Heggerty tips for October

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skeleton hands

Why it worked

The video leverages a relatable teacher problem (keeping young students engaged) and offers a simple, low-cost, and visually fun solution (skeleton hands) that directly ties into a specific educational activity (Heggerty). The creator's enthusiastic delivery and the novelty of the prop likely contributed to its shareability.

Summary

A kindergarten teacher shares a fun tip for teaching the Heggerty phonics curriculum in October: using skeleton hands to keep students engaged. She suggests buying them from the Dollar Tree and incorporating them into lessons for a few days to make learning more exciting.

Structure

1Introduce Heggerty and the need for engagement
2Suggest buying skeleton hands from Dollar Tree
3Explain how to use skeleton hands in Heggerty lessons
4Describe the fun and engagement factor for students
5Advise on duration and storage of the skeleton hands

Product placement

Dollar Tree (a store that sells a variety of items at low prices) ACTS - the creator directs viewers to go there to buy items for their classroom. Removing it would change the video's recommendation. Heggerty (a phonics curriculum) ACTS - the creator discusses tips for teaching it. Removing it would change the video's topic.

Original caption

If you teach Heggerty, then you need to go to the @Dollar Tree and get some skeleton hands. They will love it. @Heggerty #teachertips #owlsomekinders #kindergarten #heggerty #teacher

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go to the @Dollar Tree and get some skeleton hands

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Heggerty tips for October

Transcript

Okay teacher tip, do you do Heggerty? You guys know I love me some Heggerty. Love it. You're gonna go over to the $1.25 store right now because they got 'em. You're gonna go get you some skeleton hands, okay? Now, I am tracked out right now. Year-round teacher. This was what I will do when I go back to school and my students come back. I teach kindergarten and we will never miss a day of Heggerty. We will never miss a day of Heggerty. It's what we do first thing after morning meeting. We do Heggerty. And October. When I go back in like two weeks, I'm gonna have these and then I always wear a long sleeve shirt that day and I hide it. They don't know because, you know, we're getting ready and I'm like, and then you can use skeleton hands when you do Heggerty. It's so fun. They love it, okay? So I'll do it for about two days and then I go put them away because they will crack up, all right? Um, and then you can maybe pull it out once or twice. Anyway, get one set, they'll last you for years. It's so fun. Um, but yeah, go get you some skeleton hands if you do Heggerty for the month of October. Make the memories, make it fun because you know if you teach Heggerty, sometimes it can be very hard to keep them engaged. You are on a freaking stage, okay? Especially when they're young. You've got to keep their attention. And this right here will do it. I promise.