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First things first....I am super excited to be an author at Me and My Gang!
If you haven't checked it out you need to! It's a great place where second grade teachers can collaborate and steal borrow ideas from one another! If you are here from the Me and My Gang Blog, Welcome. Put your feet up and stay awhile.
My first week at school couldn't have gone any better! I'm loving my group of kids and am starting to remember why I started teaching. Last year was a tough year for me...it's nice to have some reassurance that I'm doing the right thing. I'm working on the finishing touches to my classroom so be looking for pictures soon.
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Every student can't wait for recess. I have to admit as a teacher I'm pretty big on it myself. They need that time to run and play and yell. I hate days that mother nature throws a wrench in our recess plans. So last year for my sanity sake I created a ring full of Indoor Recess ideas. It has been a life saver. I'm sharing that with you today. It's a 16 page document that has two cards on a page. Yep, you read that right 32 ideas for indoor recess and all you have to do is print them off, and cut them out. I did not come up with these ideas. I just complied them from my many resources and cutesied them up. I hope you can put them to good use as I have. Click the link not the picture.
This idea is certainly not my original. I've seen it so many places that I don't know who to give credit to. (If you're the original creator give me a shout!) Magic Confetti is a small bag of confetti attached to a poem. The poem talks about being nervous the night before the first day of school...if you sprinkle the confetti under your pillow it will help you sleep. I use small jewelry bags to hold my confetti. I tie it to the poem using cute ribbon. I'll give to the kids on transition night...where they come to meet their teacher a week before school starts. It's super easy to do...especially if you give it to an aide to handle on one of the last days of school (the year before you will use it) :)
The first link is the poem with a generic boarder (click on the link above the picture):
Magic Confetti 1
The second link is safari style (click on the link above the picture)...For some reason I couldn't get two on a page on the safari style...I just turned my paper, put it back in the printer and printed it again (hope that makes sense)...you can really make two fit!
Magic Confetti 2
