Petunia Lots of Award ideas. Old 05-16-2006, 05:45 PM #3 Greetings from Kansas. Wow!!!!

We have an end of year school assembly and all our students get certificates. Our awards are based on accomplishments and building self esteem and meeting class and individual goals. ****ATTENDANCE. Perfect attendance. ***STATE TESTINGOur 4th graders will all receive a certificate because the class received the Standard of Excellence Achieving on the Mathematic Kansas Accessment test. *****Perfect Spelling certificatesand anyone missing only five or less get certificates, we sponsor a school spelling bee contest. Anyone who participates gets a certificate. The top five go to the county spelling bee and get certificates and they get county spelling bee certificates. We have had students go on to the state spelling bee contest. ***READING.. Book-It certificates to all who completed the requirements each month. Accelerated Reading certificate for meeting certain goals. Rising Reader, Super Reader, Advanced Reader, Star Reader, and Classic Reader..****MATH.. Accelerated Math certificates. Click on certificates and it prints the students name and goal reach on a very nice certificate. (all you need to do is click and print)Mad Minutes. Second grade ---addition and subtraction Mad Minute certificates with number of problems correct in one minute. 3rd grade get Mad Minute certificates for addition, subtraction and multiplication. 4th grade get Mad Minute certificates for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. ****AUTHOR First, Second, 3rd and 4th all get author certificates. First grade and Second grade.. four pages 8x10 top half they draw a picture and bottom half they write one or two sentences. Cover Title, by students name, date, a picture about the book. Glue the cover on construction paper. Laminate the front and back and bind. 3rd grade made an ABC book for their mothers. They wrote one thing about their mother for each letter. Cover title, by students name and a photo of the student. 4th grade. Covertitle, by, date, picture about the book. Story must have an introduction, plot and conclusion. They have an index. Everybody gets an authors certificate for writing a book. Not which one is the best but because they wrote a book and every book and every author is different and that is what

makes their book unique. PE teacher gives awards for participating in track meets, president awards to students completing the requirements, and etc. Music teacher has certificates for music, Band teacher has band awards. We sponsor a music contest and invite schools to come. This a great website to make your own awards for the end of the year, FREE! It also has some ideas for awards. Hope this helps. http://www.billybear4kids.com/show/a...tificates.html Your Bright Smile Being Fun to Be With Hardest Worker Being a True Friend Most Responsible Happy Attitude Always Dependable Always Sharing Always Polite Stick-to-it Award Class Bookworm Always Helpful Most cooperative in Your Group Excellent Artist Excellent Thinking Great Participation Informal (Fun) Appreciation Awards Brought to you via Neil Savage's "Appreciating Girl Scout/Guide Volunteers" Compilation http://www.guidezone.skl.com/jainformal.htm (website no longer online) Bear. For bearing up under pressure (plastic bear with a tire gauge, mounted) Ball. For being 'on the ball'; we had a ball (styrofoam ball with pipe cleaner person on top; ball of any kind, mounted) Banana. For having the greatest a-peal (wax or plasitic banana, mounted) Bean. You've been (bean) wonderful! (lima or other large bean, mounted) Best Foot Forward. Wooden ruler; sock with the toe cut off) Big Heart. For real dedication (red heart pillow or red heart candy box) Bounce. For one who bounced back and softened our hearts

(sheet of fabric softener) Cheer. Box of Cheer laundry soap. Covered the Topic. For a workshop presenter (large platic lid) Crutch. For being someone we can always lean on. Dog. For someone worked like a dog (dog biscuit or rubber bone, mounted) Eggs. For an eggs-cellent job or an eggs-citing idea (egg shells or plastic egg, mounted) Eye-opening Performance. Box of tooth picks. Eyes on U. We're keeping our eyes on you (button or googly eyes mounted on a large felt letter "U") Fizz. For adding pizazz to our undertaking (container of Alka Seltzer tables, mounted) Football. For being willing to tackle the job (toy football) Fresh Air. For bringing a fresh approach (roll of mints or Certs) Funny Bone. For entertaining us; resolving a situation with humor (feather mounted to a rubber/plastic/real bone) Hat's Off. Our hats are off to you (real hat; toy hat, mounted) Head and Shoulders Above the Rest. Upper part of plastic doll mounted above a piece of wood so the head is about the wood. Helping Hand. Outline of a hand traced on construction paper, mounted; stuffed glove on a dowel) Ice Cream. For someone who can lick any job (cotton wadding in sugar/wafer ice cream cone, mounted) Knocked Yourself Out. Small hammer or mini bat, mounted. Knot. For someone who tied it all together (square or over-hand knot sprayed gold, mounted) Key. You've been the key to our success. Lollipop. See Ice Cream Award (large sucker, mounted) Marbles. For a marble-ous job; (bag of marbles; two or three marbles, mounted) Million Thanks. Play money in denominations adding up to $1,000,000. Needle and Thread. For keeping is in stiches. N'ice Job. Box of N'ice cough drops. Noteworthy. Small notepad, mounted Nuts. We're nuts about you; you had to be nuts to take on this task (bag of nuts; 2 or 3 nuts, mounted, large walnut on a string)

 Plunger. For plunging right in (small sink plunger) Raisin Pay. For the deserving ones (a pyramid of raisins, glued to a backing) Record-breaker. Split vinyl record, mounted. Ringy-Dingy. For phone bank organizer (plastic toy phone; two cans on a string) Right Arm. Cardboard arm with hand in the Scout sign; doll's right arm. Right Foot. For starting us off right (outline of a foot traced on construction paper, mounted) Rock. Mounted Rose. You rose to the occassion (artificial or ribbon rose) Rubber Band. For banding us together; expanding our knowledge; showing flexibility. Scout Spirit. Make a ball-and-rag ghost doll. Seashell. For a 'shell' of a good job (large seashell, mounted) Shining Example. Mirror, mylar, or metal foil Spark. For someone who supplied the spark to get the project going (spark plug, mounted; Independence Day sparkler, mounted) Spoon. For a banquet organizer (wooden spoon, mounted) Stake. For those with commitment-a stake in the Scouting program (a tent stake; certificate for steak dinner) Static Guard. The 'static' has vanished since you joined the group. Stuck With It. A roll of tape; glue stick. T-rific. Golf tee or tea bags, mounted. Target. For keeping us on target, making our target (facsimile archery target, mounted) Toilet Paper. For managing the all-important paperwork. Toothpick. Appologize for being picky. Trix. For utilizing your bag of tricks (Trix cereal in a bag) Udderly Fabulous. Blown up latex glove. Welcome Aboard. Strip of wood with word "Welcome" painted on it. Well Done. Burnt slice of toast, perserved and mounted Whale. For a whale of a job (toy plastic whale, mounted) USING CANDY BARS TO CREATE A THANK YOU MESSAGE Dear______,

We want to thank you for all you do for us. You do GOOD AND PLENTY around here. You help us by giving us MOUNDS of homework so that we can SKOR well on all of our tests. We know that the lessons you have taught us will help us both NOW AND LATER in life. Sometimes you are a HOT TAMALE and other times a BIG RED but we know that you love us to (REESE'S)PIECES and that you would do anything for us even though we act NUTRAGEOUS at times. We wish we could give you a 100 GRAND on PAYDAY but you will have to settle for HUGS and KISSES and a SYMPHONY of voices saying thank you. Love, ____________________ hescollin is offline Reply With Quote hescollin View Public Profile Find More Posts by hescollin Reply hardest worker always on time always smiling best joke teller most improved sharing is caring helping hands great participation How about citizenship, cleanest desk, artistic, good communicator, class leader or leadership, most creative, most athletic.

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