Too much pizza!

Perhaps we can all learn a lesson from something that happened in my child's classroom this week. All year long, the students in that class have worked towards earning an invitation to an end-of-the-year pizza party scheduled for the last week of school. Little did the teacher know when she planned this pizza party back in the fall, that the kids would be served pizza FOUR OTHER TIMES in the last week of school at the cafeteria and other school-wide functions! Needless to say, once the students figured this out, their enthusiasm for attendance at the class party quickly fell. There's a happy ending, though: the teacher was quick enough on her feet to offer ordering the pizza from a restaurant other than the one normally used by the school, and that was enough to make the kids excited again! So, consider yourself warned: choose and schedule your year-end rewards wisely, and when all else fails, be flexible!