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conulyNo more packets!
This is a huge step forward, of course - she has to do what we had to do in first grade and write her assignments down! (Then, I should talk. I *never* did my homework.)
That doesn't mean her homework is necessarily any better, though. Ha! Don't make me laugh!
They're back to assigning writing homework. Instead of having to do a pointless journal entry every day, she has to do a story with her spelling words at least once a week.
Last week her spelling words were all silent -e words. So far so good - but the list was hopeless. There was no conceivable way to link all twelve words in one story - at least, not unless you used Ana's first approach of "So-and-so RODE to the store. He bought word1, word2, word3, word4, word5.... Then he decided to USE his car and DRIVE home."
Which I nixed because it was lazy, but I should've listened to her.
To make matters worse, apparently they had to read their stories out loud? And here's Ana panicking because her story is going to be stupid. Well, yeah! Because it was a stupid list of words! (It really was. I'll copy it out later.)
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The two of them are in different schools this year. This, of course, causes a hassle at the end of the day. Eva's school gets out 2:30. It's supposed to be 2:35, but they run 5 minutes fast and I sure have no intention of correcting them! The train gets us to Stapleton Station at 2:13, and it's an 8 minute walk home OR a 12 minute walk to Ana's school, which lets out 2:58. (And then it's a 10 minute walk home from there.)
The obvious solution is for Ana to walk home alone and meet me there 15 minutes later. That's not happening. I'm not even sure the school even HAS a policy on kids walking home alone.
The next obvious is for somebody to walk Ana home. Everybody I thought could do it turns out to have moved or started work during the day. Or they just are too polite to tell me to my face that they don't like me.
Jenn managed to get somebody to take Ana to HER home, but that doesn't save ME any time AND I have to go up a hill.
Now, if I could just get somebody to drive me from Pleasant Plains every afternoon, the car ride is only 25 minutes (according to Google). I've been saying this vaguely to everybody in the hopes that somebody, somewhere will take me up on it, but so far no luck.
Today my mom is picking up Eva, so I'll get to Ana's school early and corner, like, the nurse or somebody as she walks out of the school. She parks only a block from the house anyway, and she always cuts out as soon as the bell rings, so maybe she can help out. (Plus, she's DEFINITELY too polite to tell me she doesn't like me.)
This is a huge step forward, of course - she has to do what we had to do in first grade and write her assignments down! (Then, I should talk. I *never* did my homework.)
That doesn't mean her homework is necessarily any better, though. Ha! Don't make me laugh!
They're back to assigning writing homework. Instead of having to do a pointless journal entry every day, she has to do a story with her spelling words at least once a week.
Last week her spelling words were all silent -e words. So far so good - but the list was hopeless. There was no conceivable way to link all twelve words in one story - at least, not unless you used Ana's first approach of "So-and-so RODE to the store. He bought word1, word2, word3, word4, word5.... Then he decided to USE his car and DRIVE home."
Which I nixed because it was lazy, but I should've listened to her.
To make matters worse, apparently they had to read their stories out loud? And here's Ana panicking because her story is going to be stupid. Well, yeah! Because it was a stupid list of words! (It really was. I'll copy it out later.)
The two of them are in different schools this year. This, of course, causes a hassle at the end of the day. Eva's school gets out 2:30. It's supposed to be 2:35, but they run 5 minutes fast and I sure have no intention of correcting them! The train gets us to Stapleton Station at 2:13, and it's an 8 minute walk home OR a 12 minute walk to Ana's school, which lets out 2:58. (And then it's a 10 minute walk home from there.)
The obvious solution is for Ana to walk home alone and meet me there 15 minutes later. That's not happening. I'm not even sure the school even HAS a policy on kids walking home alone.
The next obvious is for somebody to walk Ana home. Everybody I thought could do it turns out to have moved or started work during the day. Or they just are too polite to tell me to my face that they don't like me.
Jenn managed to get somebody to take Ana to HER home, but that doesn't save ME any time AND I have to go up a hill.
Now, if I could just get somebody to drive me from Pleasant Plains every afternoon, the car ride is only 25 minutes (according to Google). I've been saying this vaguely to everybody in the hopes that somebody, somewhere will take me up on it, but so far no luck.
Today my mom is picking up Eva, so I'll get to Ana's school early and corner, like, the nurse or somebody as she walks out of the school. She parks only a block from the house anyway, and she always cuts out as soon as the bell rings, so maybe she can help out. (Plus, she's DEFINITELY too polite to tell me she doesn't like me.)
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Date: 2011-09-19 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 12:14 am (UTC)It's not really impossible... for an adult. For an eight year old, especially one who is sensitive to criticism...?