Classroom Management

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Student Baseball Cards
Students make baseball cards as a way to get to know one another.

Sign In
Use sign language to help lower the noise level in your classroom.

Personal Space
Use numbers to ensure students' personal space and help them keep track of their things.

Name Tags
Name tags will help you (and visitors to your class) learn your students' names.

Name Game
Improve students' alphabet recognition and letter-sound associations while learning fellow classmates names.

Self Portrait Class Book
Make a book of self-portraits that you can then use to compare with end of the year portraits.

Go on a Building Tour
Take your students on a building tour so that they may know their way around the school.

Puppets Tell the Rules
Use a puppet to teach students the class rules, goals and procedures.

Snail, Snail
Build community with younger students while playing the "snail" game.

Similar and Different
Students discuss the ways in which they are similar and different as an exercise in building classroom community.

The Ginger Bread Man
This activity helps students to learn about their school and the book, The Gingerbread Man .

Remembering Names
Use these fun games to help students remember each other's names.

Follow Me Freeze
Build classroom community while giving many students the chance to lead your class.

Decorating Tips
Tips for creating a more comfortable classroom atmosphere.

Getting to Know Each Other Through Poetry
Students get to know each other through a poetry writing activity.

Class Constitution
Students create rules for the classroom and make them into a Class Constitution.

Attendance and Lunch: A Simple Set-Up
An easy system for taking attendance and organizing lunch at the beginning of the day.

Make a Rainbow Bulletin Board
Students describe their helpful behaviors and create a bulletin board.