Parents,
We have had a FANTASTIC week! We are already on an adventure of learning! Here are just a few odds and ends for you to know:
POQA – Send in those box tops. They stopped accepting the coke bottle tops. Apparently, coke was not letting them enter in enough points per week to keep up with the number of tops we had coming in. If you’d like you can still enter those points yourself and donate them to the school.
Treasure – I am giving students rewards for their dojo points. After they earn 20 points, they get to have a prize from the treasure box. This could be why you will see your child’s points change. This might also be why you see “treasure points” if you look at the individual behavior. I clear all the points when they get the treasure, it they had over 20 points, it clears all the points and then I just make sure to add in the points they had before it cleared them all. For example, today someone had 29 points. I cleared her points, but I didn’t want her to lose those 9 points. So I had to add back in those 9 points as “treasure points.”
Prizes – if you have small cast off prizes at home you’d love to get rid of, I just might love to have them. The kids adore tiny stuffed toys that are so small they fit in the palm of your hand. Someone’s trash can be another person’s treasure. I’m even willing to take them home and run them through the wash machine if needed.
Volunteers – If you get this before Tuesday and you are available Tuesday morning when school starts come see me! I have a student who needs tested, it might be 15-30 minutes. I also wanted names taken off my bulletin board, and papers taken out of my ziploc quilt. I don’t have anything new to put up yet, but I will soon. Please come in so I can put you to work. I can’t promise how much time you will get, but I’d love to have you. I also am going to have a parent start coming in regularly on Friday to take care of doing treasure box for the kiddos who have 20 points. If that sounds like the job you’d like, let me know. We can even rotate it if needed. It would be a very quick job. Probably only 30 minutes or less. You would get my treasure box along with a list of who had enough dojo points for a prize that week. You could call a couple kiddos to get a prize, and then send them back in to put that prize away.
Reminder – no school Monday. Have a great Labor Day!