Schoolwork
Dec. 20th, 2011 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly1. Is it wrong, when Ana comes home without spelling homework (and I know she usually has spelling homework) that I make her do it anyway? Because she seems to think I'm "a big fat meanie", and I think I'm just being prudent and also, don't care what she thinks.
But I do want to be able, next time it comes up, to say "SEE? EVERYBODY does this!"
2. Evangeline brought home a math test today. At the back she had "extended response" questions where she has to write down her reasoning. (I think this is absurd, but all the schools do it now, it's on the tests.)
I wish I had a scanner, but I'll retype.
For one of them, she was told that there are six wheels on a number of tricycles, and asked to find out how many trikes there were. So she drew her picture, and then wrote "I know tata 3 + 3 echwos 6."
On the other, she was told that somebody had 5 cookies and then got 3 more. How many altogether? So she drew her picture (neatly making the 3 cookies chocolate chip, and the 5 NOT chocolate chip), and then wrote "I cowtib the cookies attr I brow dom."
Huh. And today she wrote "friend" in a sentence. She started off fr, then stopped and neatly inserted an e between the f and the r, ending up with "ferib". (Or "ferid", really.) It's interesting to watch her write, but a little scary as well.
I gotta go up and make sure Ana's starting her homework, and then I have to start grating and grating and grating and grating potatoes. Any excuse to gorge myself on potato pancakes and doughnuts, I'm gonna take it! Happy Hanukkah : )
But I do want to be able, next time it comes up, to say "SEE? EVERYBODY does this!"
2. Evangeline brought home a math test today. At the back she had "extended response" questions where she has to write down her reasoning. (I think this is absurd, but all the schools do it now, it's on the tests.)
I wish I had a scanner, but I'll retype.
For one of them, she was told that there are six wheels on a number of tricycles, and asked to find out how many trikes there were. So she drew her picture, and then wrote "I know tata 3 + 3 echwos 6."
On the other, she was told that somebody had 5 cookies and then got 3 more. How many altogether? So she drew her picture (neatly making the 3 cookies chocolate chip, and the 5 NOT chocolate chip), and then wrote "I cowtib the cookies attr I brow dom."
Huh. And today she wrote "friend" in a sentence. She started off fr, then stopped and neatly inserted an e between the f and the r, ending up with "ferib". (Or "ferid", really.) It's interesting to watch her write, but a little scary as well.
I gotta go up and make sure Ana's starting her homework, and then I have to start grating and grating and grating and grating potatoes. Any excuse to gorge myself on potato pancakes and doughnuts, I'm gonna take it! Happy Hanukkah : )
