Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Stop, look and listen…listen with an extra-attentive ear to your students when school starts tomorrow. Do they seem moody? If the answer’s yes, maybe you need to help them cook up…
Comfort Cookin’ and Color-Related Writing to Manage Moods
Tagged with: 3 - 5, Attentionology for K - 5 Teachers, color associations, effective hooks for K - 5 lessons, Fall, helping children manage moods, Literary, setting up classroom games for teaching, Spring, strategies to help kids cope with worry, Summer, the power of color to express feelings, using humor to help kids learn, Winter, writing themes for elementary grades
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
Catchy Halloween-Time Tricks & Bulletin Board Treats
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Think about it…better still…catch your students’ attention by asking them to think about it, about this… every season and every holiday has its own special symbols and patterns. Where I…
Tagged with: 3 - 5, activities that promote healthy lifestyles, Attentionology for K - 5 Teachers, Fall, Halloween activities for kids, Halloween poetry for children, Halloween theme bulletin boards, Halloween-themes for computer time in K - 5 classes, host scavenger hunts to connect children to nature, K - 2, multi-disciplinary, Patterned paper crafts for kids, poems by The Lovable Poet
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
Magical Teaching Tools Work Like a Charm
Grab a big black hat and get ready to charm students and catch their attention… Mid-Week Focus this week features quick and easy teaching tools and tricks that include an element of magic! (No special training needed.) In the United…
Tagged with: "Magical" teaching tools and tricks, 3 - 5, Bulletin Board Ideas for K-5 Teachers, entertaining children to help them learn, Fall, K - 2, math activities for K - 5 classes, Mid-Week Focus, motivating children to read, multi-disciplinary, National Magic Week, Spring, Summer, The Magic Pencil by The Lovable Poet, using magic to teach K - 5 kids, using the concept of cooking to teach multiple subjects, Winter
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Posted in Mid-Week Focus
It’s a Puzzle! – Helping Struggling Writers
Mid-Week Focus this week features a visually based approach to helping elementary school students who struggle with language arts. You know who they are in your class. The teachers I met with yesterday to plan my upcoming week as a writer…
Tagged with: 3 - 5, concept of writing like piecing puzzles together, Fall, graphics that help kids learn, helping struggling writers in elementary school, K - 2, Literary, mastering the writing process, Mid-Week Focus, painting pictures with words, Spring, strategies to build children's self-confidence, Summer, Visuals, Winter
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Posted in Mid-Week Focus
Helpful Questions Unasked
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Oh how some helpful questions that unfortunately were unasked, might have helped Evie! I had an eye-opening conversation with a young woman (we’ll call Evie) this past weekend who expressed…
Tagged with: 3 - 5, Attentionology for K - 5 Teachers, Avoiding making assumptions about children, Avoiding taking children's behavior for granted, dealing with different learning styles, Fall, Helpful questions K - 5 teachers can ask kids, helping children with autism, K - 2, multi-disciplinary, Spring, Summer, teaching to individual strengths, Temple Grandin, Winter
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
Cook Up Cupcake, Sandwich and Pizza Poems!
Mid-Week Focus today features “crazy” literary ways to catch and keep kids’ attention and help them build language skills… Ask your class this: “Who wants a cupcake?” When hands fly, announce that the edible ones are coming later, but that…
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.
