I have three that I homeschool, ages 10,6 and 4. I use rewar coupons. ie. working well, staying quiet, my best pennmanship etc. We will probably have a field trip once a month, but also do things such as going to the Library or Barnes and Nobles to look at books or go to Chuck E Cheese to play ( you can for free & you don't have to buy anything!) Call some local resturants or firehouses and let them know you homeschool and you can get filed trips that way. With resturants you get the field trip and most times they will give you food. Round TAble Pizza gives you a tour and the lets the kids make a pizza. SO much fun. I am going to implement a Monopoloy Money reward incentive. If I see them working well and behaving, being kind, showing respect anything really, I'll reward them with the fake money and I want to have a little " store" box that has items from suckers to paints and books. Of course all with a price tag for their fake money. So, your student is working well, give them $100.00(in small bills too), and if they are being bad, you take a little money from them. That way they see that there is a consequence for being good and also a consequence for being bad. Then at the end of the day, week or month they can buy what they want( obviously have items for $5.00 and big items for $100.00 to $500.00 dollars. Make it fun. Go to the Dollar Store or Wal*Mart in your area and look for fun stuff. Use homemade coupons ei. no kitchen duties for one week, or get out of trash duty card, or a coupon for a frosty or an ice cream cone on $1.00 nights at your local icecream place, stay up and have a movie night with mom etc. There really are so many great ideas to play around with. There is nothing wrong with incentives at school. When you work outside the home you get incentives such as a bonus or a raise or even a gift certificate to a resturant. Why not in school? Let me know what you come up with. Enjoy your school year.Make it fun and spend lots of cuddle reading time, that will be the best reward. Jeanna homeschool mom to 3:)

Why do you think it's unfair? If students work hard enough to get A's they deserve the reward. I can understand if there were some students who may have learning disabilities though.

Would you think it more fair to take all the grades of all students, average them out, then give everyone the same grade? So if one person gets an A and one gets an F, they both get C's?

Personally, I believe that this Is fair.

1. It rewards kids that try hard In school, and care about their grades. Everyone needs praise for their accomplishments, and this program would def. do so.

2. It makes kids that don't do that well, or don't try at all come to the realization that they should try harder and strive to achieve success.

3.It'll teach those that do try, and do well that their hardwork will pay off In the end.

Well it depends on how you look at it.

I mean, if you'll get rewards for getting straight A's, maybe some kids out there will try harder for straight A's just for the reward.

For those who get A's easily, yay for them...

But if you're one of those people who don't get straight A's easily, I'd say it's unfair.

1. It encourages people just below that threshold to work harder

2. It rewards people who have been working at that standard, who are usually ignored in favour of pupils who are underachieving

3. It may encourage new intake of a higher standard, if advertised at open days.

unfair some kids have lerning dis and some nt quite a's

My school had that. We got free sundaes. It was delicious.