Hello everyone. My website for teachers, engagedbyplay.com, is all about providing engaging games and activities for elementary school teachers. On it you will find morning meeting activities and ways to excite your students in their learning. The following is a great activity to get your day started in morning meeting called, “Think Fast.” This is a game that gets kids warmed up for the day…
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Fruity Battery! {A Quick, Easy Science Fair Project}
A Quick and Easy Science Fair Project Idea – Fruity Battery Most of our favorite things like toys, cars, phones, watches and speakers need batteries to survive! The devices stop working and are termed dead when their batteries exhaust. So, why don’t you learn to make a battery at home with a few simple supplies and understand its functionality with…
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Teachers As Readers
The title probably seems more than obvious to many of us, but do you really show your students that you are a reader? How, exactly? Teachers as readers. Yes, we really do have more power over our students’ reading than we realize. Read on to learn more! Let me say that I was guilty of not doing this. Yes, I would have…
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Departmentalizing Across Grade Levels
This past year our elementary school did something different. We decided to try departmentalizing across grade levels. Why, you ask? Because we only have one section of each grade, yet we felt our upper elementary students needed to rotate teachers to prepare them for junior high. That, and the three teachers each had a specialty. Our fourth grade teacher is…
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Stomp Out Inappropriate Language
The other day I shared my classroom rules and how I teach them in the first days/weeks of the school year. Today I want to take those one step farther and also show you how I get rid of inappropriate language in my classroom from the first days. The first day or two is when we discuss the rules and list specific…
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