Your joyful inspirations — letter boards, dry-erase and tidy tables for home and the classroom
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Routines, set-ups and small tricks for tracing boards, pockets and a tidy room.
A 10-minute letter formation routine with a magnetic tracing boardHandwriting is mostly habit, and habits are built in short, happy sessions. Here is the ten-minute routine we use at our own table with the magnetic boards.
How to run a worksheet centre with dry-erase pocketsOne photocopy, a whole term of practice. Dry-erase pockets are the simplest paper-saving trick in a classroom or homeschool, and a little setup makes them run themselves.
Storage kids can actually keep tidy: bins, bags and a clipboard rackJoy knocks things off shelves for fun. Children do it by accident, usually because nothing has an obvious home. These are the storage habits that hold up in a busy room.