For the last 3 years I've been in charge of our Red Ribbon Week at our elementary school, but you guys Red Ribbon Week is a pain. It's a pain for moms. It's a pain for teachers. And studies show that it actually doesn't prevent kids from using drugs. Utah also has green ribbon week, for pedestrian safety, and white ribbon week, for internet safety, that I was also in charge of. All of these safety weeks are a distraction to the classroom. And if I'm being honest, our Red Ribbon Week had turned … [Read more...] about Safety Week – Safety Olympics
Food Ideas For Red Carpet Teacher Appreciation Week
Food Ideas for Red Carpet Teacher Appreciation. Treat your teachers like the stars that they are with these fun food ideas. This post is a done as a partnership with Oriental Trading Company. All opinions are my own. If you missed our first post with all of the decoration details for our Red Carpet Teacher Appreciation Week... jump over to THIS post. We figured that the way to most people's hearts is through their stomach... so we tried to provide as many of their favorite treats during … [Read more...] about Food Ideas For Red Carpet Teacher Appreciation Week
Red Carpet Teacher Appreciation Week
Red Carpet Teacher Appreciation Week This post was done in partnership with Oriental Trading Company. All opinions are my own. Being in charge of Teacher Appreciation Week can be overwhelming. I'll let you in on two secrets that will make planning your Teacher Appreciation Week a breeze... FIRST - take advantage of Pinterest. If someone else has already run a successful TAW... don't reinvent the wheel. Use what works for your school and make it your own. SECOND -Â order from Oriental … [Read more...] about Red Carpet Teacher Appreciation Week
Christmas Class Party Ideas
I have a printable post all scheduled and ready for today, but our download manager is not working right. Maybe you've noticed? We're working on it and hope all of our downloads will be working ASAP. But since that wasn't going to work for this morning, and I realized we only have 5 days until class parties, I thought I'd share some ideas for class activities, just in case. Okay.....I might be the only one...but, just in case there are other's of you out there that have fallen behind on … [Read more...] about Christmas Class Party Ideas
Halloween Activities for Class Parties
Halloween Activities for Class Parties We've rounded up 17 of the cutest, funnest and quickest to throw together games and activities the web has to offer for your classroom Halloween party! Some activities will be better suited for younger kids and others will do well with the older kids--but with this many you are sure to find what you need to make this years party a success without the stress! Math Fact Cake Walk by Paging Supermoms Boo Bowling by It's Written on the Wall Jamie's … [Read more...] about Halloween Activities for Class Parties