Classroom Routines Teaching Resources
Do you need help with classroom routine ideas this school year? Our teacher team has created dozens of resources to make explaining your routines and keeping students on routine easy — from classroom job printables and charts to visual calendars that walk students through your daily class schedules.
These teacher-created resources help students stay on task and keep things moving throughout the school day for a day that's easier on you and your students both!
How Do Routines Help Teachers With Classroom Management?
Are you exploring the addition of routines to your classroom to help kick-start your classroom management? You may be pleasantly surprised by the results!
Routines play a substantial role in successful classroom management because they help provide structure for the day. This can help students know what to expect and, in turn, that helps students to be more successful too!
Classroom Routine Examples and Ideas
Looking for some routines that can help your classroom management this school year? Here are some periods of the school day when setting up routines can make a big difference to your classroom management, plus resources to help set them up!
1. Morning Routines
Mornings are more manageable when students know just what to do when they arrive at school, so you can take roll and get ready for the day while they're stowing bags and getting ready to learn!
Our pre-created templates will walk students through their routine for the morning with an agenda they can follow.
2. Line Up Routines
Students spend a lot of the school day in line, whether they're heading to the school library or outside for recess. Set up routines so students know exactly what to do and how to behave!
3. Technology Routines
Make tablet and computer time less stressful with routines that every student knows to follow! Print a technology routines poster to display in the classroom so every student knows just what to do.
4. End of the School Day
Students should know exactly what to do during the dismissal period. Should they be putting chairs on their desks? Do students who will walk home go to one place and students who get a ride home go to another? What happens with homework folders? All of this should be mapped out, so the end of the day period will run smoothly!
Print out our end-of-the-day bookmarks for students to check the routines when they've forgotten what to do!
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Main Idea Exit Tickets
Check for understanding of the main idea and supporting detail with these exit tickets.
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Pirate's Treasure – Maze Quest
A fun pirate-themed maze for students to complete.
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Easy Origami Animals Worksheet and Step-By-Step Instructions for Kids
Make origami animals with your students with printable step-by-step instructions plus a 2D shapes worksheet for your maths lesson planning.
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How to Draw a Teddy Bear for Kids- Task Card
A task card that helps primary school students draw an awesome picture of a teddy bear!
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Sharp and Blunt Pencil Signs (Pencil Station)
Help keep your pencils organised in the classroom with these pencil station signs.
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Classroom Calendar Pack
Build your students' knowledge of days, months, seasons and the weather each morning with this classroom calendar pack.
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Classroom Procedure Activity - Do or Don't? Sort
Identify proper school and classroom procedures with this sorting activity.
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Skip Counting Exit Tickets
Assess student understanding of skip counting within 1000 by 5s 10s and 100s.
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Parent Information Night PowerPoint Template
Prepare for your parent information night with a customisable slideshow template.
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Would You Rather? Books and Reading - Movement Game
Engage your students in thought-provoking discussions and fun exercises in this books and reading edition of 'Would You Rather...?'
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Printable Classroom Helpers Bulletin Board
Print all you need for a classroom helpers bulletin board to make sure students know who is responsible for various jobs in your classroom.
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Year 3 Literacy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
16 Literacy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Adverb Entry and Exit Tickets (Differentiated)
Use these exit tickets to teach your students how to use adverbs to add detail in simple sentences!
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Literacy Teaching Toolkit - Sight Word Assessments
Track Dolch sight word mastery with this set of printable assessments and data sheets to add to your literacy teaching toolkit.
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Behaviour Punch Card – Look at Me Go!
Promote and reward good behaviour with printable punch cards!
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Numeracy Bookwork Expectations Posters
A checklist for students to refer to when displaying numeracy bookwork. There are low colour and black and white versions, plus editable versions in case you need to add your own expectations.
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Class Meeting Agenda Slides
Use these slides to begin a routine of classroom morning meetings.
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Back to School Activity Mats - All Year Levels
Use these back-to-school activity mats as your first day of school warm-up activity during morning arrival.
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Reading Rotation Classroom Display
Guided reading classroom display to organise your classroom and their daily activities.
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Classroom Spinner Template - Movement Activities
Classroom spinner template focusing on exercise movements - perfect for brain breaks in the classroom.
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Origami Box Step-By-Step Instructions
Visual instruction page to use when creating an origami box.
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Mini-Mysteries – Interactive PowerPoint
A set of interactive, logic-based activities where students read clues to solve each mystery.
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How to Make an Origami Dog — Step-By-Step Instructions
Teach students how to make an origami dog with an easy origami guide for kids.
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Year 6 Literacy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
20 Literacy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Year 4 Literacy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
25 Literacy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Year 5 Literacy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
21 Literacy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Chicken Evolution Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages cognitive processing skills, physical activity and social skills.
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What Are You Doing? Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages communication skills.
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The Team Freeze Frame Active Game
A fun active game that encourages the development of listening skills, creativity, spontaneity and team work.
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One Word Story Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages creative thinking and teamwork.
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How to Draw a Ship - Directed Drawing Activity
Learn how to draw a ship with a fun directed drawing activity sheet.
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30 Mindful Drawing Tasks
30 drawing tasks to promote mindfulness in your classroom.