7 Habits Poster Freebie

I made this for our school's handbooks but you could use it for your class's Leadership Notebook, your class information packet, or you can make a poster with it if your school has a poster maker. ENJOY!!!!!! Feel free to pin or link to this from your blog. Click on the picture below to get your free poster.

Santa and the Elves Use the 7 Habits - and a Smartboard FREEBIE

Our first grade has been learning how Santa and the Elves use the 7 Habits. They began with an Elf Bubble Map of all the Habits. They brainstormed as a class as to how Santa and the Elves used the 7 Habits. You can see Mrs. Wilson's class's response below. Click HERE to get a blank Smarboard Template of this.

Then first grade used the super cute template from firstgradeblueskies for their elves. They used the rubric below to write about what habit they are good at that would make them a good elf. The kids did a great job!!!!!! And so did the teachers!!!!!! Click the Rubric to get it.

CHES has a Leader in Me Twitter!!! Follow US!!!

Mr. Duncan, our physical education teacher, has set up a Twitter handle for CHES. It is @CHES_PE. If you are on Twitter, please follow us. We would like for parents, other teachers, everyone to follow us. Mr. Duncan said he would be making announcements about all the great things that are happening at CHES with the Leader in Me and how we are all becoming great leaders. Thank you Mr. Duncan for being a leader for us and setting this up.

I've also attached 2 Lotus tools for Thanksgiving. I know it's a little late but for those of you who find this tonight, it might be in time for you to use them before your Thanksgiving break.

Habit 1 - Be Proactive FREEBIES

This week, every teacher is teaching Habit 1: Be Proactive. We have so many great things going on. Below are a few things that kindergarten is doing to help our kids learn what it means to be proactive. I will be posting pictures of what our first grade teachers are doing later. They are on my phone and I can't get them uploaded yet. I will edit and add them later tonight or tomorrow. I hope to post later in the week from other grades and give more freebies away for Habit 1. This is all new to us so if any of you have any suggestions, please comment!!!!! Our 3rd grade team is working on a podcast that will be posted soon (THANK YOU 3RD GRADE!) 

click on each picture to download yours for FREE!!!!!! The first 2 things were sent to me by a teacher friend from Whitesville Elementary, Jessica Doughty. Thank you Jessica!

There is a second page with this if you download with pictures that kids cut out and glue on the inside or outside of the circle of control

Kindergarten has a CD with this poem as a song. I'm not sure where we got it. I'll look tomorrow when I get to school and see if I can let you know. But you could still recite it or have it posted. We are going to use it to teach the "Can Do" attitude to our kids.

We are going to make playdough with our kids to use in reading and math centers. This activity will be whole group and we will do it together. However you have to use very hot water so the teacher must actually do the mixing while talking to the kids about the process. We are using this as Habit 1 because we will talk about being proactive while using playdough in centers. In order to make it last all year, we much be sure to BE PROACTIVE and put the top on the playdough each time or it will dry out. This is taking responsibility for themselves when they clean up their center.