Classroom expectation activities

Madison Rowe on Instagram: "If you’re wanting to revamp your classroom management routine next school year, these are two of my faves that I use with students before EVERY activity! ✨ 💖 Quickly setting CHAMPS expectations together before each lesson and activity helps to keep students on task. 💖 Displaying step by step visual directions before sending students off to do an independent activity helps to keep students on track. To grab these resources and to read more about how I use these…

Engage students with our Respecting Others in the Classroom Sorting resource as a great classroom expectations activity. Print and distribute with scissors for students to sort the respectful behaviours. This is a great resource to reinforce your classroom expectations for the year with behaviours such as good manners and teaching respect. Perfect for back-to-school or as a mid-year reminder of respectful behaviour.

A printable booklet showing centers expectations in the classroom.

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This cut and paste activity is great to use during the first few weeks of school. It reinforces classroom rules and expectations. Students cut and paste statements under two categories "Good Choice" and "Not a Good Choice." The statements cover hallway behavior, playground expectations and classroom rules.

My kids come back to school tomorrow. We are going to be doing New Years activities and also reviewing our classroom expectations. • This okay/not okay to interrupt anchor chart from @justaprimarygirl is the perfect reminder!

Bucket Fillers ✨ Still actually something I absolutely love teaching is how be a bucket filler! The most simple yet effective way to engage your littles in being kind, following classroom expectations, counting recognition, and so much more. Every Friday my kiddos are able to “cash out” if they have 20 pom-poms from the week they are able to choose something from the treasure box. It’s so fun seeing them light up when they get to add a pom pom for making a bucket filler choice and get exc...

Here’s a few classroom procedures that have worked well for me – and a couple awesome ideas I’ve run across since I’ve stepped out of the classroom...

Are you an elementary teacher, special education teacher, or school counselor with students who need a refresher on expected vs unexpected behavior? Then click to find why it is an important social skills topic to teach and some great teaching resources – including an expected vs unexpected behaviors lesson and some engaging activities for students to practice. Check out afreshbreathonteaching.com to learn more about enhancing students' social emotional skills of expected and unexpected…

The first week of school generally consists of getting to know one another, in addition to discussion and practice of classroom procedures and routines. We also got our creative juices flowing by creating summer reflection writing pieces, squiggle stories, and "All About Me" mini-posters. Students are getting to know one another and me, and we are learning to work together to build a successful and positive classroom environment. On Wednesday, I wrote out six questions, all having to do with…