This section is to inform you about the classroom behavior plan I am using this school year. We will be using a color system to represent our daily behavior. The colors that can be assigned to a student each day are Blue, Green, Yellow and Orange. Everyone begins their day on the color Green.

Basically, Green is a typical fantastic day. Most days that your child comes home from school, the day will be colored Green on the calendar inside of their yellow school folder. This means that your little one had a great day! Whenever you see a day colored Blue, that is extra special! Occasionally, the whole class will be "on Blue" for particularly wonderful behavior as a group. When the whole class gets Blue, everyone can choose a piece of candy (usually a Dum Dum lollipop or a piece of bubble gum. I have already had a few students tell me they cannot have gum, so not to worry! They can have a jolly rancher or a lollipop instead.)

Whenever just one student is singled out for a Blue day, they get to choose a prize from our class treasure chest and also choose a piece of candy. When a student receives an individual Blue day, they will also have a note explaining why they received it in their yellow school folder. Please read it with them, and celebrate their achievement! Individual Blues are not easy to earn, so it really is a big deal! I do not send home individual notes with every single student when the whole class gets Blue, so you will just have to ask them what the amazing class achievement was that day!

Whenever a student is on Yellow, that means it was an abnormally difficult day and as a result, they lost 5 minutes of recess. (This is really not much, as we typically have 2 recesses a day in Kindergarten, and they are about 20-25 minutes each!) Orange comes after Yellow, and is the roughest day one can have. An entire 20 minute recess is sat out for an Orange day. An explanation note will always be sent home in their yellow school folder if they have a Yellow or an Orange day. Orange and Yellow notes need to be signed by a parent or guardian and returned to me in their yellow school folder the next school day.

In addition to the daily colors, my students also have the opportunity to collect colored popsicle sticks for great answers and good deeds throughout every school day. Whenever they have collected ten, they can trade them in for a prize from the treasure chest on the next Friday (or last school day of that week). Sticks carry over to the next week, so if they have 9 on Friday, they will only need one more the next week to be eligible for a prize the following Friday. They can also lose sticks during the day for no-so-great choices. If anyone loses 3 sticks in a day, that results in an automatic Yellow day.

Keep in mind that any time a student is on Yellow or Orange, they always have the remainder of the school day as an opportunity to improve their behavior, and move back up to Green before the end of the day! I really want them to understand that it's never too late to start making better choices, both in school and in life in general. Also, no matter how difficult one day may be, we always start fresh the next day back on Green. I always try tio reinforce the message that getting a Yellow or an Orange day is not the end of the world. We ALL have bad days sometimes, and not only is that okay, it's completely normal. I often tell them that I still have my fair share of “Yellow” days, even as an adult!!

I hope this clearly explains how we run our classroom! As usual, please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns at aubinb@montourschools.com.

I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that this is one of the kindest, most well-behaved group of students I have ever had the pleasure of teaching, and you should all be extremely proud of how your children are adjusting to school, especially with all the additional pandemic regulations they are forced to deal with on top of ‘normal’ school procedures! They are an absolute joy to spend my days with, and I am positive it is going to be a wonderful, successful year for all of us!

Thanks so much!

Ms. Aubin