View the autosave Planning St. Patrick’s Day Activities In the classroom, planning St. Patrick’s Day activities can be tricky for teachers! We want to feed children’s interest and imaginations, yet we don’t necessarily want to spend all month looking for leprechauns as children gather evidence in the form of lint specs found on the carpet. […]
Archives for March 2017
Classroom Call Backs and Attention Getters for Playful Management
Inside: Learn how to use classroom attention getters and call backs for fun and playful classroom management. Getting Children’s Attention Throughout the Day Ever stop to count the number of times you have to get your children’s attention throughout the day? Neither have I! But I would guess we’re talking double digits. Multiply that by […]
Kindergarten Classroom Cheers for a Positive Environment
Inside: Discover how using classroom cheers to recognize positive behavior can build community n your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade classroom. Three Cheers for Positive Reinforcement When I was pregnant with my first child, I noticed pregnant women everywhere! Certainly pregnant women were nothing new, but I was tuned-in in a way that I had […]
Hands-in-Your-Lap Rhymes
While criss-cross applesauce might seem like magic in September, it has usually lost its charm by December. So if you’re like me and find that your classroom management needs a tune-up right about now, try these monthly hands-in-your-lap rhymes to provide a consistent, but novel routine for gaining children’s attention. The […]
