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30 Sweet and Simple Ways to Get Your Students' Attention
As a teacher, I know the importance of having a quick way to grab my students’ attention. Check out the list of attention grabbers below that I have used in the past with my students:
- The teacher says “Soft kitty, warm kitty.” Students say “Little ball of fur.”
- The teacher says “Winner winner.” Students say “Chicken dinner.”
- The teacher says “Alright, stop.” Students say “Collaborate and listen.”
- The teacher asks “Ready to rock?”
- The teachers say “Hocus Pocus.” Students say “Everybody focus.”
- The teacher says “Class, class, class.” Students say “Yes, yes, yes.”
- The teacher says “Quiet on the set.” Students say “Action!”
- The teacher says “Ready to listen.” Students say “Ready to Learn.”
- The teacher says “Macaroni and cheese.” Students say “Everybody freeze.”
- The teacher says “Peanut butter.” Students say “Jelly time.”
- The teacher says “Surf’s up!” Students say “Cowabunga dude.”
- The teacher says “Du na na na. …” Students say “Batman.”
- The teacher asks “Ready to rock?” Students say “Ready to roll.”
- The teacher says “Hands on top.” Students say “That means stop.”
- The teacher says “Eenie Meenie.” Students say “Minie moe.”
- The teacher says “Ready, set?” Students say “You bet!”
- The teacher says “Chicka, Chicka.” Students say “Boom, boom.”
- The teacher says “Chugga, Chugga.” Students say “Choo, choo!”
- The teacher says “That’s not spirit fingers.” Students say “These are spirit fingers.” (while doing spirit fingers)
- The teacher says “Everybody in the house.” Students say “Is as quiet as a mouse.”
- The teacher says “Crew.” Students say “Aye, aye, captain.”
- The teacher says “Shark bait.” Students say “Hoo ha ha.”
- The teacher says “To infinity.” Students say “And beyond.”
- The teacher says “Holy moly.” Students say “Guacamole.”
- The teacher says “Hakuna.” Students say “Matata.”
- The teacher says “Marco.” Students say “Polo.”
- The teacher says “Who loves you? Students say “You do.”
- The teacher says “Cutie pie, honey bun.” Students say “You know that I love you.”
- The teacher says “Red Robin.” Students say “Yum.”
- The teacher says “Oh me.” Students say “Oh my.”
I hope you enjoyed this post and found something useful for your classroom. If you found it helpful, please share the post with a teacher friend!
Sentence Fluency Practices for 3rd and 4th Grade
In Tennessee, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade assessment will include a fluency section. The section will have 20 yes or no sentences and students will have one minute to read and answer them. Click here or on the picture to download the practice fluency set for the 3rd and 4th grade. You can find the 2nd-grade fluency set and information by clicking here.
Read aloud directions for teachers: “Here are 20 sentences. Read each sentence and ask yourself: Is this sentence true? Mark YES or NO to answer the question for each sentence. Do not start until I say “Go.” Do as many as you can before I say “Stop.”
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Technology Resources
Updated: January 16, 2018
- Hidden Gems in Google Email
- Providing Feedback for Writing in Google Docs
- Tweet Your Way into a Professional Development Master
Handouts from Tech In-services:
Parent/Teacher Communication sites:
- Remind– Remind provides a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents for free.
Classroom Management
- Class Dojo– A classroom tool that helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators.
- Online Timers– A simple, fast flash online stopwatch and online countdown timers.
- Grade Cam: Turns your smartphone, tablet, webcam or document camera into a lean, mean grading machine.
- Plicker: a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices
- Kahoot: is a game-based classroom response system and educational platform
- Tricider: Collect ideas, discuss and vote. That’s how tricider works. Your team will make decisions faster without meetings or calls.
Presentation Creation:
Emaze: free presentation templates to quickly create an incredible visual experience for your audience. Emaze features a proprietary state of the art HTML5 presentation maker that will create the slideshows, video presentations and even 3D presentations that you always dreamed of.
- Edcite– Text-dependent questions and writing tasks
- Quizlet
- Varsity Tutor– Upper-grade levels
- Study Zone– K-4th
- Prep Dog– 2nd-9th
Academic Vocabulary
Various State Practice Tests (Common Core)
- Read Theory (Online practice for students based on a placement test)
- Moby Max (Online practice for reading and math based on grade you place them; there is a free version and paid version)
- Pro-teacher (Lots of free task cards on many different skills for ELA and Math)
- BBC Dance Mat Typing (Free)
- Fun to Type (Free)
- Keyboarding without Tears (Free)
- Rata Type (Free)
- Typing Pal (Pay Site)
- Tube Chop – Allows you to clip and share cropped YouTube videos
- View Pure – Watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or ‘other’ things.
- KeepVid– Allows you to download YouTube videos
- OpenEd– the largest K-12 educational resource catalog, with over a million Language Arts and Math games, video lessons, assessments, and courses.
- Ted Talks
- Math TV
- Cramberry– helps you study with online flashcards.Make cards on Cramberry, or choose from our catalog of free public flash cards. While you study, it analyzes your progress and focuses on cards you need to study.
- Funnelbrain –Build study teams, share scores, and challenge friends with a variety of quizzes and games!
- TodaysMeet– TodaysMeet gives you an isolated online room where you can see only what you need to see, and your audience doesn’t need to learn any new tools like hash tags to keep everything together.
- Poll Everywhere– engage your audience or class anywhere in real time
Free Teacher PD
Printable Worksheets
Math Sites
Free Ipad/iPhone Apps
- Screen Chomp Just – Record It. Sketch It. Share It. – to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly.
- Splash Top– Control, Annotate, then Share a teacher’s PC/Mac with a students iPad or Chromebook, or PC/MAC running a Chrome browser.
Paid Subscription Sites I love
February 2018 Computer Desktop
Race Strategy for Better Open-Ended Question Answers
Answering open-ended response questions is an important task and often difficult for students. To help my students answer open-ended questions we use the RACE strategy.
- First students restate the question,
- Then answer the question,
- Next, find evidence from the text to support their answer,
- Lastly, they explain how the evidence supports their response.
I have seen such significant growth since we began using the RACE strategy.
You can download a free copy of the RACE Strategy posters with examples to use in your classroom or home by clicking here or on the picture. The posters have an example of each step and a completed response using the RACE Strategy.
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