Grocery List 2/10

-twinning of cucumbers 

- sproitch of spinach 

-bag of kale

-celerium of celery

- inverted trapezoid of mushrooms

- heavy bread

- cylinder knot of bagels 

- meager cheese

- boast of oranges

- box of cous cous

Incentives

I don't normally use rewards when working with kids. Like having things like candy or toys or prizes or whatever for doing well.

But I splurged last weekend and bought all that candy and stickers that was on my shopping list. It's been eye opening to see how much the kids have bought into it.

It's basically a 3 tier system. At the top, for the toughest tasks is air heads. In the middle is starbursts. And at the bottom are the stickers. At least that's how it is in my brain.

Two moments from today.

A kid comes up to me at the start of the afternoon and says "I NEED STICKER! I NEED!" I say, okay you can earn one outside. He asks how. I say by doing a great feat. He asks how. I say that, ya know, we'll just go outside and look around and feel out the energy and most of time epicness happens. And then he found an old inner tube that another kid has hid behind the tree last week.

The other thing that happened was that a boy earned an airhead for cleaning up some of the cafeteria.  He then cleaned ALL of the cafeteria and did every job that is left to me and my coworkers at the end of the day. I told him very clearly that he could not earn any additional airheads. But he was very savvy in increasing the value of his one airhead by eliminating all of the labor that could allow other kids to earn airheads. Does anyone know how to describe this in economic terms?

and proud of it

Word of the Bird #16

Giving This Away on Craigslist

I might get a sheet of really nice watercolor paper for it!!!

A Cool Thing

That guy. peterdraws. Is my favorite artist! And he liked my post last night. I've been tagging him in all my posts for like a week now so maybe I just wore him down but it's still pretty cool! I copy his style, or as best I can manage, in a lot of ways. The way he draws gives me a lot of motivation and inspiration and his YouTube channel is delightful.

Maybe I'll stop tagging him so much now.

Woops! I have not posted for February!!

Woops woop woop!

Groceries Purchased This Week

- about 6 bananas

-pack of mushrooms

-half loaf of sliced bread

-dozen eggs

-carton of almond milk, original 

-2 cucumbers

-1 celerium of celery

-bax of basmati rice

-strand of kale

-colony of baby potates

-tiny plastic barge of vermicelli 

-cannister of raisins

-bag of sour patch watermelons

- 30 airheads

- 2 books of stickers, one of which is pictures of food with googly eyes