Hey everyone, Its been encouraging to hear of everyone's success these past few days. I'm three weeks in and I feel like I've exhausted all my ideas. Rats! I'm trying to maximize my instruction time and want kids to get working by themselves right when the bell rings. In a traditional class I would have them sit at their desks and do a short writing answering questions i've written on the board. Doing OWL in my class we always start off with no chairs and we do writing activities towards the end of a class when we get all the chairs out to sit. Does anyone have any good ideas for bell ringers that don't involve writing? Or maybe I need to rethink the order of operation in my class. Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated? Cheers, Drew -- *Andrew Van Wagenen * Department of World Languages Corner Canyon High School Draper, Utah andrewvanwagenen.blogspot.com