Blog – Page 10

End of the Year Balloon Countdown Part 2

In our last post, we shared some of the ways we are making our Balloon Countdown work remotely for the final 10 days of school (yes we are still not out yet). You can check out the post here to see the first few things we had planned. These included Pinwheel Flower delievery, S’Mores Day, Chopped Challenge, and Summer Birthday celebrations! This post is going to be all about the last few days of the Balloon Pop! We purchased a virtual Balloon Pop … [Read more...]

End of the Year Balloon Countdown: Planning

Right now we are in the process of planning our end of the year countdown! Every year we do a Ballon Popping Countdown. If you have ever done one, you know that it is as much for the adults as it is for the kids! We hang 10 balloons up in the classroom and each one had a message in it. We pop one balloon each morning until the last day of school. Each message reveals a fun day or activity that we will be doing that day. We didn't want to skip it this year, … [Read more...]

Using Digital Stickers During Distance Learning: And A Freebie

This is just going to be a quick post, but I wanted to share a FREEBIE with you! I just added some digital stickers to our Free resource library. I didn't know what all the hype about digital stickers were until I was trying to provide feedback to ALL of my students on ALL of their assignments in the Google Classroom. I started to use digital stickers on different Google Slides assignments to help brighten up my correcting. Without the digital stickers, I … [Read more...]

Fun Activities to do on A Class Conference Call

What should you do with your class on a Zoom call or a Google meet type conference call during distance learning? In our district, we are not teaching live to our students on Zoom or Google Meet. Instead, we are prerecording our lessons and uploading the videos to Google Classroom. Many students are going to daycare during the day or being shuffled to different caregivers so we have tried to be as accommodating as possible. Each week I try … [Read more...]

Here We Are…We Are Here

Well, here we are. I have to say I never could have imagined the turn that teaching has taken. With all the craziness that is going on in the world today, I am not surprised that teachers have just “Kept Calm(ish) and Carried On.” Many of us were given about 7 days to take a bunch of online courses, completely revamp our resources, delivery, and approach. We did it. We pushed through, “figured it out,” and did it all with a smile. Here we are. … [Read more...]

St. Patrick’s Day Freebie

Hello there! It sure has been a whirlwind since our last post. I know that as teachers we are all trying to help out our students as they are missing their schoolwork and their daily routines. It is hard because here in our district, first they told us that they were not going to do any distance learning because of inequity of access for our students (some students don't have access to internet, computers, ipads, etc). Now there are rumblings that we will be … [Read more...]