Spring is here! As teachers, we know what this means: spring fever will soon be cropping up in classrooms across the country. And let’s be honest. It isn’t only students who catch the fever. 🙂
Do you have a spring fever antidote that helps your youngsters, yourself, or both?
Fighting the fever!
Diane
I make sure we do more fun stuff along with my regular schedule. Like we have snack picnics. Sometimes on the floor sometimes on the playground. Its still snack but a bit more fun.
I take art out of doors and do parachute games outside. Last Friday I taught about wind by letting balloons go. Part of the class stayed inside by the windows and did a countdown and part of the class released the balloons. Then we switched so all got a turn.
I find just changing locations works wonders.
geting outside as much as the weather in WNY permits. With a class of mostly boys, the gross motor is of upmost importance.
I am with Debbie – we go outside as much as we can – I too am heavy with boys this year. But after the crazy and wet winter we had – I swear it only rained on the days we had school and we couldn’t get outside even when it was warm enough – so lately we have been able to go outside alot more and it has helped. On days that it rained the night before and the playground may be too wet to play on we go on a walk and search for signs of spring or easter or whatever we want to search for – sometimes it’s an alphabet walk or number walk. Our school is located on a large block so it takes us a good 20 minutes to get around the block and back inside!