Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K -5 Teachers! Games are a time-honored way to catch and keep the attention of children around the world. Game on for some challenging fun! Choose a new and creative game of Opposites. Try… ‘Tis the Season…
Here’s the Scoop – Ideal Rainy Day Activity!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Get kids involved in a yummy Short Shot. Here’s the scoop… This one and done idea focuses on ice cream and is an ideal rainy day activity. Most children…
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Show Me – Tell Me More!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Check out this Short Shot… a one and done idea to improve your students or campers ability to stay focused and on task… understanding that whether an activity is…
Help Kids Create Personal Building Blocks for Success – A Short Shot
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Dr. Seuss, beloved as a children’s author in countries around the world, wrote about “the places you’ll go.” If you are literally or figuratively “traveling” with children this summer…
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Tap Into New Rejuvenation Tricks for Teachers
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! “School’s OUT…finally!” In many classrooms across our global community, you can hear this sentiment expressed by students and teachers alike, if not on this exact day, then in the form of…
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Attention-Getting Teaching Tools are in the Bag!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Attention-getting teaching tools are in the bag… literally. Colorful, interesting, fun and funny bags of all kinds beg for attention. Bags, plain and fancy, can become focal points for learning…
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Help Kids Make Steps to Take Steps
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology of K – 5 Teachers! A friend of mine recently sent me a link to a website full of photographs of “the most beautiful steps around the world.” The photos feature fine work by…
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Invite Kids to Create Cups of Promise, Care & Kindness
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Celebrate a New Year – During the past holiday season, an international coffee cafe gave me an idea that offers an opportunity to celebrate a new year with students in a…
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Tribute Time in a World of Learning
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Tribute Time! – Today (in the US) is a celebration of the eighty-eighth birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose message reached across America and far beyond…
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Create Ways to Handle Holiday Overload and De-stress!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Teachers and students can benefit from creative ways to handle holiday overload and de-stress during the holiday season… Begin with this helpful practice… Sometimes Blank Space Is Best –…
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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.
