More Energizers

More Energizers

YES LETS

Students will walk around and take turns calling out what they want people to do.

For example, “let’s climb a tree” then everyone says “yes lets!” and pretends to climb a tree.  

MIRRORS

In pairs people mirror each other, then switch leaders.

PARTY GUEST

This is an interesting energizer where the students will pretend that someone is hosting a party and everyone else is a guest at the party with a secret identity/occupation that the host has to guess.

Birthday lineup

Ask the group to line themselves up in the order of their birthday or height (without speaking).

ENERGIZER FOR YOU AND FOR ME!!

our children, our responsibility

Hey Guys..It's a hectic week for me..but some activities are crossed my mind and I bother to share them with you. Hopefully it will help us (teachers, future teachers, parents, babysitter) to manage our children. These activities are applicable in school or at home.
Before I go any further, let's discuss on:

• Why is exercise or physical activity important for my child? 

1. Increased physical activity has been associated with an increased life expectancy and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease.
2. Physical activity produces overall physical, psychological and social benefits.
3. Inactive children are likely to become inactive adults and physical activity helps with

• controlling weight reducing blood pressure  
• raising HDL ("good") cholesterol  
• reducing the risk of diabetes and some kinds of cancer  improved psychological well-being, including gaining more  self-confidence and higher self-esteem

TEAM BUILDING :)

Creating a positive classroom is a way to foster student self-esteem. When you create a positive classroom environment, students learn better. Students will enjoy entering a positive learning environment. 

According to a University of Delaware study, a teacher can create a positive and constructive learning assessment environment within the first few class sessions. The same study showed students learn better in classrooms where they are actively involved with the teacher and other classmates. Meanwhile, class programs that utilize long lectures and few learning activities can lose a student's interest. Teachers are able to take an active role in shaping the kind of classroom they lead.

TEAM BUILDING

• Team building activities work much the same way as cooperative learning activities, though the goal is usually to help create a cohesive and positive classroom environment from a social perspective as well as an academic one. 
• Team building activities may involve pairs of students, small groups, large groups or even the whole class. 

Build Group Identities

•  Provide a way for students to get to know one another in their groups, such as having them find out three things they all have in common, then giving themselves a name that reflects their identity.

CREATE SPECIAL TRADITIONS FOR YOUR CLASSROOM.

• Traditions help students make an emotional connection to the class, prompt positive feelings, and provide a sense of belonging to the group. 
• Classroom traditions include activities and experiences that are unique to the class, known to everyone in the class, and repeated over time.
• Make up responses and songs that work best for your class. Your classroom climate will be more inviting if students are encouraged to participate in making up the words as a group. Or let small groups come up with their own opening traditions and take turns leading the class with an Opening Tradition.

• Start Each Day with an Opening Tradition

    Begin each day with the same song or opening choral response. 

        Here is an example: 
        Teacher: How do you feel? 
        Students: Awake and ready! 
        Teacher: How do you feel? 
        Students: Positive, energetic, and enthusiastic! 
        Teacher: Are you ready for class?       

        Students: Yes! 

  

it's nursery rhyme time!

As a teacher, we must know that nursery rhymes have a powerful effect on energizing the students. By using nursery rhyme, teacher actually can help to boost the students energy while in teaching and learning process. Here are several activities that a teacher can do in order to avoid sleepy and bored students while teaching.

1.sing it along.

As a teacher, we must always have several nursery rhyme with us as a record. You may dot know that a song can be very helpful for you to awake your students. Some of nursery rhyme songs that you can use are London Bridge, Baa Baa Black Sheep or any familiar nursery rhyme song. The reason for teacher to use the familiar nursery rhyme is because when you use any unfamiliar song, students will unable to enjoy the song. They will be focused more into the lyrics of the song instead of enjoying the rhythm and the fun of singing it.

2. do the action.

Teacher should always be creative in teaching. By using a song, teacher not only can make as the students to sing it, instead they also can ask the students to do actions based on the song. The best songs for this activity is action song such as Head shoulder knee and toes song, Three little kittens song, or Itsy Bitsy Spider. Even though some of the actions are quite simple for us, however the students might feel a bit hard to do it. Doing the spider action at their fingers can be a challenging thing to do for them. So, never look down on any simple songs because they might offer a challenge for your students.

3. complete the lyrics.

The best way to do this activity is by doing it in group. Allow the students to collaborate among them. Let them  listen to the song and complete the worksheet that you gave to them at the same time. Surely it will be fun right?. Writing and listening at the same time will be quite though for them.

The ladies of 09.

All praises to Allah because with all of His merciful and Graceful, we managed to create our own blog. Owhh yeahh! our own blog beybeh! upsss...behave please...you are in an educational blog.

This blog is one of our project for this semester. It is under the classroom and behavior management subject. Frankly to say, it's quite tough to create a blog. But we believe..when there's a will, there's a way. By the way, it's a project for the assignment right, so do you dare not to finish it?

so, here goes the three masterminds behind this awesome, educational, and cute blog. I introduce you....(drumroll please)  taraaaaa! Welmina binti Hussin, Nur Shireen binti Azmi, and last but not least, Erna Farhana binti Hamid. Picture will be uploaded later yeah..owh, not to forget our beloved  lecturer, Madam Norani binti Mansor, the one who never tired on sharing the knowledge with us. Lots of love for you madam.

 To make it short, the contents of this blog surely will be about the classroom and behavior management itself.      However, we will try to include many more info on how to become a good and absolutely awesome teacher. Feel free to drop your comment and do visit us again!