Classroom Management Strategies: Part One

By no means do I consider myself a classroom management expert. But I do have over 7 years of classroom experience under my belt, and long list of creative ideas I've tried in my classroom during that time. Some have been extremely successful while others.. not so much. So over the next few weeks I'd like to take some time to share with you some  kid tested, teacher approved, real life strategies for classroom management straight from my classroom to yours!

This week, I'll start with a strategy that I use to help promoted positive behavior choices beginning the first week of school! [I hesitate to say the first day, because, well, we all know how insane the first day of school is.. and while we aspire to start on day one.. it definitely doesn't happen. I'll admit it for us all!).

My behavior system is certainly nothing fancy. I will fully admit that to start it off. Fancy isn't always practical, and I am definitely a practical teacher. So, if you're looking for something fancy, high-tech, or amazing brilliance... you won't find that here. It's just a simple, instant-reward ticket system. It works for me and my class, and if you're looking for something new to replace your clip chart, it might work for you too.

Like I mentioned above, I use tickets. Legit raffle tickets. They're low cost and super easy. Rip up a bunch and you're ready to go. Low-prep, low cost. I'm all about it! Here's a link to a bunch of cute, different colored ones I found on Amazon. For about $15 you'd be set forever. Literally. But I picked up my roll at a local party store, and I'm pretty sure I've even seen them at Wal-Mart before. So, they are easy to find and not expensive by any means. One roll should last you the rest of your teaching career!

I use them to reward my students positively. Let me say that again. I use it to reward my students positively. I pass them out to them over the course of the day for expected classroom behaviors.

and when I pass them out, I use positive words.

I like to teach my students to be polite. That includes raising their hands to speak rather than interrupting. Whether it is myself, another teacher, or another student talking, they need to learn to wait their turn patiently, and when they do I reward them and encourage them.

This one is huge. I have quite a chatty class this year, and they talk. Constantly. If one student starts to talk, it's like an epidemic and within seconds the whole class is talking. So, when I see a student working quietly (thankfully there's always at least one child who is!) I reward them with a ticket or two and say this. Usually, within a few seconds, another student takes notice (because they want a ticket too!) and like another epidemic, the talking begins to reverse and the class quiets down again. It's a wonderful thing!

This is another big one for my class this year. I a lot of boys. A LOT. 12 of them to be exact. And they are rowdy! They easily get off task and just love to talk. There's a lot of creativity in them (which I love!) and energy, spunk, exuberance for learning.. I adore them. But I also need them to stay focused when it's time to focus. So when I see one of them focusing when and how they need to be to learn, I reward that with these two phrases and some tickets. It helps and I am thankful for it! 

I also encourage my students when they are working hard. HOW that looks for every student is different. They work at different levels and paces, but as long as they are working hard on their assigned task, I am happy about it. So, of course, I encourage and reward it!

Now, that doesn't mean I don't use them negatively sometimes. But it's only SOMETIMES! If I have to repeat myself numerous times with directly and students still aren't obeying, or if I've rewarded ALL of the other students and that child is still off-task and not making the proper behavior choice, I will take a ticket. Usually, it starts with a warning because sometimes that's enough. However, there have been occasions where the taking of tickets is warranted. It happens. 

Here's how else I use them...

>>>For small group behavior rewards, with a Behavior BINGO chart. When ALL students in their pod are on-task, working hard and working quietly, I tell their captain to color in a square. When they fill a row, everyone in the group gets 10 tickets. When they fill up the board, they get a bonus 10 tickets. Let me tell you what, they encourage each other to be quiet and working! I love the teamwork!

>>>I have a Homework Club, from 4th Grade Frolics, and reward my students at the end of every month with about 15 to 20 tickets (depending on the length of the month and amount of assigned homework). 

>>>Mystery Student rewards! Sometimes, I need to run to the bathroom, or make a copy, or step of the classroom for a minute or two. It happens, it does. So, I'll pull a student name and tell them there is a Mystery Student watching for me while I am gone. They don't know who the Mystery Student is, only I do, and when I return to the classroom, I ask the Mystery Student if the class earned 2 tickets, lost 2 tickets, or nothing happens. 

>>>Field trips! I am NO NONSENSE when it comes to field trips. I have high behavior expectations when I take my class in public. So, I usually tell them that they have one choice: to earn x amount of tickets, or lose x amount of tickets. No in between, no individual-based rewards. They have to work together and they all must be well-behaved. I take no nonsense. Field trips are serious.

So, now what do I do with all of these tickets they are earning?? I'm glad you asked!

I have no-cost (and some low cost) rewards in my prize box, and at the end of every week my students are allowed to shop from the prize box with their tickets. 

These are my reward passes. I no longer buy little trinkets. They become SO costly! So, I use what's already in my classroom, what they ALREADY find to be special, and make it a pass! What's included in them all, here's the rundown:
>>Kindle time
>>computer time
>>no homework for a night
>>sit somewhere else for the day
>>bring in a stuffed animal for the day
>>show and tell
>>lunch with the teacher
>>write with a marker
>>choose your class job
>>free time for the class... and so many more!

Some of the low-cost ones on my end are higher-priced on their end. I have a Teacher Treat and Teacher Lunch pass where they request a treat to be brought in [Panera bagel, local coffee shop muffin or cookie -- they are HUGE! -- brownie, etc] and I bring it in for them. It's a BIG DEAL! Teacher Lunch is an even bigger deal.. they get to request lunch and I bring it in for them and they get to eat with me in the classroom!

I keep all of the reward prizes in this handy little supply box.

I made a little sign to show them how much things cost. I'll explain VIPs in a later post. VIPs are kind of a big deal.

 A former students gave me this owl as a gift one year for my birthday. I keep it on a shelf out of student reach, always filled with tickets. I also keep them in my pocket all day to pass out as the day goes on.

So, that's it! Strategy number one: a positive behavior management system. The key to is this: CONSISTENCY. My students know what I expect and what they should do. If my expectations and rewards remain consistent, I can continue to build (train) their positive choices. Then, over time, I slowly remove the ticket as the reward, but say the phrase the confirm and encourage their positive behavior choices! So far, after 46 days of school, I have been unable to do that with my current group, but we're working on it! :)

What are your thoughts? Do you implement a similar strategy? Share it with me below! I always enjoy finding new ways to approach classroom management!

I'll be back soon to talk about more classroom management ideas, including

>>>Managing Students with OCD

>>>Student Contributors: Class Jobs to Promote Responsibility

>>>The Fairness Cup

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Book It: Reading Tracking Made Simple!

Do you and your students participate in the Book It program? If so, I have a simple and easy way for you to track your students' reading minutes!

I created these bookmarks that serve as a dual purpose: bookmarks & reading minute trackers!

It's this simple: every night that your students read for 20 minutes, they [actually - their parents!] punch a hole in bookmark with a hole puncher. At the end of the month, when all the holes have been punched, they turn it in to your for the Pizza Hut pizza certificate! That's IT! {I also told my students that parents could X or color in the circles with a Sharpie if they didn't have a hole puncher on hand!}

To make them, I just printed them onto Astrobrights colored cardstock, laminated them [so they would be more durable all month], and cut them out. When I passed them out to my students, I wrote their name on the back with a Sharpie and they put them in the pouch in their Take Home Binders for reading at night. 

Simple and DONE! I might just do this every month, it's just too easy!

Click the picture above to DOWNLOAD THEM FOR FREE!
I also included a second option that says "October Reading" in case you don't participate in the Book It program but want to have your students keep track of their reading at night. There are 24 circles, for 24 total nights of reading.

Enjoy!

Sticky Note Lesson Plans & Erin Condren

Hey friends!

I am so excited about this post because that picture above just makes my {teacher} heart SO HAPPY! I absolutely love lesson planning and looking at my lesson planner because, well.. just LOOK AT THAT! Those colors, those fonts, and that organization. It's too much! GAHH!

SOOOO... anyhow.. enough of my gushing... I guess I should start telling you WHY it's there!

If you've been on my Facebook page, Instagram, or Pinterest at all, it might look a tad familiar.

There's a post & YouTube video floating around that I've already done telling all about how I create my Erin Condren Teacher Planner with sticky notes.

However, I have been able to take this gorgeous masterpiece of a plan book... and improve upon it EVEN MORE! say whaaat!? I know! I didn't think this was at all possible either.. but it is!

So... if you first need to read the original post about how I did that... do that RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW.

Then come on back and read what's NEW AND IMPROVED!


So...let's play a game and see if you can SPOT THE DIFFERENCE:

Did you find it?

Here's what's new.... MY SUBJECT LABELS! noooww take a look!:

It may seem silly... but can I just say how WONDERFUL it is to not have to hand write almost anything in my planner these days!?!

Thanks to the genius of my friend Lisa over at Fourth and Ten and her beautiful Instagram post, I no longer have to write in my subject headers and times! Using Avery Return Address Labels [and all of the patience I can muster!] I created these subject and time labels for my planner! Now, I spend even LESS TIME setting up my planner week to week. I simply put in the labels, washi tape for our snack & lunch breaks, and I'm good to go.

Here's what a bunch of them printed out looks like:

I think I am even going to try doing my dates on them too so literally nothing is written in anymore. Another plus? If I mess up or decide to change something I can just cover it up with another and be none the wiser!

So, I know you might be asking "how do you make the labels in color?" Well, this is where that patience I mentioned [and don't have much of!] comes in. When you download and open the template [which you can get here for free from Avery] in Microsoft Word. I select the box in the template and go to "Format" >> "Shape Fill." Then, select the color you want the background to be. Of course, you can leave it white. But I went ahead and gave mine a rainbow pattern. Then, I overlay a text box [which I make translucent] and format my text. I copy and paste the text boxes to fill one column with the same label format. So, the first column is my red "Morning Work" label, the second is the orange "Bible" label, the third alternates "Science," "Health," & "History" in yellow since that's how I will be teaching it this year [rotating through each content over the course of the whole year] and then the last column on the page is the green "Math" label. Then, once I save the file, I close it and copy the entire file itself and paste it onto my desktop. I rename it (something I'll remember that corresponds) and change the text boxes to the times for each of those same subjects. That way the colors are already done and I just have to change the text and formatting.

I say it takes patience because Microsoft Word is finicky when it comes to layering and I spent a lot of time adjusting the text boxes so they would line up well. But, now that it's done it looks great and was well worth the frustration!

>>> If you click here, you can download one of my label files and give them a try to see what I mean. You'll need the font CartonSix so it looks right and go from there so some of the formatting is done for you! Remember..it's in WORD. I'm sorry!

PRINTING TIP >>> once you create those labels, you will need to save them as a PDF in order to print. The first time I went to print I didn't do that.. and they didn't bring with the color fill. So I have some pages of just plain white labels. Anybody want them!?

I bought the Avery Return Address Labels on Amazon... you can get a box of 2000 here and have them for at least 2 years, if not more.. it just depends how many you use a week. Right now, I use 19 a week, but if I print the dates like I think I will that will be 24 a week x at least 34 weeks of planning for 816 labels a year. 2000 divided by 816 is 2.45 years... not bad for about $7!

For your enjoyment, here's another look at the goodness of all the supplies I use when I am putting it all together...

You can see in the top right that I used labels to insert when I do our daily Read Aloud under other plans because I didn't have room elsewhere. It works great! I love that the post-it allows for TWICE the planning room. You can lift them up and jot notes, ideas, and changes underneath for future reference [and hide them with the post-it!]

Happy Planning!

Last Minute Lessons: Post Your Thoughts

Sometimes, the best laid plans happen on the fly. It happens for me quite a bit. I'm a spontaneous, just wingin' it, let it happen naturally kind of lesson planner. [wow, that sounds terrible!] BUT, I do plan. Don't get me wrong. I know what content I am covering and when. I know what I will expect my students to do. I know the rigor. But, I don't write scripts. I fit my lessons plans on post-its, for goodness sake. One post-it for a subject, and the whole week fits on a two-page spread. I don't list objectives or standards [I'm blessed not to have to!] I let God lead my teaching. He inspires me, He provides, HE has the BEST ideas!

So.. what does that all have to do with this post? Well, it's exactly what happened this morning and I' thought I'd share with you how it came about.

I was in the shower [the best thinking always happens there! right!?] and I was thinking about my science lessons. For a lot of the time, our lessons come straight from our science books that are a part of our school's curriculum. I find myself easily putting it off or skipping it some days because, well, it's boring. Don't get me wrong, the content is fantastic and we DO have fun with experiments sometimes (I'm working on that!) but our day-to-day lessons are just reading about it. It gets boring and let's face it.. if it's taught in a whole group, they aren't going to listen to me read it to them and Round Robin Reading isn't exactly a best practice. Just ask Jen Jones. So, in trying to solve my own problem and jazz up my teaching in content areas like science & health, I came up with a quick "Post Your Thoughts" informal assessment activity.

I quickly created a template for standard 3x3" sticky notes to fit on. I stuck them on the boxes [you can baarreelly see them in the pic up top, on the left] and labeled the post-its with my students' numbers [so they remained generally anonymous to their classmates when they posted their thoughts but I knew what their answers were] and assigned the reading.

They were to read a chunk from our science books on their own, at their own pace. Usually, we read things together in small groups or whole group, and we highlight important information that might be seen on a quiz or test. Since this was an independent study session, I laid out MY teacher copy and let them come over to look at it, if needed, where they could see the parts I had highlighted. After they got started and I explained how they would use the post-it notes, I let them start reading. After they were all engaged in reading, I then wrote the questions I had for them to find on the board. Why did I decide to wait? So they actually READ EVERYTHING, and didn't just skim in order to find the answers and be done.

So, each question was color-coded for a certain post-it [as you can see on the right]. When they found the answer, they wrote it on the corresponding sticky note and put it on the board right under the question.

As soon as everyone was finished, we talked about what we read, highlighted some important information, and answered those questions. My students read at their own pace, and I now have a small formative assessment piece to show their understanding. They did FANTASTIC! I was super proud of them, seeing as this was the first time we did something like this this school year.... and it's only the TENTH DAY! They loved it, and I definitely seeing us do this activity much more often!

So what do you think? Would you have your students "Post their Learning"? If so, you can grab my template for FREE >>>> right here!

Just print, copy, and cut in half to use! You could even laminate a set, and make them reusable year after year for just about any content area or reading assignment!

Bucket Filling & The Bible

If you've never read my blog before today... WELCOME! My name is Tami and I teach 3rd grade at a Christian school in Ohio. I am passionate about educating our future generation, and especially doing so about our salvation in Jesus Christ.

When I head back to school, I make it point to start our year on a positive, God-honoring note. There's a BTS favorite picture book out there, you've probably heard of... Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. If you haven't, without ruining it, I'll just say that it sends such a positive message to students about how to treat others. But, in teaching at a Christian school and in-looking at the world from a Biblical perspective, I wanted to utilize this book to do just that. I started to think through the Bible and the more I read in the New Testament, the more I began to realize that Jesus IS the ULTIMATE BUCKET FILLER!

So, on the first day of school, I read this book to my students. We talk about ways to be a Bucket Filler, how we can treat others, and how it feels when we treat others kindly; showing them love. Then, I read them this verse, Matthew 7:12 [NIV]

"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.."

You may have heard of this verse also as "The Golden Rule".... "treat others how you want to be treated." It is exactly what Jesus intends for us, to LOVE others the way we want to be loved. The way HE LOVES US. He is the ULTIMATE Bucket Filler, perfect and without sin. He showed everyone His Heavenly Father's love and did so especially by dying on the cross for our sins.

We spend time the first day studying this in my 3rd grade class to set a positive, Jesus-centered tone in our classroom.
I also have a plastic bucket I got one summer and have it hanging by the door to my room. I show my students that it is hanging there and it serves as our reminder to be a Bucket Filler to someone every day, just like Jesus. My students absolutely love this book and completely understand how to treat others kindly, and how not treating them kindly [or being a Bucket Dipper] is not a choice Jesus made. We strive to be like Him at our school, and this book takes that idea straight from the words and actions of Jesus Himself and makes them relevant for the brain and heart of an eight year old child.

If you teach in a Christian school, I hope this gives you a practical idea to implement in your classrooms to set a positive tone in your classroom. It would even be a great study for your whole school during Chapel!

I pray you are having a blessed beginning of the school year!

BTS 2015 Prep: Bulletin Boards!

*this post includes Amazon affiliate links


Hey friends!! I am so excited to link up today (a day behind..oops!) with Ashley & Angie for the #2getherwearebetter linky!

Every month they host a link up that [in the words of Ashley herself] "brings teachers together to share among, collaborate with, and inspire one another!" How amazing is that?!?

So, I am here to talk to you more about my bulletin boards, specifically to show off  show you my latest creation as I was able to get into my classroom last week and begin my BTS prep for the new year!

This was the only board I was truly able to finish at the moment, but I hope it gives you some inspiration for colors, designs, and fonts to use in your classroom!

My FAVORITE color is orange! So, I was able to find a roll of fadeless orange bulletin board paper at school (score!) and hung that as my background. Then, I layered my borders. It's is one of my favorite things to do with border! I love how the white makes the border POP!, gives a straight edge finish, and highlights the scalloped edge of the border! You can see that I am pairing orange and turquoise in my room with year, so those colors will be represented throughout my classroom and other bulletin boards to come! 

Here's a close-up of the borders and font:

I'm in love! *swoon*

I used the font MTF Jumpin' Jack EXT for the banner title.. it's my new favorite and will be allll over my room this year!

I also like using thumbtacks to hang borders... it does just a little less damage to your borders than stapling, and sometimes (depending on the colors/patterns) you can hide them better than a staple!

I wish I had more to share with you right now, but I promise I'll be back with a TON more decor ideas and inspiration I get into my classroom later this week and next week! Our annual Back to School picnic is the 15th of this month, so I don't have tooo much time to get myself ready, even though we start back the 25th with the kiddos!

What do you think of this board? I hope it gives you some inspiration as you start back to school!

If you love it, you can purchase the banner title and rules here on TpT to save yourself some time! >>> CLICK HERE! <<<

You can click the picture below if you like the scalloped border and want to purchase it as well!

The Famous Americans Museum

I have been waiting for waaayyyy to long to write this post! I've been gathering the pictures and working hard to prep this all so I can show you what an AMAZING job my students did at the end of our school year with my newest classroom project: The Famous Americans Museum!

Last year, my students created scrapbook pages as if they were the Famous American they chose to study. They turned out great, but I wanted something MORE. More engaging, more interactive, just more fun in general, and something from which they would take more away.

So, after some thinking and researching, and an entire day of creating and writing.. The Famous Americans Museum was born!

I took it to school and started planning the dates.. which became a difficult task. We had so many school events, testing, and other time off that setting the due dates was not easy. It kept getting pushed back, but finally I had a date set for mid-May.

My students knew something BIG for our history project was coming and were itching to hear about. Finally, the day came that I could send home the information packets and tell them alllll about it!
Let me tell you what.... they were SOOO EXCITED!! When I sent the packets home, I read them the information and told them all I could think to tell them. Then, I said that they had to wait until they went home, read over everything with their parents, and came back the next day to ask me any questions. I do this so that they can talk with their parents and (hopefully) come back with less questions after reading the information twice. Well, it didn't quite work that way...which didn't surprise me. They had SO MANY questions when they came back the next day!! We spent almost 2 hours talking only about the museum and report projects! That seems like so much time (and let's face it, that is a lot of instructional time gone) but I didn't mind it one bit because they were fully engaged that entire time. They were thinking, planning, and completely excited to do a research project. I was beyond thrilled.

So, let's get into how we did this project so that if you want to do this in your classroom, you can do what I did!

I sent home the packets that outlined what my expectations were, and gave my students about 3 days to think about their Famous Americans choices. I asked them to make 3 choices (in a prioritized order) because I did not want any choices to be repeated in the museum.

Here's a look at some of the information parents saw in the packets..

Here you can see where choices were listed for the student. I required parents to sign when this paper was returned so I know they saw this information and knew this project was assigned. I also required the students to sign so they knew what was expected of them as well.

I gave my students a variety of Famous Americans to choose from. This list is a bit different from what was sent home. I had 13 girls in my class this year, so I needed 13 female Famous Americans, because (of course) they all wanted to be a female!

At the museum, students had two choices of the project to display. They could create either a tri-fold board or a set of artifacts that gave factual information & representation of their Famous American.

My favorite part of the entire project was the portion listed in #3 above. When my students participated in the museum on the due date above, they could either participate as a museum guide, dressed as their Famous American and speaking in the third person.. OR they could speak in the first person, as that American come to life!

I wasn't sure about that part of the museum, as it was more of a challenge. I had a very high-achieving class this year and wanted to kick up the rigor a notch. But, it was a great way to differentiate and let my students make that choice for themselves. Let me tell you what, they were the MOST excited about this part. They started thinking about the movie "The Night at the Museum," and relating it to the characters that came to life at night when the museum closed... and instantly everyone wanted to do this! To be honest, I was still nervous and unsure about it... but by the day of the museum, those feelings were completely gone! But, I'm getting ahead of myself...

So, once my students brought in their choices, I started to organize them with these two documents on my computer. (I could have easily done this in my Erin Condren planner checklist pages, or on a sheet of paper.. but I like nice, neat fonts. I'm OCD like that!)

It took a day and some extra research to help all 13 girls settle on different Famous Americans, but we got them selected and I was able to send home their final choice for their parents to confirm and start gathering materials. I worked hard to honor first choices, and went by a first-come, first-serve basis. Many students turned their choices in immediately, so I put their #1 choice down first. If someone else had the same #1 choice, I went to their #2 choice. It didn't really cause too many issues. My girls were very gracious about it and were just so excited to get started working that they went with something that sounded interesting. They didn't want to hold up the project any longer! I loved their example of flexibility and understanding to their friends.. so sweet :)

Once students brought in their resources for research, we got to work in class researching and writing. The written report was an in-class only part of the project so that I could help them with research and writing, and also ensure that the work they did was completely and authentically their own. 

We used these research organizers I made to gather specific information about each Famous American to help my students organize it before turning it into their final draft.

Once students got the information gathered, I help them organize the thoughts into complete sentences that made sense, which we then turned into paragraphs to form a written report. Finally, they had the opportunity to type their report for a clean,, final product.

As the museum date approached, I created an invitation flyer that I sent home to parents so they could come to view all of our hard work. I also included a time for other classes in our building to come and see all we had put together as well. In the end, we had two one-hour blocks of time set aside for everyone to come check us out!

I also made some brochures to pass out (my students' idea!) and organized the Famous Americans into groups of similar historical impact, and made signs to match that hung throughout the museum to guide our guests. I also wore a name tag that day, serving as the museum "curator." I greeted and welcomed the visitors (mainly each class in the building that came) and review the "rules" of the museum, especially emphasizing all of my students' hard work!

I wish I had taken a picture of my outfit that day. My students insisted I look the part (even suggesting I wear a tux! haha) but to give you a sense, I work dress pants, a button down shirt, and a vest with a chic, bright colored scarf, you know, to look the artsy, yet professional type! lol.. I know. Too funny.

Before I show you their amazing hard work that came to life, I just have to tell you how BLOWN AWAY I was with their presentations. They were absolutely AMAZING! I was speechless and BURSTING with pride all day! I really have no other words to say, but just how fantastic they did. Many of them spent days memorizing their speeches in the first person and rehearsed so many times with their classmates.

I required their at-home projects to be brought in two days before the museum date so that if anyone forgot anything, it wouldn't be forgotten on the day of the museum. They used the day before the museum to practice their presentations, and we spent most of our day rehearsing. Many students actually had what they wanted to say completely memorized, but I gave everyone some notecards so they could have notes in front of them (and of course they had their tri-fold and artifacts for prompting as well).

The next day they brought in their costumes and we prepped ourselves for the day. I highly recommend some parent volunteers to help with costumes, if you can! A few extra hands DOES NOT HURT!

We set up our "Big Room," (the nickname for our multipurpose chapel & cafeteria) and waited for our first guests. It was a whirlwind. It was exhausting. It was fantastic. They set the bar so high for my future 3rd graders who will do this project (because I could never NOT do it again!) and got the entire school so excited about it.

Kinders to 4th graders were so impressed with their work, and the 2nd graders across the hall cannot wait to get the 3rd grade to do it too! and neither can I! It was a priceless day full of engaged students (and parents) everywhere I looked. I was on the verge of tears all day!

Like I said, it was so fantastic. I was bursting all day! My mother-in-law came to help and took pictures of all of the students, and EVERY child's parents and family members came to see it as well. How amazing is that?! We received thank you cards and sweet, congratulatory words from my teacher-bestie's fourth graders when we returned on Monday (oh yeah, it's highly important you pick the museum to be on a FRIDAY! they need the weekend to recoup...and so do you!) and my entire class was floating from that project through the end of the year!

So, what are your thoughts? How would you like to do this with your students? I will tell you, it is absolutely worth the work and time that we all put in, and so rewarding!

If you're interested, you can take a look at my TpT store for the time saving pack I created if you want to implement this yourself! It includes all of the forms you saw above, plus so much more so you can jump in and start right away!