7 Habits

I am so excited for next school year. After four awesome years in second grade, I found out that I will be moving back to first grade... YAY! But with great news comes great responsibility. So now I get to spend my summer updating all my classroom posters and decor to be first grade friendly. Since we are launching our Leader In Me curriculum next school year, I decided to start there. I updated the posters I made as an introduction to the 7 Habits last school year for my second graders. While the posters worked out perfectly last year, they needed a few changes to work out perfectly for first grade this year. Here are the first set of posters I made... I tweaked them just a bit by getting rid of the cursive font and adding clipart to help my early readers understand and relate to each of the habits. I think they turned out pretty cute, and I cannot wait to include them in my new classroom setup. I have a few more Leader In Me resources that I am working on for the classroom bulletin board to reinforce the 7 Habits throughout the school year. I will post them once they are completed.

Hi friends, many of you requested the template for my 7 habits posters, because I can't sell or giveaway, click HERE to download the editab...

Happy Back-to-School 2017!!!! Can you hear my excitement!?!? You can't??? Well, I'm screaming at you through the computer!!Phew!! Friends, I am beat!! There is truly no tired like back-to-school TEACHER TIRED!! (Well, maybe just-had-a-newborn-and-also-have-a-toddler tired...

Hi friends, many of you requested the template for my 7 habits posters, because I can't sell or giveaway, click HERE to download the editab...

FREE 7 Habits of Happy Kids posters for your Leader in Me classroom. These printable posters are perfect to display on a bulletin board in your classroom. #freebie

2018-2019 Classroom 2016-2017 Classroom Photos

This year my school is starting to be a Leader in Me school, teaching the students the 7 Habits of Happy Kids (/Highly Effective People) as our character ed program. So I decided that one way I am going to teach these habits in the music classroom is through a short song for EACH individual habit. Here's Habit 1! The other 7 Habits songs are all here. Habit 1 melody notation is on Noteflight here. Habit 1 melody + ostinato notation is on Noteflight here. This song has entirely I and V chords, so you can layer it with tonic/dominant ostinati (one example is below), put the with Orff instruments, have kids improvise over the chord roots....you name it! The song also leaves 3 beats to audiate after "Stop and think," so you can work on audiating rhythm or dominant as well. :) The YouTube recording here is my favorite ALL-7-habits song. So cute!

UPDATE: I am unable to share any of my 7 Habits resources. I have left this page up for inspirational purposes (hehe) only. Best of luck t...

kimi-studies: “ Habits of highly effective people, made by Moira M. 1. Be proactive. (Initiative to do to things) 2. Begin with the end in mind. (Set goals) 3. Seen first to understand, then to be...

3rd Grade Thoughts: Experimenting With 7 Habits of Happy Kids