Inside: These are a collection of 24 of the best snowmen crafts for kids to do to keep them busy during the cold winter months or for kids in warm weather. Growing up in Los Angeles, I didn’t have real snowmen in my life. We went up to the mountains to the snow a few […]
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How to Use These Classroom Rules Posters to Set Clear Expectations
Use these classroom rules posters to set clear expectations in your classroom and help build a positive classroom environment. My first year teaching as I set up my Kindergarten classroom, my mentor teacher suggested that instead of posting the rules, I asked the kids what they thought the classroom rules should be. So I did […]
Use this Interactive Bulletin Board to Encourage Kindness
Inside: Use this interactive bulletin board to encourage more kindness in your classroom or school and make kindness more of a daily habit. When I taught at my second school, we got a “must place” principal. His last school didn’t want him anymore and he was forced to leave but he was protected, couldn’t be […]
How Educators Can Encourage More Kindness at Home
Inside: Educators can encourage more kindness at home with these seasonal kindness challenges and parents letters for families to do together. My first year teaching, I was handed 6 Character Education posters that had to be posted in my classroom. I was so annoyed they had to be up because I had already meticulously decorated […]
How to Use Kindness Notecards to Spread Kindness
Inside: Use these kindness notecards to easily spread kindness and create happiness for friends, neighbors, and classmates. We just recently found out that one of our neighbors has cancer. And of course, we feel awful because it’s been a long battle and while she’s fighting hard, she still has a ways to go. There’s so […]