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Heidi: This is episode 229 of
Teacher Approved.

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You're listening to Teacher
Approved, the podcast helping

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educators elevate what matters
and simplify the rest. I'm

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Heidi.

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Emily: And I'm Emily. We're the
creators behind Second Story

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Window, where we give research
based and teacher approved

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strategies that make teaching
less stressful and more

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effective. You can check out the
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each episode at
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Heidi: We're so glad you're
tuning in today. Let's get to

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the show.

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Emily: Hey there. Thanks for
joining us today. In today's

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episode, we are talking about
how to keep the Halloween fun

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without losing your sanity, and
we're sharing a teacher approved

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tip for resetting your room
after all the Halloween

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excitement.

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Heidi: Let's start with try it
tomorrow, where we share a quick

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win that you can try in your
classroom right away. Emily,

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what is our suggestion for this
week?

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Emily: This week, try adding a
calm down countdown to your

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transitions. So before moving
from one activity to another,

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have students take three deep
breaths and count down from five

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together. Sounds simple, but
it's amazing how those few

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seconds help everyone reset
their energy level.

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Heidi: I love this one. It
absolutely works any time of

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year, but it is especially
helpful when your kids are

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running high on excitement,
like, you know, the week before

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Halloween, when they're
basically caffeinated squirrels.

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Emily: If you like this idea or
anything else we share here on

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the podcast, would you please
take a minute and give us a five

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star rating and review on Apple
podcasts, or you can leave a

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rating and a comment on Spotify.

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Heidi: Well, everyone, we have
got some great news about

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Halloween. This year it falls on
a Friday. Woo hoo.

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Emily: Oh my gosh, that is such
a gift. It's too bad it can't

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work out that way every year.

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Heidi: It should just be every
year Halloween is on a Friday or

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Saturday.

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Emily: Yes, and we're just so
glad that you all get to escape

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the day after Halloween hangover
this year. But of course,

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Halloween on Friday also means
managing a whole week of soaring

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excitement levels.

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Heidi: It's gonna be a long
week. So let's talk about how

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you can get through with your
sanity intact. Today we're

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sharing our Halloween Survival
Guide, and basically, it all

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comes down to the candy rule.

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Emily: Yes, everyone loves
candy. It's such a big part of

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Halloween. However, it is so
easy to overdo it. A small

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handful is sweet and magical,
but a bucket full leads to a

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sugar crash and complete chaos.

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Heidi: And that sums up our
whole management philosophy. A

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little Halloween spirit
sprinkled into your day can

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boost engagement and create the
kinds of memories that your kids

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will talk about for years. But
if you halloweenify every single

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worksheet and throw out all of
your routines, you are setting

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yourself up for a week of trying
to teach those caffeinated

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squirrels.

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Emily: Yeah, nobody wants that.
So we're going to walk you

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through how to add just enough
Halloween magic without

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derailing your whole month.
We've got three main areas to

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focus on, the lead up to the big
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the reset afterward.

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Heidi: So let's start with the
lead up, because this is the

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make it or break it point.
You're either going to set

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yourself up for success, or, you
know, the opposite.

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Emily: The absolute most
essential thing you can do to

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have a successful Halloween week
is to keep your core routines

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intact. You can't skip this part
unless you want to send your

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kids straight into chaos.

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Heidi: But that doesn't mean
that you can't add a light

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sprinkling of fun.

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No, of course we want the fun.
We want those seasonal

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sprinkles, but remember the
candy rule, a small handful is

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great, a big bucket is a
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Yeah, your kids need their
routines. They thrive on

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predictability, especially when
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the roof. So don't abandon your
regular morning work or skip

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your math block. Lean hard on
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class of kids that tip into
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And most will at Halloween time,
even if your class mostly can

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handle things, like something
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impact pretty much all classes.
So just keep that in mind.

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Emily: If your class is able to
handle a little spark, try

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adding seasonal flair to what
you're already doing. So, for

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example, keep your morning
meeting routine, but you can add

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a festive greeting, like Jack O'
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a circle and you ask one student
to start. Let's say you pick

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Liam. So Liam greets the student
on his left and says the

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student's name with O' Lantern.
So that would be like, Good

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morning, Sophia O'Lantern.

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Heidi: It's a mouthful.

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Emily: She returns a greeting,
good morning, Liam O'Lantern,

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and then they each make their
best Jack O' Lantern face at

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each other.

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Heidi: I can hear the giggles
now. I'd love having a festive

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morning meeting greeting. It's
very low key, but it's just the

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right amount of fun to keep
things exciting. And we also

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love a seasonal morning message.
So for example, a question like,

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there are three more bats than
spiders. How many bats and

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spiders could there be? Leans
into the fun, but it doesn't

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take away from the thinking.

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Emily: And if you want cute,
thoughtful done for you morning

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messages, we happen to have sets
for first through fourth grade.

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They each include a couple 100
non-seasonal thinking questions

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to get everyone's brain turning,
but we also have a set of 60

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seasonal questions for each
grade level. So that gives you

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plenty of fun options to choose
from. We will link to those in

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the show notes.

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Heidi: Keeping your overall
routine normal while dropping in

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that little bit of novelty means
that your students' engagement

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stays high and you're giving
extra energy a safe outlet, but

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you're doing all of this without
having to compromise

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instructional time. Festive but
meaningful is probably our

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favorite type of activity. You
can bet we go to a lot of

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parties. One way we keep things
festive but meaningful is with

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our vocabulary lessons. If you
use our jargon journal

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vocabulary program, which we
love so much, it's so fun, we

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have got festive but meaningful
units for The Fierce Yellow

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Pumpkin, Halloween Night, Scary
Scary Halloween, and my personal

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favorite, The Vanishing Pumpkin.

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Emily: Such good books. And
while we're pitching our

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products, why don't we just let
you know that we also have our

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Halloween fluency in a flash
lessons. If you don't do

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Halloween at your school, we
also have a fun fall theme. But

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if you can do Halloween, they
are so fun. You might see the

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Sanderson Sisters in there. You
might see Wednesday and Pugsley

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in there. It's so much fun. This
is like, I think I say this

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every time, but the Halloween
set might be like, my favorite

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set.

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Heidi: It's my favorite I think.

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Emily: Oh, it's so fun. And of
course, we do have lots of

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non-seasonal fluency in a flash
lessons, but we're just really

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proud of the seasonal stuff. It
feels so special. It's hard to

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describe these on a podcast,
though. So you'll just have to

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go try them, I think, to see how
interactive and engaging they

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are.

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Heidi: I really am still blown
away every time I watch one of

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these. Each day has a meaningful
activity that targets an

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essential fluency skill. But I
promise that your kids will be

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having so much fun, they will
never realize it's educational.

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And we will link to our seasonal
fluency in a flash mini lessons

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in the show notes as well.

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Emily: The show notes are
hopping this week. You got to

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check them out.

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Heidi: Yes they are.

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Emily: As you plan the rest of
your Halloween lead up week,

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your math story problems can
feature pumpkins and science can

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explore bats, but remember that
there's no pressure to

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halloweenify every single part
of your day. In fact, you should

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definitely avoid doing that. If
every worksheet has a Jack O'

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Lantern on it, it stops being
special, and then it stops being

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a tool that you can use to shape
your classroom management.

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Heidi: Remember, we're going for
the fun of a handful of candy,

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and not the heaviness of a whole
bucket, so adding in these

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little bits of excitement helps
draw off the excess energy that

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is building up before Halloween.
Because these sparks of fun are

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increasing your students
engagement, it makes all of your

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classroom management so much
easier. And if you would like to

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sprinkle in some seasonal fun
without having to adapt any of

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your content, may we introduce
you to one of our favorite

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tools, festive breaks.

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Emily: Festive breaks are short,
low prep activities that you can

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pull out whenever you want a
little seasonal excitement.

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They're print and go activities
like Halloween tic tac toe or

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roll a monster, and having these
copied and ready to grab at a

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moment's notice will be a huge
relief when you need them.

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Heidi: Now, the key to a festive
break is the activity card. The

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front of the card is a cute
seasonal picture, and the back

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of the card names a fun
activity. Now, as the teacher,

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you get to decide how many
breaks you want to do, and you

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get to decide when it's time to
choose a card. For example, you

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might want to schedule it into
your day, and you would do an

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activity after reading or one
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Emily: Or you might want to have
students earn an activity with

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on task behavior. This is one of
our best holiday management

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tips. You could say something
like, if everyone works on their

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math page for 15 minutes without
talking, we can choose an

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activity, but if people start
talking, I'll have to restart

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the timer. Let the structure of
trying to earn a reward tamp

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down some of the excess energy
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Heidi: And we will put a link to
our Halloween festive breaks in

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the show notes. Unfortunately,
we don't have a non-Halloween

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fall set available. I was really
hoping to get to it this year,

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but the calendar won out on this
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Yeah, we've been a little bit
busy writing that book we're

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writing.

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Oh yeah, I don't know if we've
mentioned that. Hi everyone.

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We're writing a book.

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That's a, that's an Easter egg
in this episode, is that we are

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writing a book, but we'll talk
about that on another episode.

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Turns out writing a book takes
up a lot of time. Who knew?

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But no matter how strategic we
are about handling seasonal

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spark, the closer we get to the
31st, the more the energy level

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is going to climb. That's
totally normal, but because we

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can predict it, we can plan for
how to address it.

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Emily: Recognizing when your
regular management plan will

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need a boost is how you know
you've achieved peak teacher

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status, because this is some
ninja level stuff.

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So decide now how you can
increase your structure to

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manage the excess novelty. A
good place to start is with a

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discussion. A few days before
Halloween, preview the plan with

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your students. Let them know
when the fun stuff will happen

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and when it's business as usual.

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Heidi: try using a visual
schedule if you can. Post it

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where everyone can see it, so
that you don't get constant wins

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the party questions, because you
will. Even though you are

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sticking to your normal routines
and core subject blocks as much

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as possible, letting kids know
when the out of the ordinary is

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happening will go a long way
toward keeping everyone calm.

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Also, you definitely want to
build in more brain breaks this

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week as well. When kids are
buzzing with excitement, they

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need more opportunities to get
the wiggles out.

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And guess what we have?

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Emily: What could it be?

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Heidi: Well, surprise, we have
got 60 Halloween brain breaks

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that are perfect for this. We've
divided them into three

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categories, activities to
increase focus, activities to

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calm excitement, and activities
to boost energy. That way you

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can find exactly what you need
the moment you need it.

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Halloween week, you'll probably
get a lot of use out of our

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refocus brain breaks. Those are
the ones you'll turn to to

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settle everyone down.

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These are so calming. One of my
favorite refocused brain breaks

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is a mindful movement activity
called Fun with Jack. So you

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would have your students stand,
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breathing slowly and calmly, and
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this activity. Pretend you're
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between your hands. Slowly move
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right, lower it down to your
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Emily: Oh, I feel calmer
already. But, and this is

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important, for every brain
break, make sure you set clear

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expectations beforehand. How
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students move? How loud can they
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someone chooses not to follow
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happen as soon as the brain
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Heidi: That last part is so
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clear ending signal, you're
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trying to get everyone back on
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with the day, and then everyone
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unfocused as they were before
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Emily: Okay, you've maintained
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while strategically sprinkling
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Halloween morning hits, your
class will be excited but still

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anchored. They know what to
expect, and you've given them

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plenty of appropriate outlets
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Heidi: Which means you are ready
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everything falling apart. So
let's talk about your Halloween

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day game plan.

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Emily: Feels like we could have
a whole series about how to

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handle this day. And you know,
if Halloween isn't a big deal at

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your school, like you don't do
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probably could mostly plan a
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seasonal activities sprinkled
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with scarecrows and pumpkins if
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aren't the right vibe for your
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Heidi: But if there is a costume
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you're going to need what we
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honestly, that's probably the
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even if your school doesn't
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are going to be thinking about
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Emily: The goal with a plan B
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predictable, even if the
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ones. So if your students are
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2:,30 show a science video
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trying to teach a regular
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Heidi: And you can do the same
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regular lesson, pull out math
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and have your kids rotate
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time for a review work packet.

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Emily: I think this could be
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opinion, which is that work
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especially on disruptive days
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that it's just fluff and a waste
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Halloween themed worksheets that
mix review practice with a few

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just for fun pages can keep kids
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them to be.

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Heidi: And we have got a
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includes pages at three
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that you can differentiate for
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seasonal theme that makes
everything feel special, but it

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is still solid review practice.

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Emily: You can always count on
us for review. To help you

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figure out your plan B schedule,
here are a couple of examples.

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If you've got a morning
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my kids school does, and it's
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that's what they do. So it might
look like 8:30 to 9, costume

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parade with parents, 9 to 10:45,
class party, 10:45 to 11:30,

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clean up and watch a 30 minute
movie, like maybe the 80s

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classic Garfield's Halloween or
something educational about

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Heidi: But definitely do
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bats.

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choice.

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Emily: I know, it's so
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Heidi: Then you might have lunch
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afternoon, do a morning meeting
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and reset. Hand out those work
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work. And then you can break up
the work time with brain breaks,

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festive breaks, specialty
classes and reading time.

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Emily: Yeah, bust out those
Halloween books and do some fun

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read alouds. You can do one of
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your party is in the afternoon,
you might do a normal morning

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routine then, and then maybe you
want to do a themed writing

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activity during your normal
writing time. Hand out a work

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packet and give kids time to
work. Have recess, read a

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Halloween story, maybe play a
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packets, then party time and
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Heidi: The key is having a plan,
instead of just winging it. When

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you know what's coming next, you
can stay calm, and that keeps

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your kids calm too.

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Emily: Now let's talk about
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you're doing stations, a craft
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station, time those rotations
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switching.

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Heidi: Recruit parent helpers to
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that you can supervise the whole
room instead of getting stuck

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trying to manage one activity
while the rest of the room falls

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apart. If you want all of our
best tips for planning a party

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that leaves you smiling instead
of sweating, check out episodes

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33, 34 and 96.

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Emily: As soon as we started
talking about the Halloween

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party, I just got like itchy,
because I have helped at so many

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Halloween parties for my kids at
the elementary schools, and most

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of them have been very
disorganized. As the helper it

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has made me crazy. So please go
check out those episodes,

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because we really go deep into
the nitty gritty, because we

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know how exhausting it is trying
to orchestrate fun without

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losing control of those 25
sugared up kids. So check out

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those episodes, and then let's
address the biggest hassles,

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treats and costumes.

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Heidi: For treats, decide in
advance how and when candy gets

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eaten. Perhaps it's just one
treat during the party and the

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rest goes home, or perhaps it's
a free for all, because you are

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sending them home in an hour
anyway. Decide what works best

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for your class, and then let any
parent volunteers know your

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expectation.

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Emily: Also communicate this
clearly to students ahead of

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time to avoid disappointment. It
might be a good idea to have non

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food options available to like
stickers, pencils, small toys

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that can keep everyone included
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overload situation, and that
like dyed black frosting all

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over their face. I hate it so
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Heidi: Yeah, watch out for that
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Emily: You can't trust those
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because the frosting in them is
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Heidi: For costumes, if they are
allowed at your school, create

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what we call a costume contract.
Share rules about

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appropriateness, safety and when
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If costumes aren't worn all day,
figure out when the students

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will change. Let parents know
that you aren't going to be

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helping anyone get dressed, so
they should practice putting

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things on and taking them off at
home. Also make it very clear

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that students have to be able to
manage the bathroom

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independently in their costume.

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Emily: Oh, yeah, no one wants an
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Halloween. If costumes are being
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consider bringing a backup
costume or two, just in case not

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all of your students have one
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Heidi: Yeah, that definitely
caught me off guard when I was a

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new teacher. I remember
frantically texting a roommate

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with an office job because she
could get away from work in the

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middle of the day and asking
her, begging her to run to the

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store and grab a couple of
costumes, like whatever was left

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at that point. After that year,
I made sure to come prepared on

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Halloween. I'm not letting
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parade contribute to anyone's
childhood trauma. Not on my

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watch.

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Emily: No, no way. It's also a
good idea to have a repair kit

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handy, tape, safety pins, maybe
some plastic grocery bags for

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costume pieces that won't fit in
backpacks. Trust me, these

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situations come up more than you
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Heidi: As crazy as the Halloween
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you don't shortcut your end of
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scheduled later in your day, let
everyone know that the party

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time ends 30 minutes before the
bell. That way, if it runs long,

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because it'll run long, you
still have a good buffer of time

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to clean up the mess and make
sure everything is ready for

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tomorrow. Trust us, you don't
want to start your day after

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Halloween already running
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Emily: And that brings us to our
final piece for surviving

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Halloween, the reset. This year,
Halloween falls on a Friday, so

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you've got the weekend to
recover, but when it swings back

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around to a Sunday, you're going
to need strategies for that

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Monday morning.

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Heidi: Yeah, that's a rough one.
Plan a gentle next morning

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routine. Play soft music as the
kids arrive, make sure to greet

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them at the door and hear about
their fun adventures, and signal

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that it's time to focus on
learning now. Kids need to

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transition back to school mode,
and you can help them do that

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gradually.

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Review your expectations and
procedures again, not in a harsh

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way, but as a gentle reminder.
Remember when we line up, we

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turn our voices off and keep our
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And give yourself some grace
too. Halloween is genuinely

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exhausting for teachers, but as
tiring as it is, hopefully you

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find a little fun in it too.
When you give yourself

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permission to lean into the
season, even just a little, you

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remind yourself of the things
you love about teaching.

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Emily: And even if it feels like
a big waste of time, those tiny

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touches are what knit your class
together. Shared moments like a

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festive fluency practice or a
class wide vote on a Halloween

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read aloud, build a sense of us.
That us is what keeps behavior

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manageable all year long,
because students feel part of

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something bigger than
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Heidi: That sprinkle of seasonal
fun is good for everyone.

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Remember these tips so you make
it to November in one piece. Use

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the candy rule as a guideline, a
handful of fun creates magic, a

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bucket full creates chaos.
During the lead up, keep core

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routines intact while adding
light seasonal sprinkles. On

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Halloween day, have a plan B
schedule and structured

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celebrations with clear
boundaries. And afterward, plan

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a gentle reset.

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Emily: Halloween doesn't have to
be something you just survive.

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With the right balance, it can
be something you and your

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students actually enjoy
together. We'd love to hear your

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best Halloween tips. Come join
the conversation in our Teacher

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Approved Facebook group.

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Now for our Teacher Approved Tip
of the Week, where we share an

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actionable tip to help you
elevate what matters and

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simplify the rest. This week's
teacher approved tip is to

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create a reset ritual for after
big, exciting events. Tell us

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about this one, Heidi.

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Heidi: A reset ritual is just a
simple, consistent routine that

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you use to help everyone get
back to baseline. It might be

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starting the day with some deep
breathing exercises, doing a

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familiar morning meeting
activity, or spending a few

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extra minutes reviewing your
classroom agreements. The key is

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that it is predictable and
calming. After all of the

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excitement and novelty,
everyone's brains need some

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structure to grab onto, and
probably so do you.

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Emily: For Halloween
specifically, since this year it

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falls on Friday, you could use
Monday morning to have kids

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share one favorite memory from
their Halloween, then do a quick

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shake out the sillies activity
to physically release any

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leftover excitement.

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Heidi: You might also want to
spend a few minutes

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acknowledging the transition.
Halloween was so fun, and now

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we're back to our regular
learning routine. Our brains

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might need a few minutes to
switch gears, and that's okay.

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Emily: The ritual doesn't have
to be long or complicated. Even

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just dimming the lights and
playing soft music for five

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minutes can help signal to
everyone's nervous systems that

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it's time to settle in.

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Heidi: And bonus, if you
establish this pattern now, you

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can use it all year long, after
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Valentine's Day, after that
field trip to the zoo where

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everyone got way too excited
about the monkeys.

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Emily: Who can blame them? The
monkeys are so fun. So pick one

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simple activity, breathing, soft
music, a favorite morning

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meeting game, a favorite story,
whatever feels right to you, and

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use it consistently after
exciting events. Your future

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self will thank you, and so will
your students.

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Heidi: To wrap up the show, we
are sharing what we're giving

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extra credit to this week.
Emily, what gets your extra

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credit?

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Emily: This is one of my weirder
extra credits, I think.

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Heidi: Okay.

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Emily: So I've always seen that
at Chick fil A, you can get

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waffle chips instead of waffle
fries. And I was like, who on

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earth is getting chips over
fries?

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Heidi: Yes, that's a ridiculous
choice.

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Emily: But then I saw that they
have a Chick fil A sauce

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flavored chip. And I was
curious. I was just too curious.

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I was like, you know what, I
mean, I'm just gonna try them.

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And it turns out there are
delicious. So I guess I'm giving

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extra credit to chips. I kind of
wish you could get them at the

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store so that you didn't have
to, well, you know what, I was

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just gonna say, so that you
didn't have to give up fries for

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chips. Well, who says you have
to give them up? Get both, dang

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it. Get the fries and get the
chips. They're delicious.

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Heidi: You deserve it. You're a
teacher in October.

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Emily: That's right. What are
you giving extra credit to,

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Heidi?

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Heidi: Okay, well, I think I'm
late to the game on this, but

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I'm giving extra credit to
ambience videos on YouTube.

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Emily: Ooh.

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Heidi: Now if you have also
missed out on these, it's just a

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charming image, probably AI
generated, if we're being

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honest, with like, some gentle
animation like a crackling fire

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or blowing leaves and calming
sound effects, and it just like

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runs on the loop for hours.

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Emily: Oh my gosh.

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Heidi: So, you know, a cozy
cabin with a fireplace and soft

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rainfall. I have been putting
one on in the evenings when I

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read, and it turns it into a
whole event.

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Emily: Oh my gosh. I love it.

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Heidi: I've been using it over
my actual fireplace. So if you

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want some surprise and delight
in your own class, this could be

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really fun to add. Try
projecting one of these

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occasionally during work time or
reading time. Just I would say a

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couple of things I run into,
check if it has music, because

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that could distract some
students. And then double check

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if it has mid roll commercials.
I have been peacefully reading

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next to a babbling brook, and
then suddenly a Tide commercial

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is shouting at me.

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Emily: You can block the ads too
when you're on YouTube by

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putting in a dash between the T
and the U, and then it refreshes

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the video without any ads. The
only problem is if the creator

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baked an ad into the video. But
I found that to be very

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uncommon. It almost never
happens, but there are some, and

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who knows, I haven't tried these
videos, so there could be some

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baked in ads in there.

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Heidi: Well, that's good to
know. That's a real handy tip.

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Yeah, for the most part,
especially if you're playing

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something at school, you want to
put that dash between the T and

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the U in YouTube, refresh the
page, and then ad free. You

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don't have to worry what might
pop up.

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Emily: That's it for today's
episode. Use our Halloween

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Survival Guide to keep the fun
without losing your sanity.

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Remember the candy rule, plan
your lead up strategies, have

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that plan B schedule ready, and
don't forget to build in time

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for a reset.

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Heidi: And make sure to try our
teacher approved tip for

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creating a reset ritual that you
can use all year long after

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exciting events.

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We hope you enjoyed this episode
of Teacher Approved. I'm Heidi.

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Emily: And I'm Emily. Thank you
for listening. Be sure to follow

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episode.

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Heidi: You can connect with us
and other teachers in the

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Teacher Approved Facebook group.
We'll see you here next week.

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Bye for now.

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Emily: Bye.