First is the clip chart. My mentor teacher on prac last year used one, and it was fantastic. I found an awesome Harry Potter themed one on TpT, which you can find here. Whilst the clip chart is great, I also wanted a system that would be more of a term long system where students could learn to delay gratification and save. I had a great teacher come and speak to us at uni, and he had a classroom economy system where students earnt money for positive behaviour and would build up their money all term. At the end of the term the teacher would stage an auction where students could bid on items that the teacher bought (I'm thinking lot's of Smiggle products!). I love the idea of this behaviour system, not only are students learning that good things come to those who wait, they are also learning about money in a real life situation. So since my theme is Harry Potter, I created some 'Potter Notes' (I really wanted galleons, sickles and knuts but my kids are only in year 2, I don't want to confuse them!). Basically there will be a monetary reward for having your peg on Positively Magical by the end of the day and also students will lose money for negative behaviour. Of course they will be kept in Gringotts Bank (a box) and students will keep their money in an envelope.
Another goal of mine this year is to teach my students to be independent. Again, when sub teaching I noticed that there were some classes that were really independent and others that couldn't cope at all when you asked them to find their books (Yes. That happened and there was crying. Bad day!) I'm using Daily 4 this year (instead of Listen to Reading I'll be reading aloud to the class after lunch everyday) and Morning Work, and these are both activities that I want the students to be completely independent with. But how will I know what they are completing in these activities and how will I keep them engaged and interested? (Apart from hands on, fun activities).
Introducing the Morning Work and Daily 4 Tracking Folder. Each student will be given manila folder and they will put their folder together. Each folder lasts 4 weeks and in the folder they have. So here it is...
They aren't fancy but they are cheap as to create and don't take much work to compile!. Students colour in each line of the rainbow as they complete a Daily 4 rotation (the lines have different activities according to each week for the first few weeks of Daily 4 as I introduce the stations). Students colour in a quaffle each time they complete a morning work activity working up to the golden snitch and they also add up their Potter money in each and keep track of their savings.
You can also simply put lines through the rainbow to create more spaces to colour in, as you can see below. In order to finish the rainbow, they have to complete double the amount of rotations (Week 4 is when we start our normal rotations). You can grab the templates for the quaffles and gringotts sacks here and the rainbow templates at the link below. I write in the activities by hand and then scan the picture to print out enough for all students. This way you can differentiate the activities if you like and can also control how many or which rotations you want your students to do more of.
I can't claim credit for the adorable rainbow Daily 5 trackers, they come from Primary Paradise and you read the great blog post here. How do you keep track of your students' Daily 5 rotations?
Miss Daniels
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