Our school district focuses on the following 5 P’s and follows C.H.A.M.P.S to reinforce school wide expectations.
Proud
Polite
Prompt
Prepared
Productive
Conversation
Help
Activity
Movement
Participation
Success
This year, my before and after school duty is parent pick up. I am going to create a bulletin board that incorporates VEX! The parent pick up students/walkers will “compete” to be the “CHAMPS” for the week. The weekly grade level winner will have a car that will move across the bulletin board. The car that makes it across first will earn a small reward, such as a “P” card. The VEX incorporation will include the code.
I created a similar bulletin board last school year, but focusing on bus behavior. This year I’d love to make it more “interactive” and create a “grade level winner command” that the students can switch out each week.
I will absolutely update when I create it! What are some other creative ideas to tie in VEX with everyday school routines??? @Tina_Dietrich @Desiree_White-Price @Audra_Selkowitz @Aimee_DeFoe
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This is such a great idea. How have the grade level winners gone? Can we see a photo with the updated cars? Thank you!
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Here are the updated pictures.
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Wow - this is amazing. Love this. Thank you for sharing. What a great idea.
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Those look awesome @Danielle_McCoy! It could be fun to use images of the [Drive for] block or the Drive Coder cards to show the progress. For instance, if Kindergarten has a pretty good time of it, they add a ‘Drive 1’ card behind their car. If they have a GREAT day, they put up a ‘Drive 4’ card, and move the car further.
Similarly, older students could adjust the parameters in the Drive for block - 100mm is a pretty good time, 200mm is better, 400 is super fantastic. For them, you could also have adjustable directions - so if things are not so good, they Drive reverse for 100mm or something like that.
Could make it fun and interactive, and incorporate some number sense too - like if students know it’s “10 steps” to get to the finish, or “1000mm”, they can build that goal into their week, and use it as a conversational strategy when talking about behavior. Like - How many steps forward would we go if we all did this calmly, quietly, and together? or Do you think that would help us drive forward, or would that make us drive in reverse?
Just a thought 
Keep us posted on the progress!
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This is great advice! I’ll pass it along
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