Back to School Blog Hop- Last Day! (Freebie!)

Ok.  Confession.  I am not just now going back to school.  Teachers have been back to school around here since the end of July!! Sad news friends...today is the last day of the Back to School Blog Hop!  I've seen some pretty amazing shares throughout the month of August, haven't you?  Thanks so much to my friend, Mary Amoson of Sharing Kindergarten for arranging this blog hop!

I want to share with you today one of my new tools for positive reinforcement that I am using this year.  In the past, I have always used the whole "Compliment Chart" thing...you know, where every time your kids earn a compliment you move the clip to the next letter (or add the next letter in the word)?  Then once you have the word completed your kids earn a treat?  Well, as most of you know I have a slight addiction to Pinterest....and last summer I found a cute alternative to the usual Compliment Chart that uses Mr. Potato Head instead! (See the original I pinned here.)

I had to make one for my classroom this year so I enlisted the Hubs to help me make some cute body part clip art for my sign.  I think it turned out pretty cute!  Every time my boys and girls earn a compliment in the hallway, lunch room, etc. we vote on which body part to add to Mr. Potato next.  Once he is complete...we celebrate and then start over.  The kids have really taken to this already and Mr. Potato usually comes up in our conversations at least once a day.  We have already filled him up once and are now working on a second compliment treat! :)
You can snag your own copy of the sign for free by clicking {here} or the picture below.

I hope you like it!

Make sure you stop by Monica's blog too!  

She's co-hosting the last day with me over at Treasures for Teaching! :)

If you missed any of the Back to School posts from this month I highly recommend hopping through the linky below.  Every post offered a freebie for you to download! That is sure to get your year off on the right foot!  :)