If you have a funny story about your pet, take a picture and display it so everyone can see the picture of your pet as you tell the story. One of the very cute strategies I've seen teachers use is to create a Desk Pet Daycare so that if students do become too distracted by their desk pets throughout the day or if desk pets are found on the floor, they can go to the desk pet daycare for the rest of the day. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.

The desk pet movement was created by elementary school music teacher and viral TikToker Marissa Begay, who began posting about them in late 2020 as a prize bin alternative, only to see her video (and idea) go viral. I don't want to possibly hurt anyone's feelings, so I changed the sign on my Desk Pets tray to "Desk Pets Rescue Center, and instead of students "adopting" a pet, they can "rescue" them. Explore our favorite spelling activities that can be used for a variety of grade levels, with ideas for fun games from our teacher team!Desk pet dollars are dollars that you give out when students are doing a great job following your expectations. Nothing can get your students pumped up about persuasive writing quite like penning a few sentences about something they really want. This is really how all classroom management should go – find something that your students love and use that as a motivator.

This is a great way to show off all of the different desk pets in the classroom that your students have been working hard to earn. Using the Shape Hunt Worksheet, the first player records the shape that they have landed on in the graph provided, e.One way to use desk pets with Class Dojo is to award points to students for taking care of their desk pets. It is a simple reward system that is simple to implement and can be used in elementary classrooms up to middle school. Once your students choose the desk pet they want to adopt, they can make it official with these desk pet adoption papers!

We continued each Fun Friday by passing out new Desk Pets to those who earned one for the first time and letting the others who already owned a Desk Pet choose three new accessories. By giving the students this very clear boundary, it ensures that the habitat will not become disruptive or distracting while the students are learning. Desk pets are the perfect size for student’s desks because they are pretty small and allow students to have use of their workspace.Try these teacher-tested tips to help your students learn to listen and follow directions more closely. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. If my students are going to keep their Desk Pets and accessories for the whole trimester, they might need a larger "house". This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. In the 2019-2020 school year, I found myself in a new position with students who are highly motivated by rewards and prizes,” Begay tells Teach Starter.

So make sure you have a clear vision of how you’ll use desk pets with your students before you introduce them to your class. I had seen posts about teachers using classroom desk pets as part of their classroom rewards, positive reinforcement strategies, or classroom behavior management. The students filled out Information Sheets about their animals, (also in the pack), and I collected those and the Agreements.

Make sure that your classroom pet policy is posted in the classroom somewhere where students can view it easily. I don’t require my students to participate in desk pets, but it is an option for how they can spend their money. For example, if you have a student who is struggling to stay on task, you can give them a desk pet to help them focus.