Sometimes, these days, I find myself craving green tea instead of coffee. Even black coffee, nevermind the instant stuff that suddenly makes me want to vomit. That's weird.
I've started a new system with my 1st graders, in which I give them miniature laminated U.S. dollars when they volunteer in class or win a game, and they have to bring the dollar to me after class or during lunchtime to exchange it for candy.
It works ridiculously well. You should have seen their faces light up the first time I brought the dollars out of my bag and gave them to the winning team. There are a few dollars that I haven't gotten back, and I don't know if it's because the students lost the dollar, are too shy to approach me after class, or simply would rather have the fake dollar instead of the offered candy. I know for a fact that one of my students likes to keep his dollars tucked away in his wallet for a few days before exchanging them for candy. I find this unbelievably adorable, and I refuse to threaten the students into returning the dollars like my co-teachers suggest.
This week, I have those gold coin chocolates, and my students get really confused when they give me a dollar and I give them two gold coins in return. They think they've exchanged fake money for more fake money, and I have to explain that it's chocolate. Noobs. All of my 3rd graders know full well by now what those gold coins are.
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