Caddo Fed After Hours

Caught Being Good
 
This catchy chant promotes community within the classroom and helps refocus the class for the next task at hand.  To establish a beat, clap your hands or snap your fingers.  Students join in and then begin the chant on your cue.  Students enjoy sharing the good deeds of their classmates and love to hear their own name called for being good, too.  Don’t be surprised if YOUR name is called for being good!!!

 
Chant:
 
Hey, class!  What do you say?
Who have you caught being good today?
 
Hey, [student's name]! What do you say?
Who have you caught being good today?
 
 
Allison Boyett
Arthur Circle Elem.
Discoveries Gr.1-5

I am a kindergarten teacher at University Elementary.  As you know, kindergarten has to be very much hands on and lots of movement.  One of the most challenging parts of our job is motivating children to learn their “popcorn words”.  We play the “Swat Game”! What I have done to make it more exciting is to put the words on colored index cards and laminate them.  I place the cards on the board or on the floor and I give two children a fly swatter.  When a word is called, the first person to actually swat the word wins. 

This can be used with many other things.  For example: Vocabulary – teacher could give a definition and the students find the word that matches.  Math – place number to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and call out the problem and they swat the answer.  My children absolutely love the game and play it in choice center time.

I have seen a big increase in the words they are learning.

Colleen Smith

University Elementary

 1.  Some test questions may read this way:  Which of the following answers is not a possible answer? First try scratching out the answer that would be considered correct and the answer that does not fit should be left standing alone.

2.  While testing, look for key words, bold print and italics; they usually give hints at helping you to achieve the correct answer.

Greg Carter
Walnut Hill Elementary/Middle School

This is a motivational idea we use for testing our 3^rd – 5^th graders.  For this week only, they wear certain attire to school to motivate them to do well on the test.

We tell them “Next week is Test Prep Week so Don’t forget to wear?..

1.  Monday – Your favorite hat -  it is “Hats off to Great Test Scores!”

2.  Tuesday – Camouflage – because “We’re Hunting for Good Test Scores!”

3.  Wednesday – Your favorite team jersey/shirt – because “Good Scores Take a Team Effort”

4.  Thursday – Wind suit – because “We’re Blowing the Top Off the Test!”

5.   Friday – Crazy Socks – “Sock It to Treat Test Scores!” 

Everyone, teacher and students love doing this.

Rebecca Watson

Southern Hills Elementary