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Behavior
By Helen

I used something with my first graders last year (got it off of this site and several coworkers tried it and liked it also. We are using it again this year.). I used a sheet of tagboard with library pockets glued to it/childrens'
names on the pockets. I had a tongue depressor for each child, their name on it also. On the ends of the tongue depressor I had put stickers
( circles)...Green, reversed to yellow. Red reversed to blue.
My caption was "Keeping our class on Green" and I had a graphic printed of a green car on the hiway
The way it worked...every morning each stick was placed in the pockets

showing green. If you stayed on green all day you were doing fine. If I had to warn you about your behavior, I would tell you to change your color...you would go up and change it to yellow. If you continued, I would say change your color...you would go up and change it so that the red dot showed. Next time, you changed, it went to blue. That meant a trip to the office AND a call home.
I explained it to the kids and parents as being like a traffic light...If the light is green , you are traveling along pretty well, keep on with the good work. If you are on yellow, that is like the caution light..it means watch out. A warning. Red=stop it! Stop that behavior right now! And the blue is like when a policeman gets you with his blue light flashing!!!! You must suffer the consequences.
It seemed to work with my kids..Also I kept a section in my role book, and each evening recorded only the students' not on green and indicated the color they were on by a letter y,r,b, This was handy when I had to give conduct grades on report cards and when parents came for conferences.