Nerds and Behavior Chart

 Aren't these the cutest nerds you've ever seen in your life?  It was so fun seeing kids all over the school dressed up.  Tomorrow is crazy sock day so find your craziest socks or maybe wear mismatched socks or do both!

Thursday is Twinkie Day. Kids can come dressed like twins.  If your child doesn't have someone to be twins with, they can dress like me.  I'm going to wear a black t-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes. 

 Since we just started a new month, I thought it would be a good time to give you a little more information about the behavior charts that come home every day in the red folder. 
As you know, green is the color to stay on.  There are 2 greens - big green and little green.  Everyone starts each day on big green.  If a child needs a warning to get back on track, I move their clothespin to little green.  You will not see that indicated on the red folder.  My thought is that everyone needs a warning once in a while and if that is all it takes to get a child back on task then the warning has served its purpose. 

 The clothespin will be moved to yellow if the warning didn't work and the undesired behavior continues and then the most dreaded color of all is red.  Red doesn't happen very often.  I save that for when nothing else is working like changing the child's seat or a time out.  It's serious and I let them know how disappointed I am.  The consequences are to sit out at recess and to also sit out during centers on Friday. 

An incentive for staying on green for the whole month is an extra reward recess.  Today was the reward recess for the month of September.  The children who did not have all greens had to stay inside and do work.  A new month has started, so everyone is back on track to earn the extra recess.  2 days into October and no one has changed to yellow or red.

I worked with the kids today on rhyming words.  We need a lot of work on this.  Most of the class struggled with it.  When you are reading at home, if you hear words that rhyme, please point them out to your child and ask them to make more words that rhyme.  Rhyming is a very important pre-reading skill.  If you are interested, you can read the article that goes with the link below to learn more about the importance of rhyming as related to reading.
http://preschooleducation.blogspot.com/2008/03/learning-to-read-why-is-rhyme-important.html