Does the question “What do I do now?” sound familiar? It used to pop up constantly in my classroom and drive me nuts. 😅
But I found a simple solution that made all the difference—daily slides!
By adding these to your classroom routine and teaching students how to use them, you can cut down on so many interruptions. 🙌
Here are 7 ways to use these daily slide templates to keep your students on task (and from asking you what to do).
Let’s dive in!
🎉 Huge shout out to Paxton at @blossoming_in_fourth for sharing how she has been using these slides in her classroom!
1️⃣ Morning Slide
Start each morning with a morning slide.
This can be a simple Welcome slide, or a slide with some information about the day and a reminder of what students should be doing as they enter the classroom.
🌟 If you often have your students start with a journal question, morning work, or a conversation starter, throw it up on the board!
This will remind your students of expectations during this time and let them know what they need to be working on while you greet other students at the door, take attendance, and tackle other early morning tasks!
2️⃣ Stations and Rotations
Keeping track of which group each student is in is tricky.
Make it easier for your students (and yourself) by using daily slides created to do just this!
Have a slide dedicated to telling what the math groups are for that day, week, month, etc.
Then, use another slide to remind each group what they are working on when OR what the task is at each station/rotation for the class.
The beautiful thing about this is it is SO easy to change! 🙌
If you need to quickly swap a student out of a group or change which group starts where all you need to do is copy and paste.
3️⃣ Weekly Overview Slide
I LOVE this daily slide template 😍
📣 Remind students of the big things coming up each week.
Whether that is spirit days, field trips, quizzes, or homework due.
Using this slide often helps set the tone and reminds students of what’s coming up in the week.
4️⃣ Must Do / May Do Slides
Another great daily slide template to add to your routines are Must Do / May Do slides.
These slides will protect your small group teaching time (and your sanity).
Instead of students coming up and asking you what they should be doing next, all they need to do is reference the screen!
➡️ Teach your students the differences between “Must Dos” and “May Dos” and if the order they are listed matters.
Then, relax into teaching your small group while the rest of your class is busy working on their own work.
I promise, this slide template alone is worth using. 🤩
5️⃣ Exit Ticket Slide
This idea from Paxton is GENIUS.
End the lesson with a simple, recap question to assess what your students learned.
Instead of feeling like you need to create and print an exit ticket for your students each and every day, just put it on a slide.
Maybe it’s a picture of the same page they have in front of them, or maybe it’s just a text box with a question written down.
This process makes creating exit tickets SO 👏 MUCH 👏 EASIER 👏.
Which makes it easier to do more often in your room.
6️⃣ Daily Agenda Slide
Dig into the daily schedule with your students so they know exactly what is coming their way.
The great parts about this daily slide template?
✨ It is SO easy to change day-to-day.
✨ You can make it your own by adding Jokes, Quotes, Comics, or anything else that connects with you and your class.
✨ Make talking about the day exciting by adding images or GIFs right on top of the slide itself!
✨ You don’t have to write a thing. Simple, easy, and effective.
7️⃣ Timers
Sometimes the hardest part of keeping kids on track is the lollygagging. 🫠
You know what I’m talking about… 😅
The students who are going to take 5 minutes to pull a notebook out of their desk.
Or how easy it is to get sidetracked as the teacher in front of the classroom trying to move to the next lesson, but noticing 5 million other things that need to be tidied up or addressed.
Help keep everyone on track with timers on the slides.
These are GREAT to add to morning slides, rotation slides, and exit ticket slides.
This little feature will keep things rolling and remind everyone that this can’t take all day 😂.
This daily slide template includes 30-second, 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 45, 50, and 60-minute timers.
Snag these Pastel Retro daily slide templates from my TPT store.
The best part? They are editable 🤯! So you can change the headings to read anything that works for your classroom and students!
Love the idea, but interested in a different design? I have 10 different designs you can scroll through here!
Have a question about the daily slide template resource?