, listening, thinking and reasoning skills with these twelve fun verbal games to play with preschoolers, kindergarteners and bigger kids.
Tick-tock, it's time for fun learning! Dive into engaging ways to make teaching time a blast for your students!
A multiple choice quiz after reading is a quick and easy way to check student comprehension, but it doesn't allow you to assess deeper understanding and it certainly isn't fun or creative. If you are looking for more meaningful and engaging activities to use with students during literature circles or a novel unit, here's twelve ideas that are favorites in my classroom and the Common Core standards they align with.
Laughter really is the best medicine! With these family activities, it will surely make you bond, but also laugh so hard it hurts!
If your kids like to make slime, they will enjoy learning how to make oobleck. You only need 2 ingredients for this fun science experiment.
Whether your students are lethargic or super-charged, adding movement to your lesson plans will help to solve both issues. Not only is it healthy to move throughout the day, but it can also help students focus and become more engaged with the content they are trying to master. Due to the nature of English classes, ELA ... Read More about 10 Ways to Add Movement in the ELA Classroom
A list of 20 fun and easy waiting games for kids that you can play anywhere without screens. Stretch your brains while in line, on trips or in restaurants.
Remove One is an awesome probability game to help middle school math students explore probability concepts and strategy!
Games can be the perfect tool to introduce and teach social emotional learning skills to kids and young adults. These are the skills that help kids become more self-aware, develop positive relationships, show empathy towards others, manage emotions, use self-control, resolve conflicts, and make posi
Traditional teaching methods encouraged the memorization of the multiplication facts – all 100 of them (144 if we include the 11s and 12s). I can still recall
In this six part series on How to Teach Spelling, this third post discusses and provides teaching resources for teaching the eight conventional spelling rules.
Do your kids dread practicing their addition facts? Try Knockout! A fun addition game to help your child learn the facts without tears.
This parts of a circle poster displays the parts of a circle: center, diameter, radius, chord, secant line, tangent line, point of tangency, arc, and sector. It also shows the definitions and formulas for circumference and area of a circle. Printing: This poster is designed to be printed as a 24" by 36" poster. If you have Adobe Reader (free to download), then select the "poster" option when printing. Your poster will be printed on multiple 8.5"x11" pages that can be put together as a poster. You can also use a poster printer (some schools have them or an office supply store like Staples). Terms of Use: This product should only be used by the teacher who purchased it. This product is not to be shared with other teachers. Please buy the correct number of licenses if this is to be used by more than one teacher. Did you know? You can receive TPT store credits to use on future purchases by leaving feedback on products you buy! Just click on "My Purchases" under "Buy"! Connect with me! Blog Instagram Facebook Pinterest
Icebreakers are a great way to get a group of people interacting and connected. But sometimes, as the leader, it can be hard to find quick ways to do them. I know this first hand.
We all get a bit lost sometimes, even us homeschool moms! So I have created a list of amazing homeschool activities you can do together.
Things might seem bad now, but remember: They'll never be this bad ever again.
This 7 minute animal themed HIIT workout for kids improves emotional regulation and reduces meltdowns. Loved by OTs, teachers, and parents alike!
Multiplication and division fluency is such an important skill for 3rd grade students. In Unit 3 of the 3rd Grade Math Made Fun Curriculum,
Don't like plain kefir, even though you know it's good for you? I've been on a mission to come up with fun and yummy ways to eat kefir!
Free Printable Multiplication Cootie Catcher Set
I-statements (I-messages): Examples and fun worksheets to help your family develop an assertive communication style and improve conflict resolution
You can use these kinesthetic activities right away! Incorporate hands-on learning into your child’s lessons and improve long-term learning.
Free printable social scripts for kids about being a good sport
Do you think you can solve these "What Am I?" riddles? Here are the best "What Am I?" riddles with answers.
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It seems like every day there is an endless stream of students reporting behaviors or incidents that happen in the classroom. On one hand, we want to help our students feel heard and validated so they know we are a safe person for them to talk to. On the other hand, we certainly don't want to feed into the tattle machine. It's a fine line to walk. So how do we handle tattling in our classrooms?
Synonyms and Antonyms Anchor Chart! This blog post contains the material to create this anchor chart, plus a FREE interactive notebook entry for synonyms and antonyms!
My blog will never be perfect. I will never have enough hours in the day. So I have decided to let go, and focus on another skill that I speak on almost daily--risk taking! It's time to get this thing going. So today, I'm taking a risk and putting myself out there, putting my blog out there, imperfections and all.
Kids will love this collection of super funny knock, knock jokes for kids! Clean jokes that will make kids crack up laughing.
15 exit ticket ideas for any subject or grade level!
K-1 POETRY UNIT I love teaching poetry to kindergarten and first grade students! Even though I have this labeled as Unit 8 in my Writing Series , I actually teach poetry throughout the entire year. We follow the same routine and students look forward to our poetry week every month.
Games are such an effective tool for practicing skills in the classroom. Students are so engaged when playing games and we remember more of what we learn when we are having fun. I worked hard to incorporate games into my classroom on a very regular basis. My students played vocabulary games on Fridays and they
Teaching times tables to kids can be difficult (am I right?!), but we’ve got 15 ideas to make teaching multiplication fun. With tons of free printables to choose from, these multiplication games and activities are perfect for 2nd to 5th grade learning, and can be used both in the classroom and at home.
Outlawing the words "I'm done" changed my classroom! Find out how to reform fast finishers and improve the quality of work in your room!
What they don't teach us in education courses is just how freaking much students talk, and how hard it can be to quiet them down. Help is on the way.
21 Family History Questions To Ask Your Grandparents. Last month was a difficult time for the family following the passing away of my grandpa. If your
I love learning about arrays because they are so visual which allows for a lot of really fun rectangular arrays activities and practice! I l...
Looking for free grammar games to make teaching fun? This list of games for teaching parts of speech, punctuation, and writing will provide fun all year!
This post contains affiliate links. Kindergarten Daily Math Practice Worksheets 180 Page Work Book This is a book with 180 different worksheets to practice Kindergarten Math Skills. In it you will …
