chores

Marek has always been an enthusiastic helper at home, inside and outside. Whether it's cleaning, planting, cooking, rearranging, creating, building...you name it, he's generally a ready and willing participant. Since he helps everyday so much, I hadn't given him set "chores" he had to do. Mostly, it's done naturally throughout the day. But he got excited about having a chore chart and I thought it might be nice to pin down a couple of things that he could be in charge of each day to help with that could be his own chores. He chose them - making his bed and helping with dinner. We may have to modify this list to include different chores, but here is the chart I made for him. For every day that he completes his chore, he can remove a planet from the pocket and place it in the sky. When all of the planets are in the sky, he gets to choose an extra special activity for the day. I remember going to the house of one of my best friends in 4th grade and seeing a chore chart for her big family. I just fell in love with it and came home begging for a chore chart, too! I'm sure my mom thought it was amusing how excited I was about having a chore chart!