paperplate fingerpaint

paperplate fingerpaint

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Preschool Task Chart

Up till now I have been using an arbitrary "worker bee" system with my 4 year old, where when he does something good he gets a sticker on one of his bees, and when the bees are all filled in he gets a prize.  I put this in place right after his 3rd birthday with 10 bees and eventually raised it to 20.  It's been working quite well, but recently I noticed that he was going too fast and filling in all 20 worker bees in a few days.  Know what that means?  Time for a new system!

So I considered starting him on a base-4 system given his age, but it would be very confusing to have two different amounts for the same number of points.  I simply kept his chart at a base-6 but with a lower expectation of potential. So his true potential would be 24 points over the course of 5 days, while my 7 year olds is 42 points over 8 days.

We worked together to come up with the tasks that he should be expected to do.  Most of them he was already doing but we added a few more.

Since I am keeping them both on the points systems most of the things he works toward now have a point value instead of a monetary value.  For instance a lightsaber was worth 80 points, and a trip to Check E Cheese is worth 60.  I will keep trying to insert the diagram of the updated chart below, but right now the file is not cooperating :/


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