the workshop particulars.

I've had a few people ask some more questions about workshop, so here are even more details! Oh boy!

1. Workshop is done in order. The kids don't pick and choose which activities to do. They start at the beginning every day and work through the activities in order.

2. The order of activities changes everyday (one day riding bike will be first, the next day it might be seventh)

3. Dots are only given out by mom. If they mess with their dots, they are all taken away.

4. Dots are only given out the day workshop is done. (And the kids are in charge of reminding me to do it.) They can't say I should have 20 dots because I did five things yesterday and 10 things the day before and five today.

4. Each activity is worth one dot. If someone gets to the third activity, they get three dots that day. If they get to the eighth, they get eight.

5. Once every few weeks I'll replace a few activities with new ones.

6. Workshop store is most motivating with real items they can purchase (like rubber snakes and lipgloss.) Last year we tried it with activities like "stay up an extra hour" and it didn't work very well, mostly because I never wanted to let them redeem it!

7. Andy, Ashlyn & Cam love workshop, but Ava is still too little. I would say kids four and over--I modify a couple activities for Andy. Like for keyboard chatter he just plays games on pbskids.org for 15 minutes. And for math page, he practices his handwriting from a workbook or does a worksheet from preschoolprintables.

I'm not a very clear explainer, but hopefully that helps. Have fun!