My Behavior System

Today is my second sick day!  I have slept a lot!  I still don't feel great but for the past 2 hours I have felt better so it is back to work for me!!!  I have a meeting next week about behavior so I was pulling items together.  I thought that I'd share them with you!   ;)  I think that I have shared bits and pieces before but this should be it all together!!!

I use the clip chart system.  I changed the colors to go with my school wide system.

If you are not familiar check it out:

http://www.newmanagement.com/products/clip_chart.html

1. My students are paid for green- top of the chart.  They spend the money monthly at our class store.
2. Students have to pay when they are on yellow-red. 

Peace Meeting and Peace Jar

We only have 20 minutes after special and before the end of the day.  We use 10 minutes for a daily peace meeting.  We discuss problems (without using names) and discuss how to problem solve the situations.  (USE YOUR WORDS!!!!)  We also end with compliments.

We have a peace jar.  We discuss how sometimes when you are upset that you will do something mean/ hurtful to that person or someone else.  We have learned to write what is bothering you on a piece of paper and crumble it up.  They place it in the jar and I throw all of the crumbled paper away on Friday to symbolize moving on.  It sounds silly but it actually works for some students!

NEW ITEMS ADDED THIS YEAR!!!!

Accountability Buddy Chart- this is used for 1 of my kiddos.

Privilege Chart- 8 of my kiddos use this

A part of the privilege chart requires students to visit the reflection center:

lol... doesn't it look like "fun?" 



Celebration Center- it isn't finished yet!!!!! (Wall coverings are not finished due to be sick!)

I was so inspired by Elizabeth from fun in room 4B to try something crafy for drawing winning numbers.  (That must be one heck of an inspiration because I don't have an artistic bone in my body!)

I have numbers 1-100 in the can.  I wanted to use a bingo cage but numbers only go up to 75.

I'm headed to bed again just to make sure that I get enough rest to be well enough to go back to work tomorrow!

Behavior Centers

I plan on adding two new items to my classroom:

1.  A Celebration Center
2.  A Reflection Center

I have scribbled in my notebook all of my plans, I have purchased some Scrappin' Doodles clip art and now I am workin' my rear off trying to finish all of my signs/ social stories etc. BEFORE Monday!

The more that I work- the more ideas keep coming along!

Here is a peak of a few things that I have finished:

These are a few of the signs that I made to hang in my Celebration Center.

These are some of the new behavior charts that I have been working on.  I tried to make the SWEET behavior chart cute and the other chart with my "old" (but hey I still like it!) clip art.

Is anyone able to predict the type of day that I might have had?  :)

Reward Incentive Chart

This is a chart that was recommended by a wonderful first grade teacher.  :)

I just tried this out last week and it seemed to work.  I think that I will pull this out at high stressful times!  I put items dealing with our Polar Express day on the boards. 

This is just another strategy to keep around to use when needed!  ;)  If you would like a copy- just email me!  (daniellelasota@gmail.com) :)

Behavior Incentive Chart

This was introduced to me from a friend.  She attended a behavior conference and this was a strategy that was used. 

The student and teacher fill in the chart together.  They fill in rewards that the child would like to earn.  You work from top left to lower right.  You will write rewards in each of the boxes starting with the least of the desired rewards.  The reward that the student wants to earn the most- will be written in the last box. 

Make a new chart each week.  When a child makes a mistake the first box will be crossed off.  This means that they will NOT receive the reward.  Whatever rewards are not crossed off by the end of the week- the child will receive. 

Reward ideas include:

*Using the teacher chair, extra computer time, being the line leader, blowing the recess whistle, picking their buddy first, being paper passer, being the first to choose recess toys, going to a different class for recess, allowed to visit principal, move desk to sit by a buddy etc. 

Changing the Strategy

In my class they can choose one of the following:

·        They don’t have any of the rewards.  Each time that I catch them doing something positive, I make a smiley face on the chart.   This means that they have earned the reward.

o   If they choose this- I often make the chart larger.  I add 2 blank spaces between the reward spaces.  This way I can find as many positives as I need.

·        They have earned all of the rewards but I can take them away.  (This is just like the incentive chart mentioned above.)

Just one more day for us until break!  For those of you already on break- I am SO jealous!  :)

Weekly Individual Behavior Goals

This year I have decided to try out a new and more involved behavior contract.  I have some students that I just can't seem to figure out what motivates them.  I am hoping that by involving them more into their behavior expectation at the beginning of the week will allow them to start making better choices.

These are the first two pages where they write their goal, action plan and rewards:

The next two pages have the twice daily recording charts and  one of the daily letter templates.

The next two pages are two more letter templates:

The last two pages include an end of the week reflection page and a letter to the teacher:

You can download this at my TPT store! :)  Have a great Monday!

-Danielle