Classroom+Procedure

Students walk in and put up lunchbox before entering room. They put their jackets on the back of their chairs and hang bookbags horizontally so they do not get knocked off the desks. Students then look in their pencil boxes and sharpen if needed. They automatically know to looks at the class job list for the day (frogs with jobs written on them and students names are on clothespins and changed daily. Not each child has a job). Students all have a magnitized frog with their name on it on the file cabinet in the back of the classroom. The cabinet is divided into 4 different lunch choice sections. The students place their frog in the section of their lunch choice.
 * Mrs. Hall's Morning Procedures:**

There are different stations that go to and work independently until the day gets started and morning announcements begin. Students have a choice of reading a book, taking an AR test, or playing games on the carpet after all morning activites are completed. When announcements begin, students all sit in their desk quietly and the lights are turned off so the promethean board can be seen better. After announcements, there is "Quiet Morning Work Time." This is when students finish incomplete work from the day before. The are given 10 minutes to do this. If they do not have any incomplete work, they can go ahead and get started on the phonics morning worksheet. They have a worksheet that is similar to daily grammar practice. They go over it as a class an fix their mistakes in crayon or marker. It is the same worksheet for the entire week. The worksheet is divided into sections for the different days of the week.

One of the jobs assigned to a student in the morning is calendar helper. The student changes the calendar to the correct date, day of the week, and month. Then the student changes the weather section to the conditions for that day. Since that students is familiar with the date and month and season and day of the week, it is their responsibility to lead the class during calendar time.
 * Mrs. Hall's Version of Calendar Time:**

Centers last from 7:50- 8:25. They stay at one center the entire time. Centers change daily throughout the week. The groups of students in each center stays the same for the entire year, and they are grouped based on ability level. The group names are "Hippos, Hogs, Hornets, Hyenas, and Heroes."
 * Mrs. Hall's Centers (CHAMP Challenge)**

Center 1: Beans in a Cup: Students have a red Solo cup with a given number of beans. Today there were exactly 7 beans in everyone's cup. The beans are white on one side and black on the other. The students have a worksheet divided into 8 sections. In each section there are outlines of 7 white beans. The students shake the cup and see how many beans land with the white side up and how many land with the black side up. They color in however many beans land on the black side on their worksheet. Each time they discover all of the different number combinations and how they all add to make 7 becasue there are a total of 7 beans in ithe cup.

Center 2: IXL computer program: Students have a username and a password. They are all registered and their scores and progress on the educational website are monitored and are able to be accessed by the teacher and by their parents at home. The students are able to take their password and username home and play the games at home for extra practice.

Center 3: Sight Words Bingo: There is a student who much call out the words. The other students locate that word on their sheet and try to get bingo or blackout. Whoever does so first gets a sticker.

Center 4: Disappearing Train: A game where the students all begin with a train of 10 blocks. They roll a dice that tells them to subtract 1,2,3, or add 1,2,3. Whoever's train is the last to disappear wins the game and gets a sticker.

Students parents are required to provide a snack to the class for an entire week. They have choices like goldfish, granola bars, and fruit. The snacks are in a basket, and the snack helper passes out all of the snacks to each table abd makes sure that everyone has a snack before they can begin eating. Some students choose to bring their own snack, and they go to their lunchboxes and bring it back to their desk during this time. During snacktime, Mrs. Hall reads to the children out of a chapter book "Miss Daisy is Crazy" *love this idea!! This is intended to get students to think about the comments teachers write on their work. Students are asked to write a comment in response to the teacher's comments, explaining what the teacher meant.
 * Mrs. Hall's Snacktime procedures:**
 * Comments On Comments**

A rotating monitor uses a checklist during lessons to monitor the rest of the class or the rest of a small group.
 * Students Monitoring Other Students' Good Learning**

Each student writes two questions he/she wants answered, on a card which is pinned on the wall and taken down (over the next few weeks) only after the questions has been answered. The teacher may say, 'Now we will deal with Linda's questions,' or may ask, 'Whose questions have been answered today?'
 * Pinning Questions on the Wall**

The class earns points for compliments from other teachers. The teachers on our normal routes are very good about saying positive things if the children are doing well. The kids love it, and work very hard to get those points.
 * Points for Compliments**

Adapt this game to whatever topic the students are currently studying. The teacher writes a category on the chalkboard -- foods, for example. Each student writes the letters A to Z on a sheet of paper. The students have five minutes to create an alphabetical list of as many foods as they can think of. Then the game begins.The first student must tell the name of a food. The second person must give the name of a food that begins with the last letter of the food given by the first person. The third person must name a food that begins with the last letter of the second person's food and so on. One at a time, students are eliminated.
 * Chain Reaction**

sorting class names or sight words by number of s yllables, number of letters, beginning letter, or by girls/boys OR sort pictures by beginning consonant sound, living/non living, farm/zoo animals, etc.
 * Pocket Chart Activity**

Students connect words they can write/sound out to each other with magnets on the board. The end sound of one word is the same as the beginning sound of the next--cat tiger rag grow water
 * Word Train**

In the front of the classroom, there is a huge chart with each student's name. Each time the student reads and passes an AR test on a book, they are allowed to place a star sticker by their name. It is a great way for positive competition and positive reinforcement. The students are required to take at least 10 tests per 9 week period. Students are assigned a different classroom job each day. The jobs range to anything from "energy monitor" to "door holder." At the end of the day, each student receives a salary. On Fridays, the students are allowed to shop at the classroom store and spend their money that they made throughout the week.
 * AR Chart**
 * School Store**

At the beginning of the school year, the students are given a square peice of white fabric. Each student draws a picture of what means the most to them or what they enjoy doing and write a fact about their self. At the end of the activity, the student explains that they drew and then the peices threaded together to make a quilt by the teacher. The teacher stresses the point that even though all the students are different and enjoy different things, they are alike in many ways and apart of the same classroom team.
 * Quilt Activity**

There are index cards taped to the floor with all of the different letter sound blends. (sh, ch...). The student tosses the bean bad onto the index cards. Wherever the bean bag lands is the sound that the student has to make. After the student makes the correct sound, they have to come up with a word that begins with that sound.
 * Bean Bag Blends**