Classroom Setup, Routines

Like any class, we need to establish certain routines for the students to be successful in their learning. Everyday, as the kids come in, they put away their lunchboxes in the lunch bin, hang up their knapsacks on their hooks and put their names written on a clothespin on the Happy Green Face which denotes 'GO' and have a great day of learning and fun. If a child misbehaves, the child is given three warnings and his/her clothespin will be placed on the Yellow Face which denotes 'CAUTION' and be aware of your behaviour that has to be corrected. If the child has really displayed inappropriate behaviour, his/her clothespin will be placed on the Red Sad Face and the parents will be told of the misbehaviour.

 

If a child has a good day, she/he will be given a sticker for her/his successful day. Right now, a prize will be given for ten stickers and I will increment it by 5 more stickers to get the next level prize. This will encourage the children to act more appropriately.

 

Each child will belong to a group. This will allow me to create a more successful learning environment for the students.

 

 

The children will be given a certain job every week. We will rotate the children  to give everyone a chance to be responsible for some kind of function in the classroom.

 

We are writing down all the books that we read in class. At the end of a hundred books, I will ask the class parents to give us a party!

 

Calendar time... a great activity for number recognition, counting and even patterning...

 

 

Everyday, as part of the science and math curriculum, we keep track of the weather changes.

 

And as part of finding out more about our class, we are determining various demographics about our class (e.g., how many boys and girls are there?). The class will learn more about this important math concept of classifying, sorting and gathering data about our class. Can we graph our eye colour? Or the hair texture (e.g., curly hair versus straight hair)? A great way for them to learn about data probability...

 

Let me know what you think of your concerns, inputs and thoughts.