We've been working on getting these doughnuts for 4 weeks and yesterday was the day! Every time the whole class earned a compliment from an adult for good behavior at any point during the day we crossed a letter off of DOUGHNUTS. My students have gotten compliments for great behavior before school as they were reading in the hallway, for walking in straight lines, following directions during lunch, and being good listeners during resource classes!
Yesterday was one of the best compliments so far, not only because it was the last they needed to make me pick up my keys to hit the double D during lunch but because it was a totally genuine compliment!
Let me set the mood:
We were sitting in the classroom getting ready to do some word building. Everyone was in their seat cutting out their letters quietly as we were jamming out HM main story songs "A girl found a mouse inside of her house, she wanted that mouse out of her house and she said EEK!"
Anyone else feel my pain?
Just a little?
Nope?
Ok, back to the story....so we were working away and the door happened to be open. We all heard a teacher in the hall say "Look at Ms. Ehlinger's class when we walk by, they're always doing their work and following directions." I looked up just in time to see big smiles as the realization that we'd just overheard a really sweet compliment and it was the last one we needed!
So we had doughnuts with sprinkles before we went home and decided our next compliment goal will be RING POP PARTY!
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