behavior chart

My intention for this blog is to post ideas as I come up with them and use them in my classroom, but since I am just getting started here, I imagine that for a while, I will also be posting things randomly that I have already been using for some time.

First thing's first -- my behavior system!

Pictured above is my "Shining Star" behavior board. Each child in my room has a star with their class number (which reminds me, I need to write a post to try and convince all teachers to use numbers in their classroom, they come in handy for a million different things). Anyhow, each child starts on green each day, and moves up or down their star based on their choices. The numbers on the sides correlate to our "Classroom Cash" system, which doesn't necessarily have to go along with the colors, but does work beautifully for us!

Each day, the students color their behavior chart before they go home (attachment below and at the end of the week, they tally up how much money they should receive. I have loved using this system this year, and I feel like it is has been incredibly effective for my students.

Student Behavior Chart PDF

DETAILS ON MAKING THE BOARD: The colors are strips of wide ribbon, stapled into the board. Then stapled on top of each ribbon is a velcro strip. Each student's star has a little velcro dot on the back. I teach the kids "finger first" for when they have to remove their star -- they use a finger from the opposite hand to hold down the velcro strip so that it doesn't start to pull loose from kids pulling on their stars every day.