A normal vent for a change

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A normal vent for a change
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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 6:51pm

Tomorrow is the 1st day back to school for Nik, we had today off due to snow. We're working on her book project, she is having a very difficult time focusing & thinking. I'm hoping getting back into the school routine will help.


This book project has 10 templates & 3 full pages of instructions & 1 page of rubric. Ten things for the rubric. Today we spent another 1.5 hrs. in a drs. office. I never thought we would have been there that long. Then we had to go to the pharmacy & we were there for over 1/2 hr. I'm fighting w/her tonight to start this project which is due on Thursday. She just doesn't seem to have the interest or incentive to do it. I don't need this stress.


Tomorrow we go to the pulmonologist & I'm already stressing about that also.


Anyhow my vent is these book projects. Whats wrong w/a well wroitten book report? Why do we have to do book projects every single month that are so involved? I don't have time to run to the craft store etc. & we need at least till Monday to get this project done w/out staying up late every night to finish it. Sorry needed to get that out, I can understand dd's frustration & her lack of concentration, I feel the same way. I'm hoping the teacher will give her till Monday to finish this & make it easier on all of us.


Dee  

Mom to Nik

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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 7:53pm

I'm sorry Dee...I hope they give her until Monday, too.

Can I vent the opposite way? I gave my students a ONE-PAGE direction panda project with 2 parts--one physical and one written. And I still have students who have not turned in EITHER part, or some students that turned in one part but not the other. If I even dreamed of giving something like that, I'd be LUCKY to get 10 completed projects out of 160 students.

And as far as my own kid is concerned (while I can brag that she finished her geometry journal with no fussing or fighting), her 4-H project book. I will admit that it is WAY more work than the 2 previous years and she's still in the same bracket as those 2 project books, she is giving me fits to get it done. It's due next Tuesday, so she has tomorrow, Saturday, & Sunday to work on it & her record book. Her first year, the project book she chose, she had to do 2 projects. Her second year, she had to do 4 projects, this year, she had to do ALL projects (7 + 2 of her choice on a list). And it's not because she's in 6th grade, not because she's in a different school, it's the way the project book is written...they are all written differently. I had to get over 50 pictures printed at Walgreen's today.

I wish you well at the pulmonologist, too.





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Registered: 01-28-2004
Mon, 02-23-2009 - 9:34pm
heres to getting everything back to normal for someone in your house.
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Registered: 08-11-2007
Tue, 02-24-2009 - 11:05am

I can't say that I blame Nik.I know I would not wan to do projects like that month after month.Plus the poor girl is so worried about her daddy.I also don't think you should be forced o go to the craft store for a projects.What happens if people can not afford to go to the craft store every month.It really starts to add up.Betwween Gabby's 3-d cell and Greek Myth project I peobaqbly dropped close to $40 in the past two weeks.We actually had msot of the stuff for her myth project,but almopst nothing for the 3-d cell.I have to go get clear plastic wrap for the cell project tonight.I am getting dollar store junk.


Hopefully the teacher will give Nik until Monday to complete the project.Can you complain after this year is over?I really feel that projects should be something kids can do on their own.Gabby gets a lot of projects,but for the most part she can do them on her own now.However she is not getting pages or directions or a 10 step rubric plan.Good Luck to Nik.

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Registered: 01-06-2000
Tue, 02-24-2009 - 5:08pm

Boy, I am with you on this one!


The crafty stuff is just an expensive pain in the neck.
By this age, the skill they need is the writing.
Just ask them to DO the writing (even though some of them don't like it).


I know teachers do this kind of thing in an effort to make it "fun and interesting" - -
but it my house it just makes it expensive and time consuming.
SHe already knows how to write well, and can whip out a decent written report in a very short time.


Cut to the chase!