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Teacher's Bag of Tricks: 101 Instant Lessons for Classroom Fun! (Kids' Stuff)

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I found that this book is full of many reproducibles and ideas to keep students busy in the classroom. Although I plan on using it while substituting, classroom teachers can use many of these activities when their lessons run short or they have 5 or 10 minutes to fill.

This book was not helpful at all. I take substitute teaching and education seriously. I was looking for real activities that I could use when the teacher did not leave plans or if I had a few minutes to spare. The activities were not original or helpful.
Additionally, the pages looked like a child designed them. It was not professional. Neither was the publishing. Much of the ink was faded.

Last year was my first year as a substitute teacher. I found that having this book with me saved me several times. The activities are clever. My 8th and 9th grade students loved the wordles. The younger loved the squiggles.

I wouldn't enter a classroom without this book!

I substitute teach and have found this book's activities to be very useful as time fillers and lessons. The students have enjoyed the activities.

I was so disapointed when I received this book and started going through it. The pages were childish, the activities (if you could call them that) were absolutly stupid! Out of the entire book I could maybe use 3 or 4 in a real substitute teaching situation. Maybe a regular teacher could use some of the ideas, but I'm a substitute teacher and there is no way that you could use these so called activities. I am so disapointed and don't recommend this to any substitute teacher. Poor contents and poorly illustrated :(

This book has a lot of great ideas and little games which come in handy as lesson breaks for a full time teacher and also a lot of these fun games that will make you be the fun casual teacher