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Classroom management printable · Classroom rules and expectations
Indoor Recess Expectations
A poster for rainy days: what indoor recess looks like, sounds like and where things go, plus the clean-up signal and your own choices list.
- Grade level
- Grades K–5
- Time
- About 5 minutes
- Answer key
- Not needed: answers vary
- Kids practice
- Classroom expectations, Safe and kind choices, Shared responsibility, Problem solving
What kids do
“Post this on rainy days. Go over it before indoor recess starts, and point to it when the room gets loud.”
Printed on the sheet:
- What it looks like
- Level 2 table talk. No yelling or screaming.
- Walking feet, no tag or wrestling inside.
- Our indoor recess choices
- Pick a game, play it at a table or on the rug, put it back before a new one.
- Take turns, invite others to join, and switch when the timer rings.
- When the signal sounds, freeze, then clean up your spot in two minutes.
- Our clean-up signal:
Words on this sheet
VoiceBodiesGamesSharingClean up
Teacher tip
Post the page by the indoor recess bins so kids can check it on rainy days.
How to use it
- Write the rules together in the first weeks of school so kids own them.
- Keep rules short and positive: say what to do, not what not to do.
- Print it on colored paper so kids and helpers can spot it quickly.
Watch for
Too many rules. Keep the list to three to five that cover most situations.
Talk about it
- Why do we have this rule?
- Why do you think we use this in our classroom?
Take it further
Make a class book or poster of the rules and post it where everyone can see it.
US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.
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