Class Routines–a list of 40 things to consider

As you prepare for a new school year, or even for your very first class, you will probably find lots of advice telling you how important routines are. Add this post to the list! In my opinion, class routines are THE most important part of teaching because they help your class run smoothly. And if your class doesn’t run smoothly, it doesn’t matter how much time you’ve spent planning lessons or how cute your bulletin boards are.

You must teach routines explicitly, and to do that you must know how you want things to run. 

Students, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?), are not mind readers, so it is important that you teach students the routines explicitly. Before you teach the routines to students, it is important that you have put thought into how you want things to run. You can get tons of ideas online and from fellow teachers, but ultimately when the bell rings, you are in charge of your class, and you will want things to run yourway. Be sure to spend time thinking through the routines and determining how you want each to go.

What routines and policies do I teach?

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#Classroom #routines and #procedures

Morning Routine

- How to politely enter and exit the classroom

- How and when to turn in homework, homework folder, or parent notes

- Where to put packed lunch

- Where to put backpack, coat, etc.

- How to do lunch count if your school does that

- How to do attendance if they help with that (in my Fun Teaching Graphing Ideas blog post, I show how to use a daily graphing question to help take attendance which is also math practice and a fun way to start calendar later in the day)

- What to do after they’ve put away their backpack, done lunch count, etc. (have a specific task like start morning work or start morning tubs)

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Routines - everyday life actions

Students practise the present simple in the affirmative, negative and interrogative, adverbs of frequency, and everyday life actions.

 
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Daily Routine- Home Activities – Everyday Activities –

PEOPLE – PHOTO DICTIONARY

1. wake up 2. get up  3. wash your face
4. rinse your face  5. dry your face/ yourself   6. brush your teeth

7. take a shower  8. shave   9. get dressed  10. comb your hair
11. put on make-up  12. eat breakfast  13. have a cup of coffee  14. go to work

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TIME and DAILY ROUTINE - activities

Routine activity idea!!

Here is a list of some of the things I have on my daily schedule and some of them are general ideas. I don’t always do them all, but if I’m able to do it most of the time I know my life is the better for it!

• Gratitude list – 5 things you are grateful for
• Journalling – write at least one page of life-changing or mundane thoughts (or do your insight-inducing Morning Pages)
• Start the day with your WHY. What is your high level, soul-burning, heart-lifting reason for you to do what you do? What keeps you going in the face of challenges? Write it out in a paragraph or two and read it before you start your work everyday.
• Read your goals
• Plan your day including your 3 MITs (most important things to do today) and launch into them.
• One-minute of silence (or more if you can!)
• Fresh green juice
• Write 500 words
• 10-minutes minimum of heart-pumping activity
• 5-15 minutes of decluttering home
• Tracking things for the day (minutes exercised, water drank, weather, mood etc)
• Review the day and check in with the next few days
• Clear desk ready for a fresh day tomorrow!

WEEKLY SCHEDULEI ended up moving a lot of my weekly activities to the fortnightly list as it felt very restrictive to do them every week.

• Week in review
• Weekly plan with the week’s 3 MITs
• Books to read
• File paperwork
• Do admin activities
• Close off all unfinished business for week
• Go through notes, scribbles, ideas etc and move them to appropriate places
• Love check in connection (Jack Canfield presents an idea in his Success Principles book to nurture your relationships. No matter how well things are going, put some time aside each week with your partner to see how thing are going. It is a non-aggressive way to bring up any small niggles and address them before one of you explodes and blows it out of proportion!)
• Chores and cleaning