Mid-Week Focus this week is a sweet approach to teaching kids to have a heart for good manners! Today’s Attentionology tool and trick is short and sweet, just like the satisfaction of eating a candy conversation heart. If you have…
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Situation: Students are having trouble writing connecting sentences between the beginning, middle and end of a story.
Solution: Show toy airplanes, pretending to make them "take off" across notebook paper. Explain to the class that stories, like airplanes, require clear "flight paths."