Hello! I hope your school year has gotten off to a great start… OR… I wish you blessings as you BEGIN 2018-2019 in the next few weeks! We just finished WEEK 2, and even the kindergarten kids are starting to settle down a bit.
My amazing teaching team — lovingly known around school as #SPECIALS — and made up of library, music, art, gifted-and-talented, and PE teachers — joined together last year to make our behavior management a little more cohesive for the students. We even have our own behavior form home — with an auto-carbon copy! (Fancy, huh?!)
I’m the last one to get my BRAVO board finished and hung up, I’m afraid, but I think it turned out pretty well… and the kids are enjoying it. (Actually, so am I!)
I created four goal cards and spent a lot of time explaining my expectations during the kids’ first library visit. I started every class out with two fuzzies in their classroom pockets… and some classes lost those the very first week! (Yikes.) BUT… I think I made my point on expectations and proved that I was serious. Things were much better during our second week together.
After I posted my photo on “That Library Girl’s” Facebook page and on “That.Library.Girl’s” Instagram this morning, I began to receive some questions about how I did this… or where I bought that. So, I typed up a little TpT freebie to explain where I purchased everything that I used for my BRAVO board, what I use as “prizes” — and I threw in a copy of my goal icon cards, too! You can grab it at my TpT store… https://bit.ly/2NihEMK.
Hope your school year gives you lots of opportunities to say, “BRAVO!”
Do you set a specific number before they get a prize? Or is it until the bag is filled?
Hi Heather,
When the bag is filled (and I decide how filled is filled… 🙂 ) the class votes on their prize as a class. In May, the big winner seemed to trend for “stinky feet reading!” Whew… mercy! 🙂