After reading my cousin Lisa's blog, I have been inspired to tell you of my classroom posters.
Lisa wrote about being a mean mommy bc she makes her kids do things they dont want to. Wear long sleeves, finish your food, wear socks, yadda yadda yadda. I commented that it is great, and in the long run, it will continue to help her out, and their teachers.
For instance I would not need to post: Keep your limbs to yourself. Yes, in high school they still hit and kick each other.
Another famous poster: Keep the beat in your head, not in your hands. It drives me nuts when they continuously bang beats on the desks.
This one is great: The easiest question asked: Name:___________ Don't leave it blank. I was really tired of getting no name papers. I have 120 kids!!! I'm not wasting my time trying to analyze hand writing samples.
I think this is my favorite: Keep it G Rated: Intended for all Audiences. I cringe when I hear LaShrikra kissed LaShina or Qudedadu was too drunk/high to get it up with that jawn. Not too mention fowl language. (Names were totally made up)
I am also gifted in making Geometry posters.
"Don't disrespect the figure, call it by name!" Too often, my kids call a line just by its letters. But that does not work bc a two letter figure could be a line, a ray, a line segment.
This is my latest and I think it is the best:
First comes love
(rhombus hearts rectangle)
Then comes marriage
(rhombus ring rectangle, both say "I Do")
Then comes baby in the baby carriage
(Square)
It helps them remember that a square is a rhombus and a rectangle. But a rhombus is not a square, nor is a rectangle a square. I'll take pictures tomorrow.
So Lisa, keep it up!
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Pretty funny stuff. I know, I know, you wish all your kids had parents like me. (o;
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of your posters! I am Lisa's sister Loni & I teach fifth grade. I hope you won't mind if I borrow the quote "Keep the beat in your head, not in your hands". I have several students that do that all day long & it drives myself & the others nuts! I am constantly trying to teach my students about respecting each other & their teachers. Sometimes I think it is a losing battle.
ReplyDeleteLoni, Go for it!!! I'm always in the market for stealing other teacher's methods if I think it will work in my room.
ReplyDeleteFor example, just the other day one of my kids was doing "just enough to get by" I asked him when he is an adult, are you going ot make enough money just to get by? Of course the answer was no.