Managing the Final Days + Currently

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Love the 'surprise' section of this months currently.

I wanted to SURPRISE Katie from Little Warriors. If you already follow her blog then you know she is amazing.

I wanted to showcase her Earth Day activity pack, Where Does the Garbage Go, that I purchased and used this year.  The experiment in this pack is completely hands-on and really gives your little ones an understanding of the "Three R's"

My kiddos are still talking about that experiment!

Don't forget to link up with Farley!

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Ok… Now onto managing the final days of school. 

We all know that after spring break the kids are…well…a little cray-cray!  That's when it's time to up your classroom management game.

There are two things that I have been doing with my kiddos and it's working like a charm.  Most days! :)

So my kiddos this year love a little friendly competition. So to get them reviewing their sight words and earning "table points" I set up each table with a different sight word and listed the words on the board.

I change the sight words each week.  The incentive is that whichever table has the most tally marks/points at the end of the day gets to go to fun centers first. Some days we don't make it to fun centers, but they don't know that! ;)

My next classroom management tool first originated from the ladies at What the Teacher Wants.  I snagged their management freebie a couple years ago and my kids LOVED it. Now that its been a couple years, the interest in characters have changed.  So I updated their amazing management tool to meet this years group of kiddos.

Let me tell you how it works:

The ladies at What the Teacher Wants first created this tool as a friendly competition among peers.  They used Team Bieber and Team Skywalker! 

How stinkin cute are they?!

 Each student chooses which team they want to be on and they get a tag that is taped to their desk.  Throughout the day, every time someone was caught on task their team would earn a point. Whichever team at the end of the day/week with the most points earned a prize.  You can check out their complete blog post HERE.  They remembered to take pictures! :) 

My kiddos this year have been all about Frozen and Mr. Peabody, so I simply changed the characters but the game is still the same. Introducing Team Olaf and Team Peabody!

{I was given permission by the ladies at What the Teacher Wants to do so and share with you}

You can grab a free copy of this behavior management tool {here}!

What are some of your favorite classroom management ideas for the end of the year?