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Classroom Organization

How to Use Brain Ninjas Resources Like a Pro

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Let us help you use Brain Ninjas resources efficiently and easily. These tips will help you get and stay organized so you can teach like a ninja.

Teachers managing multiple print and digital resources often struggle with organization and version control. Here are five proven strategies to use your resources efficiently and keep them up to date. We’ll cover choosing the right lessons for your classroom to staying organized and accessing updates.

We recently received an email from a ninja asking about ways to use one of our most common resources. It was then that we discovered lots of our ninjas weren’t using it the way we were in our classroom. It didn’t occur to us that teachers would use it another way. Sometimes this can be a good thing where we learn new ways to adapt our resources to other classroom. Sometimes we can hear the frustration about how a resource didn’t work.

So, we decided to write a whole post that can help teachers use our resources as effectively as possible.

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9 Things To Do During the First Month of School

by Brain Ninjas

Getting back into the school year is an exciting time, but there is can be so much to do that it can be difficult to prioritize what needs to be done first. Come read through our must-do list during the first month of school in your upper elementary classroom and we'll help you out.

As a student, I never appreciated the first month of school. It always seemed like we didn’t get too deep into the content and spent a lot of time playing games and doing art projects. It wasn’t until I became a teacher that I recognized how much work teachers do during the first month of school. While we created a list with nine of the most important, there really are so many more that could be added.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Back to School, building relationships with students, Classroom Community, Classroom Organization, Classroom Set Up, communicate, communicating, communicating with parents, communication, communication with parents, First Year Teachers, first-year teachers, Holidays and Seasonal, Math Worksheets, new teacher, new teachers, Professional Learning, Teacher Mental Health, Teacher Organization, Teacher Wellness, Teacher Workload, Worksheets

How to Escalate Your Chemistry Experiments

by Brain Ninjas

Are you looking for some simple and easy chemistry experiments that can be done safely in the classroom with household materials? We've got lots of resources for you. Come read!

Our classroom chemistry unit is one of our favourites to teach because it allows for so many opportunities for students to explore and experiment. Sometimes, we let students explore on their own by posing questions to them. Other times, we demonstrate experiments. Either way, experiments take a bit of work to set up, do, and clean up. Don’t let that stop you. Here are some of our favourite chemistry experiments!

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Chemistry, Chemistry Experiments, Chemistry for Kids, Classroom Chemistry, Classroom Organization, Experiments, Makerspace, stem, Teachers Pay Teachers, TpT Products

How to Get Your Classroom Set Up in One Day

by Brain Ninjas

Are you stuck in a time crunch with one day to set up your classroom? Yes, it can be done. Get down to the basics and leave everything else for later. Come read about how we've set up our classroom in one day.

It was the first day we were allowed to reenter the school after a major renovation. It was a disaster. Before the end of the previous year, we packed up everything and carefully labeled it. Nothing was returned to the classrooms. Students would be arriving in ONE day! Yup! You heard that right.

What a nightmare! Fortunately, we worked with the most amazing staff on the planet. We planned out a solution to bring everyone’s anxiety level down to a manageable level. We hosted a walking set-up bus.

What is a walking set-up bus? Keep reading to find out.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Back to School, Classroom Organization, Classroom Set Up, Holidays and Seasonal, Setting Up Technology, Staff and Faculty Activities, Teacher Mental Health, Teacher Wellness, Teamwork

5 Things To Get Organized Before the School Year Starts

by Brain Ninjas

Are you looking for things you can do to get your school year off to a good start? These are all things you can do that don't involve making lesson plans or decorating your classroom. These are things you can do to make your life easier during the school start up.

We firmly believe that teachers should enjoy the time off they have and shouldn’t be forced to work. It’s the time we all need to replenish and prepare, but if you’re a little like us, you thrive when you are well-planned and prepared. It’s time to get organized for the year ahead.

That’s why we wrote this post. These are the things we try to get done over the summer months so we don’t have to worry about them in the first days of school. Having a simple plan makes answering the bombardment of questions from students so much easier.

Are you getting ready to start a new school year? Well, keep reading because these common sense things are the things you should be thinking about. We’re sharing them because these are all things we messed up in the past and want to pass down our wisdom.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Back to School, Classroom Organization, Classroom Set Up, Classroom Storage, classroom tips, Paper Clutter Organization, school supplies, Student Teachers

How to Reduce Paper Clutter in Your Classroom

by Brain Ninjas

The classroom seems to be a vortex of paper that piles up and makes organizing it even more complicated. Come learn some of the ways you can tame the paper clutter in your classroom.

Is your classroom drowning in paper? It can happen so easily. Between student work, office memos, plans, reminders and reports, your classroom can easily become a fire hazard or, at the very least, a tree massacre.

Here are some of our best ways to reduce the amount of paper that keeps creeping into your classroom.

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