No classroom teacher likes to see a frown on the Spanish teacher's or the art teacher's face at the end of a specials class. What I
do love to see, however, indicating all of the impulse control, hard work, listening, focusing, and getting along that a great
Spanish class entails, is a sticker. Yes, the Spanish teacher's got a bottomless bag of stickers and doles them out for terrific performances by the Turtles.
When I saw the kids coming down the hall today, everyone with both fists proudly aimed at me, showing off not one, but TWO stickers, I was, of course, doubly pleased. "You got TWO stickers today?" I asked. "No!" they informed me, the be-stickered backs of their hands still high in the air. "TWO top-of-the-TOP stickers!" The bottomless bag does have its hierarchy of stickers--I think the classification breaks down into sparkly vs. non-sparkly. It is clear which is "top-of-the-top."
After some lunch, a bathroom break, and some hand washing, the sparkling stickers were somewhat less than top-of-the-top in stickiness, and many fell off during recess. Don't worry, though--Taquan scooped up at least a dozen and adorned the backs of his hands with the Spanish class bounty.
Some kids chose to sticker-pierce their earlobes, others sprouted two extra forehead sticker eyes. Aniya sticker-painted her nails and showed them to me. "They say little girls are made of sugar and stickers!" Well, sure, we'll say that's what they say.
2 comments:
Oh, this cracks me up....I give stickers out to my students in my social skills groups but I tell them NOT to put them on their heads! I always say that would be too distracting to the rest of the class, and most would not have the sticker.
Now I'm seeing the chaos that it can cause!! Sometimes I give out a small sea shell instead...which almost always results in it being confiscated by their teacher until day's end.
Haha! I love that there's a hierarchy of stickers :). And I love that kids will work hard for stickers too!!
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