Routines

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**__ SOME OF THE ROUTINES USED IN OUR CLASS. __**

//"Routines are the backbone of __daily__ classroom life. They facilitate teaching and learning…. Routines don’t just make your life easier, they save valuable classroom time. And what’s most important, efficient routines make it easier for students to learn and achieve more."// —//Learning to Teach…not just for beginners// by Linda Shalaway When ** routines ** and procedures are carefully taught, modeled, and established in the classroom, children know what’s expected of them and how to do certain things on their own. Having these predictable patterns in place allows teachers to spend more time in meaningful instruction. * Use the puppet as an emotional mediator and to develop public and private language (give instructions).
 * Welcome routines. Hello and bye-bye routines with songs.
 * Clean up routine with songs.
 * More as a game than as a routine, we can sometimes play with the students when they stand up and sit down, asking them to sit down slowly or quickly (to show the difference we change theprosody rhythm, stress, and intonation of the instructions.
 * At the end of the class we make a small apprenticeship review. In group or individually (filling a record sheet).
 * As an evaluation we can use the facial expressions, the thumbs but also a token economy system. We can reward the pupils with stars or stickers. We also can make them consider why they don’t deserve a new one or why they have to remove one.
 * At the end of the class they have to file the sheets in them folders or shelves.
 * Point or show the clock to illustrate the end of the class.

(With these routines we work the public language through the songs and at the same time the private. We also work emotional intelligence and public skills, the responsibility and classroom atmosphere).

**__ Click on the image to watch routine videos: __**