Disastrous parents eve - she won't get on with her work, distracted by everything, playing the fool (falling off chair/dancing etc) basically delaying/avoiding her work. She is capable, there is some examples of work done well but alot unfinished and in a class of 30 I can see how hard it must be. They made her stay in at break this week and she 'magically' finished the work she had been avoiding for the morning in a few mins.
She is pretty much the same for any more difficult homework (theatrical 'suffering', trying to get me to tell her the answer, focusing on how to not do it rather than trying etc)
I had the same last year when she refused to write and had to work on getting her to do a bit every day at home for the last term and a half of year 1 and she did improve at school. I thought we were over the hump. Obviously not.
She doesn't seem to care or want to do her best so I am thinking of getting her to do independent worksheets at home to win tokens that translate into minutes of screen time (tv/computer/wii) and if she has no tokens, no screens.
Does that sound fair? I'm thinking once she gets used to working independently and finishing in a reasonable time she will find it easier to do at school...am I a huge meanie?