Grade 1- Kids rewarding system -2

The 2nd semester started, we do some adjustments for John's star rewarding  system (SRS).  We start to deduct John's stars if John can't remain good disciples or don't want to take his responsibilities.

Disciplines:

1. When John drink yogurts, he usually drinks some then moves to doing other things.  In the end, he may forget to drink up yogurts and leave the cans on the table or any place convenient for him.

I set the first discipline for him. If he want to dink yogurts, he need drink up, wash up, and put it into cans recycle bin. If he didn't do it. I will take out 1 star from him.  The guideline already tell him for about a half year.  However, he can't follow it.

Maybe I should give him a star if he doing well on this discipline, I think.

Responsibilities:

In the past, John like to help hanging clothes and organize clothes.  We bought Wii FIT last weekend.  Thus, when I asked John if he want to help hanging clothes, he answered he want to play Wii. I know kids like to help doing households when they are not good at  them as they think they are fun.  However, when they know how to do it and there are other entertainment available, they may loose interest in helping doing households.

Therefore, I define help hanging clothes as one of his responsibilities.  If he help to hang cloth, he still can get 1 star.   However, if he don't want to help, he need to pay 5 stars as I need to do them all.  2010-2-23

Grade 1 - Kid's Rewarding System

In the 1st semester of grade 1, we develop star rewarding  system (SRS) for John.  It is aligned with rewarding system of school homeroom teacher.  The difference is that our rewarding system is also an allowance system.  A star is equal to one taiwan dollor.

John can use the money to buy some drinks or snacks whenever he want. 

In school, the homeroom teacher will give kids a circle whenever they behave weill in school.  When eack's circles reach 20, she will give them some stationaries such as pencils or pad as rewards.   However, if kids doesn't behave well, the teach will reduce their circles.

Our rewarding system focuses on encourging positive actions.  He will get rewards if he helps doing households, give good comments from school teachers or anyone, write  homework well, get good score in tests, or doing well on the things we want him to become habits.  The things we want him to become habits include turning on the lights when play piano or read books, put bowls into sinks when he finishes dinner.....

The SRS system work well in the 1st semeters.  John is eager to get stars from time to time.  We are also glad to offer stars whenever we see somehting good.  John remains his star level around 80 to 150 in the 1st semester.  He uses his stars 3 - 4 times and each time cost around 20 TWD.  2010-2-23