On Pintrest, I saw a picture of a bulletin board labeled, Don’t Monkey Around, Reach Your Goals! The teacher took pictures of her students hanging from the monkey bars.
LOVED IT! Brilliant! After all, how on earth can little ones not be inspired to write after hanging upside down and all around on the MONKEY BARS??? Especially if your teacher is busy saying “freeze!” to try and get a snapshot?
Warning: Do not take pictures of students on the monkey bars if any other classes are also outside. I think that we made quite the commotion and had lots of students from other grades trying to get in the pictures! (can’t blame ’em!) Little did they know this was actually our part of our brainstorming for our writing!
Check out this student’s writing:
Don’t monkey around. We’re serious about school. I always bring my homework home. I always don’t talk when the teacher is talking. (We know what he means!) I do my classroom promise. I do my serious business. I sign my assignment notebook. And the star folder. We did a teacher test. School homeowrk is serious business. It’s fun in 3rd grade!
Now, it’s time for ME to get serious and finish some school work so that I can enjoy the finale of Big Brother! Now that Jordan and Jeff are gone, I can’t say I care who wins! :)
10 Responses
Seriously love this idea… my lil firsties would be all about these pictures! Thanks for sharing!
-Ms. Simoneaux
http://firstgradefresh.blogspot.com/
This is sooooo cute!!! =)
gingersnapstreatsforteachers.blogspot.com
Love this! I did a goal setting activity at the beginning of the year. However, I think I will need to do another one soon to remind them to stay focused.
Thanks for sharing!
http://teachingwithflare.blogspot.com/
Love this idea. I'm going to take some pictures of the kids this week. Thanks for sharing :)
Jodi
fun-in-first.blogspot.com
That is a super cute idea! What kid doesn't like to play on the monkey bars?? :)
Amanda
First Grade Garden
I can't deal with how much I love this. Thanks!
So stinking cute. I can't wait to use this for writing. We have persuasive writing coming up and this might just do the trick. Very cute idea!!!
Lauren
http://www.weeklyhive.blogspot.com
Great idea!! I'll be saving this to use with my students :) Thanks!
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