Behavior Management

So, I posted about some awesome tongue depressers I got at Joann's a couple weeks ago and I am finally finished preparing them for their final destination.

As you can see from the photo, one side has a happy face and the other side has a sad face. Everyday the kids will start with their colors on the happy side. Instead of using a "pull a card" system the students will move one of their pieces of colored felt from the happy to the sad side. The supplies used to make this project include:

tongue depressers
markers
velcro dots
3 different colored pieces of felt

We will see how this works out this year! I might be more excited about how cute they are then the fact I got to make my own behavior management system that wasn't "pull a card"!! What are your behavior management plans this year?

Target Project Anyone...

Much like the rest of humankind, I LOVE Target. I cannot go in that place without spending $100. The sad part is I load up from the dollar bin--my hubby thinks I am certifiable but I can't resist! So, today I loaded up on these fabulous little accordian file folders:

These are miniature and perfect for flashcards among other things. My "among other things" will include: punchcards (so students can easily keep up with them) and "Blue Jay Bills" (our school positive behavior incentive money that students can spend in a store). I am loving this idea!!

Check it out-- I put labels on each tab: Need to Practice, Sight Words (2 tabs), Math Facts, Blue Jay Bills, and Punchcards. The first tab can be used for specific sight words or math facts that need to be practiced. So if we are studying certain words they will be in this tab to practice at home. After the student has mastered their cards they will get a new set to go in that tab and the cards that have been mastered will go back under the sight words tabs. Same with Math Facts. Blue Jay Bills can be kept in their tab until spent and the Punchcards will be brought out daily for punches.

I am calling these S.T.A.R. Files. (Students Taking Academic Responsibility). I am hoping this will be a great way for students to keep up with their own stuff. The label has S.T.A.R. in yellow...sorry you can't see!

Please excuse the nails...in need of a manicure ASAP!!


I cannot wait to use these and they are perfect for going back and forth from home to school! Parents will know what should be practiced and will be able to see how many punches their child has received on their card! Plus these can be used year after year. I just wrote numbers on them to assign to students!

So, if you would like to create these it is super easy and not too time consuming. To save you time I have labels here.

Have fun creating!

Behavior Calendars!!

Last year my school made monthly calendars to keep track of behavior. They were in the students folders and were easy to mark at the end of the day for parents to see how their students behavior was daily. Each night I would send the calendar home in the student's folder and the parents would initial they read the note or saw the behavior indicated.

The school I am at this year doesn't have anything in place for this except a very hard to read weekly form that I am not fond of. So, I decided (using that form as inspiration of course) to make my own calendars. Having a calendar you put in the folder once is easier than puting a new sheet in the folder weekly.

I don't really have a theme going this year but thought an easy to read and remember calendar is the "star behavior chart". I went ahead and made the whole years worth so now all I have to do is print and copy :) They are not super, duper cute like some things you can find on teacher blogs but they are sufficient and will work for me. I will probably copy each month on different colored paper so it will be obvious it is a new month.

If you would like a copy of these fab behavior calendar/chart things then click here!

Hope these are helpful!