How to Run a Teddy School
Decide which grade you will teach your teddy bear(s)., Choose what classes you will hold., Decide the recess and lunch times., Have an exercise book for each one of your teddy bear students., Ask your family if they have any shoe boxes., Give each...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Decide which grade you will teach your teddy bear(s).
Ask yourself, "What grade will I teach to my teddies? Kindergarten? First grade? Even second or third grade?".
If you write formally, which includes a LifeGuide Hub article, you write first, second and third out in full.
If it's texting your friends, you can write 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
There's a lesson for your teddy bears. -
Step 2: Choose what classes you will hold.
Do you want to teach your teddies to read, write and count? Math? What about spelling? Create a lesson plan.
Plan out which subjects you are teaching on which days.
You could have English, maths, science, P.E, fashion (if they are Build-a-Bears), handwriting, art, history and geography.
Your choice!, When will they be and how long will they go for.
This is just as important as the classes.
Create a timetable to stick to.
Include break times, lunchtimes and assembly times.
Consider creating a canteen (or tuck/food shop) for your teddy bears.
During recess and lunch breaks, you could organize some food for your teddies.
Provide toilet times and outdoor play sessions.
Your teddies will grow bored if they have to work all day! , If you have lots of spare exercise books lying around in your house, you can give them maths books and writing books. , The teddies can put their possessions inside.
If not, have a small tub or pencil case so that they can get stuff if they need to. , Then they don't need to ask each time they want something.
You may want to have a small pencil case in the front of the room so each individual teddy doesn't need one. , Gather pencils, pens, rulers, rubbers and sharpener, supplying one for each teddy.
Alternatively, give them a pencil each and get them to share the other supplies., If you can, create a school uniform for your teddies.
Make sure it is not too fancy otherwise you might get frustrated trying to make enough for the teddies.
Near enough will do, or you could even imagine they have uniforms.
If you choose to have school uniform, provide mufti (non-uniform/casual clothes) days, pajama days, and dress-up days. , Find an empty wardrobe, a spare room or even just a corner of your bedroom.
Set up tubs or thick books to be used as desks.
Find someplace like the corner of your room if you have a small class, or find an empty guest room for a huge class.
If you like, you can make a wall out of cardboard and cut a door in it, but, this is optional. , If you don't have either of the boards already, use paper instead.
You can buy a cheap board on sale during back-to-school time.
You can even make your own whiteboard.
Find plain sheets of paper and laminate them.
Use whiteboard markers to draw on them.
It will be easy to wipe off the markers with simply, just a tissue or cloth. , Knowing how many teddies you want in your school will help you set up the area of your school.
Try not to have too many teddies as your school will get messy., If you find you've forgotten one, introduce them as a new student later. , If any are absent, you can make up a symbol for that.
Any late-comers should make up time after school or during break time. , If necessary, organize a 'circle time'
where they pass round a special toy and say what you ask, like how they feel, what they did over the holidays, who they already know, etc. , Just make sure your day isn't too hectic. , After their first few days, use exercise books for their reading records, and send them home with a book to read.
Ask their parents to listen to them and help them if necessary.
Don't forget to change them every so often! , If it helps, you can have a color changing system for when they do bad and good stuff.
Provide free time and art if they are being good and you have no work left for them to do.
Be aware they may need a little help with art though. , Instilling them with a good work ethic is the aim of decent schooling. , Make sure they all get a prize in the end, or they might get jealous! , Schools can usually end around 3:00 to 3:30pm.
You could try even make a day where the teddies go home early.
Or, send them home when you're tired of playing school with teddies., If a grown-up can't come, bring them to their homes yourself. -
Step 3: Decide the recess and lunch times.
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Step 4: Have an exercise book for each one of your teddy bear students.
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Step 5: Ask your family if they have any shoe boxes.
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Step 6: Give each teddy a pencil
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Step 7: rubber
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Step 8: sharpener and a ruler each.
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Step 9: Make worksheets for each subject and photocopy it to match the amount of teddies you will teach.
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Step 10: Have uniforms.
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Step 11: Set up the classroom.
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Step 12: Get a chalkboard and some chalk or a whiteboard and some markers.
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Step 13: Decide how many teddies will be attending your school.
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Step 14: Make sure you know which teddies you're going to use.
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Step 15: Make a register for your teddies and tick off their names if they are in.
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Step 16: Let them introduce each other on their first day.
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Step 17: Have breakfast clubs and after-school clubs if you wish.
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Step 18: Keep playing if you have the interest to keep this up.
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Step 19: Give the teddy bears rewards.
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Step 20: Balance work and play for the teddy bears.
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Step 21: End the day with a prize time
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Step 22: where the best-behaved teddy gets a prize.
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Step 23: Set an appropriate home time.
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Step 24: At home-time
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Step 25: make sure each teddy goes home with a grown-up.
Detailed Guide
Ask yourself, "What grade will I teach to my teddies? Kindergarten? First grade? Even second or third grade?".
If you write formally, which includes a LifeGuide Hub article, you write first, second and third out in full.
If it's texting your friends, you can write 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
There's a lesson for your teddy bears.
Do you want to teach your teddies to read, write and count? Math? What about spelling? Create a lesson plan.
Plan out which subjects you are teaching on which days.
You could have English, maths, science, P.E, fashion (if they are Build-a-Bears), handwriting, art, history and geography.
Your choice!, When will they be and how long will they go for.
This is just as important as the classes.
Create a timetable to stick to.
Include break times, lunchtimes and assembly times.
Consider creating a canteen (or tuck/food shop) for your teddy bears.
During recess and lunch breaks, you could organize some food for your teddies.
Provide toilet times and outdoor play sessions.
Your teddies will grow bored if they have to work all day! , If you have lots of spare exercise books lying around in your house, you can give them maths books and writing books. , The teddies can put their possessions inside.
If not, have a small tub or pencil case so that they can get stuff if they need to. , Then they don't need to ask each time they want something.
You may want to have a small pencil case in the front of the room so each individual teddy doesn't need one. , Gather pencils, pens, rulers, rubbers and sharpener, supplying one for each teddy.
Alternatively, give them a pencil each and get them to share the other supplies., If you can, create a school uniform for your teddies.
Make sure it is not too fancy otherwise you might get frustrated trying to make enough for the teddies.
Near enough will do, or you could even imagine they have uniforms.
If you choose to have school uniform, provide mufti (non-uniform/casual clothes) days, pajama days, and dress-up days. , Find an empty wardrobe, a spare room or even just a corner of your bedroom.
Set up tubs or thick books to be used as desks.
Find someplace like the corner of your room if you have a small class, or find an empty guest room for a huge class.
If you like, you can make a wall out of cardboard and cut a door in it, but, this is optional. , If you don't have either of the boards already, use paper instead.
You can buy a cheap board on sale during back-to-school time.
You can even make your own whiteboard.
Find plain sheets of paper and laminate them.
Use whiteboard markers to draw on them.
It will be easy to wipe off the markers with simply, just a tissue or cloth. , Knowing how many teddies you want in your school will help you set up the area of your school.
Try not to have too many teddies as your school will get messy., If you find you've forgotten one, introduce them as a new student later. , If any are absent, you can make up a symbol for that.
Any late-comers should make up time after school or during break time. , If necessary, organize a 'circle time'
where they pass round a special toy and say what you ask, like how they feel, what they did over the holidays, who they already know, etc. , Just make sure your day isn't too hectic. , After their first few days, use exercise books for their reading records, and send them home with a book to read.
Ask their parents to listen to them and help them if necessary.
Don't forget to change them every so often! , If it helps, you can have a color changing system for when they do bad and good stuff.
Provide free time and art if they are being good and you have no work left for them to do.
Be aware they may need a little help with art though. , Instilling them with a good work ethic is the aim of decent schooling. , Make sure they all get a prize in the end, or they might get jealous! , Schools can usually end around 3:00 to 3:30pm.
You could try even make a day where the teddies go home early.
Or, send them home when you're tired of playing school with teddies., If a grown-up can't come, bring them to their homes yourself.
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