You could make it a winners circle and do some sort of awards theme. Everytime they are in the winners circle they should feel like a winner. You could decorate the area with trophys, stars (for superstars), certificates, camera’s, sports stuff, diploma’s, etc.

The kids could even make medals that they get to wear only when they are in the winners circle. Then you have a constant classrom job to assign, because someone would always need to pass out the medals and collect them. You could also even incorporate some vocabulary words that they wouldn’t normally learn. Each week the winners circle could have a winning word that they learn and use all week. If you rotate the same words all year, they will really learn and use them. (Ex. victory, success, triumph, accomplish.) Your kids would probably be the only kids leaving kindergarten using those words.

Then if you really want to get creative, you can start everyone off with a bronze medal and make them learn a certain amount of sight words before they can get to silver, then gold. (This may make you stay on top of you kids also, because you don’t want the child who only has a bronze medal feeling bad all year because they can’t get to silver.)

I don’t know, I like the idea, hopefully if you don’t use it, it can spark some thoughts that you didn’t already have. I just urge you to make the theme something overly positive rather than just cute.

Good Luck!