Prepping Five Minute Fillers & Bell Ringer Activities

Every teacher has those times when you need five minutes to take attendance, talk to a colleague, or answer a call from the office. Try these tips so your students aren't sitting around.
Use Your Room Décor

Try using your room decorations to keep students occupied. One high school teacher covered the wall around her blackboard with quotes from literature and famous people. Any time she needed five minutes, she asked students to choose a quote and write about it.

 Other teachers do the same thing with images. Post amazing photographs and ask your students to write about what they see in the picture.

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