Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas!: The First Thing On Your Paper Is Your Name Song! I found The First Thing On Your Paper Is Your Name song on Pinterest & loved it. By the 3rd day the minute the helpers were passing out papers, the boys and girls were singing it without me! It WORKED, not one paper without a name!! I don't assign numbers to my students, so I revised it a little bit...here it is if you would like to use it too! The First Thing On Your Paper Is Your Name! The first thing on your paper is your name, The first thing on your paper is your name. The teacher needs to know who did your work and so, The first thing on your paper is your name! Thanks for stopping by! SecondGradeSquad.com / Seating options for Cooperative Learning and information about team formation.
Classroom Seating Arrangements. What’s Here Need ideas for seating arrangements in your classroom? On this page, you’ll find tips on arranging student desks in four different formations, complete with photos from My Classroom Tours. You can click on most of the pictures to view the complete tour for that particular room. Whether you’re looking for a classroom seating chart, seating map, or seating plan, you’re sure to find ideas for setting up your classroom in a way that meets your students’ needs. Types of Student Desk Arrangements and Seating Plans There are several basic desk arrangements that I like to rotate between: Stadium Seating (or Angled Rows with Desks Touching)Modified U (or Horseshoe)Groups (or Teams)Combination (desks in various positions) I’ve never had all my students’ desks separated, as that takes up too much space and isn’t conducive to the teaching methods I use, so I can’t give advice on that arrangement.
Stadium Seating (Angled Rows with Desks Touching) Modified U or Horseshoe Desk Arrangements. SecondGradeSquad.com / Easy and adorable No Name board. Clip papers that don't have names on them to the board and have students go check there instead of spending your time trying to figure out who they belong to! SecondGradeSquad.com / Have the students sign out when they leave the classroom for intervention, istation, etc.
School is Cool / Seriously? I am going to use this! Classroom Ideas / You can use Air Freshener to clean a dry erase board that just won't erase (because the ink is very dried on) . Spray the board and wipe, it also helps "recondition" old dry erase boards. Meet the Pencil Police and Your New Best Friend. Missing pencils, broken pencils, pencil shavings all over the floor, sharpeners that don't work... we've all been there.To cut down on all this nonsense, I have a pencil policy in my classroom.... enforced by the Pencil Police. The PEPO, if you will, with a long E and a long O. The PEPO are invisible, and in fact do not exist.
But I reference them often: "Pick up that pencil! The pencil police will come! " And the kids believe me, I think.The pencil policy rules are simple:{one} Make sure you have a sharpened pencil first thing in the morning. {two} You must exchange a pencil to get a new pencil. The only exception is rule one, because we all know that the Pencil Prowlers come in at night and take pencils, which is why no one ever has one in the morning.
{four} You are only allowed ONE pencil at a time. I know you've seen this sharpener, and you might even own it. Every pencil sharpened perfectly on the first try. Classroom Bulletin Board Ideas for Teachers - Bulletin Board Themes. SecondGradeSquad.com / For library - Milk crates zip-tied together on their sides so that a bench seat fits on top and $7 red crates from Lowe's can slide inside them. Very clever lady! Dry erase with pompom. Bulletin board suggestions. Magnet board for out of classroom. Today's Featured Friday Topic is: A "Where Are You? " Board This idea comes from my friend Gail’s 2nd grade classroom. She used a magnetic white board and programmed it with the places a child would be when they are not in the classroom. These include the bathroom as well as our reading specialists, speech therapists, social worker, etc, She then made each child a magnet with his name on it.
When the child leaves the room, he moves the magnet to the appropriate spot. Facebook In Your Classroom? About a month ago I got this idea to bring Facebook into my classroom. Is that weird? Actually . . . it's just the idea of Facebook status updates that I wanted to bring in. I would have had this up sooner but the poster maker was out of paper at one point and then I got really busy with grades and all sorts of other deadlines! Anyhow, I decided to create "classbook"! I got so excited about the idea that I launched right into creating a logo for it before I realized that I wouldn't even need a logo for the format of the page I was setting out to create! I know 1st graders are pretty young, and if any of my kids were actually on Facebook I'd probably think it was a bad idea. However, I figured most of my kids would already know what Facebook was through either their parents or older siblings. What I did was create a template that looks like a status update page so that I could make it into poster size for the hallway.
One student's status declared her Kindergarten the best teacher. Daily objectives. Literacy stations are an every changing thing in my classroom. At the beginning of the year I didn't have my students doing stations. This semester I began to explore station choices with my students. They are loving it! They get to choose the station they visit and that might be their favorite part. The students get to go to our classroom library once a week and choose 5 books for their book boxes. Here is a list of my literacy stations: 1. I made a flipchart on my Promethean Board for them to choose a station every morning. The only materials that need individual storage are Working with Words and Gameboards. The white basket holds our lunch packets. You can also see my student's mailboxes.
Then there is my guided reading table and materials... This is where I keep the books that go home in their book bags and materials like pencils, dry erase markers, pens, etc. This is my newest addition to my guided reading materials. This is the binder where I have all my guided reading logs. Sub Tub. I get asked all the time, "What do you put in your sub tub? " "How do I even start making one? " I bought a portable file folder tub, hanging folders, and a plastic envelope that zips. I do my lesson plans each Tuesday after school. If I know I'm going to be absent, the sub tub is even easier to use. Still have questions? Misc classroom ideas. Wake up work. Clocks for recess, lunch, etc. Paper Drop System. Hello my wonderful fans and followers. Today, I'd like to tell you about a fantastic idea from Laura Candler of Teaching Resources that has worked so wonderfully for me.
Do you have difficult with children putting their names on their papers? Do you have difficulty finding a great solution on where students should turn in their work? How about finding out quickly, which students didn't turn in their paper? If any of those are you then I have the perfect program for you! Laura's great idea is to take large manila envelopes and glue a cover page on them.
I used this system in the class that I subbed for a month with. Click on the picture to go to Laura Candler's Teaching Resources website to get everything you need for the Paper Drop Organizational System and other great resources! This has been a true life saver for me. As always thanks for dropping by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings! Brian :-)