At the beginning of the year, we all have grand ideas about all the new, amazing, awesome things we are going to implement in our classroom. Or is that just me? I saw something cool on RockStar Math Teacher's blog - seriously, you should check her out. She posted at the beginning of August about some great things she implements and I really love the team talk idea. So I borrowed her team stars for my room, and what I am doing with them is really working. I took the team stars and attached them to the lids of the bins I got for my tables. The bins hold all kinds of stuff - rulers, scissors, glue, colored pencils, etc - anything they might need for class. I like this system because I am not having to stop class when a lot of students need one resource (and I forget to pull it out of my cabinets). The lids cut down on the playing with the supplies and trash dumping in the bins. ( I do go and close all the bins between classes). I...
