Our Classroom Contract

At the beginning of the year, the students come up with a list of ideas of what a first grade classroom should look like, sound like, and feel like.  (They also discuss what a first grade classroom SHOULD NOT look like, sound like, and feel like.)  We list the positive behaviors of a classroom.  Then I give each child a hot dot to place beside the #1 most important, then another hot dot for #2, and #3.  We then write the contract together.  Everyone signs it, and we post it in the room so that everyone can refer to it daily.  I also make a copy of it to go in the parent handbook.