I am so excited to share a fun new project I have been working on at my school, an interactive hallway! My school had a hallway that was painted black for a Halloween event and we wanted to make it a little more inviting for our students to walk by. My friend and co-worker (Kayla Maynor) is awesome with vinyl and her Cricuit so together we made a plan and cut all the vinyl. We wanted to make it interactive and educational too. Below are pictures of the finished result and explanations of each "station". It turned out better than I had imagined! Our school mascot is an alligator so we decided to call our hallway the Gator Interactive Trail. The sign is at the top of each end of the hall. Sing Your ABC's This section was designed for singing the ABC's but also can be used to name/identify letters, shapes, and colors. Mirror Me! This is a buddy activity. Two students stand in front of the handprints. One student is the leader and the second student tries to imitate or copy the first. Then, the roles are reversed. Touch and Solve! This station is all about math! Students or teachers touch a number, touch an operation and then touch another number before solving. For younger students, they work on naming/identifying numbers and counting. Wall Push-Ups This activity is all about gross motor skills. Students start with the pink hands, keep their feet together, lean forward, do a "wall push-up" then slide their feet to the right and repeat. Finger Mazes This activity has students use their fingers to make a trail from the outside of the maze into the center. Trace It! This activity challenges students to visually follow the trail from one shape to another while reaching up or down. I spy... This activity has so many options. With a buddy students can play "I Spy" to simply find letters or they can work on naming/identify letter sounds and phonemic awareness skills too. Teachers or older students can give a clue such as "I spy the last sound in "pig" and the other student tries to find the letter that matches. We also included a few motivational quotes to fill in some space near the doors. If this is something you'd like to create at your school we used a high-gloss black paint with Oracle 651 outdoor vinyl. Our cinder block walls gave us a little trouble with the vinyl but using a blow dryer to heat it up once it was on the wall definitely helped it to stick better. I'm sure our little ones will rip or peel some of the vinyl at some point but replacing them won't be too bad. It has been a great place to visit when a friend may need a break from class or just to explore. Thanks for checking it out, it is an awesome new addition to our school!
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Fun and simple ideas for classroom management from the best resource available to teachers: other teachers! Top hallway procedure transitions and ideas.
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Perfect for the pre-school, kindergarten or first grade classroom! This social skills story provides students with specific expectations for hallway behavior and the reasoning for those rules. It discusses walking in the hall quietly, walking in a line and walking safely. The story includes clear language and picture examples for appropriate hallway behavior! Choose from a full-page version for classroom read alouds, either as a printed or projected book, or a smaller version perfect for take-home reading and family engagement. Students can enjoy reading, coloring, and discussing their learning with families. Both the big book and the small version are available in full color and in black and white. The straightforward language and pictures support a diverse group of students in understanding the importance of good behavior in the hallway. This story can enhance regular classroom lessons, school counseling activities, social skills groups, or individual student supports. It's great for introducing expectations at the beginning of the year, and also reviewing expectations as reminders are needed! You might also like my stories about: Self-Control Sitting on the Carpet If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
I am so excited to share a fun new project I have been working on at my school, an interactive hallway! My school had a hallway that was painted black for a Halloween event and we wanted to make it a little more inviting for our students to walk by. My friend and co-worker (Kayla Maynor) is awesome with vinyl and her Cricuit so together we made a plan and cut all the vinyl. We wanted to make it interactive and educational too. Below are pictures of the finished result and explanations of each "station". It turned out better than I had imagined! Our school mascot is an alligator so we decided to call our hallway the Gator Interactive Trail. The sign is at the top of each end of the hall. Sing Your ABC's This section was designed for singing the ABC's but also can be used to name/identify letters, shapes, and colors. Mirror Me! This is a buddy activity. Two students stand in front of the handprints. One student is the leader and the second student tries to imitate or copy the first. Then, the roles are reversed. Touch and Solve! This station is all about math! Students or teachers touch a number, touch an operation and then touch another number before solving. For younger students, they work on naming/identifying numbers and counting. Wall Push-Ups This activity is all about gross motor skills. Students start with the pink hands, keep their feet together, lean forward, do a "wall push-up" then slide their feet to the right and repeat. Finger Mazes This activity has students use their fingers to make a trail from the outside of the maze into the center. Trace It! This activity challenges students to visually follow the trail from one shape to another while reaching up or down. I spy... This activity has so many options. With a buddy students can play "I Spy" to simply find letters or they can work on naming/identify letter sounds and phonemic awareness skills too. Teachers or older students can give a clue such as "I spy the last sound in "pig" and the other student tries to find the letter that matches. We also included a few motivational quotes to fill in some space near the doors. If this is something you'd like to create at your school we used a high-gloss black paint with Oracle 651 outdoor vinyl. Our cinder block walls gave us a little trouble with the vinyl but using a blow dryer to heat it up once it was on the wall definitely helped it to stick better. I'm sure our little ones will rip or peel some of the vinyl at some point but replacing them won't be too bad. It has been a great place to visit when a friend may need a break from class or just to explore. Thanks for checking it out, it is an awesome new addition to our school!
Hi Folks! Happy Monday! I'm here with a Monday Made It to share. I am particularly fond of these little bobble head displays. My students are cute anyway, and the bobblehead style shows them off even more. They were a BIG hit with all our hallway visitors! I have a long strip of hallway in which to show off what we do in the classroom. I like to make a yearlong spot for each student so I can swap out student work, without having to create a whole new display each time. I saw a Pin that showed little boy and girl bobble head clipart, and it got me thinking about how I could use real photos of my students in a similar fashion. Because I am a somewhat low tech kinda girl and I didn't want to have to crop and alter photos, I took the photos for this project with the end project in mind. I took a snapshot of each student's head with their head pretty much filling the entire frame in my camera. No, this is not one of my students. This is my long suffering husband demonstrating how the student's head should fill the photo frame. Yes, he's wearing his yellow lego head and standing against a yellow wall in our kitchen because I wanted it to be a plain wall... we have no plain walls in our house... Then I took a photo with the student's entire body in the frame... well, actually, I didn't. This first year I took the photo half way through their head– it helps if you have their entire neck to attach the big heads to later– down to their knees. This coming year I am going to take photos of bodies all the way down to their feet. I think the bobblehead element will be more obvious if the body is a little bit smaller in proportion than it was this year. Next time the body photo will go all the way down to include their feet I printed the head and body photos in the standard 4 x 6 size. Then I recruited anyone I could... again, ever patient Jonathan, and we sat and cut out the heads and the bodies. Be sure to cut these out right on the outer edge of the figures– you don't want any excess. I glued the big heads to the little bodies and laminated the whole thing as one piece. Then there was more cutting– this time I cut around the laminated figures with a quarter inch border because I wanted those little guys to last. You can laminate at school, of course, but I used my home laminator to do this... I tell you those things are great. They laminate with a thicker, stiffer plastic which keeps them flat and sturdy. The trickiest part of the cutting was cutting into the bodies and around the fingers. You need to do this so that the display sheet can slide up into their hands and look like the figure is holding it. I laminated black sheets of paper, slide them under hands, then taped them to the back of the figure with Scotch packing tape– you know that wide, crystal clear kind that this teacher can't live without. The laminated display sheet is there so the student work can easily be taped onto the sheet. Otherwise the student work itself has to be removed from the hands each time it is switched out. The fingers on those little figures are very tiny so you don't want to have to mess with them too much. I discovered a great new wall hanging system through this project, too. I don't know about your school, but at ours, stuff likes to leap off the walls. Some kinds of poster putty work, but it is expensive and students have been known to take it. And masking tape works sometimes, especially if you hit it with a rubber mallet... ah ha! I bet you didn't know about the old rubber mallet trick, did you? Yep, I keep a rubber mallet handy and give posters a little pound after I put them up with masking tape. You can find rubber mallets like this one at the dollar store. The Old Rubber Mallet Trick This time, though, I knew I was going to be touching those little figures each time I swapped out the artwork and I really wanted them to stay put even when monkeyed with. So after a little exploring online, I found these tack squares. These little double sticky squares work wonderfully!! Just two or three of them held each little bobblehead figure to the wall all year! And the best thing about them is that they are repositionable and reuseable. They came right off the wall with no problem when I took them down at the end of the year. None of them tore or clung, even though they were still very sticky... SO sticky in fact, I kept them! I put them on the back of one of the black display sheets– yep I kept those, too– and I'm going to see if I can reuse both of them next year. It can't hurt to try. And let me tell you, my kiddos LOVED getting to take home their own bobbleheads at the end of the year, too. They were one of the most favorite end of school "gifts" that they got. I wouldn't be surprised if they are up in bedrooms right now holding treasured masterpieces. So there you have it! A brand new display idea to start the year and use all school year long. I hope you like it! If you do, would you please Pin It! For more classroom display and set up ideas, keep scooting by. I am doing a series this summer on classroom design. I put together a page with links to everything from standing movement centers to valances to a classroom tour video. Click on the button to see! One more thing... there's going to be a GIVEAWAY here in a few weeks... three giveaways to be exact! It is part of Teacher Book Talk Tuesday. More details will be on tomorrow's post. And teacher bloggers, if you would like to be part of the giveaway, then link up tomorrow with a book review! Now, it's time to head on back to the other Monday Made It posts to fine more inspiration. There is always great stuff to be found at one of my favorite linky parties. Thanks, Tara!! Don't forget to PIN today... if you're like me, you'll get ready to make the Bobbles and think, now what did she do again... and then forget where the heck you saw the idea! So Pin, Pin, Pin! And do feel free to share any way you'd like. Thanks for stopping by! See you next time!
Andover’s old Bancroft Elementary School was failing, both operationally and pedagogically. The former school was costing the Town more than $1 million per year to operate and maintain. SMMA worked to design a new elementary school that addressed community concerns and encouraged active learning.
A free printable of transition songs and chants for lining up and moving in the hallway for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms
Explore this photo album by Worlds of Wow! on Flickr!
Kindergarten, a long hall.
Editable center signs with objectives for your preschool or pre-k classroom. Center signs include math, science, play dough, ABC and more.
