Kindergarten stuff

Well, tomorrow Becca goes back to school and has her first day of all day kindergarten. This means that today, we are doing her off-track homework. About 3/4 of it is being done today. The packet was about 40 pages of busy work that is just so simple that Becca has had a hard time doing it for very long. That means that I have spent my entire day telling her that she has to do 4 more pages and then she can have a break. Then I tell her to go back and re-do the ones that she just scribbled through so that it can be done. Yep, she's really lazy.

The one negative thing that Becca's teachers have to say about her is that she procrastinates and then rushes through her work at the last minute. Yep, that's exactly what she is doing here at home. They say that she'll probably do better once she has the harder work that is coming, but I'm thinking that there isn't much in Kindergarten curriculum that she doesn't already know.

She has been told almost every day of the break (except weekends, I just don't think kids should do schoolwork on weekends unless it's really necessary) that it is time to do some homework, and she will sit down and apparently look like she's doing something and then when I get distracted, she escapes. I know, it's probably all my fault.

So here I am. I'm now going to make her a schedule now. Every day she will have a more structured plan for her work. I hate schedules. I really don't want to do this. I get enough of that with Micah. Still, she has to learn organizational skills somewhere. Maybe a checklist. I'm thinking on it.

So, those of you who are moms (or happen to be organized, or just have a thought you'd like to share...I'm not picky), do you have any ideas? I'm not really organized myself, as I previously admitted, so whatever plan that I make would have to be simple and probably very visible so that I am reminded about it as well as she is.

Here's a fun proverb:

"All hard work brings a profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty." Proverbs 14:23