It's so hard to get my DD (5) to do her homework, mainly reading.
It's driving me crazy. We only do it once or twice a week so it's not that much. The books she gets are challenging but not in a too hard way. Just in a concentrate and you'll learn something sort of way. Some of the words she already knows and some she can figure out by sounding out and others are new. So I don't think they are too hard.
Last year in reception I introduced a sticker chart which helped a bit.
Toady doing the homework I have been trying to get her to point at each of the words herself rather then me pointing and I have had to tell her 30 fecking times to do it. When she isn't pointing she loses track of where she is so adds in random words as she starts guessing or misses some out or reads the same one's twice.
I tell her over and over to stop fidgeting, to actually LOOK AT THE BOOK she is supposed to ber reading and not at the ceiling. To stop making silly noises and singing . . .
JUST LOOK AT THE FECKING BOOK AND TRY TO READ THE FECKING WORDS!
I had told her off for fidgeting and swinging about in her chair one too many times and have put her on the naughty step and told her that she'll have to sit there for 5 mins and to come straight back and do the homework, so that she will learn she can't get out of it by playing up.
I have been typing this in the 5 mins naughty step time.
Am I being harsh? Does everyone have this problem. What the feck can I do about it? It's like getting blood out of a stone!