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Spring Classroom Activities To Make You Bloom

by BrainNinjasWP

Spring is here and we have collected our favourite spring classroom activities to help you get through spring fever. Come read our list a get some ideas you can use right away.

Spring is a great time in upper elementary classrooms. By this point in the school year, students understand the routines and things tend to start running smoothly. Of course, there is also the spring fever that tends to creep in and make students a little squirrely as the weather changes. Nothing says spring like the smell of damp socks and slushy halls after recess breaks.

We put together some of our favourite spring classroom activities that we use to keep students learning and moving forward. Come see which of these would work in your upper elementary classroom.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Classroom Community, Collaborative Posters, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, Logic Puzzles, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, Plants, Reading, Spring, spring cleaning, Spring Holidays, Spring Logic Puzzles, Teachers Pay Teachers, Writing Activities, Writing Prompts

How to Reduce Paper Clutter in Your Classroom

by BrainNinjasWP

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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23 Ways to Clean the Clutter From Your Classroom Hoard

by BrainNinjasWP

It's time to up your classroom organization game and get rid of the clutter that is drowning you in your own classroom. Come read our huge list of ways to cut back so you can streamline your classroom organization and get rid of the clutter hoard.

Is your classroom organization struggling like mine? Mr. Ninja once had to bring a giant rock on a 1400 km trip because there was a possibility it might come in handy for a science lesson. It’s lived in our garden for twelve years. Why do we do this to ourselves?

Let’s be honest. Teaching lands somewhere between collecting and hoarding. But don’t you fret! It’s time for some spring cleaning-classroom style. Classroom organization starts by cleaning out your space. Let’s clean the clutter. I promise it is hard work, but it will leave you and your students feeling refreshed!

Why did we start this classroom organization process?

Well, a big part of it is money. If teachers can get something for free, we’ll take it. We all know our classrooms are underfunded and so when interesting items come along (whether we actually need them or not) we tend to take them. What is wrong with us?

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