Quick Filler Activities
These ideas originally appeared in Instructor magazine or Scholastic's Best Mini Activity message board. It addresse the frquent need for an infusion of quick activities for those times when lessons finish early, schedules get disrupted, or the dismissal bell ten minutes removed. These quick filler activities are perfect for keeping even the most fidgety kids productively engaged during transition times.
Implementation
Read article then print instructions.This should be a good start for building a notebook or digital file of fillers.
Classroom Management
- Tell your students that you need their help to learn how to deploy a new learning activity that you discovered.
- Ask them to develop rules and encourage them to think about ways to improve the original activity.
- Consider adapting the activity after listening to their well thought out feedback.
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