![]() When we use our white boards, often – okay, ALWAYS – the kids are finishing their white board responses at A BAJILLION DIFFERENT TIMES!! When the kids are ready for me to look at their work, they hold their board up, I read it, and if they’re good to go to move on to the next task, I SILENTLY just point to their board and they erase. Here is a little video clip of the one way street in my classroom! This is such a simple, but FANTASTIC tip to use in your classroom ANY time you have to have your students all come to one area to pick up a supply, to turn something in, etc!įor white boards, I simply say “WHITE BOARDS AND MATERIALS – ONE WAY STREET – GO!” while pointing in the direction of the one way street – which is 90% of the time clock wise but may change if there’s good reason for it! The kids know that means we are all headed into a single file line on the SILENT ONE WAY STREET to get the materials we were directed to pick up! NOPE! No more because they learn to HEAR THE MARKER CLOSE! And we practice opening and CLOSING those marker caps until we’ve got it! Tip number three is one of my favorites to TEACH at the beginning of the year! This tip isn’t only fantastic for little learners, but I have a high school teacher of a friend who does this SAME thing with her high schoolers!ĭuring the first weeks of school as we are learning about how to use the supplies while meeting expectations in our classroom, we learn what it means to put our white boards and materials away. Set HIGH expectations for these small group routines to be followed and you will be AMAZED at how quickly you can get started with your small group lessons! And they have yet to know what we need those tools for because the lesson hasn’t started yet! They know our routine for getting our white boards, they bring it to the table, or to a small group designated area on the floor!, and put their white boards as well as ANY OTHER MATERIALS THAT THEY BRING down in one neat pile and fold their hands to wait for directions. With that being said – when I say “get your white boards and materials!”, the kiddos know exactly what that looks like, what that sounds like, and, more importantly, what that DOES NOT include! We keep them on a supply cart in the back of the classroom. Our dry erase boards, markers, and erasers (which are facial scrubber pads that you can find at the Dollar Tree) are community style supplies that we do NOT keep in our desks. TIP #1 SETTING EXPECTATIONS FOR DRY ERASE BOARD SUPPLIES ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to share with you 6 tips and tricks for building dry erase board routines that work best for my students from the moment they get their dry erase materials to that pesky moment that their marker dries up! This post is one in a series of THREE DRY ERASE BOARD POSTS! The other posts include:ĭRY ERASE BOARD WORD WORK AND SIGHT WORD ROUTINESĭRY ERASE BOARD ENGAGING ACTIVITIES FOR LITTLE LEARNERS **This post includes amazon affiliate links! ** ![]() One of those classroom supplies that I can just simply NEVER have enough back stock of has ALWAYS been EXPO MARKERS! I am sharing 6 tips and tricks with you for using dry erase boards in your classroom! These tips will save you time, save you from having your EXPO markers running out of ink, and possibly even give you an idea or two use TOMORROW with your kiddos! ![]()
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