Rewards and Cheers

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Celebrating Accomplishment

You don't need to offer candy or presents to reward accomplishment. With obesity on the rise it seems unconscionable to continue the practice of offering candy or even food as a reward in the classroom.

Teachers across the country are learning new ways to praise, reward and cheer their students without presents or food.

So let's all cheer!

Eureka! You got it! 

Celebrate the moment and offer a reward

You Got IT

We might stop in the classroom to have the rest of the class recognize individual or group achievement, for example, if someone gives a particularly good answer in discussion or good grades on a test. If they work really hard to figure something out we stop the class and give them a Classroom Cheer. Use imaginative ways to celebrate.

The Great Big Book of Classroom Songs, Rhymes & Cheers (Grades PreK-1)

Build literacy and community in your classroom with this HUGE, kid-pleasing collection of easy-to-learn songs, rhymes, and cheers. This irresistible treasury will help you enrich circle time, perk up theme units, teach numbers and letters, build self-esteem, celebrate special days...and everything in between! Includes instant skill-building activities.

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The Applause Book 

Recording the Achievement

Applaud

1. Trace around a hand to make a template.
2. Fold the paper at the wrist and cut it out.
3. Open the hands and trace around the hands onto a blank sheet of paper and then retrace with a black marker.
4. Duplicate the page to make books.

When a child or group does especially good work, reward them by taking their picture with a digital camera and writing a page in the Class Applause Book. By making it into a class book everyone can reread all the accomplishments over and over during the year.

Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!

Sara learns that presents don't have to be bought. They can be "no presents."

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Hurray! Let's Celebrate! 

Cheers for Learning

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Jump for joy. Sing and shout. Celebrating with voices and hugs can make you feel the accomplishment more than material rewards.

Hurray For Spring

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Kids Celebrate!: Activities for Special Days Throughout the Year

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Classroom Cheers 

Comedian Eddie Murphy Clapping Hands, Wearing Only Baseball Cap and Shorts

Comedian Eddie Murphy Clapping Hands
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Whenever you want to reward a student or even the whole class, call out one of these cheers and start everyone smiling.

Write the names of the cheers on Popsicle Sticks and keep handy for whenever you need a new cheer.

Please add more cheers to the list so that we can all spread the joy.

"That's the Way I Like It"

Sing the song.3 points

Fireworks

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Kiss Your Brain

1 point

Rub Your Halo

1 point

Truck Driver Cheer

1 point

Cheering Crowd

Everyone waves their hands in the air and makes th more...1 point

Roller Coaster

Hold your two hands together and "click click more...1 point

Candy or Hugs 

What kinds of rewards do you give the people in your life?

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Candy and gifts.

alison says:

it depends on the occasion.

Cheers, hugs and words of praise.

JoyfulPamela says:

Positive words encourage people deep down. "Catch them being good!" with words of praise. :)

ronpass says:

Positive feedback and thanks that are specific, genuine and given with feeling and meaning.

Pastiche says:

Hugs, cheers, banners, certificates and stars!

YYOL says:

Yeah Yeah Out Loud(s)..........YYOL

Kristina says:

hugs

 
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More Cheers 

Classroom Rewards
Word Wall Chants
Though these chants are meant to be used with Word Walls some could be used as reward cheers as well.
Sonja Dunn: Chanting: A Springboard into Learning
Chants provide a genuine opportunity for young readers to learn more about print. First of all, show the chant on a flip chart, on an overhead, or on the chalkboard. If your students are barely beginning to read, treat the chant as a rebus, substituting some words with pictures they can interpret.
Dr. Jean's Cheers
Cheers for Summer Celebrations!

Demonstration of Classroom Cheers 

Sometimes words are not enough.

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Our Children Deserve only the Best! 

National High Five Day! 

National High Five Day!

National High Five Day falls on the third Thursday of April each year
National High Five Day
The holiday originated at the University of Virginia in 2002, and has since spread across the nation, and around the globe.

Rewards and Cheers 

How do you praise a child and celebrate an accomplishment?

What are some things that you might give a child or do for a child that don't involve food?

Read a story.

1 point

Allowed to play a board game.

1 point

Allowed to run an errand.

1 point

Allowed to sharpen the teacher's pencil.

1 point

Allow child to read to group/class.

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Can Time Out be a Positive Reward? 

Misbehaving Kids with ADHD: Try Positive Time Out | Homeschooling ADD Kids
Child Clinical Psychologist, Steve Curtis, PhD., NCSP, has a wonderful blog for parents of ADD homeschoolers.

One of his favorite strategies is to use the "positive time out." Positive time out is when you put your child in time out when he/she is being good as opposed to bad.

When a child is seen doing something desirable, he/she is told to go to time out. When in time out, the child is given a compliment for the positive behavior. Time out can still be used for more negative behavior, but the positive time out should be used far more frequently.

If used in the right way, positive time out will result in fewer tantrums and more positive behavior of the child.

Punished by Rewards 

Punished by Rewards: A Talk with Alfie Kohn - FamilyEducation.com
Find out why rewarding your kids doesn't always work.

Question: If rewards are out, then what should we do when kids refuse to cooperate?

Kohn: I think we have to look at the deeper reasons why the child is not interested. In many cases involving school, the trouble lies not with the child's motivation, but with the task and the way it's being taught. That's why I spend a lot of time working with educators to rethink what they're teaching and how they're teaching it.

Rewarding a Child with ADHD 

This is the book that Dr. Steve Curtis mentions on his blog.

Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents (Revised Edition)

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I am Special Literacy Bag 

You are Special Literacy Bag 

The key to building teams and relationships is to smile and treat each person as if they are the most special person in the world!

Literacy Bags can be used to help build self esteem while connecting learning between school and home. The books in this bag are all about expressions of love.

Tell us how you reward the children in your life. 

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Meet the Author of this Lens 

Evelyn's Hands-On Learning Blog.

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I look for ways to reward my children every day. We cheer, hug, smile, praise and love eachother. From that core of love we go out into the world to spread love and caring to our community and the world.

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