Class Goals

This year my classroom has a carnival theme. I decided to make my goals board match my theme. I set a reading, writing, and math goal for students to achieve every couple of months. This helps me pace out the year and provides me a good visual of how close the class is to mastering each goal.

I made a sight word tracking board as well. I brake my sight word lists up into different colored books. When a student masters a list they move on to the next colored book. They get to color in one juggling ball each time they move to a new list of words. They color the ball the matching color of the book they are on. See my previous post for more details about what the books look like.

I changed my sight words bulletin board to popcorn words. My students have been noticing popcorn words popping up everywhere. When they find a sight word on a worksheet they butter the popcorn word by highlighting it with a yellow crayon.

Classroom Cheers

I have been using classroom cheers in my class for years.  The kids love picking out what cheer we are going to do for them when we celebrate their success.  It is very motivational for the kids and everyone wants to participate in the lesson because they want us to cheer for them.

Dr. Jeans has some great cheers that you can use in your classroom.  I have posted a link to her cheer cards that are free to print off.

http://www.drjean.org/html/monthly_act/act_2004/06_june/06_2004a.html

I have also made up a few cheers.

The fishing cheer:

Pretend to cast your imaginary fishing pole out, and pretend to reel it in as you say _________caught a big one!

The baseball cheer:

Pretend to swing a bat and say  ___________ hit it out of the park

The Winner:

Pretend to ring an imaginary bell and say "ding, ding, ding, we have a winner"

Your so fine:

Hand jive as you say: "_________,  ____________, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind.  Hey ___________ (clap) Hey, hey, hey ___________.

Do you use any cheers to motivate?

                                        

Classroom Goals

                                       

                                            

I like my students to know what is expected of them and to have goals they are working towards.  I set a class goal for reading, math, and writing.  When a child meets a goal we do a cheer for them and his or her name is added to the board.  Every couple months I change the goals out and incorporate a new theme.  This was our beginning of the year goals board.

                                           

This is our fall goals board we are currently working on.  The goals are for all students to know all their letters and sounds, write at least 2 sounds for each word they write, and know numbers 0-20.  If a child has met all 3 goals they get their name on a ghost.