HAVE  A  SPOOKY

GREAT

HALLOWEEN

FULL OF

MANY

TRICK

OR

TREATS !!!!

THE   SPOOKIEST  DAY  &   NIGHT

Let your students have a fun-filled day on HALLOWEEN.  They will be so filled with excitement so go with the flow.  There are so many academic and non-academic Halloween activities to do with them.  If you want a well organized enjoyable day for both you and the students it is doable.  Be the Teacher that the students say, "that was the best Halloween day I ever had at school!!!" 

HALLOWEEN   STICKERS

Your students are soooo hyped up this upcoming week for HALLOWEEN so why frazzle yourself just play into it.  I like to have everything I give my students have a Halloween theme.  Even though it is covering the same skills we are currently doing in the classroom. The words HALLOWEEN or pictures of HALLOWEEN items takes on a whole different meaning for the students.  It makes them soooo motivated and the excitement in the air is "creepy" and soooo delightful to a Teacher or Ghost's ear (whomever it may be)?????

YOU   ARE    SPECIAL !!!!

Who doesn't like to be treated like they are a STAR!?!?!  On the contrary, how many times has that really happened to you????  It is sooo special that we acknowledge it on at least a weekly basis make each student in our classrooms feel SPECIAL  about something that they have done.  It makes them feel soooo good, it gives you the same feeling, plus it makes a more meaningful connection between you and your students.  In turn it provides a more positive vibe to your whole classroom.  You will find that your students will get along better.  The negative thoughts turn into more positive thoughts because you are instilling that on a daily basis and the students are picking up on it.  It becomes a win/win situation all around.

H  A  L  L  O  W  E  E  N

A great time of year for Teachers to take advantage of incorporating so many academic skills into this holiday.  The students love doing ALL of them because of the nature of the mention of HALLOWEEN words and they are hooked. Alphabetize the words, find your nouns and verbs, great stories to read about the holiday and they even get to answer questions about them.  Write about a spooky story or one of your experiences in a haunted house and you can get even your most reluctant writers to write a little bit on those topics.  Then have them make that visual, a great picture, to go with the story and you have a great bulletin board to show off.  Awesome problem solving math questions that you can make up about all of the candy, they perhaps will be getting.  Let them in on the fun, also, and have them make up some problem solving questions to have their classmates see if they can answer them.  ENJOY!!!!

MOTIVATING   YOUR

RELUCTANT   STUDENTS

That can be such a difficult job on the student and the teacher both at the same time.  Your student has been given instructions that you know they understand, especially with this particular individual because you know you have restated the instructions individually to them and perhaps even helped them get started.  Though as soon as you leave their space they quit working.  That lack of will-power, motivation, willingness to put forth effort by themself is so lacking.  You have to work on that motivation so hard with these students and when you can break that barrier it is such a welcoming sigh of success for you and the child.  It is time for a "happy dance".

THE  BOOK  CHAIR

How clever to whomever designed this chair.  Could be every Teacher's answer to where can I put all of my extra books I received this year--I have no room left on any of my bookshelves.  Then what Teacher or student(s) wouldn't love to sit in that mighty chair and read away in sheer delight.  

THE   GRAMMAR  VOCABULARY

First and second grade you drill to your students nouns and verbs and that job is really fun and quite easy.  Third grade you start to throw in adjectives and pronouns.  Then the sentence confusion begins to happen. A noun becomes an adjective a verb becomes a noun and you have your work cut out for you and yes you DO work on it ALL year.  Some get it quickly and some not so....  Then 4th grade you introduce conjunction, preposition, and interjection--the mouthful words--which some barely can get the words out of their mouths correctly let alone tell you what they stand for in a definition.  Then if you thought some were confused before, wait.  You have that patience of a saint, that is why you are a TEACHER and you will dissect and teach and reteach it all year and hopefully by the end of the year almost all of your students will be Grammar Ready for 5th Grade. 

HAPPY  DAY!!!

No better way to start the day with a great big smile and hopefully end it the same way.  Think "happy thoughts" all day!!!

W E L C O M E

O C T O B E R

Time for cooler weather(??), leaves changing colors(??), football games, hot chocolate, AND the only thing children associate with October--HALLOWEEN.  Come on now how many of you adults love HALLOWEEN just as much as your children do?????