I love when I come up with a plan for my students and it works!! My plan to help the students with the transition time between an educational assistant and myself is a success. The EA has to leave before I get there and the students were having a hard time with the free time. The students could not get focused for our 15 minutes together. I spoke to the EA and asked her to get them started on their independent work. She did this, but as soon as she was gone the students would loose track of what they were supposed to be doing. I decided the problem was that they are kids and left untended they are going to loose track of what they are doing. After all the are only first graders. So it was time to come up with a way to mold their behavior. I am a firm believer in using positive reinforces to change behavior. Fortunately for me first graders love stickers. I laid out the routine and their choices and explained that each day they are on task when I come into the room they each earn a choice of 2 stickers. Right from the start they loved this idea and have been on task every time I get there.