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Energize Your Gym Class With Very Little Equipment

by BrainNinjasWP

Do you have to provide some sort of physical education program? Is all your equipment locked up? Remember when teaching physical education was so much easier?

Well, don’t worry.

We’ve been collecting ideas for your equipment-free classes. We’ve even found a few ideas for online classes. Let’s get started.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: gym activities, gym class, no equipment activities, outdoor activities, Pandemic Teaching, physical education

Easy to Use Remembrance Day Assembly Ideas

by BrainNinjasWP

If you are looking for ideas to organize a Remembrance Day assembly in your school, check out this post full of ideas.

Every school across Canada has held a Remembrance Day assembly since the end of the Second World War. In fact, it is written into the School Act in Alberta as a requirement. Schools must have a Remembrance Day assembly on the day closest to November 11. We’ve got some Remembrance Day assembly ideas for you.

We had to make some changes during the pandemic. These ideas can work whether you’re able to gather together or need to be apart or learning online.

We’ve been rethinking how we’ll honour our soldiers at school. If you are planning a Remembrance Day assembly, we might have a few ideas for you.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Asian-Canadians, Assembly Ideas, Canadian History, Indigenous People of Canada, Pandemic Teaching, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day Art Lessons, war

How to Celebrate Halloween In the Classroom

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you looking for ways to celebrate Halloween in your upper elementary classroom? We gathered up some of our students' favourite activities for you to try. Come take a look!

Halloween is such a special time for many students. In past years, we’ve had parades and assemblies and handed out candy. There was a time when bobbing for apples was a good idea. Now, since the pandemic, the thought of countless students scrambling to bite into an apple floating around in a tub full of mouth germs…ugg.

Our classroom is usually bustling with parent volunteers who help out at different Halloween-themed stations. Still, some years, there might not be as many parent volunteers available as you need, so it’s nice to have easy alternatives in your back pocket.

If your school and students are celebrating Halloween, here are some generally easy ways to have a little fun.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: celebrations, classroom celebrations, Halloween, halloween activities, halloween art, halloween art lessons, halloween celebrations, halloween leessons, halloween logic puzzles, halloween math, Holidays and Seasonal, Pandemic Teaching, physically distanced celebrations, socially distanced celebrations, Teachers Pay Teachers

How to Reconnect From Your Teaching Island

by BrainNinjasWP

Is teaching making you feel isolated and disconnected? Come read through some of the strategies that may help you through the tough times. Your mental health is much more important than your teaching job, so let us help.

Teaching has always been an isolating profession. We spend all day in a classroom with little people who get our jokes. The adult conversations we get happen during recess or staff meetings or in the bathroom line waiting for a toilet. It can leave anyone feeling disconnected.

My husband has a joke about teachers, they can seek each other out anywhere in the world. It never fails that when we travel to another country and meet another couple, one of them will be a teacher. He calls it teacher radar.

And it’s true. When two teachers meet in the wild, they talk about teaching. Because it’s another human in the world who actually gets it.

I mean, Mr. Ninja tries to be supportive, but unless you’re in the trenches, you don’t really get it.

How do you connect with other teachers? Come read about our struggles and some of the solutions.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Covid-19, first-year teachers, new teachers, Pandemic Teaching, Student Teachers, Teacher Mental Health, Teacher Wellness, Teacher Workload

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