Transitional+Ideas


 * "Herding the class" - Have a chart with 4 areas --> Morning, Lunch, Recess, : the class gets a boot for following the 3 rules --> face forward, hands to yourself, quiet. Let class decide rewards for 10 boots (ex: stickers), 20 boots (candy), 30 boots, 40 boots, 50 boots (movie).


 * "Touch your nose, touch your ears, touch your shoulders."


 * "When I say voices, you say..?" "SHH!"


 * Play music and tell them to hop, run in place, etc. until the music stops


 * Tell the students to take a deep breath. Hold it. Let it out slowly and silently. Do this 2-3 times until the class is quiet.


 * Around the world math - If you have time between transitions, you can play this game. Two students that sit beside each other stand up. The teacher calls out a math problem (usually one from the set they've been working on that week), and whoever calls out the answer first moves on to the next person.


 * Silent statue game - All the students stand up behind their desks. The teacher calls out "Freeze" or "Pose" and the students have to pick a pose to freeze in. Then the teacher watches for a few seconds to see who is the "most frozen" and whose poses she likes the most. Then she'll call out two or three winners and tell them to "Unfreeze." Then they'll start over.


 * Simon Says - Get all the students to stand behind their desks. Play a quick game of Simon Says where the last instruction is "Simon says quietly sit down at your desk and get out your book/folder."


 * Tell the students to quietly line up from tallest to shortest.


 * The students are to be called up by when their birthday is to bring up their homework from last night.


 * Quiet game- pick on quiet student to start the game. That student has 30 seconds to pick another student (girl if it is a boy, boy if it is a girl) that is being quiet. Snow ball- student stand and listen quietly to the teacher, teacher point to a child and gives them a problem (5+2), the student can only say the answer, if they get it correct they sit down. Teacher picks another student and says plus 5, that student had to be listen to the answer, so they can answer. This continues until they have reached 100


 * Smartboard tic-tac-toe- Split the class into teams, one at a time, one person from a team comes up and has to answer a question of their choosing. If they get it right they get a "X" or "O" depending on the team. Who every gets a line filled with X's or O's first wins.