sticker charts

ROCK!!!!!!!  We needed them and I started them just in time!!!  C has one for if she stays in bed all night until there is a 7 on the clock.  When she was having her nightmares nothing kept her in bed but in the life of a 3.5 year old things change quickly and the last 2 weeks we have not had a nightmare!!!  The sticker chart really is for at night when we put her to bed bc to keep her there and then in the am so she sleeps till "there is a 7 on the clock."  She has gotten a sticker every night for about 2 weeks!!!  (we have all slept through the night for about 2 weeks!!!)  When they get 5 stickers they get to pick a "reward" out of the dollar bin of Target.  Thank you "China bins" as J calls them. Getting the junk is as exciting to them as going "shopping" for it.  It is really working for now!!!

As I mentioned in an earlier post Av has been having trouble in school.  Last grading period her work started coming home with "NI" written on it by the teacher.  That is a grade and means "needs improvement."  I always go over Av's work with her when she gets home but the NIs got way more attention.  I would sit down with her and make her re-do it.  I was finding that she could do it and would at home by herself?!?!?  She knew how to do it all.   Boy did that tick me off.  I was mad at her but mad at her teacher too.  Her teacher is just a witch.  I mean she is fine, and fun, and Av loves her and school, and has learned a lot so that is all great, but I really feel her teacher does not go the extra mile and just lets Av off the hook.  Does not push her at all.  Her report card came home kinda bad bc of it all.  Anyway, before the report card even came home I started the chart with Av.  Everyday that she comes home with her work done well she gets a sticker.  Since I stared it she has not had a single poorly done paper!!!!!!  She can do this stuff she just was not applying herself.   She is a smart cookie she just needs to try!!!!!!!! Her teachers tell me she is doing so much better and talking a lot more to everyone!!  So proud of her.