If only 1 or 2 gold balls comes out = “No Free Time”. Instead of free time, students get more “learning time” like those boring dictation sentences that students just love…or math fact fluency drills, or if they are really lucky…a writing prompt! (haha) More gold balls equals a higher probability that the children will earn extra recess time. The amount of free time awarded is determined by the number of gold balls that pop out of the cage. C slowly rolls the cage 5 times, one for each day of the week, and one by one, a ball tumbles out….five balls in all. Depending on how well the week goes will determine the # of gold balls in the cage vs the # of red balls. The kids are all giddy with excitement with the possibility of winning it big. “Fun Friday Reward-O” kicks off at 2:30 as Mrs. It’s all about working together in a collaborative team effort. If a student (or students) are not attentive or act up, you guessed it…a red ball gets dropped into the cage. By the end of the week on “Fun Friday”, the cage is filled with about 30-40 balls. C will drop a gold ball into the Bingo cage. Gold = “good” Red = “not so good”. Then each day, during lessons and transitions, if the class is well behaved and attentive, Mrs. I know…sheer genius, she should be in marketing! Fun Friday Reward-O Bingoįirst, she spray painted 30 balls “gold” and 30 balls “red”. Now I’m sharing it with you! She calls the program “Reward-O”. C) developed a behavior management program for her classroom that she has been using successfully for the past 3 years. When I brought it in the house you would have thought I brought home a gigantic bouquet of flowers…and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk. She was so excited! Using our popular S&S Bingo product, Amy (aka Mrs. Knowing my wife is a teacher, he asked if my wife needed a Bingo game for her class. I brought the bingo cage and balls home to my wife to see if it was something she could use at her school. His office literally was piled from floor to ceiling with an assortment of balls, hula hoops, bean bags and a myriad of other toys and games. So one rainy day, one of our merchandising managers was cleaning up his office during his annual spring cleaning event. The meeting goes something like this: “Yeah, my wife who teaches 3rd grade says we should be doing ”. She’s an amazing teacher and I have no doubt based on the great job she did in helping raise our two amazing adult children. Just about everyone at S&S knows I’m married to a teacher since every other week I mention this in a meeting. I’m on the marketing team here at S&S, and I thought I’d share a teaching tip from my wife Amy.
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