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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Classroom Routines for Independent Work Checklist
Give your students a checklist to remind them of classroom routines to follow when working independently.
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End of Day Routines Bookmark
Make the end of the school day easy with an end-of-the-day routine checklist.
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Behaviour Punch Card – Look at Me Go!
Promote and reward good behaviour with printable punch cards!
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Weekly Newsletter Templates
Send out important information to your students’ parents and guardians using weekly newsletters made with our handy templates!
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Out of Class Passes - Lanyards
Provide these out of class passes for students to wear when they are moving around the school during class time.
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Are We There Yet? – Growth Mindset Progress Tracker
Help your students develop a growth mindset by reflecting on their learning progress with this progress tracking chart.
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Parent Information Night PowerPoint Template
Prepare for your parent information night with a customisable slideshow template.
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Mini-Mystery – Who Broke the Window? – Interactive PowerPoint
Engage your learners in some friendly problems solving with an interactive mini-mystery that is sure to be a SMASH!
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Christmas Worksheet - Search and Find
Practise counting with your students to get them in the mood for the holidays with this fun Christmas search, count, and find activity.
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Natural Resources – Exit Tickets
Assess student understanding of natural resources with this set of exit tickets.
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Continents and Oceans - Exit Tickets
Determine your students' mastery of Geography concepts with a set of twenty continents and oceans exit tickets.
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Easter Headbands Game
Play a game of Easter-themed headbands game in your class in the lead up to Easter.
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Basketball Crossword
Use this basketball-themed crossword as a fast finisher activity.
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International Women’s Day Crossword
Extend your students' knowledge of influential women with this International Women’s Day crossword.
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Would You Rather? International Women's Day Active Game
Engage your students in thought-provoking discussions with this set of International Women’s Day-themed ‘Would You Rather’ questions.
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Sloth Crossword Puzzle
Stretch your students’ vocabularies and reading skills with a sloth-themed crossward puzzle.
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St. Patrick's Day Headbands Game
Introduce St. Patrick’s Day vocabulary words with our picture and word card headbands game.
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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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Classroom Supply Cards
A set of 22 visual supply cards to display at the front of the classroom,
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Grid Drawing Christmas Worksheets
Bring a bit of art into the classroom this season with easy Christmas drawing activities.
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International Dot Day Creativity Challenge - Upper Years
Get creative on International Dot Day with a creativity challenge worksheet for older students.
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Add to the Scene - Theatre Improvisation Game
An active warm-up game that every student can participate in!
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Tiger Drawing Activity - Lunar New Year
Use this fun teaching resource to help your students explore Year of the Tiger in your classroom.
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Search and Find – Family Outing
A beautifully illustrated park scene containing everyday items that need to be found.
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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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Search and Find – In the Park
A beautifully illustrated park scene containing everyday items which need to be found.
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Luck of the Draw-ing Prompts
A set of 35 drawing prompt cards.
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Colourful Insects – Weekly Timetable
Printable Colourful Insects themed weekly timetable to use in a diary, planner or on a wall in your classroom.
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Digital Learning Background – Student of the Week
A special background students can use when they are student of the week.
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The Science of Independent Learning – Vertical Chart
A vertical tracking chart for students to reflect and follow their learning progress.
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Pirate Nup's Odyssey – Vertical Chart
A vertical tracking chart for students to reflect and follow their learning progress.
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Reaction Charades
A fun game for students to explore positive and negative ways of reacting to situations.