Well after a really busy week, it's good to have Brendan done with school a little early today. 2:15. Might be a record. He's been pretty discouraged most of the week having trouble just concentrating. (Isn't hard to get distracted around here :-)
Makayla doesn't have school on Fridays so she's home all day making all kinds of ruckus.
I did treat the kids to Little Caesar's pizza on my way back from picking up the baby from his visit with his mom. I think their pizza is really good for $5.
Looks like we are gonna try to close up the pool this weekend. Sad. It's been a lot of fun for the kids. I hate to see the colder weather blowing in.
Well, I'll get back to work. Since I'm not "needed" as teacher at the moment, I need to put on my "house cleaner" hat!
Have a great day!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Oh my, its been busy in Mama's House!
Well we've been extremely busy with Brendan beginning ecot at home.
Wow.
Why didn't I expect it to be this time consuming?
We are finally getting into a rhythm, but it's still taking him from sun up to sun down to get everything completed each day. Yesterday was his first day getting all his assignments complete before 5:00 (and he started around 8 in the morning).
I get to teach basic skills of keeping on task and completing things in a timely manner. If not, I'll be bald before Thanksgiving!
What I see is a little fella who's spent the last 3 grades wiggling, complaining, whining and not concentrating on what he's doing. I am so sad for him.
His grades were not terrible from 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade, but homework time was always excruciating. It would take hours and he was so needy and clingy to me for help to understand what I'm sure the teacher had explained throughout the days, but he just never grasped it.
One thing I can say is that this decision to school him from home was the right decision. I can't see how a teacher with 30+ kids, each wiggling, complaining, and whining can possibly succeed with them all.
So we will forge ahead and by the end of the year my hope is that he'll just turn on his computer, read his assignments and complete his work with minimal help from me :-) *am I assuming too much?*
Okay, so my advice to mom's with really young kids is... teach them to pay attention and work independently as soon as you can! I am already scared to think how Makayla will be able to pay attention and work independently as she gets older... but then, she's a whole different ball game altogether so we'll pray that she gets better at it too!!
Oh yeah... while I was at a meeting last night at CSB, I was told that we are being considered for another infant placement. Woo hoo! more babies, yeah!! Soooo if that happens, it'll get even more crazy around here :-)
Wow.
Why didn't I expect it to be this time consuming?
We are finally getting into a rhythm, but it's still taking him from sun up to sun down to get everything completed each day. Yesterday was his first day getting all his assignments complete before 5:00 (and he started around 8 in the morning).
I get to teach basic skills of keeping on task and completing things in a timely manner. If not, I'll be bald before Thanksgiving!
What I see is a little fella who's spent the last 3 grades wiggling, complaining, whining and not concentrating on what he's doing. I am so sad for him.
His grades were not terrible from 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade, but homework time was always excruciating. It would take hours and he was so needy and clingy to me for help to understand what I'm sure the teacher had explained throughout the days, but he just never grasped it.
One thing I can say is that this decision to school him from home was the right decision. I can't see how a teacher with 30+ kids, each wiggling, complaining, and whining can possibly succeed with them all.
So we will forge ahead and by the end of the year my hope is that he'll just turn on his computer, read his assignments and complete his work with minimal help from me :-) *am I assuming too much?*
Okay, so my advice to mom's with really young kids is... teach them to pay attention and work independently as soon as you can! I am already scared to think how Makayla will be able to pay attention and work independently as she gets older... but then, she's a whole different ball game altogether so we'll pray that she gets better at it too!!
Oh yeah... while I was at a meeting last night at CSB, I was told that we are being considered for another infant placement. Woo hoo! more babies, yeah!! Soooo if that happens, it'll get even more crazy around here :-)
Monday, September 1, 2008
Happy Labor Day
Although we probably won't get to enjoy the picnic planned today at church, I wanted to tell you all that I hope you have an enjoyable day with your families and friends.
Our day will be action packed with cleaning out and organizing the garage (a much needed task to complete), shoveling through the "mountain" of laundry we've ignored this week, raging war against the dust bunnies, and applying a little color to our upright structures (painting) if there's any time left :-)
*sigh*
I will need tomorrow to rest.
Our day will be action packed with cleaning out and organizing the garage (a much needed task to complete), shoveling through the "mountain" of laundry we've ignored this week, raging war against the dust bunnies, and applying a little color to our upright structures (painting) if there's any time left :-)
*sigh*
I will need tomorrow to rest.
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