We would love to tell you all about our reward and management systems Mrs Russell has put in place this year. They are helping us to stay focussed and on task in class.
Our first one is called 'Quiet Critters'. During the holidays Mrs Russell made about thirty little fuzzy critters out of little pompoms. They each have a pair of googly eyes and felt feet. They live all together in a glass jar in no particular order. They do get sick of having each other's feet in their eyes and absolutely hate being stuck in the middle where they cannot see anything going on in Room three. Our Quiet Critters love to be out on their home pads - we each have one stuck on the corner of our desk. But what the Critters love most is QUIET shhhhh! We need to respect that and so when they are out we are quiet. When it is time for them to go back we get a number from our hundreds chart and go into the prize box draw ... and guess what you can be pulled out for a pick in the box more than once in the same draw. It happened to a couple of the children. Lucky ah?
The second one is called Top Secret. Mrs Russell pulls a name out of the fancy green tin and puts it into our TOP SECRET envelope and then it is velcroed high onto the wall. No one knows who it is - not even Mrs Russell. At the end of the day Mrs Russell looks at the name and if the Top Secret person has been good, on task and caring they get a pick in the box, but if that person has not been good, on task or caring the name goes back in the fancy green tin and no one knows who it was - EVER. Sometimes Mrs Russell 'Top Secrets' a table group - that is harder!
photos coming ...
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