Scoop Alert!
Posted by Diane Badden on 10 Jun 2010 | Posted in: Drawings and Giveaways, The Mailbox Books
Wow! Have I got a scoop for you!
Wait for it…wait for it…Sizzle, sizzle pop!
Early next week, 15 brand-new The Mailbox books are being released! Now, I may be a teeny bit partial to The Mailbox publications. You’d expect that, right? But I’m being as impartial as I can when I say, “These books are awesome!” In fact, I’m positive you’d love to have one of these books in your collection. So I searched my treasure box, and guess what I found: two free book coupons! This means two blog readers can each choose and receive a brand-new book without spending a dime.
Now, how do you get your name in our free book drawing? There are several ways! You can tell us how you keep a handle on your school-related paperwork by responding to “Paperwork SOS“—that gets you one entry. You can respond to this blog post (see topic below)—that gets a second entry. And you can respond to any blog post I publish next week! (That might get you two, three, or four more entries!) All comments made through June 20 will be entered in the drawing. We’ll announce the lucky winners on Monday, June 21. I’m so excited! I hope you are too!
Smiles!
Diane
Topic: How do you discourage tattling, bullying, and other negative classroom behaviors?
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In my precshool class and in my home (my children are 11 &
I have Timmy the tattle turtle (a stuffed animal). They may go tell the turtle, that way they can share what they feel needs to be shared. As they are saying it, I am hoping they are listening to their words and building on their self help skills for problem solving.
I always read the book Tattletale, Tattletail by Mary Fuller. It’s about a boy who tattles a lot and needs to learn the difference between tattling and being a responsible citizen in the classroom. While tattling, he unexpectedly starts to grow a tail where he should be sitting. It’s just a great way to show students this important difference without embarrassing or singling out any one student. It’s a super cute book for k-3.
Tattle Tickets - you get one per day. After that, you have to take a break in the rest stop if you tattle. If you DON’T use your tattle ticket, you get a surprise (sticker, treat, etc.) at the end of the day. This has worked miracles for me in kindergarten.
I so need help!
There are many times kindergartens want to tell you things the other children did. To discourage this I encourage then to go tell President Obama . I have a picture of the president on a file cabinet and I encourage the children to talk to him when they feel there is a need to tattle. I also tell them that he loves to hear from them when they just have to talk to someone when a teacher is busy. They feel better after talking to him. It’s simple and it works.
I love all the ideas. I am a first year teacher and can never have too many ideas from seasoned teachers! Thanks!!!
I also use a “Tattle Bear”. I send children to the bear to hear their tattles. Of course, if someone is hurt, sick, bleeding, etc, students are encouraged to tell me! But, for minor problems, Tattle Bear will listen quietly.
If a student is telling me about something unsafe another is doing I don’t mind that. But tattling just for the sake of tattling I don’t like. Usually I get kids tattling about something another is doing to them “Jimmy won’t share the ball.” or others like that. I ask if there is any blood or broken bones. If it’s just two kids not getting along I remind them that they need to learn how to work things out together.
This year I will be having the tattling ear. I will have a big poster of an ear, when the kids have a problem, I will have them go tell the ear about it. This way the students can learn to deal with disagreements on their own. I also tell my kids at the beginning of every year that we are a family, and families do not treat each other unfairly or use unkind words.
In order to combat tattling, I like to have the children tattle to the teacher’s suggestion box. A small mailbox (old Valentines mailbox craft) allows children to continue to use their handwriting and drawing skills and also feel as though they are helping.
We address some “suggestions” at the end of the week during morning meeting.
Tanya
One way I work with tattling is to have them tattle to a classroom stuffed buddy. Or they can leave a little note in the mascot’s mailbox.
Colleen Gregory
I love some of these ideas to stop tattling. I’ll be using some of them.
It seems like a lot of the tattling we get is not about a problem, such as “Johnny got the playdough out.” I just respond that it’s okay. That answers a lot of our tattling. I definitely do not make a big deal out of what they tell unless it is important. When they find out that they aren’t going to get a big reaction, we don’t have as much tattling.