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New Blog Design Coming Soon!!

I just previewed my new blog design. It is so CUTE! I'm thinking that when it's done I'm going to have my first giveaway. Woo Hoo!

Kinder-Craze: Use PicMonkey to Easily Blur Faces in Photos (for PC and Mac)

Kinder-Craze: Use PicMonkey to Easily Blur Faces in Photos (for PC and Mac) If you are looking for a way to blur your students faces so you can post pictures. Here is a tutorial for you. Thank you Kinder-Craze!

Organizing my Room

Since summer began, I have been working on reorganizing my classroom. I try to do a little every couple of weeks so I don't break the bank. Today I started to work on my classroom center tubs. I found some great 3 drawer plastic containers at Target. Best part they were on sale. After finding the perfect new containers I went right to work on my labels. I used Avery Shipping labels and used Scrappin' Doodles graphics. This is what I came up with.

Click here to downloadMonthly Labels.

Great Facebook party going on right now. Wish I had some freebies to give away. Haven't figured out how to get all the legalities figured out yet. As soon as I do, I will get busy posting some fun free stuff.

Behavior Management

I have subscribed to many philosophies of behavior management in my career. I started with a 3 strikes your out, moved on to a money system (which I love for older students), and now I use a clip system to monitor personal behavior and a compliment board to monitor class behavior. Below is my clip chart (my theme for this year is  "Wild" about Kindergarten):

All students start on this board. I put boys on the right and girls on the left. This helps the little ones find their name faster. When students make a good choice, they move up to this board:

If a student continues to make good choices, they can move up their clip again. This is something that does not happen everyday. I like to make this a big deal! If they are on Mega Star at the end of the day, they earn a visit to the treasure box.

Now there are times when students may make a poor choice, if that happens the clip moves down a step on the chart.

If a student continues to make poor choices, the clip will have to be moved down another step. If we were having free play or a fun project that day, any child on Rock Star will sit out for 5 minutes.

This usually takes care of any problems in my classroom. However, there were a couple of times that a student was on Rock Star and still was struggling.When that happened, the child took their clip off the board and a parent conference was scheduled. 

I should say that when ever a child has to move their clip down, I talk to them privately. I do NOT believe in reprimanding in public. I am a firm believer in positive behavior and just needed something to make my "cubs" accountable for their choices. 

The one thing I noticed about this system for Kindergarten is that it didn't matter where they were on the chart, at the end of the day they took their parent to the chart and showed them their clip. This was a great time for me to talk about behavior with parents and for my parents who didn't understand English it  was a great visual for them to see how their child was doing in class. 

So, this is what I do, I would love to hear what you do. I am still trying to figure out how to upload freebies and make sure I do it legally. When I do, I will upload my clip chart. 

Coming soon: Monthly compliment board with instructions!