details of classroom routine

on a positive note, i'm really happy with a few classroom routines that i've set up.

• students know that they need to write in pencil. they know that if they don't have one, they can always borrow one by putting a shoe by my desk and taking a pencil from the box on the desk. because i explained this to students at the beginning of the semester, this now happens pretty much automatically whenever students need a pencil. they don't ask or disturb other students--they just get up and go get one (for the most part). =)
• students also know where to put their homework and quizzes when they're turning them in--on the table by the projector in the middle of the room. they've become good about passing things in there without me asking them to, for the most part.
• students also know that class starts with a short quiz and they have started asking when i deviate from that at all. (usually i don't, but it's happened a few times.)
• all the students use the school laptops that are located in my room and they know that they can just come in, take a laptop (not the powercord), sign it out and leave with it, without asking about anything. they also know to sign it back in and put it back on the proper shelves that i labeled. =) plugging the power cord back in is something that needs to be worked on.

i thought there was one other, but i can't think of it right now.

on another positive note, a student told me that my class is "remotely interesting" compared to another teacher's. hmmm...so maybe that's something?