April Attendance & Silly String

I am sooooo proud of our class!  April's attendance has ROCKED! We really focused on individual attendance this past month and WOW it has made a difference!  I hope your kiddo has mentioned to you the importance in being at school as well as stressed to you their need to be there.  We've had incentives for individual attendance successes as well as class successes.  Rewards included chance to chew gum when you've made it 5 straight days, lunch in the classroom at 10 consecutive days, extra recess, sitting where you want....all the way up to the GRAND REWARD of GETTING TO SILLY STRING ME if you are at school every day in April!

Well April is officially over and out of our 19 kiddos, there were 11 that were here every.single.day!! That's something to celebrate!  I'm not sure what I was thinking when I offered to get silly stringed but I said it, so that's what we did!

I know the kids loved it; and I loved hearing their excitement each day as they kept track of their attendance and knew exactly how many days in a row they'd been to school.  They also frequently referred back to their individual attendance goals as they checked to see how they were moving along.

A big thank you to the parents that helped make April's attendance a huge success.  In May there are only 19 days but I'm sure our class will come up with some great new incentives for attendance. I can only imagine what crazy things I'll have to do on that last day for them!