I finished charting all of the data that Monkey’s teacher tracks for us on our daily sheets (See HERE if you want a visual) and I’m seeing an interesting pattern.
His “regulation” and “participation” generally rise and fall together throughout the day, as you would expect. When he’s not self-regulated he can’t fully participate in the learning activities, totally makes sense.
What isn’t making sense to me is the bigger pattern. When you look at the data between September 2009 through March 2010 you see 4 or 5 days where he’s on an upswing and then 4 of 5 days when he tanks. It’s up and down, up and down…and it doesn’t line up with school breaks or anything that I can identify.
So, out of curiosity, do you see this with your children? It’s remarkably consistent, there must be something behind it.
Have you coorelated this with his Biorhythm, or sleeping/napping patterns? it does seems like there is something to it.
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We haven’t but that is a really fantastic idea! We have tons of sleep data from the last year because of the sleep charts and his teacher has also been noting if he’s tired during the school day 🙂
That was my thought, too — his sleep.
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