Pre-Vacation Crazies! {Freebie}

Holy cow! How did Easter sneak up on me this fast?! Thank goodness this week is four little days long!! Then, we’re off for our spring break! WOO-HOO!!

However, most of my kiddos are just as excited for the break... This means they are 9 kinds of crazy from 8:30-3:30!

To combat this, my absolutely amazing team partner – Donna – has an amazing behavior incentive we use during this last week!

Each student gets this fancy little score card taped to their desk. From Thursday-Thursday students keep track of the points they earn each day.

Each student starts the day with 5 points. In our case, each time a student “moves his/her color zone” they lose a point on the sheet. 

In my case: 5= Green, 4=Yellow, 3=Orange, 2=Red, 1=Trip to the office, 0=Absent. At the end of the day, each student circles the points they’ve earned.

However, you might have noticed the blank spots near the bottom. Students have the opportunity for BONUS points! If our friends move up the color chart, show exceptional work quality, can read their wonder words… They can earn bonus points!

In the last hour of the day, we take our students outside and throw tons of candy in a field (candy donated from our parents). Students get to hunt in the order of points earned – the highest scoring students have the most time!

Clicking this following image will give you a download for:

- A parent note (Explaining and begging for candy)

- The score card

Oh well! I hope your week is off to a fabulous start! It’s my mega-late Lenten promise to update this chickadee more regularly! So don’t forget us! BECAUSE I WILL BE BACK J!

OH! And a super amazing happy birthday to the fabulous Mrs. Lizak!  

33 Pages of {FREE} Behavior Management Templates

Happy Sunday Friends!  As the weekend comes to a close, I think about the LOOOONG week ahead of me.  We have lovely people from the state coming to observe our school (and every ounce of documentation we have on everything), Math Night, the start of after school detention, and two staff meetings.  So, I felt it was time for some serious review of behavior management in my room :)  Of course, that meant I had to find a way to incorporate my major love of Thinking Maps into the whole thing.  What I've made is a 33 page {FREE} packet of different Thinking Maps that can be used to review everything from how to be a good friend to behavior reflections.  Even if you don't use Thinking Maps in your classroom, the templates are pretty straight forward and can used in any classroom!

Click HERE or on any of the templates to download:

Here's a list of every Thinking Map included in the {FREEBIE} packet:

Respect circle map – 3

Responsibility circle map – 4

Being safe circle map – 5

My perfect classroom circle map – 6

Class rules circle map – 7

Ways to fill someone’s bucket circle map – 8

Ways to fill someone’s bucket bubble map – 9

 Ways to be a good friend bubble map– 10

A good friend should be… bubble map– 11

Friendship tree map – 12

Good student tree map – 13

Good listener tree map -14

Rule follower tree map – 15

Respectful student tree map -16

Responsible student tree map – 17

How to solve a problem flow map -18

How to follow directions flow map –19

How to make a new friend flow map –20

How to be nice to someone flow map– 21

Steps to take when someone is bothering you

flow map – 22

How to sit correctly on the rug flow map – 23

How to walk quietly in the hallway flow map – 24

How to fill someone’s bucket flow map – 25

Sitting correctly on the rug brace map – 26

Behavior reflection multi flow map

(think sheet) – 27

How my behavior effects others (negative) multi

flow map – 28

How my behavior effects others (positive) multi

flow map – 29

My poor choice multi flow map – 30

My good choice multi flow map – 31

My friend makes a good choice multi flow map – 32

How my good choice effects others multi

flow map - 33

If you LOVE Thinking Maps as much as Beth and I and find this packet helpful, leave us some love :)

Also, if you have a FAB idea for an additional behavior management Thinking Map, we'd love to hear it and we'll add it to the packet for you!!!  Have a great week! :)

Launching PBS: Parent Notes

At the beginning of each year a sheet is passed around at opening meetings. This sheet encourages involvement in two committees. I usually pick a big committee (math) and a smaller one (PBS). A year later my “small committee” is not so small! Somewhere between then and now I’ve become the head of PBS in a model PBS school. 

If you’re like me and are having visions of Big Bird and Snuffy dance in your head, we are a little off. Instead, PBS is a behavior model much like RTI. Positive Behavior Support (PBS)  positively praises students to yield desired behavior. Here is a link explaining more than you would ever want to know about the program! Beware: Information overload ahead! 

   

I thought I would share some of our launching PBS documents for schools that are working within the PBS framework!

PBS Kickoff Note:

Each September this note goes home to families during Open House. We use returned slips to create a parent contact list. We use these parents to help facilitate our PBS Store and Parties throughout the year. (Our school has the most amazing parent that does the bulk of our PBS footwork for us!)

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Monthly Notes:

Each month students bring home a note similar to the one attached. Our goal is to explain our behavior expectations and monthly incentives to parents. Each note is a half sheet and helps us to enforce consequences.

Oh well! Back to the report card grind!! Ours are due Tuesday at noon…. I’ve done pretty much everything to avoid productivity! Hope these PBS notes could be of some use to you!