How can you get marbles in the marble jar? What is the prize when it's filled?
By receiving compliments from other teachers - a pizza party
100
Use the bathroom?
Put up 2 fingers
100
Where will letters to go home be?
In my mailbox
200
Where do you put your behavior chart, homework (on Friday), and other papers to be turned in?
In the 'In' Box
200
When do you get your behavior chart signed?
At the end of the day when my group is quiet
200
Explain the hangman prize.
Mrs. Krangel puts up hangman spaces and when the whole class is following directions, she puts up a letter. You can't talk about the prize until you earn the prize. Keep your ideas to yourself!
200
Sharpen my pencil?
Go switch it with one in the pencil basket. You do not have to ask. If there are none left, sharpen it.
200
What do I do if there is a fire drill?
Stop everything and line up silently. Line order doesn't matter.
300
What do you do when you get to your desk in the morning?
Unpack things that need to go in your desk and wait to be called to bring things to the cubbies
300
What game do we play when we're packed up?
Silent ball
300
How can your group earn points?
By being quiet and by working well together
300
Throw out trash?
Wait until there is a break in the instruction to throw it out. Put it on the corner of your desk.
300
What do I do if the phone rings?
Keep working, be silent, or put my quiet signal up
400
Where do absence notes go?
In the green bin next to Mrs. Krangel's desk
400
When does our class get dismissed? Trick question...
At 3:09 OR when our class is silent.
400
Explain the dojo point system.
Someone can earn dojos by doing good things in the classroom. You can spend dojo points on Friday.
400
Need a tissue?
Go get one!
400
When is homework due? What kind of homework will you have?
Friday!
Reading, math, reading log, and grammar
500
What do you do once you are unpacked? What should you do when you are done your morning work?
Silently start your morning work.
Take out a book to read quietly.
500
What should you do once we get outside in the yard at the end of the day?
Let Mrs. Krangel know who I am going with - or if I am allowed to walk
500
Explain the stoplight behavior chart.
Everyone starts the day on green. If you aren't following directions, you get a warning and then go to yellow. If you are on red, you get a note home and a phone call if you don't return it.
500
What if I am finished my work? What should I NOT do?
If I am finished my work, I should take out a book to read or finish an old assignment. I should NOT make noise or draw or sit and do nothing.