Our tables each have a card on them in a plastic cover. There is a clothes pin by the number 1-5. The cafeteria workers move the pin up and down to let the children see how their behaviour is. If they get to a 1 - they are on silent lunch for the next 2 minutes with total supervision and then start back at 3. Tables accumulate points during the year and have incentives (like a movie, or extra recess with the principal or lunch in their rooms) as they accumulate points. It works very, very well and the difference in the behaviour at the start of the year and now is amazing. The workers are encouraged to move the clothespins a lot so the children receive a lot of feedback. My 1st graders class just got the addition recess so I know it is working well...
Our school could certainly use one. We have 150 more kids in our school this year due to school closings and it gets awfully loud during lunch. I agree that the kids need to be kids and relax during lunch. School has gotten too intense.
I am curious to hear answers on this one too. Our principal wanted to get one of these but for$700 bucks we weren't so sure either.
Also lunch time is to let the kids have their free time too. I understand it gets loud but they need to get it out too.
Cindy
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we use to have one but it never seem to do the right job, it would go off at such a low voice level at times and other times not at all. It si now in a storage room after one year of use!
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