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Boppin’ with Brain Breaks

by Charity Preston 4 Comments

Boppin’ with Brain Breaks

How often do you stop instruction for brain breaks?  Is it when you see the glazed look on your students’ faces – or perhaps you set a timer every so often to remind you to stop intentionally for a quick pick-me-up? However you decide to remind yourself to stop for a brain break, it is […]

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Falling Into Classroom Management

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Falling Into Classroom Management

I know you have probably seen those “you’ve been booed” signs around in different neighborhoods around town.   They are fun and definitely festive! I actually don’t live in a neighborhood, but rather set way far back off a busy road.  We have neighbors, but not really close by.  And their kids are all grown […]

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Character Traits Take on Behavior Management

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Character Traits Take on Behavior Management

Character traits are a great way to combine both literature skills and real life social skills into one fun real world lesson.  Using fictional events, you can have students being more mindful of the choices they are making in every day life too. As I was teaching a lesson, Kevin jumped up and blurted out […]

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Cup Management

by Charity Preston 1 Comment

Cup Management

Hi all!  Today, I have a quick video that shows you an idea that I adapted from one I saw being used during cafeteria duty.  Just change it up a bit, and use the same idea in your classroom when having small group work time!  Save your voice and allow the students to have a […]

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Classroom Management: Why & How

by Charity Preston 3 Comments

Classroom Management:  Why & How

My ongoing nightmare beginning nightly the week leading up to the start of school:  I walk in the classroom door ready to start out a successful year with a gorgeous learning environment and I see students who are throwing papers, hitting each other with backpacks, and using permanent marker to draw a mural on my […]

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Spin a Surprise {Classroom Management}

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Spin a Surprise {Classroom Management}

Learning about classroom management techniques in teacher education classes sound easy enough: make sure you have established rules, you are making eye contact with your students, and calling home if the student continues to act out beyond what is expected. But sometimes you just need a little extra in the way of strategies. I don’t […]

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Cooperative Learning Group Work Roles Made Easier

by Charity Preston 1 Comment

Cooperative Learning Group Work Roles Made Easier

Hey teaching friends!   I don’t know about you, but when I first started to learn about cooperative learning and group projects, I was pumped at the possibilities and learning that could happen!  So I went to school the next day so excited, put my class of third graders in groups, and gave them a project. […]

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Brag Bands: Building Character Edition

by Charity Preston 1 Comment

Brag Bands:  Building Character Edition

Building character is one of those activities that sometimes gets overlooked in the classroom because there is just so much more to cover.  Not to mention these behaviors aren’t necessarily going to be tested on the standardized assessments (to which the teacher is publicly held accountable for). Good character traits aren’t always modeled at home […]

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Classroom Management Teacher Cheat Sheet

by Charity Preston 2 Comments

Classroom Management Teacher Cheat Sheet

Classroom management is a pretty wide topic.  And the funny part?  They don’t teach you much of it in the teacher prep programs.  Why?   I am pretty sure because of the fact that every child and every mixture of children in the classroom are all different. I do remember having to create a philosophy […]

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Does Screaming At Your Class Work? {Classroom Management Tips}

by Charity Preston 4 Comments

Does Screaming At Your Class Work? {Classroom Management Tips}

I know most teachers with good classroom management strategies would say the answer to the title question is “usually not.”  If you are normally a more reserved teacher, then yelling could certainly take them by surprise.  lol.  But, at least it has been my own personal experience, that many students get yelled at at home […]

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Classroom Management: Peer Pressure

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Classroom Management: Peer Pressure

Hey everyone!  I hope you are having an awesome week so far, and today I thought it would be fun to talk about classroom management.  We talk about classroom management a lot, right? You know those years when you just have crazy kids in your classroom?  They’re awesome.  All kids are awesome – we know […]

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Teaching Tip: Keeping Students Engaged

by Charity Preston 2 Comments

Teaching Tip: Keeping Students Engaged

Hey everyone and I hope you are awesome today and having a fantastic week.  I want to share a great tip with you, I actually received a question from Carly.  She wants to know:  “How do you keep students engaged during reading and math lessons?” I have an old school way of doing this, which […]

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Simple Classroom Store System

by Charity Preston 4 Comments

Simple Classroom Store System

Hey teaching friends!  WHEW!  I am hearing so many are already back in school, many with students already!  If that is you then welcome back!  I was chatting with my good friend Tami the other day and we were talking about classroom token economy systems and I was explaining to her how I used to […]

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Are You in Kahoot(s) Yet?

by Charity Preston 4 Comments

Are You in Kahoot(s) Yet?

Hey teaching friends!   Apparently I have been out of the loop, but this is the first time I have heard about this really cool assessment website from some other teacher friends and I thought maybe there was also at least one other person out there who might be in the same boat or stuck under […]

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Classroom Seating Chart: Semi-Circle

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Classroom Seating Chart:  Semi-Circle

This section is for class sizes of 18-19 students. While all the photos show options for 18 students, feel free to place an additional student on the end of one of groups, if needed. This seating arrangement gives the students a way to see everything going on in front of the classroom.  Wonderful for Reader’s […]

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