Behavior

The children will be creating their own class rules and will continue to use the Beye Laws…

1. Be Respectful

2. Be Responsible

3. Be Safe

4. Be Problem Solvers

5. Be Peacemakers

I will be using the Responsive Classroom approach for management. Classroom management such an important part of teaching and consists of many aspects; mainly being proactive to produce the type of behaviors that are needed for a caring and engaging learning community. Logical consequences will be used for times of need. The three types of logical consequences are:

1. You break it, you fix it

2. Loss of privilege

3. Responsive Classroom Break (usually in our classroom chill-out zone)

At the beginning of each week, your child will receive a yellow weekly behavior chart. These should be checked each night, signed by a parent/guardian, and returned back in their school folder. On Fridays, we will set goals as a class to work on for the following week. Feel free to leave these at home after the week is complete. There are five levels of smiley faces a child may receive based on their behavior throughout the day. If a score is lower than the top level, a note will be provided on the empty lines below. This is also a place for parents to write notes to the teacher about conversations had at home as well. This is a wonderful way to have daily communication about your child’s behavior and continue to build our home/school connection.

Each morning the class will gather together to discuss topics of effort, classroom expectations, kindness, problem solving strategies, or conversations about re-teaching a certain skill. This will connect to our Second Step program. We will also have sharing time to build a strong classroom community. These topics of discussion will be added to the weekly email update for you to reinforce similar conversations at home.

We will continue to use Second Step as this year’s social and emotional curriculum. Second Step is a program that provides students with emotion management, situational awareness, and academic achievement. This year students will be taught skills for learning such as focusing attention, following directions, as well as how to identify and manage their feelings.

In our classroom, students are working not only on academics but also on social/emotional learning and building self-control. These are key behaviors to ensure that they are getting the most out of each day of instruction. Using a token economy is a research-based intervention to help in these three areas. Each time a student exhibits a desired behavior (following our Beye Laws, helping a friend, etc.) they get a Paw Pass. These Paw Passes can be saved or spent at our Buckley Bazaar each Friday. Students can purchase a variety of prizes. Prizes include lunch with the teacher, using special supplies, extra tech time, show and tell, bring a stuffed animal, and wear a hat to school to name a few.