Whole Brain Teaching is Coming!!!!

I am sooooooooo excited!!! After much debate, I decided to go ahead and jump into Whole Brain Teaching this year, and something tells me I won't look back. I have used bits and pieces of Whole Brain Teaching since back when it was called Power Teaching. I was contemplating trying to implement more this year, but I was worried about adjusting to a new district, school, and grade level...and trying to throw something completely new into my classroom management. Especially something so complex. I thought I would wait it out a year and get used to the new curriculum first. Over the weekend I was scouring the internet for new classroom management strategies for my class of very eager and energetic learners:) After getting to know the personalities in my classroom over the last three weeks, I feel that this group is the perfect group of guinea pigs!
The other super exciting thing I discovered is that Whole Brain Teaching now has WAY more resources than the last time I looked into it...and wait a minute...they are FREE!!!!! Nothing is ever free nowadays. Especially something so fantastic. There are so many fantastic resources on their website now. I am jumping for joy! I spent countless hours watching videos and reading ebooks this weekend. My husband thinks I am nuts. Oh well. The other plus is that I can actually become a certified Whole Brain Teacher online...also for FREE! Part of my certification will require that I blog about Whole Brain Teaching, so as I begin implementing it in my classroom you will get to see more about how it is working for us!
So, this week we are going to add to our callbacks (they learned the "class-yes" callback the first week of school) and focus on The Big 7:
1. Class-Yes
2. Hands and Eyes
3. Teach-Okay
4. Mirror
5. Switch
6. Scoreboard
7. Rules (and I am adding in some new procedural callbacks)

I also went in today and put up our "Super Improvers" wall just to spark some curiosity and excitement:) I will post more on that later. I also have some exciting games for sight words, math, and reading that I will be introducing one at a time over the next couple of months.  I can't wait to see what kinds of changes are going to take place in our classroom!

And before I call it a night (and tune into The Great Food Truck Race), here are a couple of pictures from last week. We working on writing friendly letters for Daily 5, and the "Clean Desk Fairy" paid a visit to some of our friends:)

By: Student #22