Desk Pets - Animal Friends, 40-Pack

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When students know that they are now responsible for making sure their desk pet is safe and happy students step up and take ownership.

I can also tell you that they sat in a cute little organizer up in my cabinet for probably the first three years of teaching, and I never touched them.This is especially helpful if you plan on introducing desk pets during the first few days of being back to school. If you're teaching a unit on marine life, maybe you want to let your students earn marine life desk pets and create habits for them! These small animal erasers give kids a friend right at their desk and a little bit of comfort on a rough school day. Having your students “adopt their desk pets” serve as a great way to promote responsibility and compassion in your students. 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.

Desk Pet Would You Rather: Students can bring their desk pets with them as they partner up for a round of would you rather using would you rather task cards or slides. I would also encourage you to have students create and sign a contract with you before they earn their desk pets so that everyone is clear about what the rules and expectations are around having desk pets in the classroom. A classroom management tool is any system or technique that teachers use to keep their students organized and on task. Its hands have built-in magnets for holding accessories, and future updates promise new bot features and plot content yet to come.

Once your students adopt their pets, they get to keep them at their desk — hence the name – and what comes next is up to you.

If you introduce desk pets at the beginning of the year, use them for get to know you activities, when practicing classroom procedures and routines, and to establish classroom rules and expectations.As for other AI desktop pet options, there's also the amazingly named EMO desk robot created by Living.

Another perk to providing just the materials for building a desk pet habitat is that students can switch it up. 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.Kids absolutely love these because they are fun to collect, especially when it comes to earning accessories and food items for their pets. I don’t require my students to participate in desk pets, but it is an option for how they can spend their money. Marissa Begay coined the term “desk pets” in her TikTok video where she explained her creative way to use mini erasers in her music classroom as a positive reinforcement tool. For your middle mathematicians, try using desk pets to guide students on skip counting by multiples and multiplication tables in their hundreds charts or hooray arrays! Add these fun Thanksgiving books for kids to your classroom library to celebrate the holiday season while teaching about compassion, gratitude and the spirit of giving!