Monday Made-It! My WBT "rules" and labels

I'm linking up again with 4th Grade Frolics' Monday Made-It! :)  Just a few things to share tonight...

I made my new Whole Brain Teaching "inspired" rules.  I am not using their EXACT rules, but I'm using the same idea.  I hope they aren't too "wordy," but I wanted to include all those little behaviors that I am having to correct most often, along with the ones that came from WBT.

A view of all the rules

Up close part 1

Up close part 2

I used an old belt so that I could make all the ribbons straight AND have a hook at the top.

I *think* I'm going to hang these up on from the cork strip on the top of my whiteboard.

One of the great things that I love about WBT is how it uses gestures to reinforce skills--even the rules!  Here are the gestures that I am going to model/teach my students:

#1--Follow directions quickly.--move hand in front of you like a snake.
#2--Raise your hand for permission to speak and leave your seat.--raise hand, then use hand like a mouth "talking," then two fingers of left hand "walking" down the right arm.
#3--Keep your body to yourself.--hug yourself.
#4--Make smart choices by being safe, being kind, and being honest.--point to head, then baseball "safe" motion with both hands, then hand over heart, then holding hand up like taking an oat.
#5--Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school.--spread both hands out in front of you motioning towards others, then point thumbs to self, then point to the floor.


I also made my labels for all my folders and notebooks.

I make each of my students a Calendar Folder(more on this in a future post!) and an Extra Work folder for all unfinished work, Math Facts practice, Handwriting practice, etc.

I made labels for my Science and Social Studies Vocab Journals and also a label for each of their tubs.  I'm going to TRY to be doing the composition notebooks cut in half for those, but I still need to find somewhere that will help me with that.  I also made a label for Poetry Notebooks and Word Study Notebooks.  I'll be putting those labels on the 2 composition notebooks that the students should be bringing as part of their supply list.

I had one other project that involved Mod Podge that was a flop, so I'm going to TRY to redo it and see how it turns out MAYBE for next Monday... :)

Have a great week!!