It happened. What I'd been dreading since the first day of school.
Bekah's class has a green-yellow-red behavior system. All the kids start school everyday on green. If they have to be warned twice about something, then they go to yellow. If they continue to be disruptive then they go to red and their parents are called.
Here's the kicker...if they stay on green all week then on Friday they get to pick something out of the treasure box. Bekah shows me her green stamp everyday, and she tells me all of the kids that had to go to yellow and what happened.
Like the kid that spit on someone. He went to red.
I went to pick Bekah up yesterday and when she saw me she instantly melted. Dissolved into tears. A little puddle. She was so sad! But she told me she couldn't remember why she went to yellow.
Later on at home I told her that she could tell me what happened or she could wait for Daddy to come home and tell him.
Puddle time again.
"I'll tell you! I don't want daddy to come home and say 'Bekah'! I don't want him to ask me about it! I'll tell it to you and you can tell him!"
So the story goes that there was a boy in class who wouldn't show his picture he drew to anyone else. Bekah apparently told him that no one would like his picture. Not very nice. And bam, the little paper version of Bekah moved up to yellow.
I kept my promise and told Rus myself, out of range of little yellow ears.
What did we learn from this?
Now at the insistence of Bekah we have our very own green-yellow-red system in our house so we can practice. We have a little Jacob, Bekah, Beau, Mommy, Daddy, and even Bekah's bear, Kristy. We have the rules written next to each pocket, and if you stay on green all week you get a dollar.
I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, we'll see!
8 comments:
Tell that little yellow puddle of yours that she is sweet and everyone makes mistakes sometimes. :0)It's too bad she has to be labeled the whole day for a tiny mistake though.
I love how tender hearted they are at this age. Michael has a similar system in his class and he also was moved to the #1 and came home very upset. But I love that he always comes home and tells me what he did wrong. I will be sad when he no longer does that.
It's funny that she didn't want to tell Rus. I remember Robert and I never wanted to get in trouble with Dad, because if we got in trouble with Dad the guilt and shame we felt was way worse than anything else because he was totally our hero. If it makes you feel better about the whole thing, I made a kindergartner cry today when he got sent to time out (for five minutes) for choosing to be disruptive and not follow directions. Tears went down like a waterfall.
What a sweet heart!!! Sounds like she didn't want to disappoint daddy! It sounds like a good idea. I might give it a try myself!
Awww that is terribly sad. And adorable, in a somewhat naughty way. :)
I remember getting checks by our names! Me and Ashley Silk lost almost every recess in first grade for talking way too much.
That is so funny. Abbey did the same thing when she was in Kindergarten last year. She told a boy in her class that his picture was ugly. He then told the teacher and she lost her temper and yelled that she hated school. She ended up having her name put on the board.
That's a really really cute story :)
I am liking this system...you have to keep me posted on what happens. Hmm...maybe I need to try that with people I work with! If we could incorporate the color scheme into work situations, that would be awesome. Imagine giving my boss the 'red' card. HAHAH. I have wanted to do that for a while ;)
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