Classroom Behavior Management for Blurting Out - Catch a Bubble Blurt Lesson
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Description
Do you have students who blurt out or talk too much at inappropriate times? Classroom management with constant interruptions can be exhausting! This is an effective classroom behavior management intervention to help with excessive blurting, for whole group or individual students.
It is also a great incentive to add to your classroom management system toward the end of the school year when blurting and chattiness might be reaching an all time high.
This classroom behavior management lesson for blurting includes:
- Detailed teacher guidelines and tools for a lesson on when it is okay and not okay to talk in the classroom, and WHY.
- "Catch a Bubble" cards
- Matching poster
- "Oops, I Popped a Bubble" reflection slips
The blurt lesson uses these terms:
“Catch a bubble”- to not talk, as if they have a bubble in their mouth
“Pop a bubble”- to talk, as if they’re pretending the bubble has popped
Students are given specific scenarios (shown on cards). They decide which of the above categories each example should fall into. These cards can be sorted/displayed on the provided poster. For example, “when the teacher is giving directions” would go on the “catch a bubble” side. Pre-made cards are included, but you can easily be customize the scenarios with sticky notes or by writing directly on a laminated poster.
"Catch a Bubble" cards and a matching poster are also included. Whenever students talk at an inappropriate time, they “pop” one of their 5 bubbles by crossing it out with a white board marker. These cards can be displayed on the poster, taped onto students' individual desks, or kept in student folders.
You might choose to reward students who still have unpopped bubbles by the end of the week with the chance to chew bubble gum during a designated time in class! If there is a student who does not like bubble gum or is not allowed to have bubble gum per parents, etc., you can give those students an alternative reward.
With this download, you also get "Oops, I Popped a Bubble" slips. You could have students fill out this slip whenever they pop a bubble or if they have popped all 5 bubbles, etc. It can be used as a self-reflection, a jumping off point for a teacher/student conversation, etc. If you have students who are repeat offenders with blurting, you might opt to send it home to be signed by a parent.
Teachers LOVE this classroom behavior management resource!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This has been the best resource for blurting in my class. I have tried everything under the sun and this has been the first thing that has worked to curb the shouting out in my class."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This is a great way to remind students when it is appropriate to talk and when they should be listening."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This was super helpful for a very chatty class. We used it mostly after coming back from Winter Break. My students LOVED earning a piece of gum and were super encouraging toward each other."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This helped my class focus on not interrupting their classmates while they were speaking, especially during those last weeks of school!"
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