Weekly agenda board- Students come in and write the assignment in their personal agenda so they can keep track of assignments.
Student work area- It is kind of hard to see but I just took clothes pins and super glued thumb tacks to the back of them. Stole this off of Pinterest and now I won't have to spend millions of years putting up and taking down work. GENIUS!
Student Seating
Early Finisher Board- If students finish assignments early they can go to the Tic Tac Toe board and do an assignment. I've chosen assignments that are "fun" but come from other subject areas, such as fun readings, math puzzles and cool writing prompts. Three in a row assignments completed the student gets to drop their lowest daily grade.
Entering the classroom
Teach nook
The whole classroom
My mini class library
Seating arrangements- When students come in the first day I had them a card from an identical deck as the one I taped down to the desk. This year I went a little more fun with the cards and got puppy cards! But this way I am not stressing out about putting kids in alphabetical order but I can still give them a seating chart. I love this!
I hope all you teachers out there are having a fabulous start to your school year!
Bed time! =)
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."-Dr. Seuss
Mrs. C
I love your early finisher board! It keeps students constantly engaged in learning and they are provided with an incentive to do so. Thank you for this great idea!
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE too see some of the assignment you put in the early finisher board! If possible, please feel free to email me: tquackenbush@outlook.com
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ReplyDeleteLove the early finsher board!! Could you share some of the math resources? You can email me at davisk@warrenschools.com
ReplyDeleteI also would love to see some of your early finisher activities for language arts please!! My email is vickieb_79@yahoo.com
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What a fab idea!! I'm definitely "borrowing" this one from you. If you don't mind sharing an assignment or 2 with me, that would be great!
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How often do you change the activities in the early finisher board? How long do they have to complete the 3 in a row? Thanks! It's an awesome idea I am stealing for my classroom this year!
ReplyDeleteI was wondering the same things. Any suggestions?
DeleteI know it is a little late, but... the school I was working at did 6 weeks instead of quarters. I would switch it out every 6 weeks at the least. There was one period in which I switched it out in the middle just because so many of the kids were using it.
DeleteGreat ideas! Please post on how to motivate, keep inattentive students engage and how to motivate? Any novels students love to r
ReplyDeleteI also would love to see some of your early finisher activities, please!! My email is tarynfrank1501@gmail.com
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I also like to see the early finisher activities you use. Could you share with my email is Jessica.Hoff99@gmail.com
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I would like the assignments as well west672@gmail.com!
ReplyDeleteI would like to apologize to everyone. I don't check this blog very much any more. I should have some of the assignments on my cloud. Let me see what I can put together. Again, I am so sorry. :-(
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