Room Utilities
Loving my visual timetable this year (2016). The kids now set it up themselves each morning. They really like not only knowing what's on for the day but also what teachers they've got - to the point where I've got a couple of blank cards we can put replacement teachers' names on! Everything is magnetized on this board. One of the greatest finds I made this year was magnets on stickers!!!
Transition SignalThis has proven to be a popular idea this year. When it's pack up time, I play one of these 4 songs on my desktop. This kids have until the song ends to clear up and get themselves to our gathering place. Our four songs are themes from 'Mission Impossible', 'The Banana Splits' 'Batman' and 'Get Smart' (!)
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These new book boxes from Elizabeth Richards are great. We always used the cardboard ones but they usually didn’t survive more than a year’s use by the kids. We expect these plastic ones to last many years.
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Classroom Calendar 2017 (12 pg word doc)
We enlarge the calendar to A3 and give it a prominant place in the room. All the kids' birthdays get written on it, all the sports days, excursions, events etc. It becomes the heart of 'what's happening' in Barwon and Kardinia.
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One year I had a class that had problems engaging with independent activities like our reading and writing times. I'd just come back from a Deb Sukana inservice about Writer's Notebook and was determined to allow the kids the 'thinking time' necessary for good writing. So I was pretty strict about working without disturbing others at certain times of the day. At the same time, you don't want to inhibit the interpersonal learners and the co-operative learning that can go on, so we set this up, with great success. It's a low table so kids could sit on the carpet, work then head back to their table.
The Talking Table (1 pg word doc)
The Talking Table (1 pg word doc)
Sign In Area
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We keep an electronic roll but that would be of little use in the event of an emergency evacuation so we keep these for each grade near our door and the kids fill them in as they arrive in the mornings.
Attendance Roll (1 pg word doc) |
Hygiene reminder for 5n6
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Cleaning Fines
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