Check in chart

For classroom management and keeping track on where all my students are at, I adapted this idea from pinterest to fit my classroom. At my new school students have to make a lunch choice each day. So I created this version of my check in chart to display their lunch choice each day. 

When students arrive in the morning they move their numbered magnet to their lunch choice, this also shows me that they are present for the day. Throughout the day when students leave the room for bathroom, nurse, ESL, or specialist they move their magnet to that space. This way I know at any given time where my students are. When they return their move their magnet back to their lunch choice. 

To create this I used a metal cookie sheet, and fun duct tape to divide the sections. I found that in my old version the poster tape didn't stick very well. 

NEW VERSION

OLD VERSION

ought round magnets from the craft store and wrote on them with a metallic sharpie marker. I thought about all the reasons a student would have to leave the classroom throughout the day and made labels for them. 

I taped this to the wall next to the door with permanent poster tape. It stayed up all year, and was actually so well stuck that it was hard to get off  at the end of the year :)

when a students arrives in the morning, they find their class number, and move it to "PRESENT" so I can easily take attendance. 

Then, when they leave the room throughout the day, they move their number to the corresponding box. So at anytime if I'm trying to figure out where they are, I just have to look at this tray and see where they are at :)

FYI: When making this I found that hot glue and regular glue does not stick well to the cookie sheet and it will pull off easily!!