You Oughta Know About Behavior Management

Happy Saturday everyone!  I am so excited to link up with Jasmine from Buzzing with Mrs. McClain for the You Oughta Know Blog Hop!!! This is where several fabulous bloggers have come to share their ideas on what we feel teachers should know about.

My post will cover some of my favorite behavior management tips.

Have you Filled a Bucket Today? is a great book to introduce How to be a Bucket Filler? in your classroom.  I especially love this book, because it has a positive behavior message that children can see through illustrations how everyone has an invisible bucket that has the potential of being filled, or can be emptied.  This is my first year implementing Bucket Fillers in my classroom and it really has helped my students use kind and encouraging words towards each other.  They are learning that when you fill someone's bucket your bucket is being filled too. And when we are negative, we are dipping not only their bucket, but also emptying ours.  In my classroom I have notes that a student fills out when someone fills their bucket.  Then sometime during the day, when I notice one has been turned in, I call the two students and we share the bucket filler.  Each student gets to put a pom pom in their bucket to show when you fill someones bucket, your bucket gets filled too!!!

Tattling Toby 

At the beginning of the year we learn the difference between tattling and reporting.  Now my students tattle to "Tattling Toby" by writing their thoughts on coupons.  They place the coupons in the basket and I "read" their coupons after they leave.  I have a good laugh most of the time and I don't have to hear any tattles during the day.  I was amazed after my first year trying "Tattling Toby."  Honestly I hardly hear any Tattles anymore.   You can check out this FREEBIE in my TPT store by clicking the picture or here.

Positive talk!!!! I have a mirror in my classroom for my students to say something positive about themselves when they come into class.  Then, throughout the day if a student starts to say anything negative about themselves they go to the positive mirror where they speak positive words while looking in the mirror.  It's really encouraged my students to start thinking and saying positive words about themselves. 

Have you tried Social Stories in your classroom? I absolutely LOVE Sasha's social stories, because they are short and to the point.  They have helped so many of my students with behaviors, communication, personal space, emergency, etc.  She has so many themes to choose from.  You can check out her social stories by clicking the picture or here.

Having a Cool Down Spot somewhere in your classroom where your students can take a break when needed.  I have a tent that serves as the cool down spot and read with a buddy during our Daily 5 time.  Another alternative for a cool down spot would be a your work on writing area if a student likes to draw/color when needing to take a break.

Having individual visuals to help students that struggle learning the routine at the beginning of the year.  Here is an example of a visual morning routine that I made for a coworker that is placed on one of her students' desk.  

Thank you for taking time to read my blog post,  be sure to hop over to any of these other fabulous bloggers! 

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Five for Friday (Linky Party)

Hi Sisters,
Today I am linking up with the lovely Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five For Friday weekly linky party.  This week felt like it flew by! 

Lights, Camera, ACTION! Our class rolled out the red carpet this week with Lyndsey's, from A Year of Many Firsts, Hollywood themed Verb Unit. At the beginning of the week, we met two celebrities, Vicky Verb and Vince Verb.  In stations this week they had auditions, where they acted out the verb on the camera.  They got to read scripts & act them out, toured the Walk of Fame, where they found the verb in a sentence on each star around the classroom, and did a Verb snapshots, where they went around the classroom to find verbs.  Yesterday they wrote their own movie! Thanks Lyndsey for a jam packed unit on verbs!  You can check this packet out by clicking here.

October is here so I was excited to bring out the new QR Codes for our listening station this week.  My kiddos just love this station and it truly has made the Daily 5 rotations run so much smoother.  My students just choose a story, scan the QR code, and press play.  You can check these out by clicking here.

Words cannot describe how much I love this Intervention Binder.  I started it this week and it has simplified my life so much and I know that it will help my students that struggle to read!  This will also be a great way to track my kiddos progress this year.  Thank you Mrs. Decarbo for this amazing resource!

We have been doing Work on Writing in our classroom since I started teaching, but I was obsessed when I found Melissa's display last spring.  I don't have a lot of wall space in my classroom, but this little area seemed like the perfect spot.  Before the anchor charts were displayed I did a mini lesson.  This week I was able to complete it so my students can use the anchor charts as a reference for when they are writing.  You can check this packet out here.

It was picture day this week! The kiddos were super excited.

Clip art: Creative Clips Font: Kimberly Geswein