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Make Wellness Lessons a Priority in Your Classroom

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Wellness skills are life-long skills that benefit everyone. It's important for students to see these skills in action throughout their days if they are going to build them into their entire lives. Come learn how we do that every day.

When the health and wellness curriculum just becomes a list of things to teach, it really misses the mark. If the goal of health and wellness lessons are to teach student life-long ways to take care of themselves, it should be woven throughout their days at school in addition to explicit teaching. We’ve evaluated some of the ways we put our wellness lessons front and centre in our classroom.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Classroom Community, Classroom Management Strategies, classroom tips, Health, Lesson Plans, our tpt products, TpT Products, Wellness

How to Set the Noise Level in Your Classroom

by BrainNinjasWP

Is the noise level in your classroom driving you up the wall? When noise gets out of hand, it's time for a reset. Come learn what we discovered and how you can make it work for you.

Do you ever feel your classroom just keeps getting louder and louder until you want to take your ears off? As your students get more comfortable, the noise level can get out of hand. Of course, the activity going on in your room can often impact the noise, but your body language and your tone of voice play a bigger role than you may realize. This is a real experiment we tried on our students.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Classroom Management Strategies, Classroom Noise, Classroom Set Up, classroom tips, Listening Skills, Noise, Noise Level, Professional Learning, Student Teachers, Teacher Stories, Teacher Workload

How to Include Different Types of Writing in Your Classroom

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you looking for ways to include the different types of writing in your classroom each day? Come see how we do it in our upper elementary classroom.

Over the years we’ve attended hundreds of hours of professional development for teaching students to write. Our school has tried out resources from Ruth Guthrie and the 6+ Traits of Writing, Barbara Mariconda and Empowering Writers and even Lucy Calkins and her Writers’ Workshop model. None of these were perfect. Some students did well with some of the lessons and some students didn’t see a lot of growth in their writing. Some students learned to follow a formula but struggled with being creative. How do you include different types of writing in your daily writing?

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: expository writing, Google Apps, Google Classroom, narrative writing, persuasive writing, Poetry, Writing, Writing Activities, Writing Lessons, Writing Prompts, Writing Strategies

How to Teach Successful Long Division Strategies

by BrainNinjasWP

Do your upper elementary students struggle with long division? We've collected all our best tools for helping students master long division and you can have them all. Come read this post and see how we can help your students feel better about math.

Long division has long been one of the most challenging concepts for students in Grade 4 and Grade 5 to master. There are a few reasons students struggle with long division, so we’ve tried to break down some of the ways we set our students up for success.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Differentiation, digital task cards, interactive math notebooks, Interactive Notebooks, long division, Math, math videos, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, Multiplication, professional development, Professional Learning, self-checking task cards, task cards, Teachers Pay Teachers, videos, YouTube

22 Amazing Ways to Use Word Wall Words

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you trying to use a word wall, but are running out of ways to make it worth the time? Come check out this big list of ideas for how to make your word wall interactive and useful for all your students.

What are word wall words?

A word wall is an organized display of a collection of words that are usually left posted on a wall or bulletin board for a long period of time. The words are typically high-frequency words. Posted word wall words can provide a visual reference for students throughout a unit of study, a term, or a year. Teachers and students use these words continuously. 

But are you guilty of hanging up your words and then forgetting about them? Come learn how we make our word wall more interactive.

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Classroom Set Up, ELA, ell, English Language Arts, esl, Language Arts, Teachers Pay Teachers, vocabulary, word parts, word study, word wall, word wall words

Ways to Bring Graphing Activities into Your Classroom Daily

by BrainNinjasWP

What are some fo the ways you teaching graphing to your students? We try to include graphing activities throughout all the subject areas. Come read how we make graphing more authentic in and out of math class.

It always surprises me when I hear teachers saying they are starting a math unit on graphing and statistics. Reading a graph or a chart is a skill we use throughout many subject areas. Looking at patterns in statistics comes up in science and social studies all the time. Here are the ways we weave graphing activities into our classroom all year long and throughout the different subject areas.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: graphing, interactive math notebooks, Math Worksheets, statistics, statistics and probability, Teachers Pay Teachers, text features

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