Wednesday, November 2, 2011

I'm a Chore Chart Novice

A couple months ago grandma bought Zoe a small, dry erase board.  It sticks to the fridge and is the perfect place for Zoe's chore chart.  Each day grandma puts things on there for Zoe to do.  Zoe eats it up.  She's so much like me in that department.  She LOVES lists and LOVES crossing things off.

Because she can't read too well, everything is written and there are pictures so she knows what it says.

A typical day includes:

Feed Toby
Feed Coco
Eat a banana
Do your homework
Set the table for dinner

It's been awesome to see her doing all the things with joy and excitement.  Especially when it involves cleaning or putting things away. 

On Wednesdays both Zoe and Grandma get to sleep in a bit.  That means Zoe doesn't have a chore chart right when she wakes up like she does when grandma is up early for work.  Yesterday Zoe informed me that I needed to make her a chore chart.  She had no less than 609 different ideas of what I could put on there.

This morning that's what I did.  Because it's a school morning, I focused on the things that she'd need to do to get ready for school.  Here's her chart:

Zoe's Chores

Eat breakfast (a picture of a fork, spoon and cup)
Go potty (picture of a toilet - which I'm pretty proud of, it turned out well)
Get dressed (picture of pants and a shirt)
Find your backpack (picture of a backpack)
Go to school (picture of a school/house)

I get a call from Zoe this morning exactly 2.3 minutes after she wakes up.  She's got some problems with her chart.  They are:

1) She doesn't have an "S" on the end of her name.  DUH!  There is apparently only one of her, not several, so you can't put an "S" there.  I didn't have the energy to explain possessives to her since this was obviously the first of many problems.

2) It doesn't mention feeding Toby.  Is he just supposed to starve today?

3) It also doesn't mention feeding Coco the fish either.  She apparently told me all about needing to put that on the chart yesterday.  Is Coco going to starve too?  OR worse, did I feed Coco?  Because that's her chore!

4) She likes the toilet picture.  She's going to do that specific chore first.  It should be at the top!

In terms of Chore Chart 101, I'm flunking out.  If it was Chore Chart Art 101, I'm doing fabulous. 

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