Game Time: Help Students Learn Routines through Play
Students enjoy learning when it is fun and feels like a game! Here’s a quick way to help your students learn routines in your classroom.
Why is this Important?
Children in the early grades are just beginning to learn how to follow instructions. They need lots of opportunities to understand what is expected. Students need to know what behaviours or practices should look like, sound like, etc.
How Can Students Learn Routines through Play?
Let’s say you are teaching a new routine such as, “How to Sharpen Your Pencil”. I like to teach the word, procedure early in the school year. This is helpful because I want my class to realize that we are all working on following little procedures that can help our classroom run smoothly. I also tell them that we will first pretend how to do the routine so that we can understand what to do.
Introduce the routine (e.g., “We are going to learn how to sharpen a pencil safely in our classroom.”)
2. Explain why it’s important. Share why it is important to know this routine and follow it (e.g., for writing; stay safe)
3. Share the procedure for the routine in short steps. I project these short steps on a screen. I read them aloud.
4. Teacher acts it out. I model each step.
5. Invite 2 – 3 students to act it out in front of the whole class. The class quietly observes their peers.
6. Class celebrates their peers’ actions. Invite the observing peers to talk about what they saw. I ask them to tell the “actors” what they did well. Some use the steps that are projected on the screen as a reference when sharing what was done well (e.g., “I really liked how you walked safely with your pencil to the sharpener.”).
6. Each student gets the chance to act it out, too! Dedicate time to give all students a chance to act it out. It doesn’t have to be in front of the whole class. Depending on the routine, I will let all students act it out independently in their work space, or better yet, in small groups.
7. Act it out as a class (if applicable). If the routine is to be followed by the entire class (e.g., lining up for lunch), then I will also have the students act it out several times until we are proud of what we can do together.
Have You Tried This Before?
My students have the best time learning some routines by acting out what it shouldn’t look like or sound like in our classroom! Students quickly volunteer to show what a routine may look like if done incorrectly. There are usually many people who wish to act this out in front of the class! We are usually laughing by the end of it and it’s great!
It gives the students some fun moments. It also gives me the opportunity to open meaningful discussion about what the routine should look like or why it may not be best to follow the procedure in such a way.
My class has the best time learning some routines by acting out what it shouldn’t look like or sound like in our classroom!
Let’s prepare for the new school year with some back to school tips! Whether you teach a primary or junior grade, the first few weeks of school are vital in creating a presence and the tempo of your classroom.
Back to School: Ready Or Not…It’s Here!
How have you spent your summer break? Hopefully, it’s been one that included some downtime and rest. Some fun and relaxation. Why? Simply because it was needed. The summer break has been super necessary after the year we’ve had in teaching. I sincerely hope you had some days to rest and rejuvenate in ways that are special for you.
Despite it being summer though, the reality is that it’s time to prepare for back to school. Where I live, we go back to school in early September. Now that it is August, planning for the new school year is definitely on my mind.
Back to School: The Early Years of Teaching
As a new teacher, I focused on back to school preparations in a different way. I spent time planning for teaching, assessing, and evaluation, but spent a whole lot of time physically preparing my classroom. I remember dedicating so much time making sure my bulletin boards, decor, and other visuals were “just right”.
Today I still see this is an important part of getting ready to go back to school. In fact, it’s exciting and fun to include this in the process! After experiencing many first days of school however, I have realized a few key areas that truly benefit my class and my teaching overall each year.
Back to School Tips
In this post, I’m going to share six back to school tips that I look forward to following again as I prepare for my new class. Perhaps they may be helpful for you, too!
Back to School Tip #1: Plan Your Year
This is key to having a successful school year! Back to school preparations for me starts with drafting an outline of my school year. Even though we already know that plans may change as we get to know our students’ needs and interests, it’s still important to have a map of where we are going in our learning.
The last year has especially demanded change in our teaching due to the pandemic. For that reason, I will be planning my year with the most useful aspects of my in-person and distance learning experiences.
This is What I do When Planning My Year
1. Plan my Year-at-a-Glance: I write down the topics in each subject that I need to cover. I then break down the topics by term and/or month. To organize my year, I use a simple digital teacher planner that I created. I like using it because I can easily make changes as needed. For more details, you can read about it here.
2. Focus on curriculum expectations or standards: I look through the curriculum documents. The expectations helps me plan my units in more detail.
3. Outline Unit Plans for Each Subject for the Year: This is where I use my curriculum expectations to focus on what I will cover in each subject. This process also helps me think about lessons, key strategies, assessments, and activities that will drive my teaching.
4. Reporting Statements: Yes, I know it’s only back to school time, yet part of preparing me for a successful year includes this task. Planning with the end in mind helps me stay organized. It also guides my assessments and lowers stress levels (slightly) when it’s time to write report cards.
5. Brainstorm Activities for the First Weeks of School: Time to think about getting to know my new students! It’s best to think about ways to help each new class start their year in a great way! I use the first few weeks of school to strictly get to know my students and learn about what they know and need to know.
Before going onto the next tip, I just have to mention that my planning doesn’t stop at the above! Once I assess the needs of my students, I start breaking down my plans for the term even further: I start using a digital Week-at-a-Glance planner. This helps me organize my subjects by week. I change it as needed as I work with my class and learn more about their needs and interests.
Back to School Tip #2: Prepare Your Classroom
As mentioned earlier, this was perhaps my favourite part of back to school preparations in my early days of teaching! It’s so much fun to set up the physical classroom. Setting up your classroom as an inviting space is a great way to make a new class feel welcomed and engaged. Putting lots of thought into the physical set-up of the classroom can also help maximize learning experiences and opportunities, too.
Quick lesson from my experience: My classroom used to be set-up (e.g., bulletin boards, visuals around the classroom) to my liking each year. I enjoyed seeing how it came together…until one year, I couldn’t do the same. Due to a late arrival from a summer trip, I had only one day to set-up the classroom, compared to a full week or more I had in the past. That year, my students came into a more plain classroom (bare bulletin boards!), but you know what? It was the best classroom set-up ever! My students and I enjoyed decorating our space together. It was a complete mindset shift and one that I continue to follow each year since that time. The blank canvas approach has been a winning approach for me and one that I honestly didn’t think would work at the onset!
My students enjoyed decorating and setting up our space together. It was a complete mindset shift and one that I continue to do each year since that time.
Now that distance learning is something we are familiar with, I plan on setting up my Virtual Classroom spaces as well (e.g., Google Classroom, Seesaw, class website, Zoom meetings, etc.) This is a fairly new variable in our teaching and so I think it’s important for me to reflect on what worked well (and what didn’t) last year while teaching online.
Back to School Tip #3: Welcome Your Students
Okay, it’s the first day of school and it’s time to welcome your new students! I can feel the excitement and nerves in the children, families, and teachers already! Here are a few quick ways that I like to welcome students back to school during that first week:
“I’m happy you’re here!” Letting my students know that I’m thrilled to have them in my class helps ease some nerves for students and families. The truth is, I’m thrilled to get to work with them! I also like to let them know that I feel nervous, too.
Name Games and Activities: Since teachers and students alike are learning many new names, games and activities are one of my favourite ways to start off the new school year. Celebrating students’ names helps them feel valued and helps to build a classroom community. Invite students to say their names aloud several times (during the first few weeks) so that teachers and peers can learn to respectfully say each others’ names. One of the sweetest things a person can hear is their name as it was intended to sound. Young students can also work on writing their own name in different ways. I even have a challenge after the first two weeks of school! My students line up, while one of their peers (who wishes to participate) tries to name all (or as many) of their new classmates. If they get to a person and can’t recall the name, they simply whisper, “What’s your name again?” and the person replies, then the game continues.
Great Back to School Read Aloud: A Letter From Your teacher: On the First Day of School (By Shannon Olsen) *non-affiliate / unsponsored link*
Back to School Tip #4: Create a Classroom Community
Teachers and students spend a lot of time together each school day. For this reason, it’s critical that I create a classroom community where students feel safe, happy, and open to learning and growing.
While students are learning each other’s names during the early days and weeks of school, it’s also fun to learn more about each other! Doing class surveys and small-group and paired activities give room for students to learn more about the peers they will be working with each day.
Student voice is very important in all that we do. When students take responsibility for caring for their peers and classroom, it makes them feel important and helpful to others (e.g., Line Leader, Pencil Manager, etc.)
Building community can also happen when students have opportunities to share pieces about their lives with the class. Intentionally giving students time to talk with their peers often during the day helps the learning process and is a necessary building block for strengthening reading and writing skills!
Intentionally giving students time to talk with their peers often during the day helps the learning process and is a necessary building block for strengthening reading and writing skills!
Back to School Tip #5: Act Out Routines
Teaching routines may seem mundane at times, but they are a necessary back to school feature. Once my students know what to do, when to do it, and why it’s being done, then my classroom has a better chance of running more smoothly.
I give my students opportunities to act out the routines we are learning. Children learn so much through play and so when they are all given the chance to practice the behaviours we hope to see, they understand the expectations even better.
Some of the routines that I make sure we act out are:
Lining up outside of and entering the school, classroom, etc.
How to organize your desk
What to do after entering the classroom in the morning, after lunch, etc.
How to ask questions or share answers during large group discussions
It is important for me as a teacher to also create that classroom community feeling with each student’s family. Greeting parents before or after school is just a nice start. At the end of the first week of school, I send a general “sunshine note” to each student’s family. Parents enjoy receiving positive messages about their children’s progress in class. I have had great experiences reaching out to parents throughout the year in order to share some good news about their child in class.
By the end of that first week, it is also my goal to have the email addresses and/or phone numbers from parents so that I can update them whenever necessary.
Last year was the first time I set up a class website because it was easy for parents to see quick updates from our class on a whole. It is something I will incorporate again this year.
Time To Start!
Back to School time is always a super busy one. Using these six tips can help you to be ready for this year’s start. Here’s a quick recap of the six tips to help you prepare for back to school:
Plan Your Year
Prepare Your Classroom
Welcome Your Students
Create a Classroom Community
Act Out Routines
Connect with Families
I’m looking forward to planning out my year and meeting my new class. I wish you all the best in your upcoming school year. May it be a fulfilling one for you, your students, and their families!
Shifting the Balance is a book that caught my attention recently because it focuses on a topic that I want to learn more about: the Science of Reading. While scrolling on Instagram just a few weeks ago, I noticed the term, the “Science of Reading” and it stopped me in my tracks. It was a term I had not seen or heard before and it instantly made me curious. For this reason, I started searching for resources to help me learn more about the Science of Reading.
Shifting the Balance: My Own Summer Book Club?
I was so happy to come across the book, Shifting the Balance by Jan Burkins and Kari Yates (2021). After reading more about the resource, I decided that it was the best fit for me. I ordered the book and it is now my professional reading for the summer break! I have yet to start the book, but I’m excited to learn more about the Science of Reading through studying this resource.
Shifting the Balance: Does Something Need to Be Shifted?
Upon looking at the cover, I see that this book is primarily suitable for teachers from Kindergarten to Grade 2. The subtitle for the book, Shifting the Balanceis “6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom”.
Hmmm. A Balanced Literacy Classroom…that’s my classroom. That’s what I have learned about from so many workshops, professional resources, and more. The title of the book was calling out my name and I knew that it would be the book to help me understand what this shift is all about!
What is Balanced Literacy Any Way?
The term, “balanced literacy” has been at the forefront of many language programs, especially in early primary classrooms (Kindergarten to Grade 2). In my opinion, it is a broad term that describes ways to help immerse students in different kinds of language activities (e.g., guided, shared, independent work) in order to help them become well-rounded readers and writers.
Mission to Make a Way for Learning
I personally love helping my students grow and strengthen their language skills through reading, writing, oral communication, word play, etc. The focus on having a balanced literacy program has felt like the norm for the last little while. It has become a comfort zone, so to speak, in planning my language program, and I’m very happy with the success many students have achieved. However, there are sometimes some learners who may appear to have more difficulty grasping key language skills. As a teacher who constantly wants to problem-solve, such a situation puts me on a mission to find new strategies or ideas to help me try and reach those students in a different and better way.
Growth Mindset: Time to Learn Something In A Different Way!
In the same way I wish for my students to become lifelong learners, I, too, enjoy learning and “growing my brain”. Learning about the Science of Reading is an opportunity for me to learn something new, perhaps have a shift in mindset on the approach of teaching reading, and hopefully, make me a stronger reading teacher for my students, especially those that may be struggling.
This Blog Post Has Just Started, But It Will Already Be Continued!
Let me repeat: I have yet to start reading, Shifting the Balance! I just received it in the mail yesterday. In this blog, I will outline my initial thoughts on the resource. I look forward to sharing more about the book in future posts! Stay tuned.
Initial Observations
Here are some interesting things that I noticed as I skimmed through the book for the first time:
The title for the introduction is, “Embracing Science and Balance”. It sounds like a way to welcome me, the reader, into opening my mind to learning about the science of reading as well as a balanced reading approach. I’m anticipating that the introduction will describe the rationale for looking at the Science of Reading.
The book is broken down into the “6 Shifts”, as described on the cover (e.g., 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom).
In the Contents section, I already like how each shift (chapter) has a similar pattern:
“Clearing Up Some Confusion”
Misunderstandings
Summary of the Science
Recommendations for Making the Shift
I’m really excited to see the breakdown from the contents because it sounds like I will be learning a lot! As I skim through the list of “misunderstandings”, I immediately agree with some, yet realize that there are many that may cause a shift in my thinking as well. That’s good! There will be growth!
I’m also glad there is a summary of the Science of Reading as it relates to each “shift”.
When I initially started researching about the Science of Reading online, it became a bit overwhelming to see some of the information out there, hence the reason why this book seemed like a great introduction for me!
The “Recommendations for Making the Shift” makes me smile because I know there will be some practical ways to help me implement new learning with my students. I can’t wait to dive in!
How Do I Feel About It All?
I must admit, I am a bit nervous as I prepare to dive into this book. I’m super excited to start, nevertheless! This book may stretch me in a short time. It may cause me to change some approaches in how I teach reading. I’m ready for the new learning. I acknowledge that it may mean an overhaul of what I have done before. That’s more than okay if it can help produce even greater results and help for students!
I’m ready to go beyond my comfort zone and learn the science so that I can help struggling students.
Flipping Through the Pages of the Book
I see lots of figures and tables included on the pages. Loving that already! I am a visual learner, so these types of tools are especially helpful and beneficial to me. The book is also colour-coded (e.g., each shift has a specific colour for easy reference, I believe). I also noticed some reflection questions at the end of each chapter. I will reflect on my learning at the end of each chapter and use it this year.
Time to Start Reading!
This book, Shifting the Balance, is a professional reading resource for Kindergarten to Grade 2 teachers. On the website for this book, https://thesixshifts.com, I noticed that there are some great free resources available there! I will surely look into them. There is also a podcast which can help me in my journey of learning more about the Science of Reading.
If you are interested in learning along with me, consider purchasing a copy of the book. *non-affiliate / unsponsored link*
Looking forward to sharing some of my thoughts and new learning after reading the first chapter of Shift the Balance. Hope you will join me then!
A digital teacher planner can help you prepare an overview for this school year. This can help you stay organized from the very first day. Planning for your school year can often feel overwhelming, yet the process doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s almost time for “Back to School”, so let’s talk about ways to start organizing our year in some simple and easy ways.
How do I get organized when I’m already so overwhelmed? I don’t know where to start!
If this sounds like you, then keep reading! Using a digital teacher planner may be just the thing for you!
Teacher Planning: My Early Years
As a first-year teacher, I was so excited to start working with my class. Everything needed to be perfect…my bulletin boards, the labels on materials, the classroom library, and more. Setting up a classroom is a large task as it is, yet I enjoyed paying attention to every detail. It all looked great and made me feel proud of the learning environment my students would call their classroom. When it came to preparing for what I needed to teach, that was another story.
While completing my B. Ed program, my fellow teacher candidates and I thought that we were preparing to take on the teaching world! Of course, we were also told that the real learning would begin once we were in a classroom outside of that learning experience.
What I’ve Tried…
Physically writing out plans in a bound, paper Teacher Planner booklet. The problem with this was that if I made errors (or needed more room), I couldn’t make the necessary adjustments.
2. Physically writing out my plans on printed templates that I purchased. The loose paper templates were helpful to add to a binder and move as needed, but sometimes the templates did not serve my needs in planning.
Here are some traditional teacher planners that are useful for those who may prefer writing their plans:
Either approach got the job done, yet it took a long time and was often difficult to find certain key information quickly.
I soon decided that my planning had to be done on the computer, and that helped tremendously.
Fast Forward to the age of awesome online resources that are available for use and easily accessible on all devices.
Here’s a Simple Solution for You!
I’m going to share some of my simple planning templates that help me to organize my school year. These are digital teacher planner templates. I hope they may be helpful to you, too!
These templates can be of great help to you because they are…
already made and ready for use
editable (e.g., topics, subjects, etc.)
easy to store and access online whenever needed
simplistic (e.g., minimalist style)
environmentally-friendly (if kept online and not printed)
printable if needed
I’m going to give descriptions of the templates available in my resource and share some tips for use. There are a variety of them to help you plan and organize your year. Choose the ones that are most suitable and use as needed.
Digital Teacher Planner: Template Breakdown
1. Year-at-a-Glance: Simple
This planner is broken down by term (e.g., September – November, December – February, etc.) On the left side of the template are the spaces for each subject. I like this planner because I can organize my big ideas or goals for each subject by term. It helps me to see where I am going next in my teaching. The template is essentially 2 – 3 pages long by the time I make my plans by subject for each term.
2. Year-at-a-Glance: Detailed
This planning template has one page for every subject. Like the previous template mentioned, it is broken down by term. Let’s say I was working on my plans for Reading using this template. The following criteria would be on the left side of the template:
Key Topics / Focus Areas
Curriculum Expectations / Standards
Activities / Tasks
Assessments
Resources
Since these templates are editable, it doesn’t have to stay on only one page. Adjust as needed. One way I have kept it to the page is by decreasing the size of the font once plans are completed.
3. Year-at-a-Glance: By Subject, By Month
Some years, I have tried planning by month. For that reason, this template was most helpful to me. There is one page for each subject (e.g., Math). On the left side of the template are the months of the school year. Remember this is editable, so if your school year months don’t match what is on the template, it can be changed to suit your needs. I like using this template to do different things:
Plan out themes for Reading each month
Plan out the assessments I wish to conduct each month
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4. Weekly Planner
This planner is one that I use once I have completed a Year-at-a-Glance template. I use the content and ideas from the Year-at-a-Glance and spread them out accordingly by week. This gives me space to break down my plans in smaller chunks.
5. Week-at-a-Glance (One Page)
This template has been a lifesaver for me! I am able to put all of my key lesson topics or activities and routines on one page. This is a great way to summarize the week. I have done one of these each week of this year. It also served as part of my emergency plans if a substitute teacher was needed on a particular day.
6. Day Plan Template
Up until the start of school closures due to the Pandemic in March 2020, I typed out my daily plans on this template, printed a copy (several days at a time), and left them on my desk. During the pandemic, the use of the template changed because I started using lesson slides / a slide deck as my day plans (more on that in another blog post!) I wanted to include this classic-type template nonetheless because I know it’s something that may still be of use at some time or another.
Summary
Planning for your school year takes a lot of thought, process, and work. Nevertheless, it doesn’t have to be complicated. Using templates like the ones described in this blog post can help you save time, keep them in one place, edit as needed, etc.
Let the Planning Begin!
The days of summer are quickly passing by, and ready or not, a new school year awaits us. Why not start planning for your year in a simple way right now?
Memories of my childhood include trips to amusement parks with family and friends. It would either be an amusement park that had a specific, stationary location (e.g., Canada’s Wonderland) or a small carnival that would be set-up in a mall parking lot for a short period of time. Whenever cousins from abroad would visit, I would always look forward to putting one on my list as a “Place to Go”.
I recall going one year to Canada’s Wonderland with a group of cousins. One was adamant about us going on a roller coaster. I wasn’t so thrilled with the idea, but agreed that I would try going on one of the smaller roller coasters. So, we went, and once the coaster got to the top of the first drop, I remember the intense fear I felt, the loud screaming (from myself and others), and my glasses having difficulty staying still on my face. There were even moments of laughter as I began to enjoy parts of it…until it started going down a steep incline once again. At the end of it, I was thankful it was over, yet amazed by the array of emotions from start to finish in the short ride.
Once Upon a Time…
Fast forward to March 2020.
Prior to that point in time, working in education always had its unique challenges. When I reflect on classroom experiences from prior to March 2020, I catch myself thinking about them as the “good old days” when we could do this or do that at school.
So much was taken for granted in those much more simple times. Who would have thought that we would even consider that short while ago as much more simple times?
We took so much for granted. Once upon a time, we could…
be in our school and classroom without masks
smile at others while showing our teeth (e.g., a mask-free smile)
share materials with peers without a second-thought
sing songs during class time
give a High-Five or fist bump without immediately thinking about sanitizing or washing hands
put desks in groups of 2 or more
attend whole-school assemblies in the gym
have group games or clubs after school
The list goes on and on.
As I said before: those were much more simple times, yet ones that were actually really special. I truly treasure those experiences now more than ever.
The pandemic has caused education to rapidly change (and it continues to do so each day). Post-Pandemic (whenever that will be), our classrooms, schools, and approach to teaching will permanently be different, too, compared to our Pre-COVID-19 world. We just have to keep riding out this roller coaster-of-an-experience to see what it will look like for teachers, staff, students, families.
A Roller Coaster Ride of Epic Proportions…
Every educator will surely have their own unique story to tell from this experience of teaching during a pandemic. In short, this is how my 2020-2021 school year has played out so far:
In-Person (September to December)
Online (January to Mid-February)
In-Person (Mid-February – Early April)
Online (April to whenever more details are available)
Switching from in-person teaching to online teaching has been interesting. So many things that can be done rather quickly or easily in-person, needs to be adjusted to fit the various media being used online (e.g., laptop, iPad, cell phone, etc.) Just the same, there are many things that can be done while learning online, that would be more difficult to do in-person.
I never imagined my particular situation this year would include switching back and forth twice (so far).
It truly has felt like being on a roller coaster of epic proportions.
So many highs, lows, a range of emotions, moments of fear, excitement, and more.
It would be easy to focus on just the lows and moments of fear, yet, I choose to focus on some of the highs because it has helped me to learn so much (and also facilitate learning for my students).
Perseverance: Moments of Growth During the Ups and Downs
Here is just a small sample of the amazing things that have come out of this difficult time of a global pandemic for my Grade 1 students and me:
They love reading and continue to show growth in their reading!
They are all Rock Stars simply because they continue to show such resilience each day. They are my heroes as they tackle this challenging time and adjust as needed. Side note: A favourite word in my classroom is flexible. We use it daily!
I have learned how to maximize my teaching time even more. Following all of the important and necessary health and safety protocols takes a lot of time out of our day. Mini lessons are powerful!
I have learned how to set-up and teach in a virtual classroom setting. There has been ample time to practice, refine, and practice some more.
My students, although just 6 years old, know how to navigate many platforms such as Zoom, Google Classroom, Google Slides, and more!
We focus a lot on the 4 C’sin my classroom (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity). My students have surely been strengthening their critical thinking skills and enjoy doing things creatively simply because we sometimes don’t have a choice but to be creative!
I smile as I think of other Ups during this time of so many Downs, but I will share more another time.
One of the most important things my students and I have held onto this year is having a Growth Mindset. It has helped us, and continues to help us, persevere and not give up when things get tough. We recite a Growth Mindset pledge each morning and I truly hope they will remember it for the rest of their lives because it’s simply powerful Self-Talk.
Hold On! We’ll Get Through This Together!
This pandemic has been totally challenging for every one experiencing it. Despite it all, we can still find some beauty in our experiences. There are glimmers of hope and new learning that has emerged as a result of this time.
I know it’s been hard and continues to be tough, yet you have made it this far. This Pandemic Roller Coaster is one that has squeezed us and exhausted us in ways we never imagined, yet we are here.
Let’s continue to hold on because there are brighter days ahead. We will get through this together.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
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Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Cookie
Duration
Description
_ga
2 years
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat_gtag_UA_190747584_1
1 minute
This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users.
_gid
1 day
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.
CONSENT
16 years 5 months 17 days 3 hours 9 minutes
These cookies are set via embedded youtube-videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback.No sensitive data is collected unless you log in to your google account, in that case your choices are linked with your account, for example if you click “like” on a video.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Cookie
Duration
Description
IDE
1 year 24 days
Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
test_cookie
15 minutes
This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
5 months 27 days
This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.
YSC
session
This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.
