Attention Signal: I will say "All set" and the students will respond "you bet".
Beginning routine: Look Back/Recap- Do a recap of what the class did/learned yesterday. Talk with your students about it. This can also help the students who were absent/tardy catch up. This also gets your students’ minds going for the day.
Absent/tardy missing work policy- Ketchup Folder- If a student is absent, you or another student can put the work you all did for the day in their ketchup folder. Make sure it is bright and laminated. Put how many days the students have to turn their absent work in on the cover.
Dismissal-Cleanup- The responsibility for straightening and tidying up the classroom should fall on your
students. Contributing to the common good helps them build a sense of pride in their
classroom—while at the same time encouraging individual humility.
It also sends the message that yours is a classroom of doers, that the world wasn’t created to
wait on them. It only takes a minute or two for your students to pick up the floor around them,
align desks, and make sure books and materials are stored neatly.
Prize Box- I came up with the idea of a prize box. It can be adapted to meet the needs of my current class. For my first run with it, since it was just 10 students, I drew a ticket everyday and the student whose name I drew would get to get a prize out of the prize box. For my second run with it, I drew 2 students names from each of the three classes and two students from each class got to pick prizes from the prize box on Fridays.
I can also change the name of it. For the 5th grade class I called it the junk in the trunk. I will give out tickets if the students are displaying good behavior. I will also use it to give it to one or two students if the class is acting up. The students write their name on their ticket and put it in the jar. I also made a student behavior contract that goes along with it.