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Simple Meet the Teacher Ideas

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Are you looking for ideas to your school's Meet the Teacher Night? The last thing you need is more things added to your to-do list, so we've taken care of it for you. Come find these easy to prep and quick ways to get your classroom ready without much extra effort.

Meet the Teacher Night is a valuable opportunity for teachers and school staff to connect with students and families, establish rapport, and set the tone for a successful school year. Traditionally, our Meet the Teacher Nights are held after about two weeks of school. This usually means students have settled into the classroom a bit. Come learn some of the easy ways we organize our night where families meet the teacher.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Classroom Community, communicating with parents, communication with parents, Holidays and Seasonal, Meet the Teacher, parent-teacher communication, parents, Professional Learning, school events

13 Ways to Deal With Behaviours Without Taking Away Recess

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Stop taking away recess from your students who need it the most. There are better ways to deal with behaviours and help students learn to behave postively without getting into the vicious cycle. Come read the whole post the help you deal with classroom management and save you time in the long run.

Fortunately, we have worked at schools with administrations who also don’t believe in taking away recess from students who act out in class. Sometimes, it feels like our hands are tied when it comes to dealing with student behaviour, but we have a few strategies that go beyond “building a relationship” to help get you through it. Come read our ideas so you don’t have to take away recess.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Expected and Unexpected Behaviors, First Year Teachers, first-year teachers, new service teacher, Professional Learning, Student Teachers, Teacher Organization, teaching, Teaching Strategies

Get Great Anchor Charts Without Making Great Anchor Charts

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Anchor charts are an excellent way to help students reference information as they are learning, but they don't need to be complicated or even pretty. Come learn how we make great anchor charts without any effort.

We make all our anchor charts with our students as we learn each lesson. It helps them connect to the information, and all of the language on the chart comes from the kids, but let’s face it: They are ugly. We’ve admired beautiful anchor charts online, and while we would love to decorate our classroom with those types of works of art, we believe that our students should be part of making them.

Come learn some of the ways we include our students when making anchor charts.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Anchor Charts, Bulletin board ideas, Bulletin Boards, Classroom Community, Classroom Decor, Professional Learning, Teaching Strategies

How to Teach Students to Measure Area

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Teaching your students to calculate area can be a challenge, but we've pulled together great ideas to help introduce, practice, review and assess how students measure area.

The biggest mistake students often make when they measure area is that they aren’t quite sure what they are supposed to be measuring. Generally, the area is the amount of space inside a two-dimensional shape. We try to teach students math using plenty of hands-on activities. Come read about the ways we measure area in our upper elementary math class.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: area, Math, Math Lessons, math units, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, measurement, Professional Learning, task cards, Teachers Pay Teachers, Worksheets

The Cubic Quest: How to Teach Volume

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Measuring the volume of objects can be tricky for some students, but we put together our best ideas to get you started, help you review and even assess how your students are learning. Come read the whole post today!

Some students struggle with the concept of volume, but we’ve been doing this long enough that we can help. Generally, students mix up volume with capacity or don’t completely understand how to calculate the volume of different shapes. Come learn some of our tried and true activities that we use to help students understand volume.

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Math, math error analysis, math errors, Math Lessons, math manipulatives, math units, math videos, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, measurement, Professional Learning, Teachers Pay Teachers, volume

Five Amazing Capacity Quests to Enliven Your Classroom

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Teaching students to measure capacity can be a fun and engaging hands-on activity for your upper elementary math class. Come learn about some of the different ways we help our students learn to measure capacity in metric units.

Teaching students how to calculate capacity using metric units is an essential skill in mathematics and in life. If you’ve ever tried to put your leftovers in the wrong container, you know it’s important to be able to use referents and measure containers properly. Finding resources that measure capacity in metric units can also be a challenge for teachers in Canada, but we have you covered. Learning about capacity is more than just using formulas. Come learn some of the ways we teach this measurement concept in our upper elementary classroom.

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: capacity, interactive math notebooks, Lesson Plans, Math, math error analysis, math errors, Math Lessons, math manipulatives, math units, math videos, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, measurement, Professional Learning, Teachers Pay Teachers

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