Inside: Use this Christmas Light Writing Activity: You Light Up this Room to connect Christmas, writing and social emotional learning. In a classroom of 20-35 students, it’s easy for students to feel lost or feel like they aren’t valued as a member of the class. But if we want our kids to feel heard, seen, […]
Thank a Teacher the Day After Halloween
Inside: Thank a Teacher The Day after Halloween on November 1st which is the hardest day to be a teacher! When I taught elementary school, the hardest day to teach was always November 1st. The kids were still crashing from the excitement of Halloween and the fun of trick or treating. Plus, most of them […]
Classroom Holiday Party Activities: 16 Best Winter-Themed Ideas
Inside: Host a classroom holiday party in your kids’ classrooms or scout groups with low-prep, low-mess, low-cost games, activities, and crafts that are winter-themed. Most room parents are busy planning or scrambling to plan, the very best, most awesome holiday party for their kids’ classrooms. And I was tasked with the same job, but for […]
Thanksgiving Kindness Activities for Kids to Focus on SEL
Inside: Use these Thanksgiving kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during November. November is a great time to focus on turkeys and the complicated relationships between the Pilgrims and the Indigenous tribes who helped them. As teachers, we also focus on leaves and pumpkins, and autumn before we turn our attention […]
Trash or Kindness Game to Understand Kindness
Inside: Teach kids how to be kind more often with this trash or kindness game that lets them decide if social interactions are unkind, rude or kind. I visited my daughter’s school to volunteer and had some extra time to watch my kids play on the yard afterward. Observing a playground watching kids play always […]