Mid-Week Focus this week features the winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia as an opportunity for learning. Surprise students with an announcement that between now and the close of this year’s winter Olympic Games in Sochi on February 23, your…
Catch Kids’ Attention Creating a Mini-Olympic Village in Class
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Surprise Students with an Olympic Birthday Party!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Is there anything more attention-getting than an invitation to a birthday party? Maybe, but when you surprise your class with a party for the winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia,…
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Turn Students Into “Progressive Story Chefs”
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Here’s a new recipe to help students in grades 3 – 5 master core skills. It’s an attention-getting recipe for writing time. Set Up Progressive Writing Stations – Challenge kids…
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Hook Kids Individually with Pics!
Mid-Week Focus this week features pictures, pictures and more pictures…pictures as teaching tools, …different pictures for different students, …inexpensive or free pictures that you find anywhere, …copies of new pictures from your own collection or other print media, like magazines…
Tagged with: 3 - 5, effective hooks into K-5 lessons, effective writing prompts, encouraging creative thinking, encouraging critical thinking, Fall, helping kids connect with nature, individual education plans, K - 2, Mid-Week Focus, multi-disciplinary, pictures as teaching tools, Spring, Summer, surprises as school-day starters, teaching environmental stewardship, tools to tackle difficult subjects with children, traveling the world via pictures, Winter
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Delicious Hooks into Lessons
Mid-Week Focus this week features FOOD as a hook into K – 5 lessons. Hungry for more tools and tricks to catch and keep K – 5 students’ attention as you lead the class into learning time? Here’s a menu…
Tagged with: 3 - 5, analogies between good cooking and good work in school, creating poetry cafes, effective hooks into K-5 lessons, Fall, how comfort food connections help struggling students, K - 2, Mid-Week Focus, multi-disciplinary, poems by The Lovable Poet, recipes for teaching elementary school students, Spring, Summer, using food to get kids' attention, Winter
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Increase Attention by Decreasing Distractions!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! The Distraction-Quotient continues to rise in many parts of the world as January, 2014 reaches mid-point. Article after article in a wide array of sources point to the increasing…
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Light the Fire of Creativity in Kids!
This week’s Mid-Week Focus features Creativity… Q. How do we define it? A. Simply stated, creativity is the ability to be inventive and imaginative. Q. How can we light the fire of creativity in kids? A. One answer is by asking…
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Barbara Cleary has been serving as a resource to hundreds of educators for more than 25 years.
An award-winning writer, producer, teacher, and trainer, Barbara’s focus is on offering easy, fun tools and tricks that support K-5 curricula and assist teachers with classroom management.
