As the morning progresses, I may see the need to adjust someone's box to blue--Think About It, or purple--Teacher's Choice (an email, phone call, five minutes off of recess). This is a logical consequence to a broken rule, following a warning.
After lunch, everyone is moved up a color. 90+% of the time, this means that everyone moves up to yellow--Good Day. At this point, if a rule is broken, a child's box will move down one color. And so on. At the end of the day, everyone is again moved up one color. This final color jump will usually land a box in orange--Great Job!
For example, if your child's behavior calendar shows "green, yellow, green, yellow", you will know that he/she moved his/her box up to yellow at lunch, but then moved it down at some point in the afternoon. At the end of the day, the box went up more more step, to yellow.
Another example: The calendar shows "green, blue, green, yellow". This shows that the child broke a rule before lunch, resulting in a move down to blue. The box was moved up after lunch, to green, and again at the end of the day, to yellow.
I DO NOT EXPECT PERFECTION. I do expect to see children improving in the area of self-control, contributing to the classroom community with kindness, respecting the boundaries, and treating everyone as they wish to be treated.
Learning from our choices is a lifetime endeavor. I've been alive for many moons and God is faithful to redirect my choices and behavior! :-) Please discuss the behavior calendar with your child, but also give them time to adjust to their environment.
