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I was actually gonna post them yesterday, Thursday, but there was a massive storm that knocked out power for our half of the block. (Literally our half. The house next door had lights while we were creeping around with candles.)
Ana got a lucky break, the power outage kept her from having to do her writing homework, though she was still supposed to finish her math this morning.
She, uh, she didn't. No, she dragged her feet and was stubborn and recalcitrant all morning, and Jenn got more and more frustrated, and then when Ana was told to put on her shoes she RAN downstairs and locked my door. (I don't quite blame her. Once you decide to run off, you really have to lock the door so nobody follows you.)
Jenn wanted me to run around the house to fetch her. My pants I was wearing were more hole than cloth, so I declined, and offered an alternate plan: Jenn should take Evangeline to school, then swing back around and get Ana once everybody has cooled down.
It was a good plan, especially as it turns out that Ana had locked the deadbolt on the inside front door as well. Once Jenn was gone, I went to MY back-up plan. It's not a method I enjoy or am proud of, but when locked out of my own apartment it does work: Open up the icebox window in the pantry and tell Ana calmly but firmly that if I have to crawl in and drop four feet to the floor, she is going to regret it.
And then I cajoled/forced her shoes on her and sent her on her way. End of problem, except that that homework's not done.
On the subject of homework, she had an especially stupid assignment Monday and Wednesday. It's the beginning of the year, so all they're doing is review. Review, review, and more review. On Monday, the homework was a short page of words, and they were supposed to identify the long or short vowel sound. Fine... except that some of the words were two syllables, and there were no rules about what to do in that situation. *headdesk*
Wednesday was more of the same, except MORE words and this time they had to color according to a code. I *loathe* "color according to the code". Ana invariably starts coloring without bothering to read the instructions, even if I tell her the instructions beforehand, and then gets mad at me for pointing this out. (She ended up ripping that homework into pieces.) And it's not fun either - you just have to add an additional step of looking up the code before you can complete each word.
Worse, this is review from the beginning of last year. One assignment would've been sufficient to ascertain that Ana (and probably everybody else in her class) already knows this.
Worse still, there were still two-syllable words in there, and still no advice on dealing with them.
Worst of all, we had words in the infamous pin-pen merger from kindergarten, and (I love it) the word "log". I understand some people say that word "lahg", but for crying out loud, "lawg" is a standard pronunciation! And unlike pin-pen, the vowel in log in Ana's speech doesn't even fit on the neat chart of long/short vowels!
It was all-in-all an utter waste of time. In retrospect, I probably should've just written that on the assignment and not even let Ana do it, because (unlike yesterday's math sheet) it was plain pointless.
Look, all this typing, and the articles are still waiting. I'll get to them!
Ana got a lucky break, the power outage kept her from having to do her writing homework, though she was still supposed to finish her math this morning.
She, uh, she didn't. No, she dragged her feet and was stubborn and recalcitrant all morning, and Jenn got more and more frustrated, and then when Ana was told to put on her shoes she RAN downstairs and locked my door. (I don't quite blame her. Once you decide to run off, you really have to lock the door so nobody follows you.)
Jenn wanted me to run around the house to fetch her. My pants I was wearing were more hole than cloth, so I declined, and offered an alternate plan: Jenn should take Evangeline to school, then swing back around and get Ana once everybody has cooled down.
It was a good plan, especially as it turns out that Ana had locked the deadbolt on the inside front door as well. Once Jenn was gone, I went to MY back-up plan. It's not a method I enjoy or am proud of, but when locked out of my own apartment it does work: Open up the icebox window in the pantry and tell Ana calmly but firmly that if I have to crawl in and drop four feet to the floor, she is going to regret it.
And then I cajoled/forced her shoes on her and sent her on her way. End of problem, except that that homework's not done.
On the subject of homework, she had an especially stupid assignment Monday and Wednesday. It's the beginning of the year, so all they're doing is review. Review, review, and more review. On Monday, the homework was a short page of words, and they were supposed to identify the long or short vowel sound. Fine... except that some of the words were two syllables, and there were no rules about what to do in that situation. *headdesk*
Wednesday was more of the same, except MORE words and this time they had to color according to a code. I *loathe* "color according to the code". Ana invariably starts coloring without bothering to read the instructions, even if I tell her the instructions beforehand, and then gets mad at me for pointing this out. (She ended up ripping that homework into pieces.) And it's not fun either - you just have to add an additional step of looking up the code before you can complete each word.
Worse, this is review from the beginning of last year. One assignment would've been sufficient to ascertain that Ana (and probably everybody else in her class) already knows this.
Worse still, there were still two-syllable words in there, and still no advice on dealing with them.
Worst of all, we had words in the infamous pin-pen merger from kindergarten, and (I love it) the word "log". I understand some people say that word "lahg", but for crying out loud, "lawg" is a standard pronunciation! And unlike pin-pen, the vowel in log in Ana's speech doesn't even fit on the neat chart of long/short vowels!
It was all-in-all an utter waste of time. In retrospect, I probably should've just written that on the assignment and not even let Ana do it, because (unlike yesterday's math sheet) it was plain pointless.
Look, all this typing, and the articles are still waiting. I'll get to them!
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Date: 2010-09-17 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-18 12:13 am (UTC)But man, they do tend to give out some crappy English worksheets. (And do not get me STARTED on the JOURNALS of HELL, oh my GOD.)
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Date: 2010-09-18 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
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