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The Secrets of Social Emotional Learning for Kids

by BrainNinjasWP

Do your students have difficulty regulating their emotions? Do you need strategies to help teach students about feelings and how to calm down? This is the post for you. Come read the whole post and get practical strategies you can implement today.

We believe firmly in social-emotional learning (or SEL), self-regulation and teaching students about feelings. Students today struggle with identifying feelings, managing their emotions and staying focused.

Let’s not get into all the causes of why some students are unable to describe and manage their feelings, but more and more instructional time becomes wasted unless we intentionally teach students about to self-regulate.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Emotions, Feelings, Health, Managing Feelings, Mental Health, SEL, Self-Regulation, Social Emotional Learning, Teachers Pay Teachers

Math Worksheet Games Your Students Will Love

by BrainNinjasWP

There are lots of different ways to use a math worksheet to help students learn to collaborate, reinforce skills, and deepen their understanding. Check out these activities that you can set up and use in minutes with the worksheets you already have printed. Save your time with these engaging activities.

We rarely use worksheets because they don’t align with our teaching style. We tend to use a lot of project-based learning or inquiry process activities, but every so often we find that our students need a little extra practice with computation in math. That is when we bring out the worksheets.

However, we don’t often just hand them out and expect our students to fill them in. Here are some ways we use a math worksheet in a less-than-traditional way.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Collaboration, Differentiated Instruction, Differentiation, Math, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, Teaching Strategies, Worksheets

Five Types of Teachers and How To Deal With Them

by BrainNinjasWP

One of the most difficult things about teaching is how it can be isolating from one moment to exasperating the next. Dealing with coworkers can be a real challenge. Come read about the different types of teachers and how to deal with them.

Disclaimer: This article is meant for fun. We are not actually criticising anyone or their work ethic, but let’s be honest, we all know these types of teachers. Keep reading for our advice on how to handle it.  

Think about the last staff meeting you attended. It’s time to pass around the volunteer sign-up because it’s going to be a busy month. That’s always the intention, but by the end of the month there are usually a lot of hard feelings and regret over glitter, balloons, and most of all missed class time (because everyone needs to sit around and listen to first graders read their research reports on goats for 45 minutes. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?)

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Co-Workers, Staff and Faculty Activities, Teacher Humour, Teacher Mental Health, Teacher Wellness

Easy to Use Classroom Activities for Earth Day

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you looking for activities to do with your upper elementary class? We pulled together Earth Day themed lessons and activities (but they can be used any time of year) for your upper elementary classroom. Come check out the resources, books, and ideas to use right away.

Every day in our classroom is Earth Day. It’s part of our science lessons to learn about energy conservation, so it’s easy to make sure we talk about the importance of conservation regularly.

One year a fellow teacher thought it would be a great idea to print a little paper globe for each student in our school (that’s several hundred) and write a “thank you to the Earth” type sentence.

I don’t often speak up at meetings, but I couldn’t resist this one. Isn’t it counterproductive to teach students about conservation by wasting all that paper?

Everyone agreed, but NO ONE had any suggestions on what we could do instead. And that’s how we came up with this list of Earth Day activities (and why you should try some of them).

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Book Recommendations, Collaboration, Collaborative Posters, Collaborative tasks, Conservation, Earth Day, Earth Day Activities, Earth Day Books, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, recycled art lessons, recycled materials, Recycling, Teachers Pay Teachers, Upcycled Art Lessons, Waste In Our World

Quick and Colourful Activities for Holi the Festival of Colours

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you looking for upper elementary classroom activities you can use to learn more about the Holi Festival of Colours? We've gathered resources and books that are perfect for your classroom. Come take a look.

Learning about different traditions allows students to explore people and their cultures around the world. And it’s a cheap way to travel! We collected activities for Holi so you can travel with your students.

Holi is an ancient Hindu festival that originates and is widely celebrated in India. Although different regions of India have their own traditions and variations, they all share one thing, it’s so much fun! As people have moved around the world, settling in other countries such as Canada they have brought this celebration with them.

Many non-Hindu people around the world also celebrate Holi. In fact, this tradition has inspired all kinds of different events. It is often used to support all kinds of good causes, like children with chronic or life-threatening conditions and is incorporated into many different types of fundraisers.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Book Recommendations, books, Festival of Colors, Holi, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal

How to Weave Kindness into the Classroom Every Day

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you looking for a collaborative art project you can use around the theme of kindness? These are some of the examples our students made from our kindness collaboration art project. You can find out how we made them. It's so easy!

Kindness is one of our core values in our school, classroom and lives. We try to find ways to encourage kindness every chance we get.

How do we encourage kindness all year? We weave it through our lessons and we build connections with our students. These connections build between students and we become a community. Through community, kindness becomes natural.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Acts of Kindness, Art, Art Lessons, Be Kind, Kindness, Kindness Matters, Pink Shirt Day, Video Link, World Kindness Day

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