Good Habits are (also) hard to Break

We all know that bad habits stick like glue. But so do good habits. Honorable Character is an investment in your students that will take root and grow with them. Putting things neatly away in a specific place and keeping desks orderly will become a life-long habit. Good character marks will encourage your students to keep order in their binders, desks and in their lives.

A few days of arriving early to check students’ desks and rewarding the orderly students with #7 marks will go a long way toward encouraging them to practice this good habit. Check students’ desks for neatness before they come to class. Then put a #7 and the word Orderliness on the board, along with the names of students whose desks are neat. What a great way to start the day on a positive note by recognizing a job well done! Orderliness serves the student for a lifetime.

DKY… Monarch butterflies have orderliness in their migration patterns? This habit of the Monarch keeps them migrating south to Mexico, year after year. When we look up (here in Texas) and see many orange wings in the air, we are reminded that orderliness can mean survival!