I wonder if he needs a reward that's a little more immediate. Maybe instead of taking away the pom poms, he needs to be given something that's a reward for him. Even if it's just a silent thumbs up kind of thing, a school day is a long time for a kindergartener to work for a reward, and then to only have the reward be a check mark that builds to a larger reward... that's really abstract for a five year old. I'd talk to the teacher about more immediate rewards at first. (I have been known to silently slip a child a skittle or marshmallow, for example, to reward them without calling a lot of attention to it.)
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