prompt per task will receive bonus credit.
c. Quality Job – Any child who completes task 1-5 such that at 7:30 he or she looks wide awake, well groomed, and neatly dressed will receive credit.
BREAKFAST ROUTINE
6. Entry to Dining Room off Ward Payment and
7. Quiet in Line to Dining Room
a. Definition: Any child who is in line without pushing, shoving, yelling, running or lagging from inside the ward door until reaching the Dining Room tray area will be given credit. Children who take meds must take meds as provided to receive credit.
b. Idea: To get the children from ward to the Dining Room in an orderly, well behaved fashion.
c. Procedure: All children will be asked to line up at the ward door closest to the Dining Room. The line-up call will be made only twice, with at least 30 seconds between calls. Children who line up will receive the dollars that they have earned from the Rising Routine if that has not been done already. The staff member at the door (hopefully the control person) will collect payment to leave the ward. The door to the ward will be unlocked and children will proceed to the Dining Room.
8. Breakfast
a. Procedure: Children will pay the control person for their breakfast at the tray holder. It is the responsibility of the control person to inform the dining room staff of each child’s menu choice. The control person will collect the dollars from each child and issue meal tickets.
Yellow Meal Ticket – Basic Menu
Red Meal Ticket – Menu 2
Blue Meal Ticket – Full Menu
Yellow and Red tickets should be collected as the child receives meal. Blue tickets are collected at end of the meal.
We will try to get plastic meal tickets with children’s pictures on them. Three colors per child, so that child can get whichever meal ticket he or she chooses.
9. Good Table Manners
a. Definition: Any child who eats in the dining room using appropriate utensils, having napkin in lap, eating neatly; not verbally agitating others, not leaving his or her seat without permission, and uses please and thank you as well as returning quietly back to the ward will receive credit upon returning to the ward.
b. Idea: To have a pleasant, non-hassled meal for all concerned.
c. Procedure: Each child will be reminded only once during each meal to use good manners as the staff member at the table deems there to be a need for such a reminder. Any child who has to be reminded more than once will not receive credit. Upon returning to the ward, each child who met the criterion will be told he or she will receive savings credit for Good Table Manners.
Clean Up – Room Routine
10. Make Bed
a. Definition: Every child whose bed has two sheets and a blanket tucked in on all sides, with a spread tucked in at the bottom and folded such that the pillow is covered will receive credit for a made bed. The bottom sheet must be tucked in on all sides; the top sheet and blanket on three sides; the spread tucked in at least on the bottom.
b. Idea: To have child make his own bed.
c. Procedure: Upon return from breakfast, all children will be told to “Make your beds”. Each child will be given up to three individual verbal Sd’s, i.e. “Make your bed” or “Are you going to make your bed?” during the 1/2 hour period. At the end of the period or upon completion of the task, the child will receive credit.
11. Sweep Room Floor
a. Definition: Any child who has no dust, dirt, scraps, droppings, or other stuff on his floor will be given credit. The floor of the room is defined as the line where the door closes. All dust, etc. must be picked up and not swept into the hall.
b. Idea: To have the room swept with a minimum of hassle.
c. Procedure: During the half-hour, each child will be provided with access to a broom and dustpan. Each child will be verbally prompted up to 3 times during the half hour to sweep his room. If at the end of the period the floor has been swept, the child will receive credit.
12. Straighten Room
a. Definition: Any child who has his room kept neatly: his belongings either in drawers or closets or stacked neatly in piles; all belongings except shoes and other floor-appropriate items, should be off the floor; clothes in closets should be hung up.
b. Idea: To have child learn to keep his room in a used but orderly fashion.
c. Procedure: During the half hour each child will be told up to a maximum of three times to straighten his room. Staff can point out during this time areas which need more work. Staff is not to get uptight about non-compliance.
BONUSES FOR ROOM CLEAN-UP ROUTINE
Complete: All children who have Bed Made, Floor Swept, and Room Straightened will receive credit.
Non-Prompted: Any child who completes all three tasks with less than three prompts will receive credit.
Quality Job: Any child whose room is very straight, whose bed has no wrinkles in it, and whose floor is extra clean will receive credit.
Procedure: Staff will check rooms, beds, floors at the end of the half hour and give appropriate number of earned dollars.
WARD JOB ROUTINE
13. Ward Jobs-
Definitions: Each child will be assigned one of the following ward jobs on a weekly rotating basis.
1. Mopped Day Room: Day Room floor should have a thin coat of water such that there is no excess and the water left on the floor is clean. The floor itself should not have any grime, dirt or streaks left on it. There should be no excess water in the hall or other adjacent areas.
2. Sweep Day Room: Day room floor should have no dust, dirt, scraps, droppings or other stuff on it. All improper things on the floor should be swept up and put in the garbage and not swept into the hall.
3. Mop Center Hall: Center hall floor should have a thin coat of water such that there is no excess and the water left on the floor is clean. The floor itself should not have any grime, dirt, or streaks left on it. There should not be any excess water in the rooms or adjacent areas.
4. Sweep Center Hall: Hall floor should have no dust, dirt, scraps, droppings or other stuff on it. All improper things on the floor should be swept up and put in the garbage and not swept into the rooms.
5. Clean Day Room Bath: The tub, sink, and john should be washed out such that there is no hair, stains or other debris left in them. The mirror should be wiped clean and the tub, sink, and john washed out. The floor should be swept and mopped to the criterion described for floors above.
6. Collect Laundry: All dirty laundry should be collected from outside the rooms and placed in the dirty laundry bags in the laundry room.
7. Trash: All waste paper baskets should be emptied into a central collection bag or basket and the collected trash placed outside where
