Level Up

Okay so you all know how I finished my cute Detective themed clip chart, right? It turned out soooo cute.  I always liked the positive aspect of the clip chart.  I didn't really have my students move down too often because I didn't want them to feel singled out.  I also don't hang it up in a very high traffic area.  And I use numbers instead of names.  It has worked out for the last few years. 

Well, Tonya over at Tonya's Treats for Teachers is on to a new way to do classroom management.  Stop over to her blog to check out this new system.  It's called Level Up.

It really sounds like a great idea.  What do you all think of this new system?

Clip Chart

I don’t know if you use a clip chart behavior system in your classroom, but I made a new one to match my new theme for this year.  Last year my theme was frogs, so it was froggy themed.  This year my theme is mystery, so I made a mystery one.  I use the smaller clothespins.  I like to put numbers on the clips instead of numbers, just in case a parent walks in.  I also keep it by my desk and not out in front of the classroom.  Just so it’s not too obvious to the other students. 

And I know what you’re thinking…you change your theme every year?  Yup!  Am I crazy or what?  Oh well, this year is mystery/detectives, last year was frogs, year before Jungle Safari, year before sports, and on and on.  One of these days I’m going to stick to just one theme, but who knows when I will smarten up!

Let me know what you think.  I kinda really like it!  It has categories like:  Ready to Investigate,  Outstanding Investigation, and I Spy Parent Contact.  It will be my newest thing at my store at TPT if you are interested.  And if you are doing a mystery theme, let me know.  It feels kinds lonely out there for that type of theme!  

What theme are you doing this Fall??

Tracey

Two New Projects

Here are two projects I finished over the weekend. 

  

These are my name sticks.  Saw it on Pinterest…of course! I always had name sticks that I kept in a coffee mug I had printed from Vista Print, but I never thought of having two colors.  I would call student’s names and rubber band those sticks together so I didn’t call on them again, to give everyone a chance.  Well, now with the help of my soon to be 7 year old son, here are my new sticks.  When you call a student's name, you turn over the stick to show the other color.  How smart, huh?  We had so much fun painting them!  He was ready for the next project, which was….

my scratch off tickets.  I entered a contest on Tonya’s Treats for Teachers blog to win a set of scratch off tickets that she would create in a style I wanted (I love her!).  Well, never in a million years did I think I was going to win.  I am so new to this blogging and contest stuff, that I wasn’t even sure I entered the contest right.  But I won!  She is making me a wonderful set of mystery scratch off tickets to go with my theme for this year.  I can’t wait to see them! 

In the meantime, my son and I were on a roll with painting so….we continued on.  He helped me make these too.  I will keep these to use the following year and use my cool mystery ones coming from Tonya this year, but it was fun to make them. I should have painted the entire paint bubble, but my son said the kids would want to see where the bubble was to see where the words were.  I guess he had an idea and we just went with it.  If you go to her blog, she has the step by step directions on how to make them.  If my son and I could figure out how to make them, so can you!