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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Affirmations – Weekly Timetable
Printable Affirmations themed weekly timetable to use in a diary, planner or on a wall in your classroom.
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Are We There Yet? Captain Yet's Joyous Journey – Poster
A Captain Yet poster to help students learn more resourcefully and independently in the classroom.
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Book Review Chatterbox Template
Help your students review a book using this hands-on chatterbox.
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Search and Find – Underwater Edition
Search and find a wide variety of underwater creatures.
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Mini-Mystery – Who Killed the Class Plant? – Interactive PowerPoint
An intriguing mystery where students use their problem-solving skills to determine the culprit.
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Editable and Blank Chatterbox Templates
Make paper Chatterboxes with this multi-use template for teachers and students.
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Origami Giraffe Step-By-Step Instructions
Visual instruction page to use when creating an origami giraffe.
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Origami Fox Step-By-Step Instructions
Visual instruction page to use when creating an origami fox.
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How to Draw a Ninja Boy for Kids - Task Card
A task card that helps primary school students draw an awesome ninja boy!
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How to Draw an Alien for Kids - Task Card
A task card that helps primary school students draw an awesome alien!
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Snake Sheds Its Skin Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages teamwork.
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Follow the Leader Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages the development of leadership, teamwork, movement and coordination.
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Weekly Teachers Schedule Notification Chart
A Monday to Friday poster that display who the teacher will be each day that week.
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Let's Celebrate - Weekly Timetable
A celebrations themed weekly timetable template.
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Attendance Record Chart BW
A chart to track the attendance of your students.
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Morning Organisation Poster and Desk Checklist
A before class checklist poster with accompanying checklist for desks.
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How Do I Get Home? Backpack Tags & Forms
Use printable bus and car rider tags for schools to organise the dismissal process at the end of the school day.
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Christmas Brain Breaks - Activity Slides
Add some Christmas Brain Breaks to your classroom festivities to help boost engagement and attention during the holiday season.
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How to Draw a Cake Slice - Directed Drawing Worksheet
Learn to draw a cake slice with a fun directed drawing activity sheet.
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Do-a-Dot - Autumn Activity for Preschool
Do a dot painting with printable autumn worksheets for preschool and kindy.
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Halloween Interactive Assessment- Round to Three Decimal Places
Scare up some new assessment data when your student's round decimals to the nearest tenth, hundredth, and thousandth with a Halloween-themed rounding decimals quiz.
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How to Draw a Firefighter — Directed Drawing Activity
Encourage creativity and boost fine motor skills with a pair of ‘How to Draw a Firefighter’ guided drawing worksheets.
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Halloween Would You Rather? Interactive Game
Engage your students in spooky, fun and thought-provoking discussions in an engaging interactive game of Halloween Would You Rather?
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Who Lives in a Haunted House? Finish the Drawing Activity
Draw and write about all the kooky nouns in a haunted house with a printable Halloween words worksheet for Year 2.
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Halloween Directed Drawing Worksheets
Encourage creativity and boost fine motor skills with a series of How to Draw Halloween worksheets.
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Halloween Activity Mat - Lower Years
Give your students a fun warm-up this October with a printable Halloween activity mat.
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Halloween Chatterbox Template
Have some fun with these spooky Halloween Chatterbox Templates.
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Hand Signals For Classroom Management
Strengthen classroom management and reduce classroom interruptions with miniature hand signal posters and bookmarks.
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Easy Dot Art Drawing Worksheets
Inspire creativity and motivate your students to think creatively with an International Dot Day Drawing activity.
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How to Draw a Grandma - Directed Drawing
Draw and write about grandmothers on Grandparents’ Day with a ‘How to Draw a Grandma’ directed drawing activity sheet.
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How to Draw a Grandpa - Directed Drawing
Draw and write about grandfathers on Grandparents’ Day with a ‘How to Draw a Grandpa’ directed drawing activity sheet.
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The Magic of Independent Learning – Vertical Chart
Chart your students' learning progress with this set of 8 vertical tracking sheets.