Mid-Week Focus this week offers ideas to help teachers and students de-stress during a holiday season… Sometimes Blank Space Is Best – If you’re suffering from “information overload,” take a few minutes out from your pressed school schedule and ask your…
De-Stressors & Attention-Getters for the Holiday Season
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Cheer Up Anxious Children
Mid-Week Focus this week features quick and easy ways to cheer up anxious children. Is it just me or have there been a frightening number of major natural disasters in a relatively short period of time around the world? If…
Tagged with: 3 - 5, encouraging critical thinking in grades 3 - 5, Fall, helping children cope with anxieties, helping children deal with natural disasters, K - 2, Literary, Mid-Week Focus, poems about smiles and frowns, poems by The Lovable Poet, Spring, strategies to cheer up children during the holidays, Summer, Winter
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Blast Off for Learning – Word Play Takes Flight
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Young children love imaginary travel. Kids are also fascinated with spaceships and airplanes. Use these interests and the exciting language of travel as hooks into lessons. Capture your class’ attention…
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Tricks to Enrich Read Aloud Time
Picture this…a fourth grade teacher sitting on a high chair in the middle of her classroom of twenty-five students, eyes focused down on a book she was reading aloud to… …no one! I saw this as I entered the room to…
Tagged with: 1001 Children's Books, 3 - 5, Beverly Cleary, developing children's language appreciation, encouraging parents to read to children, Enriching Read Aloud Time, Fall, Google Translate, Helping Students Stay Focused When Reading, K - 2, Literary, Mid-Week Focus, Spring, story of Balto, strategies to introduce children to world cultures, Summer, using dramatization during read aloud time, using sound effects when reading to kids, Winter
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Track Cat is Trending!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Today’s world is full of trending icons, images and information teachers can adapt for educational purposes – tools and tricks for classroom management and use as hooks into lessons. Here’s a…
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Comfort Cookin’ and Color-Related Writing to Manage Moods
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…
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Wands, Words, Circle Time to Prepare Children for Learning
Looking for quick and easy ways to help children settle down at the start of a school day? Mid-Week Focus this week features more tried and true attention-getting tools and tricks – my own ideas and strategies that other teachers…
Tagged with: classroom circles help kids share, easy to make teaching tools, efffective school day starters, Fall, helping children express feelings, hooks for K - 2 lessons, K - 2, Mid-Week Focus, multi-disciplinary, rhyming activities for kids, Spring, Summer, using toy wands as teaching tools, Winter
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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…
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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.
