Today while my kids were suffering through art (a topic for another post), I went to a first grade room in my role as a mentor teacher.  I sat in on a math lesson, and couldn’t believe how restless and distracted the kids were.  My four year olds sit in a circle and pay attention soooo much better than these six year olds! The lesson ...

It seems like my first graders and I were always standing in line: going to the bathroom, waiting for specials (PE, art, music, etc.), going to lunch, getting our pictures taken, and on and on and on. So I invented games to play that my children loved and kept them well-behaved while standing in line. For [...]