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Thursday, February 25, 2010

The star wars

I have been homeschooling my niece and nephew the last few weeks, and last week started giving out star stickers for good work. It is not a complicated system; gold is best, followed by silver, then green, blue, and red. No one wants to get a red star! It is amazing what motivation those little stickers inspire!

Today the two of them finished their work and started comparing what stickers their work had merited. I told them that if they felt the need to fight over who had gotten the best stars, I would start taking stars away and give them to Sophia. They both clammed up and agreed that everyone's schoolwork had been well done.

We did decide to give Sophia a star, just for being a good baby while I taught the other two. And here she is, star and all!


2 comments:

Kristin said...

Seriously. I can not believe how much Reuben, especially, is so motivated to bring home all gold stars! The system will have to continue once they're back home, I guess...

Laurel said...

School is like an Olympic event now, seriously. He is sooo bummed out by a silver.

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