French Classroom Reward System – Médailles merveilleuses – La rentrée! (FRENCH Reward Tags)

Looking for a simple, effective way to help your French primary students be their best selves this school year? Want to encourage and focus on their behaviours that promote a positive classroom community and applaud their personal growth? Médailles merveilleuses (or “reward tags” in English) are a super fun, effective, simple French classroom reward technique, centred around noticing and rewarding the positive behaviours our students show and the great choices they make.

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How this French classroom reward system works:

• At the start of the year, each student receives an empty necklace chain (I prefer the ball chain necklaces, which can be found inexpensively on Amazon).
• Throughout the year, they receive médailles (“dog tags”) to reward them for showing great behaviour and choices to add to their necklace. The aim is to collect as many as they can throughout the year and to continuously improve their behaviour.
• The teacher decides how many tags they want to pass out each day.
• To keep your tags durable and lasting all year, I strongly suggest laminating them before you cut them out. Then, just punch a hole at the top of the tag and store them in an easily accessible place so you can grab them as soon as your students show great behaviour.

One thing to keep in mind is that we want our students to EARN their tags – we want them to be consciously reflecting and making good choices about how they interact with others!

This set of tags focuses a lot on “expected” behaviours at school, but behaviours that may not be obvious to our newest students. There are also a couple tags to celebrate some milestones – such as their first day of school, first time on the bus, and when they can open their snack/lunch on their own.

Reward tags do use lots of ink and laminating sheets – it’s a good idea to make sure that you are able to print and laminate them before deciding to purchase :)

This set includes 20 different tags that celebrate your students’ first week of school (*note that most are geared towards maternelle, but there are a few tags for other grades as well!)

Included tags are:

• J’ai des yeux comme un hibou
• J’écoute avec les oreilles d’éléphant
• Jambes comme un bretzel
• Tranquille comme une souris
• Je me prépare tout seul
• J’ouvre ma collation tout(e) seul(e)
• J’ouvre mon dîner tout(e) seul(e)
• J’ai tout mangé!
• Bienven «hou » à la…
  * Maternelle
  * 1re année
  * 2e année
  * 3e année
• Je colorie comme il faut
• J’utilise la colle comme il faut
• J’utilise les ciseaux comme il faut
• Je marche bien en ligne
• C’est la rentrée!
• Premier jour de l’école!
• Première fois dans l’autobus
• Je reste à ma place