What I'm going to share with you didn't solve all my problems. It really is a cool system, though. I don't know how jiggy it would work with first graders, although I wish I had known about it when I taught my firsties. It works fantabuously with my Fab 4's!
Hand Signals.
Darn. I just realized how blurry this photo is. We'll just have to deal until I can shoot a better one.
My favorite of all the hand signals is the #1. How many times have you been interrupted by a wildly waving hand, and instead of the stellar thoughts you expect you get the "I have to go to the bathroom". Now I see that #1 sticking up and I know what it's all about. I can give a quick side whisper "You can go in 2 minutes, as soon as I'm done explaining the assignment". It's a beautiful thing.
By the way, the #1 is in no way a reference to "#1", if you know what I mean. But it does help me remember what that signal means.
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I use them in 3rd and my teacher bestie uses them in 1st and they work like magic for both of us.
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