I must admit I love Pinterest! Where were you last year, during my first year of teaching, oh Pinterest?!
I have found so many great ideas on there to help with teaching. Something I just found has totally made my day! I am not a huge fan of CHAMPs. And I'm not meaning the store.
CHAMPs is a classroom management idea my school uses. CHAMPs is an acronym and it stands for Conversation, Help, Activity, Movement and Participation. Basically it's a way to help students know what they can or cannot do with conversation, getting help, activity, movement and participation during different parts of the day.
Well.... thanks to Pinterest I found a wonderful way to incorporate the use of CHAMPs w/out making a large poster that, quite honestly will be forgotten and not used once I introduce it the first week of school. Thanks to Stephanie at http://aloha-kindergarten.blogspot.com/2011/07/champs.html for creating this idea and sharing it with us! I just printed everything out I will need to create this little bit of help.
