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White Milk Balls

It’s amazing what kids will drink if you offer them bouncy balls! I have been giving the second graders prizes all year for drinking white milk instead of chocolate. And they don’t get a prize every day. In fact, they might get a prize every two weeks, but they still drink white every day. It has worked very successfully. Not everyone is motivated by prizes, granted, but the majority are. Don’t let anyone tell you that they MUST serve chocolate milk because kids won’t drink white. Second grade is scarfing white down to get bouncy balls. Bouncy balls for white milk…amazing.

Posted in School Life.


Mysterious Benedict Society

I thoroughly enjoyed the first installment of the Benedict series. I really liked the characters, and I appreciated the development of relationships between the characters. From their first meetings, the kids grew to trust each other, and this, ultimately, made them the “society” they needed to be in order to… Well, I won’t give it all away. Check out the Mysterious Benedict Society Website.

Posted in Favorite Books.