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I have had custom record/goal boards made for PE Weightlifting classes before to document monthly fitness and lifting tests.  For example; Students try to get into the top 5 of each assessment category. After training for 4-6 weeks, students are tested and try to beat their personal record or get on the board. I want to do this in PE this year to create another motivational aspect for our PRIDE expectations. Of course, the training and tests would be adapted to elementary age and appropriate levels.

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Taking the time to get to know our students and them taking the time to get to know us -I LOVE! The soft starts Mrs. T is using is engaging and allows our students light bulbs to start going off and get acquinted with one another through small talk and interaction.

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Who Am I

We write 5 things to know about ourselves. Put them in a pile and we take turns reading them aloud and guess who it is

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Students place a sticky in the box if they have a repeated concern or issue in class. Teacher reads them privately. Some are not shared. Some can drive a class discussion about how to handle a situation like theirs.

Students write a note to a classmate noticing a positive action. Notes are given to the student.
Cheryl Batten

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I LOVE THAT KIDS CAN EMPOWER OTHER KIDS

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Help add pictures and stories to our classroom Facebook for parents to get a glimpse in the classroom.

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At lunch everyday a student's mom sends a joke every day in their lunchbox. We share the joke everyday and now kids start asking "______ did your mom pack a joke today?!"

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Fill out "Get To Know You" sheet at the beginning of the year for students. Show and Tell for Kinders

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We celebrate things that students are involved in and wish them luck. For example, Ellis races dirt bikes and he told us he was leaving early for a race. We wished him luck and asked him share pictures to share with the class. We followed up on Monday to learn that it was his first national win, so we celebrated and congratulated him as a class community.

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Created a "track" from yarn and legos.

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bags about me, in our money unit we discussed what types of jobs the adults in our lives have to earn money.  This gave them a chance to talk about their family members

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bags about me, in our money unit we discussed what types of jobs the adults in our lives have to earn money.  This gave them a chance to talk about their family members

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I took every opportunity on transitions, lunch, and the like to talk and learn more about the kids and what they were interested in.  I listened SO MUCH more than I ever talked.  

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I took every opportunity on transitions, lunch, and the like to talk and learn more about the kids and what they were interested in.  I listened SO MUCH more than I ever talked.  

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When we learned about different music genres we all had to share our favorite without insulting someone else's favorite.

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Classroom community:
Shout Outs
Posit its are placed on desk spaces and students give shouts to each other on sticky notes. They are placed on the back of our door. Once the accumulate, they are place on individual students shout out boards to keep in class and then take home at the end of the month.

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I think this book definitely helps even those who may not have the creative juices with in but you can learn to think more out the box experiences

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We have a very unstructured soft start time that allows students to build things together with dominoes, blocks, solo cups, pipe cleaners.  They work together to create things.

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Name maps at the beginning of year and bags about me!

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Brown bag sharing (Stole from Cheryn)

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During our Landforms unit, I shared my vacation photos of mountains, oceans, lakes, deserts, etc I've been to and the stories that went with them. Students also shared places they've been as related to the landforms and bodies of water we were studying.

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During morning meeting, at least two times a week, I have the students share something they did over the weekend.

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Reading "Our Class is A Family", apple of our eye project (family involvement), video teacher intro on class facebook page and parents sharing their students photos

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Play Headbanz - starts interesting conversations

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Play Headbanz - starts interesting conversations

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Denninger

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Character Scavenger Hunt