First Day in Mrs. Cunico’s Class: 3/21/17
Tips: First Week of School (Procedures)
- Make sure you spend the first week setting in procedures
- Don’t introduce the clips until the end of the first week or beginning of the second week (Make sure you motivate other students to follow along by having others see the clips moving up and down)
- Five Star: sitting criss cross apple sauces, eyes on the teacher. Star listeners.
- Before going to centers tell the students, “1. Sit criss cross applesauce, quiety close your eyes. 2. Visualize what you will look like at your center, work quietly. 3. Teacher says, “Ready read....” The students say back, “With Expression.” This is as the students go off the centers to read.
- Jobs for the day: each day some students have a job assigned with a clip (job written on the clip and it’s by their name) jobs include, erasing the board, turning on/off lights, luch tub w/ buddy, line leader, helpers carry bin, cleaner pick up trash off the floor, student leads in calendar, clips, and take out the balls for recess.
- Class Points and Table points. A star next to a tally mark means that table has won twice in a row so they can’t win again.
Classroom Decor:
- Call the cops! Good writers edit for...capitalization, organization, punctuation, spelling.
- FACE: Fluency, Accuracy, Comprehension, Excellent vocab.
Tips:
- Brain Boosters at the rug if class is fidgety: Train, rock paper scissors to see who leads and then they connect and make one big train around the room.
- Spotlight: each week a student is spotlighted with a poster made her’s was called “Cowpoke of the week” (My idea is Hawaiian student of the week)
- Students can earn gumballs if their clip is at the top each day. Every student gets a fresh start each day.
- READING: when reading in small groups at the back table make sure the students know this is a time to WORK. That way they will be more manageable while you’re listening to them read.
