Teacher Trick for Ghoulish Behavior!

It's it's October and the time for tricks & treats, I thought I'd offer up a classroom management "trick" today as well as freebie "treat." I use an economy system to help reward and reinforcement individual behavior but I've also had a class competition as well.  This year we've had some ghoulish behavior for lots of little goblins... Thus, the class reward wasn't working! So, I decided to try something on a smaller scale.

So what am I doing that's helping with homework and behavior? Table Bingo! 

What's the incentive? A reward of some kind and NEW SEATS! It's amazing how well this took off with my fifth graders. I think the reward for new seats my be their favorite aspect of the entire reward!

I can't take all the credit, I got the idea from my blogging buddy and "sole" sister Lisa from Fourth n Ten. She does Behavior Bingo as a competition between her morning and afternoon blocks.

Here's how it works in my room:
I give out "squares" to entire tables when they clean up, follow directions the first time, follow directions on the board, are great for a sub or even if the entire table has their LA/SS homework! {gasp!} I give students a choice for homework completion but the other squares I will call "numbers" so if several tables follow directions I may say they can color in any number with a "5".... This keeps the game going or allows you to speed it up if necessary.

All boards are posted so students can see their table's progress. I also allow students to color in the squares for that ownership piece. They have been great about taking turns and "talking strategy" with each other.

Our first reward was a snack during class provided by me. Students were able to drink a soda {caffeine free} and have some baked chips as I taught LA/SS. I'm going to take suggestions for our next reward as well as offer my own suggestion of  a Week Off LA Homework! #WinWin

Here's my BINGO "go-to's" as freebie treat: