Creating Classroom Rules with the book Back To School Rules

Hi again and welcome back to our Back To School blog series.  We opened up the series to questions from our Instagram followers and a lot of people asked about our behavior management plan.  We are going to break our ideas on behavior management up into two parts.  The first part we will address today and that is making classroom rules.  The second part which will be published Monday  will focus on incentives and how we manage them.

We found this super engaging book called "Back-toSchool Rules". It's fun, bright, humorous and perfect for grades k-5.  One of the best parts is that the main character describes the rules in a few ways so that students are sure to understand.  As we read this book we look for key details.  The key details are going to focus on the 10 rules that the character thinks every student needs to follow to be successful.  Most teachers will be happy to support these rules.  After we read the rules and chart the details, we open it up to classroom collaboration.  Students work together to come up with their own rules and then we list them for the classroom to vote on.  It's really important to have student buy in to the rules. Please stop back tomorrow for the second most controversial part of this post!