Today was the first day back in class after the Fiestas Patronales and it was SO great to be back. The kids were great as ever and the classes were small as ever but so much easier to manage. I (finally) made up a poster for prizes..because let;s be honest... bribing kids works! Each month I pick one girl and one boy from each of my three classes who are "mis estrellas" or "my stars" - meaning they behaved well and were great workers. In each classroom I have a bit white poster board with rules written on it in pretty colors surrounded by stars. At the bottom there is room to pin up "stars" which are made out of construction paper with little cut out crowns on them for my prince's and princess's. The girls and pink and the boys are blue. When they win they get their name written on a star and it gets put up on the poster board - huge deal! On top of that you win a prize which changes each month. I have already made the prizes bags for October, November, and December and they are cute. Candy, decorative pencils, fun erasers, little toys, stickers, crayon packs, etc. and the kids love them. The best part is that it works...
One example of it NOT working came along today hahaha and I thought I would share it here because it was so funny. I had a kindergarten boy who climbed up the steps to the second story overlook (kind of like a covered balcony). The little ones are not allowed up there for fear of them falling down the steps on their way down. The boy up there was Sariel who is so adorable and chunky and just an overall big kids. He is always eating candy at lunch time and waddles when he walks and sits on the smaller students...really! I asked him to come down and he refused to so I started to walk up the steps when I heard water falling down. I looked back and it was not a water bottle...no...he was standing there peeing from the second floor! It was horrible! It was so funny but I had to keep a straight face and let him know that is was wrong and put him in time out. I wanted to laugh SO badly because it was seriously a scene out of a movie...these kids! We then had to all sit down and talk about how it is dangerous to climb up the steps and how if they did, we would have to call the doctor to come give them a really big shot when they fell down and hurt themselves. No one else climbed up!
Now...listening to some good old country music while trying to figure out how to plan a retreat here and missing home :) I know I will see you all for Christmas though :) chin up!
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