A good . . . good . . . bad day

At Will's school, they send home a folder every day with teh children. Inside this folder is a stapeled calendar of the month and each day the teacher draws a color face over the day. A color coded key on the opposite page shows the following information:

Purple is extrodernary behavior
Green is as expected
Yellow is misbehaved
Blue is misbehaved again after being repremanded
Red is unsafe behavior/sent to the office

Will's first day of school he got a purple, I don't imagine there were to many students who didn't. Mostly he gets greens, which I am extreamly pleased with. Steve would prefer he gets purples every day, but we ignore him. To encourage good behavior, each week that Will gets all greens or purples I let him purchase the toy of his choice (within reason).

He's received one yellow, about 10 days ago. The teacher took the time to write a quick note under the yellow frowny face that said, "Played unsafe with friends." Will did not get a toy that weekend. Last week he got all green and on Friday mananaged to snag his second purple. He got toys.

Today was kind of confusing, in more than one way. Each time a child does something nice at school, the teacher gives him a popsicle stick. When they get a certain amount of sticks they get to swap it for something out of the 'treasure chest'. Today, Will got to select something from the treasure chest. He is EXTREAMLY proud of his prize. He also had a great day at school, his teacher gave him a green smiley face.

Then, as they were lining to go home, a boy cut in front of Will and Will grabbed his shirt and pulled him back. Refusing to let the boy cut. Will's teacher scribbeled out his green smiley and put a yellow frowny in it's place.

Oh well, it's life. Every time you start to think you're getting ahead, you get slapped down again. LOL