I wanted to take a moment to clarify our behavior chart just in case your child is coming home and speaking of a warning he or she may have had or even the loss of recess time.
Every child begins his/her day "green" or on appropriate behavior. We have spent each day speaking about what we want our class to look, sound and feel like and what it means to have green behavior. We will be visiting and re-visiting, modeling, reading about and posting expectations for behavior daily.
I pre-warn all children sometimes more than once before asking them to flip their card to the next color which is yellow, if the same or other innappropriate behaviors persist they are asked to flip their card again to orange. At this time I also remind children of what color behavior they are exhibiting and suggestions of how they could improve their behavior for the remainder of the day. If this is not working and the child still exhibits the innappropriate behavior they flip or move their card to red and a phone call home is warranted and the loss of one recess.
Children who remain on green for the day are administered a ticket at the end of the day and the chance to win a prize at the end of the week, after a few weeks of green behavior the children that have earned that will have a picnic style lunch in the classroom.
I may choose not to call you on the first offense of a "red" card because all children naturally test the boundaries and are excited to be back at school with their friends and can be very chatty etc. If your child comes home upset and I haven't called you please feel free to call or email me with your concerns. If the behavior persists after a missed recess I will certainly call you and have a conversation about how we may better meet the needs of your child in the classroom.