Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 4/19/2006 1:04:00 PM Author: jess (jhueb5@aol.com) Subject: running in the classroom I have had the same problem in my classroom and the best solution we have came up with is a brief timeout. We redirect the children to an activity at a table and tell them that we need them to calm their bodies down. We ask that they sit with us for a few moments, talk to them as to why we shouldn't run in the classroom and then after a few minutes, let them return to their previous activity. After having to repeat this several times with several children the running has stopped and they have now began redirecting other children Name: Email: Subject

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