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There's Nothing Like a Little Motivation!
As I sit at my computer, Samuel has been standing behind me, practically breathing down my neck as he eagerly awaits something that I told him I would work on tonight. The latest video he has been asking us to buy is "The Land Before Time." I am not exactly sure why he has become so interested in it, but it could be simply because it is a Universal Studios picture.
As Samuel was bothering me about buying this video for him yesterday I was busy thinking about getting him to finish a Language Arts workbook that we have been working on for some time. Actually, it has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust for the past 3 months while we took a little break from it (we started an on-line language arts curriculum in the meantime). Suddenly, a light bulb went off in my head, "Tie these two things together!" I told Samuel that I would order him the video after he finishes the workbook. Later in the day he wanted to know when we were going to work in the workbook! He also asked me this several times today. Before jumping back into the workbook I printed out a punctuation worksheet on periods and question marks as a review of the last assignment he had done. Then, after he asked me about the workbook about 5 more times, I decided to add a visual element to tracking his progress; I would make a checklist.
We will put stickers on it as he completes each assignment. The movie promotional picture I put on it is freaking him out a bit, but at least he now will have a sense of how much longer it will take until he is finished. He wants to do some work tonight, but it's almost 9:00 and I am a bit tired!
As Samuel was bothering me about buying this video for him yesterday I was busy thinking about getting him to finish a Language Arts workbook that we have been working on for some time. Actually, it has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust for the past 3 months while we took a little break from it (we started an on-line language arts curriculum in the meantime). Suddenly, a light bulb went off in my head, "Tie these two things together!" I told Samuel that I would order him the video after he finishes the workbook. Later in the day he wanted to know when we were going to work in the workbook! He also asked me this several times today. Before jumping back into the workbook I printed out a punctuation worksheet on periods and question marks as a review of the last assignment he had done. Then, after he asked me about the workbook about 5 more times, I decided to add a visual element to tracking his progress; I would make a checklist.
We will put stickers on it as he completes each assignment. The movie promotional picture I put on it is freaking him out a bit, but at least he now will have a sense of how much longer it will take until he is finished. He wants to do some work tonight, but it's almost 9:00 and I am a bit tired!
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