Sunday, September 13, 2009

Feeding the puppy


My daughter is ruled by her stomach. Dogs are, too. You train a dog with treats. I do the same with Mi'ita.

We have our nifty little point system to appeal to her greed.

We have our weekly goal and ice cream outing to appeal to her stomach.

The best ice cream parlor in town is a block away from the library. If Mi'ita meets her weekly goal, we get ice cream on the way back from our Monday library trip.

Weekly goal:
  • 4 math exercises
  • 4 Latin exercises
  • All library books read completely if a picture book, or a chapter out of a longer book (she checks out, her own choice, one biography, one history book, one science book, one art book, one poetry book, one folktale/myth/legend, one novel, one nonfiction DVD, and one music CD)
  • Guitar practiced every day (as soon as our lessons start)
  • 1 completed writing with art posted on her blog
  • 1 science project completed, experiment performed, or book read
  • 1 history project completed or book read

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