Thanks for all the suggestions. We have decided on doing a lunch (pizza & soda). We will hand out Honor Roll Certificates to all who have made Honor Roll this school year. After lunch, they are going to receive a free activity period. Our school actually has a Honor Roll Reward Party for the students i.e. they get to go to a movie, college basketball game, roller skating etc. thanks to our PTO. It just happens that no reward party takes place at the end of the year, with school being out, so this lunch takes care of that.

The third report card marking we turn in the names of all the children who have made honor roll since beginning of school and send them to the state representative. He gives us certificates for the kids. If his schedule is clear he will pass them out himself. The principal is thinking about having an honor roll lunch.

We do a monthly luncheon for our Students of the Week. We host ours the first Wednesday of each month for the kids that received Students of the Week the month prior. Domino's Pizza donates the pizza each month. We participate in their "Raising Dough" once a month. We send home flyers with a form on the bottom that the family ordering the pizza that night fills in the students' name and teacher to be given to the delivery driver. We then receive $2 per order placed that night from our families and the class with the most orders (from the form) wins a pizza party each month. We ususally get 10-14 pizzas a month depending on the number of kids. We serve it 30 min. prior to the first lunch crowd coming into the MP room. We provide the plates, napkins & juice boxes. We also print out simple, cute invitations to the luncheon and have their teachers give them to the kids on the Mon. prior to the luncheon. We then use those invitations (they bring them with them) for a drawing. We draw out one name and they win a school T-shirt. So far, it's been a fun time for the kids. We started it last year and plan on continuing it.

Hope this helps,
Holly
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We host Honor Roll Bingo. The students who make honor roll get to spend 1-1/2 in the gym playing bingo for great prizes (all donated by local stores, the grand prize, a 50 dollar bill donated by us), eating popcorn and having a great time. Our principal calls the numbers, the kids love it. They get to yell and scream when numbers are called. My son works harder in school, just so he can attend.

We chaperone an hour of free gym time for honor roll students. The principal presents each student with a certificate of recognition and they get to do whatever they wish. We split the hour into 2 sessions, 30 min for 1st-3rd, and 30 min for 4th-5th.
Our school only gets PE twice a week, and the kids actually like this! Plus it's a change from giving them "sugar" and it free for us, it only takes 3 volunteers!

We do an Honor Roll Ice Cream Social! It's held after lunch and parents are invited to attend. We purchase ice cream and all of the toppings and students & their parents can make their own sundaes. The principal hands out the Honor Roll certificates while everyone enjoys their sundaes.

Only our 4th and 5th grades get "letter" grades, so our Honor Roll Ice Cream Social is limited to about 60 kids and parents--we figure about 100 people in all.

We have 8-10 volunteers who stand behind a table and scoop ice cream and sprinkle the toppings of choice on the sundaes (it's too messy if you let the kids do it themselves!)

Report cards come out twice a year, so we have two socials! It's a lot of fun, the kids and their families love it and we get the left-overs! Yum!