Rugrat back in school!!
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lovetoread
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Mine dont go back till Sept 4th.
Bummer.
Bummer.
Shelby Lynn
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koalabear said:I hate doing homework!
Shouldn't the kid being doing the homework???
ScarlettRose
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My kids school has the parents initial homework for the lower grades. Last year hubby was looking through some graded papers and pointed out that i had made a 78 on a 2nd grade math paper
Purrde Flower
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Tuesday will be the day of rejoyce for me. actually I will be sad the first 2 or 3 days but then i will be like HELL YEA!
koalabear
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ScarlettRose said:My kids school has the parents initial homework for the lower grades. Last year hubby was looking through some graded papers and pointed out that i had made a 78 on a 2nd grade math paper
Teachers send the assignments here to the parents via e-mail, cuts down on asking if you have homework. Of course the kids hate it.
ScarlettRose
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My 4th grader would really hate it. She does her homework in class. It would be helpfull with the third grader though, she takes after her mother, misplaces thing
Shelby Lynn
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Mine is going into 3rd grade. 2nd grade was a nightmare because she would do the homework but never turn it in. Even if I checked it and assured her it was correct, she said she would "forget to turn it in".
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I love helping with the projects. Last year my son had about 4 and one of them was to make a model of a sea creature and do an oral presentation of everything he knew about it. I helped to mold a moray eel out of play dough and we printed off all kinds of factual information about them & transferred the info on 3X5 cards. He got an A+ on presentation!
That was all his doing. I wasn't with him to help him with his presentation so I didn't feel guilty for helping.
That was all his doing. I wasn't with him to help him with his presentation so I didn't feel guilty for helping.
ScarlettRose
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Shelby Lynn said:
I had the same problem last year! That and daydreaming in class. The teacher tried to say she had ADD (passive ADD?) but i've never heard of a kid with ADD have no trouble the first nine weeks and then going down hill. One week into third grade, so far, so good. (crossing my toes)
Georgia Girl
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My little one starts tomorrow, his first day in "big boy school".
It doesn't seem that long ago that I was pregnant.
It doesn't seem that long ago that I was pregnant.
ScarlettRose
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She loves dinosaurs and the teacher did everything with dinosaurs the first couple months, then put them away until the end of the school year. I was thinking about that the other day, my daughter must have felt like the teacher had pulled a bait and switch on her.
Shelby Lynn
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koalabear said:
When a child does that, daydream, it usually means the teacher is boring.
That or the kid is way ahead of the others, is already done with their work and they have nothing else to do.... My daughter has that problem, she should be in 4th grade, but because her b-day came after Sept 1 they held her back a year. I ended up wasting 3 years in Montessori school at $8k a year to help her get ahead just so the public school could hold her back....
ScarlettRose
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In all fairness, she is prone to daydreaming. She's very bright and very eccentric. She was held back a year because she simply was not mature enough to advance. The year she was held back she had an understanding teacher who wouldn't take any nonsense from her, she really started to get on track. Then last year, and the worse things got at school the more she balked at home, doing homework got painful for all concerned. This year she is under a teacher that her sister had last year who is fairly strict, but not mean. So far she's done her homework every day without being asked, and even writes her spelling words five times each even though its not assigned. Like i said, i'm really hoping this well be her breakthrough year.
