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After the middle of the school year, the novelty of some of my class reward systems began to wear off a bit and so I decided to come up with something new and fun. I visited a first grade teachers class one day and discovered this cute classroom management idea that I have now implemented into my classroom. First, you need to have students in ...

''In youth we learn; in age we understand.'' ~Marie Ebner-Eschenbach Many people see young children as accident prone, but they are really still orientating themselves to their surroundings and learning how to become spatially aware. Spatial awareness is the knowledge and understanding of the position of objects in space, usually in relation ...

''The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.''  ~Colin Wilson Ah…The dreaded clean up time. That part of the day where most preschoolers all have to go to the bathroom, start missing their parent’s and mysteriously need comforting or simply disappear all together. The ...

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the  principal one was that they escaped teething.  ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894   I have often worked with siblings in the preschool classroom. Twins, Triplets, on one occasion quadruples. I was so glad the mother chose not to dress them alike. What I have noticed is many parent usually have ...

There were 7 fights today at my school. If the not my assistant principal doesn’t get off my butt about wanting me to do *** work for her I’m going to be angry. I am not her secretary to do her emails. I’ve been put in charge of the entire reading program for the school and I’m a noob. She better back off. Today she walked in on a meeting with me, ...

Tuesday:  Chutney got off the bus and told me, “M___ said a bad word to me!”  She was almost in tears.  (M___ is the fifth grader she has a crush on.)  Turns out the bad word was the “b” word.  Who calls a four year old girl a “b”?!!  I tracked down our behavior specialist, and told her what happened.  She talked to M___ and called his mother.  ...

 Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.  ~Spanish Proverb As an early childhood educator I really have a strong desire to teach the young children excellent work habits. Skills that will give them a foundation for success in life and a foundation they can build throughout their own lives. This is why my studies led me to so many areas of ...

The very first day that I taught my elementary class was probably the worst 40 minutes of my teaching career. There were five behavioral students, all about third grade or so. When they walked in, I really thought that they would sit still while I went over rules and expectations. Boy, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Within five minutes they ...

There is a child in my class who is driving me crazy. Let’s call her Raspberry.  She is rarely in the right place at the right time.  She is often not doing what she is supposed to be doing.  She routinely ignores everything I say to her.  She wants to do what she wants to do, which mostly  involves roaming the room and picking up things that ...

Set parameters for both behavior and achievement in your classroom, let your students know what they are and then relax within that structure. Have fun with your students, goals are much easier reached with students' cooperation. And, by teaching students to have fun while learning, you create a valuable educational tool.