We Love Our Community Helpers!

 

DIY Arts and Craft Ideas:

 

Follow this link to get all of your arts and craft materials to create these DIY Crafts: https://www.purefunsupply.com/Arts-and-Crafts

Playtime Activities:

Toddler Dress Up Career Costumes, Set Of 5

These dress-ups have exclusive designs and open in front all the way down with Velcro on top.  They are machine washable! Our Price $52.55/ea*

 

 

 

 

 

Community Helper Puppets, Our Price: $10.77 / EA*

Multicultural Community Helper Puppets. These soft and cuddly hand puppets help kids learn about their community. A great way to introduce health, safety, nutrition and communication topics, and just plain fun for little and big hands. Approximately 12  tall

Melissa and Doug Community Helper Puppets, Our Price: $19.57 / EA*

Melissa and Doug’s Puppets are a great addition to any classroom’s pretend play collection. Use one hand to manipulate the puppet's mouth and facial expressions while your other hand gestures with the removable wooden stick. The detachable rod accommodates lefties and righties.

Educational Tools:

Our Community Helper books

Children can learn what each helper does through these easy to read 24 page books. You can get each book separately or in a set of 10. Our Price $5.95/ea*, Set of all 10 Books $59.50*

Community Helpers Chart

This chart is 17 x 22 classroom size, An amazing tool to hang in the classroom for students to look at and learn the uniforms of their community Helpers.

Our Price: $2.25 / EA*

Community Helpers Flannelboard Set

Includes 3 men and 3 women representing 4 ethnic groups, 22 careers, plus a uniform and lesson guide. Figures stand 10 inch tall. 45 pieces. Our Price $22.95*

* Prices subject to change

Classroom Management – Play Ball!

A great way to keep students in check is to have a tangible scoring system of their behavior. Here is one of our favorites called Classroom Baseball.

Classroom Baseball is a great choice for any classroom. Start by creating a poster that includes a pocket for each student. Each pocket will have three craft sticks in it to represent strikes. Throughout the day, you can give students that are misbehaving a strike. That student will then need to remove one of their sticks from their pocket. Those who strike out get a note or phone call home to Mom or Dad. Students who complete the day, or even the week, without any strikes will get the chance to “play ball’.

 

You will need to reserve just a few minutes at the end of the day, or the end of the week, for this portion. The well behaved students can line up for a chance to toss the ball for a prize. You can simply use a ball or a bean bag and a small trash can or even have four different boxes to represent the bases.

Tip! Try using four different sized boxes or baskets. They will get smaller as the bases go on making first base the largest and home plate the smallest. The prizes will be better when they choose a more challenging base.

Now you have a fun game for students to look forward to. It will give them incentive to be on their best behavior each day and not strike out. Now let’s play ball!

Classroom Management – Rules and Goals

A great way to get students involved in creating your classroom management plan is to have them help you decide what the rules and goals of your classroom should be. Have students spend some time brain storming ideas and write them on the board as they come up with them. They can also create consequences and rewards for when goals are met and rules are broken.

Once completed create a visual to hang in the room. This might be one poster with everything on it, one poster for rules and consequences and one for goals and rewards, or even a poster for each rule and each goal. Have your students split into groups to create and decorate the posters or allow them to decorate the one large poster with everything on it.

      

Now students are guaranteed to know what the rules are since they helped to create them! This gives them a visual reminder of each rule and what happens when they disobey them. They also have a positive visual of goals and what rewards they will receive when goals are met.

Check out our Incentives and Motivators to use as rewards for good work and good behavior!

Motivate your students with these classroom decorations!

Motivating your students to work hard is a must if you want to see their best work and efforts. There are several ways to motivate students but have you ever thought about setting up your classroom to motivate? You can help lead your students to success through motivational decorations.

Motivational decorations can be a daily reminder for students to give their best effort! Just a simple poster or banner that reminds students to think positively could make all the difference on a bad day. Providing that daily encouragement around your classroom will help students to stay encouraged as well as encourage each other.

Another great motivator in the form of decoration is a goal chart! It will help keep students focused on reaching their goals throughout the semester. You can also hang up student work that deserves recognition or display a student of the week that has shown their hard work. Students will enjoy being rewarded for their hard work.

Staying positive is the key to success! Make your room a positive and encouraging place for your students.