Keeping Flyertime Student Focused

 

I love walking into Flyertime and seeing students "owning" their experience, whether it's leading the discussion on what kind of door decoration, sharing the announcements or sharing their definitions of showing respect.

 

Clever Alliterations and Engaging Activities

I love when I can find time to stop into classrooms and see all the great things happening at TMS! 

In 8th grade today, I saw teachers doing "Texting Tuesdays" and "Terrible 10" grammar mistakes.  What a great way to remind students about grammar in the real world. 

I also got to witness students designing a Ziggarat - they had 180 workers and had to make real world connections to use each of their "employees" to their fullest potential to get the job done! 

And don't even get me started on those engaging science experiments - as we speak, students are finalizing their Pringle packages to send to Sperreng through the mail.  I hope those Pringles don't break!

I thought I should use tacky colors in this post in honor of TACKY TUESDAY!

Celebrating Birthdays

Some great ideas to celebrate student birthdays:

• Have them make a birthday card for themselves - give it to them on their birthday.
• Design birthday celebrations as a class.
• Student choice day - students choose the Flyertime activity on their birthday.