Sticks

If you have been reading this blog for the past year you might remember the post about the classroom management sticks! What was I thinking! All I can say was that I was so overwelmed at the time that I was trying anything! Sticks (with the students names on them) worked great with my student teaching classroom (of 32 students). It helped me to know which students had answered a question or already had a turn. Well multiply that by 20 and that is.... a whole lot of sticks to keep track of. It was a nightmare!
If I had only known that each student in each class was numbered 1-31 it would of made life alot easier. (For some reason I never asked...) THIS YEAR I wised up(that's not a word is it, oh well). I bought these cute numbers and taped them to some left over sticks from last year (see pictures).
Why sticks? Let me count the reasons... Keep track of who has answered a question, read, done the conversation, etc. ,able to pick at random a student helper (makes it more fair in their eyes),able to practice numbers... at least up to 31... Any one got any other ideas I can use them for?