My DIY Behavior Clip Chart

So one of the things on my summer to do list is to make the behavior clip chart.  Here is a few pictures of what I have done so far.  My question is --- how do I hook them together?  I have seen them put together with the rings, or put onto ribbon.  I really like the ribbon idea, but will it lay flat?  And how do you adhere the cards to the ribbon?  Would hate to put a staple through the cards.  What about velcro tape?  Will it stick or will it pull off when they are clipping up and down?  Need some help and advice here!!!  Thanks in advance!

I printed up the signs and then glued them to colored card stock for durability - I still need to laminate

The "Outstanding" says "Top Notch Behavior"  I am planning on displaying their clips once the reach the top under a caption that says "Top Notch Students"  I will show a picture of that once I have it ready to go!  The "Great Day" says "You're being a great role model!"  and the "Good Day"  says "Showing Pride"

For the yellow card most of them say "Slow Down" or "Time Out"  or"Think About It"  I wanted to use "Reminder"  because to me it sounds more positive. 

So there it is!  Any suggestion on how to connect them? 

Classroom Tour

Just sharing a few ideas that I use for classroom organization and management.  These pictures were lost on my memory card in my camera, thus the reason for posting classroom tour pictures so late :-)

This is my classroom door and entry way.  We are required to post our focus for learning so that whoever enters our room will know what skills, standards, etc. we are working on. We are also required to post times for our reading, math and writer's workshop block times.  These are absolute and uninterrupted times!

We read our daily schedule everyday. Yellow for our morning (up to lunch) and blue for our afternoon.  It is amazing to see the students look at the schedule to see what is up next.  Heaven forbid if I forget to change it and I have the wrong special up for the day.  My students also read our daily schedule during read the room.

This is our writing wall

This is how I manage my helpers for the day.  I have one boy and one girl.  They are the "lucky ducks" for the day.  Line leaders, lunch count helpers, paper passers, etc.  They get to wear the lucky duck necklace for the day.  They all look forward to their day!

I have two of these cabinets, one for math tubs and one for abc tubs.  Although I like my cute little labels I made I am thinking of changing them to just have big numbers.  I have and am reading again (I don't think one every stops!) reading Debbie Diller's book Math Workstations.  I keep trying to improve my math and literacy workstation times!!!

My wonderful chart caddy!  We use these charts for reading during Literacy Workstation time

My New Painting Easel

My wonderful hubby woked so hard on this all summer for my classroom.  How awesome is my new painting easel.  I love it!  It is on wheels so I can push it out of the way easily and it has storage on all sides along with drying racks on all sides.