This year I have been using a new kind of class reward system. I got the idea to use "smilies" and "saddies" from the Whole Brain Teaching website. My kids love it. Today they got a lot of smilies right away and by the end of the day (well almost the end of the day - after interventions) they had only gotten 2 saddies. Because they had more smilies than saddies I had a fun activity for them to do. Instead of doing our read aloud right after interventions, I moved up our social studies lesson - a Time for Kids lesson about helping others - and did that first. I then let the students color some holiday bookmarks (we needed new bookmarks for our reading books anyway) while watching and listening to a couple of stories on Tumblebooks before packing up to go home. They were very excited to get new bookmarks but even more excited that they got to color them and that there were two so they could keep one at school and bring one home to use.
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