Comments on: What Do You Do When You Have A Few Minutes Left In Class?

By: Tina Rasane

Tina Rasane — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:32:59 +0000

I teach high school art. Whenever students have any sort of downtime, they work in their sketchbooks. It’s a nice no-mess, easy-to-whip-out-on-a-moment’s-notice kind of activity. I use sketchbooks as an ongoing assignment throughout the year as both creativity development and artwork inspiration. I provide 5-minute drawing/writing prompts every day in the beginning of class as well as various activities they can choose from to supplement their own independent drawings. Subs also like having this as a backup option because students can work on it for just a few minutes or the whole hour, and can never say they don’t have anything to do. Assignment resources can be found here: http://www.seymour.k12.wi.us/faculty/shsart/shsart_sketchbook.cfm#d83907

By: Rhalmi Mohammed

Rhalmi Mohammed — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:25:17 +0000

I teach hign school students. It helps them a lot when I get their attention and ask them to say what we exactly did during the session. A kind of review in their own words to get feed back…

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By: Glen Westbroek

Glen Westbroek — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:13:54 +0000

I usually plan 5 minutes to clean-up the science classroom each day. Rarely do we just have free time at the end of class. On the rare occasions we have any free time, I allow students to bring up any science related question and we talk about how to solve it (or where to do research online that might have a plausible answer.)

By: P.ALES

P.ALES — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:14:08 +0000

I also teach high school (science) and with the intensity and volume of content of the academic subject taught, I can’t imagine allowing the students to “chill”. I can always capture their interest with a SCIENCE DEMO of the DAY (related to the topic presented). Occasionally with 5-10 minutes left we close our books and brainstorm new vocabulary or even play a quick game of vocabulary challenge. Whatever I choose it keeps them going to the very end.

By: Paula Mc

Paula Mc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:39:13 +0000

Hi Jenny, please tell me what spelling sparkle is? I teach third grade and would love to hear a new way to study spelling words.

By: Paula Mc

Paula Mc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:37:13 +0000

As a third grade teacher teaching South Carolina History and ELA I use the last 5 min. for a review of South Carolina Facts. Each week my students have 10 SC social studies facts that they have to know by Friday. So each day I review. I also take that time to read to my student.