Lucas' kindergarten teacher has been having 'fun' keeping 22 kids in her afternoon class under control. So the kindergarten teachers collectively came up with a new reward system, referred to as the stoplight system. You get a star at the end of the day if you don't receive any warnings, or lights. A week of stars gets you a piece of candy at the end of the day on Friday! You get a green light with the 1st warning, yellow with the 2nd and red with the 3rd, and you owe the teacher recess with a red light. If there is more than one red light each day a note goes home, or she calls the parents to discuss. It's only for 3 hours a day though, so I relaxed the rules a little, and added some GOOD rewards! You still get a star for a green light. You can do extra chores to get a yellow light reduced back to a green light, or to remove a green light...you may not get rid of a red light once you get there though. Red light gets the Wii taken away for the day, or if it has already been played that day, no Wii the following day. 2nd red light gets the show before bedtime taken away. 3rd red light gets bedtime stories taken away. 4th red light gets the Wii taken away for a week. 5th red light states that you don't want to find out, cuz it's that bad!!!! 5 stars gets you 2 quarters, 10 stars gets you 4 quarters, 25 stars gets you ice cream at Baskin Robbins, Cold Stone or similar, 50 stars gets you lunch out at place of your choosing, 100 stars gets you a play date at Pojo's, Bounce, Black light mini golf, or similar. And then we start over...and maybe change up the rewards a little too.
Here is a pic of the board I made for them...the letters of their names are their favorite BSU colors (barf) to encourage them further! And it's like Christmas came a month early in this house! They have done this for the weekend, and it's going rather well...we shall see if it lasts! : )
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