First Grade Classroom, Take Two

This is a video of my classroom after a week or two of teaching. The sticker charts on the door track homework. The Wall of Class Averages eventually contained the class average of the previous week's reading and math tests; there was also a section to display exemplar work. The Technology Center contained login information for the class. The colored 1,2,3,4,5 along the left side of the white board was my behavior tracker. Each student had a magnet with their name on it and they started at the green, with each warning they moved down the color chart and the consequences were listed on each color. The Math Toolkit was a public tracker for mastery of unit-long objectives like "adding single digit numbers." If a student demonstrated mastery, he or she was given a tool with their name on it. The Compliment Tree was an investment strategy for students to take pride in our classroom; every time another teacher or administrator complimented our class I wrote down the compliment on a leaf and hung it on the tree. The Word Wall filled up during the year with high frequency words and sight words. The three black signs hanging from the ceiling was my class vision for the year; the overall goal was to "Inquire" and the underlying vision was to have the students be authors, librarians (have a knowledge of the different types of books and be able to suggest books to their friends based on what they know about their friend and what they know about the book), and to be mathematicians. The numberline running around the dropped ceiling was a public tracker for sight words. It is suppose to look like water, and each student had a sail boat with their name on it. Through out the year they "sailed" their boat around the room to the finish line. Whenever some one crossed the finish line we had a little two minute celebration, where we clapped and took turns congratulating the finisher. The end of the year goal was 250 sight words, which every student was able to reach and many made it to 300 or beyond.

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