I am linking up with 4th Grade Flipper’s- Tried It Tuesday! This is Robyn and I am going to be talking all about pencils. My sweet darlings are losing pencils like CRAZY and it is driving me CRAZY!! Am I alone here? I have stealers, borrowers, chewers, biters, and everything in between. I would find them all over the floor at the end of the day and was going through packs way too often.
My kids are always ready for a friendly competition, so I decided to have a little contest. I gave each student a brand new sharpened pencil with eraser. It also had their name written in Sharpie. I told them that their challenge was to keep the same pencil for an entire day and they could go to the treasure box. That was followed by clapping and chattering! I knew I had them!! I told them that if they could keep it for two weeks they would get an even bigger surprise. The end of the day came and I told everyone to bring their pencils to the carpet. Everyone had their pencil except for 1 child. AMAZING! I hope the week goes as well as today!
Sometimes it the little accomplishments that make my day. Now if only I can figure out how to do this with crayons???? Any suggestions?
We do Ladybug Teacher File's Great Pencil Challenge weekly! We give them gum on Fridays as a reward if they keep the same pencil all week (we label the pencils with a permanent marker.) It's worked wonders for my sanity!
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wherethewildthingslearn
I was going to suggest Ladybug Teacher File's Great Pencil Challenge also. It's either that or velcroing the pencils to their fingers. Lol!
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Rockin' and Lovin' Learnin'
Thanks ladies!
ReplyDeleteI started a pencil challenge in my room too and it has helped! If they don't need to "borrow" a pencil from me for the whole week, they get extra dojo points. I just need to keep up the enthusiasm now! :)
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Fourth Grade Flipper
I just started using class Dojo! That is a great idea!
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