This year, my students sit at "table teams". Typically, I do a red table and an orange table and the rest...but this year, I switched to calling them teams. I've been keeping track of table team points on Class Dojo and it has really been making a difference in behavior. Now, just to be clear, I don't do a Mrs. Smith's Orange Team...instead it's whoever sits at the orange table in the entire school. This makes keeping up with points a whole lot easier. My students can earn points whenever we transition from directions to work, clean up or whatever I see fit (cuz I'm the boss, Applesauce). To encourage a teamwork vibe, I recently created these bingo dauber GIANT table clothes for my students to work on and write kind messages to one another. Here's a video to share some more:
Each of these banners was created with bulletin board paper and my bingo dauber hack. Each dauber is filled with diluted India ink.
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Since I cover my table clothes with giant messy mats, I think these will make it for quite a while. Thinking of having them laminated so they could make it until the end of the year. I'll keep you posted.
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Do you have table teams? How do you inspire teamwork, cooperation and kindness?
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Here's hoping my students love them as much as I do!
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Y'all know I love making big banners for my students to color and/or paint. For these, my students will use construction paper crayons.
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Since I cover my table clothes with giant messy mats, I think these will make it for quite a while. Thinking of having them laminated so they could make it until the end of the year. I'll keep you posted.
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Do you have table teams? How do you inspire teamwork, cooperation and kindness?
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Here's hoping my students love them as much as I do!
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