Happy Monday, y’all. I have a confession to make. I ran a red light on the way to work this morning. Yipes! It wasn’t a reckless move—well, I guess it ended up being reckless. I simply thought I was close enough to make it on yellow, realized too late that I wasn’t, and already had the pedal to the metal so to speak. Not a smart move on my part.
Traffic signal posters are quite common in classrooms, aren’t they? I wonder what Garrett Morgan—the first to patent a red, yellow, and green traffic signal—would think of that! I’ve seen some traffic signal posters programmed for monitoring student behavior—a smiling green light, a solemn yellow light, and a frowning red light—and others programmed for classroom noise levels. I think this traffic signal editing poster from TheMailbox.com is a creative option too! I’d love to hear how you implement a traffic signal poster or the colors red, yellow, and green in your classroom. Please share!
Stopping on red!
Diane
#BeTheDifference
I use one to monitor voices at circle time. I made a red light and used clip art of a child making the hush sound with the words no voice listening. The yellow light has clip art of 2 children whispering, with the words inside voice. The green light has children playing and the words voice. That green light is used for when we play games and we are excited. This year to save more board space I put each light on a half sheet of paper, laminated them and I put them on a hook. Still easily seen but space wise its great.
I use a red Stop sign and a round green light sign to play the freeze game. The way we do this is I will have the students sit in a circle, I will give one student an object to pass, when I hold up the green sign, they pass the object to their friend next to them…until they see the red sign, then they freeze and stop passing the object. We do this until we get all the way around the circle.
Also, I use red Stop signs at each of the exit doors signifying that they must stop and wait for a teacher or parent.