We tried talking with teacher too , that maybe doing this might work or doing that might work , i even suggested to his teacher that if she needs help such as cleaning the board or the desk or whatever , she can make DS do that so that he can be busy doing something other than not doing anything .
I had to chuckle at this...we offered many suggestions too. We suggested DD could organize the books in the room by reading level or alphabetical order. We suggested all sorts of organizational things she could do that would be helpful to the teacher like pulling the staples out of the bulletin boards and sorting supplies, etc. We even said that DD would enjoy walking around the room to pick up all the staples on the floor just so she could organize them into whatever categories she could think up (bent, straight, closed, broken). We seriously thought this idea could really go places because she could make charts, graphs, work with fractions, etc. just by picking up staples. Obviously we were grasping at ideas by that point, but we weren't asking for anything really "out there" just for someone to be a little creative in keeping her occupied when her work was done and therefore helping her stay out of trouble.
