Field Day 5

I did not see any science in placement last week because the Gingerbread Man ran away! The majority of the day was centered around the story the Gingerbread Man, and when they would have had normally been doing science, the students were looking thoughout the building for the Gingerbread Man. I was trying to think of some sort of science activity that could go along with this if I ever did a Gingerbread Man unit in my future classroom. I can’t really think of much, but you could do something where you make predictions of where the Gingerbread Man might have run away to, and collected evidence on it etc. Since I did not see much science today, I thought I’d use this space to talk about some of my CT’s classroom management rules: I noticed a behavior chart in the corner of the room. The chart has everybody’s name on it under columns for green, yellow, blue, orange and red. Green is not being in any trouble (a smiley face,) yellow is a verbal warning, blue is 5 minutes off student choice time, orange is 10 minutes off of student choice time, and red is 15 minutes off students choice time and parent is notified. The students have precedures for walking down the hall (hand on the hip, one on the lip) so that they are quite in the hallway and they sit “criss-cross apple sauce” on the carpet. I think these little things remind them to not be disruptive.