It feels like Halloween Has Come Early!!!

Last week was so so much fun in school. I got teach every 5th & 6th grade class my own lesson. This is a new change that will allow me to create my own lesson plan each week and teach 120 students in each grade anything I feel like teaching. So this was a great opportunity for me to implement some more bribery...um um YES!!! I began with a lesson on common greetings. I wanted to break them out of the robotic: "Hi, How are you? I'm fine thank you & you?" So, I told them, if they say: "How's it going? How are things? How's life? or What's up/happening" I will give them a candy. Well I taught this lesson 2 weeks ago, and they were all out in full force last Thursday & Friday. I just love having random students come up to me in the hallway, in the bathroom, while walking through the quad in the morning, etc. Say, "Hello Teacher, How's life?" I say: "Excellent and you?" If they respond with any of the following: "I'm wonderful, I'm fantastic, I'm great, I'm not bad." I will give them a candy. But if they say, "I'm fine." NO CANDY!!! Last week was so great b/c once one students take to initiative to come up and ask me "How's it going?" He/she then whispers it to their friend and it starts this BIG snowball affect. I really love it though, I'm constantly running to my desk to pull out more candies to stash in my pockets. It seriously felt like Halloween last week. Or I feel like Santa Claus giving out treats and goodies, or sometimes I feel like a trainer at Sea World throwing out fish (candies) to the dolphins (students) in class. Some students don't get the concept of how to get candy, so they grovel & beg with their hand out saying: "Teachuh, Teachuh, candy, candy please".... and usually they mumble something else in Korean. They don't get that that will not get them a candy. Now I have over 240 students that I've incentivized to say these new greetings in order to get candy. Needless to say, I'm running to the store to buy candy a lot. I think I will also start to use stickers as a reward also. I also told them to say: "a piece of cake" if something is EASY and to say, "a pain in the neck" if something is HARD. Its really great b/c t take almost an entire 40 minute lesson just to teach these 2 phrases. I have promised to give any student who correctly uses these phrases candy as well.