1. Color background on white paper with pinks, purples, blues and a little bit of yellow.
2. To make the tree I folded black paper in half so it would be symmetrical.
3. Cut a curvy strip for the bottom and glue it together.
4. Easy!
Classroom Management: The Race Track
The RACE TRACK Classroom Management System
The race track is a simple method of encouraging your children to follow your class rules with no yelling, or frustration, on your part. Without a word you can point out unhelpful behaviors in your class, or joyfully point out when your students are on track. The best part is that the rewards are fun, exciting, and won't cost you anything!
Here's how it works.
1. You make a track with about 25 squares that goes across the top of your entire magnetic whiteboard. Mine is about 4 inches tall by 5 feet. I made it curvy and wrote good behaviors on various squares. Write "start" on the first square, and "prize time" on the last square.
2. Next print a squirrel and nut on cardstock, laminate and cut out. I made several sets of pictures to have variety. (a surfer and a wave, a leprechaun and a pot of gold , wise men and the star etc...)
3. Come up with a variety of prizes and print on cardstock so they are ready.
I used things like:
1. 10 minutes extra recess
2. Go to lunch early
3. Play pictionary on the board
4. Have hot-chocolate
5. Make special art project
6. Any special thing that I was planning to do anyway, I can instead use as a reward.
7. Pajama Day
8. Movie Time
4. Choose one of your prizes and hide it under the "nut" at the end of your track.
5. You are ready to go! Put the squirrel on the start with a magnet and whenever the kids do what they are supposed to do the squirrel moves up towards the goal, whenever they don't he moves back.
6. You should be moving the squirrel about 15 times per day, hopefully with a gain of about 5 spaces by the end of the day. It should take about a week to get to the prize.
Autograph Books for the End of the Year
A great project for the last week of school is to have the kids decorate and sign autograph books. A great way to wrap up the year with a fun writing project! (See printable version at the bottom of this post.)
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For each book you will need:
1/2 sheet of white cardstock
Colored Paper (6 1/2" by 4 1/4")
14" of Ribbon
3 sheets copy paper
1. Cut white cardstock in half length wise and fold.
2. Cut pretty paper to 6 1/2" to 4 1/4".
3. Glue to back of your cardstock with a glue stick. There should be a 1" overhand that will wrap around to the front.
4. Use edging scissors to make a nice edge and glue down to the front.
5. Cut copy paper to fit inside the book. (I cut 12 pages for each book, 4 pages from each sheet of copy paper. Pages should be 4" x 5 1/4")
6. Punch your holes in the cover and pages, making sure they will allign.
7. Tie together with 14" ribbon. Don't tie it too tightly or it will be difficult to open the pages.
8. You are ready to go! Have kids decorate the covers and give them little verses as examples as what to write. A few of these were good: autograph sayings
Here is a printable version if you would like to save time. Printable Memory & Autograph Books
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