Talk to the K teacher... By Sharon D. W-L

Sounds stressfull. I feel for you. Should I assume that these kiddos are about 4 or 5 years old by now. Maybe you should talk to the K teacher if your school has one and "steal" an idea or 2 from this teacher espeically

if they will be his/her students next year. Although you don't have much time you might have to pick something and focus on it really hard for at least 3-5 days before you'll see the change you want/need. I teach 1st and we take a good 3-6 weeks to establish our basic routines and expectations - that is in September! Not sure if this would be good for your age group but here

is what I use. My student-teacher who is taking over full-time in a week for 3 weeks also has been using this as well.

We have a section on the board where I print their name and if they need to be spoken to a second time they get an X and that equals a detention. You could try 3 chances or strikes which I have used in the past but by this time of the year 2 chances is all they get. NAME XX = detention... :) You could use it as a warning and if they refocus then you could erase ther name. Now I have pre-established consequences for detention times but if you can't take away recess or the like you could have them serve a few minutes of heads down if they use up their chances. This hopefully will give you a break and give them a chance to calm down. You could do this immeduately or at choice time/free play.

I have called entire class heads down when it is just too crazy. I have also taught them that when I call an emergency heads down it is a safety issue. I don't use if very often but review it 3-4 times a year just incase. I've used it twice since my student teacher has come in! Once was for a sick (vomiting) child and today we had nuts found in our classroom! We are a nut aware school. We were able to find out where they came from and remove them from the room immedately. Also we now had a teachable moment to review why we can't have nuts in the classroom. I have a new student who started yesterday so this was a good review for him.

I wish you well.

sdwl;)

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