Rolo Pencils

I just thought that this was a great idea for gifts for your students. They could be for a birthday, the end of the year, or you could use it as some sort of prize. There are so many things you could do with this. You could even put different paper, besides yellow on it to make it good for holiday gifts (for example you could put gift wrapping paper around it as a Christmas gift).

Just have fun with them and do what you want!

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Summer Sites!

Okay, I love this. Here is a sheet of 10 educational websites that kids can go to during the summer or even during school that will help them review what they learned and keep it in their minds! They are all free and completely safe!

Credit: A Year of Many Firsts - http://ayearofmanyfirsts.blogspot.com/2013/05/summer-review-websites-for-kids.html

1 Minute Active Activities

This is a great idea! You put small one-minute activities on Popsicle sticks and when the class needs a little break or something to get the wiggles out you draw one and have the class do what it says! They can be things like:

• Dance Party!
• 20 jumping jacks
• Seat switch!
• Pretend jump rope or hula hoop!

It can really be anything you can think of that gets them active or lets them loosen up a bit!

Credit: Keep Calm and Teach On - http://keepcalmandteachon.blogspot.com/

Attention Grabbers

Here are some cute and creative attention grabbers!

Credit: I love 2 Teach (http://ilove2teach.blogspot.com/)

Some other ideas that I have heard:

Teacher: Red Robin! Students: Yum!

Teacher: Class, class, class! Student: Yes, yes, yes! (This one is fun because however the teacher says it, that is how the students should say it. So if the teacher says it really softly or with a British accent then that is how the students need to say it. Or you could even vary the words little. For example the teacher could say, "Classity, class, class" and the students would say, "Yessity, yes, yes")

Teacher: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.... Student: Lads and Lassies!

Things like this can work in older grades. One of my high school classes, which was actually a college class used the "Class, class, class" one and so these can be used for really any grade. However, with the older grades, you may want to change it up every once in a while. In the college class where my teacher used it, the attention grabber didn't work after a while because it got old. I think if you switched it up or had a few different ones that you could use then hopefully the students would continue to answer. 

Me in a Nutshell

This is a fun way to help your kids find out a little bit more about each other. Plus, it lets them be creative and gives the other kids of visual way of learning about another student.

Credit: Teachers Notebook (http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/cokerfamily6/free-me-in-a-nutshell-get-to-know-you-activity)