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Product Revision :: Social Emotional Trivia Games

Has anyone else felt like the last few weeks have been a constant “full moon?” I have no idea WHAT’S been going on, but between the constant fire-fighting I’ve been doing, I feel like I haven’t had time to plan an actual, decent lesson since winter break for my poor kiddos 🙁

Being the planner that I am, I absolutely hate walking back to my office with a group trying to brainstorm an activity for them as we’re walking! Generally, it results in me playing Social Skills Land or another game I’ve made. And while those lessons always go super well and my kids love them, I feel bad not coming up with something new. “Teacher Guilt,” I’m going to start calling it!

Well, because I have a feeling I’m not magically going to gain an extra hour of plan time, I figured I would let you all in on some of the other “go-to” activities I have for my students. If you haven’t been over to the TpT store in awhile, you may not have noticed that my Social Emotional Trivia Games are now available individually or as a money-saving bundle.

Each has 24 editable questions to help kids learn about a variety of social and emotional skill topics:

Anger Trivia Game

Peer Pressure Trivia Game

Behavior Trivia

Bullying Trivia Game

Feelings Trivia Game

Friendship Trivia Game

The questions are just “think and answer” questions either. I made sure to make it interactive, so they’ll be drawing, acting, thinking, and talking! And while I don’t have a Smartboard, a few lucky people I’ve talked to do and they’ve been able to use this on their as well for a whole class.

So hop on over to my store and pick them up for yourself!  There’s also a version for Divorce that’s free if you’d like to try it out first!Divorce Trivia

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New Product :: Feelings Scoot

If you’ve been following along, you know that I love “Scoot Games” and I’ve talked about Bullying Scoot and Friendship Scoot in the past. Unfortunately, there’s a million and one ELA and Math Scoots, but virtually NO special ed/counseling Scoots. Go figure, right? Well, I’m trying to fix that!

Here are the rules:

  • Place one task card on each student desk or around the room in numerical order. It makes it easier for students is cards are put in order. Then, give each student a recording sheet and a pencil.
  • Next, each student completes the card on their desk and writes their answer in the number on their recording sheet that corresponds to the number on the task card.
  • After about a minute, the teacher says “Scoot” (or uses another signal) and the students quickly stand up, leave the card at their desk, take their recording sheet with them, and scoot over to the next seat with the next number and get started on the question right away.

I’m planning to make a bunch more social-emotional type scoot games as time goes on, but for now, check out my Feelings Scoot Game. It contains 35 different feelings task cards, which can be used as a way to review concepts in a fun, interactive way with kids in grades 2-6. Question formats include several types such as “Draw…”, Short-Answer, and “Find a Partner and Perform a Task.”

Feelings ScootFeelings Scoot
Cards are presented in PDF format and are completely editable in Adobe Reader, so the wording and questions can be adjust to your student’s needs and ability levels! Scoot recording sheets are provided for several different class sizes (8, 12, 20, 30, and 35), so it can be played in a small group or full class!

Bullying Scoot

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Tips & Tricks :: Gold Tag Behavior Management Plan

Behavior Management System

If you’ve been around here for awhile, you may know that I really really dislike behavior clip charts. I know I know…please don’t hurt me!

Yes, they’re super easy for teachers, but I honestly cannot tell you how many times I’ve gone down to a classroom to check out a student at the end of the day and other students rush to the door to tell me how many times my student had to “clip down” or “change their color.” And while I always remind students that how other students do is none of their business, it brings up the essence of why I dislike clip charts so much! It’s PUBLIC!

Sure…you put numbers instead of names, hide the chart behind some books on your chalk ledge, or whisper to a student to change their color. Anyone who’s been in a classroom knows every kid in the class knows which clip belongs to who, and what color everyone is on! Maybe it’s not known to the average visitor to the room, but it’s FAR from private.

As I’ve mentioned before, if every single one of my indiscretions for the day was put someplace all my coworkers could see, there would be some serious issues!

I’m always looking for alternatives to clip charts to help teachers out – especially ones that are just a low maintenance. So you can imagine my excitement when I came across A Teeny Tiny Teacher’s Gold Tag system. I especially love how she doesn’t use her “tickets” in the typical “ticket” way. So creative!!

Behavior Management System

Behavior Management System

Note: All the images in this post are from A Teeny Tiny Teacher!