Over the weekend, L saw an ad for this roly-poly bear from Build-a-Bear pop up in my email. She looked it over and saw that it was on sale and decided she HAD to have it. Since she brought home a not-so-stellar progress report a week ago, we agreed that I'd order the bear and she could have it if she gets all 3s and 4s on her next report card. As a little incentive to improve those grades, I offered her the chance to sleep with the bear last night if she could get four division problems right. I'd make a set of four long division problems and she'd miss one. We'd do it again ... and again. Finally, she got it (along with a lot of practice for her long division test today).
Today, she came home with the test and got a solid 3 - 93 percent. Her teacher wrote, "L took her time and did a great job on the test." She's been having an issue with L speeding through her assignments and tests, so that was good to hear. L thinks her test grade entitles her to sleep with the bear again tonight. We'll see about that.
No comments:
Post a Comment