The school year's almost half over...

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Registered: 06-30-2006
The school year's almost half over...
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Tue, 01-16-2007 - 7:47pm
Is your work status working for you wrt

Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 10:25am

In my day, I've washed millions of dishes, wiped thousands of butts, scrubbed hundreds of toilets and cleaned up dozens of piles of vomit. I'm not "above" doing anything.

I have a cleaning lady come in once every two weeks. In the meantime, the floors and toilets don't clean themselves, LOL! My cleaning lady is one of life's little luxuries that dh and I have agreed on. Plus, the cleaning lady drives a vehicle much nicer than I do!

Carrie

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Registered: 01-10-2007
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 10:37am

It's not like you do it for 15 minutes and never get back to it. It's 15-20 minutes over and over, with breaks in between.

He does things for 30 min at home occasionally. But usually if he's spending a long time on something (legos for instance) he'll get up and go the bathroom, or have a snack, or go pet the cat and come back to it over and over. Sometimes it's 30 min straight. But it's usually something fun, not hard work like learning to read.

And in first grade, even though Activity #1 stops after 20-30 minutes, and you move to activity #2 after a short break, that doesn't mean you're not learning the same thing in #1 and #2. i.e. They'll be doing a lesson on weather, for 20 minutes, where they're talking about clouds. In that lesson, they'll be doing reading and math along with weather. Then Activity #2 might be about Presidents .. and low and behold, they're not only learning history/social studies, but they're reading yet again.

Have you watched a 1st grade classroom? An hour at a time would be inefficient and troublesome for both teacher and students. changing stations or activities, or getting up and stretching, or singing a song to break up the time works very very well.

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 10:59am
Bless your hear we are a family of six and i hate folding and putting laundry away. I can only imagine what it would be like with of family of eight. Do your children help with laundry?
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 11:10am

Personally, i would not buy my children anything they ask for. Imo that creates very spoiled children.

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Registered: 01-05-2000
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 12:02pm

No. I mean that the main definition of the word "opposite" is a comparation of 2 objects/things/people--not more than 2. As in hot/cold, up/down, left/right,etc.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 12:18pm
understood, I would say i do have at least two that may be complete opposites.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 12:25pm
My philosophy about homework is that as long as I am required to sign off on it -- as is the case in elementary school here -- I will review it as a matter of course -- and of course will provide any assistance asked for, and even send the kid back to re-do something. But I hardly ever even look at my 8th graders' homework these days. For one thing, it's been years since I read Gulliver's Travels, which is his current English text, and can't really offer any meaningful feedback on his comparison of the finer points of discourse in Gulliver and Odysseus. For another thing, the foundation is laid, for good or evil, and the quality of his work is really his business at this point.
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Registered: 11-15-2006
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 12:40pm

I do not have a eighth grader so i can not say for sure if i will hardly see his homework time will tell. i can say i do plan to continue to oversee his responsibility to his education his homework.

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I totally agree.

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 12:59pm
i agree with that link of lois',too......but i think of homework as a matter of perspective too. while i won't be holding my child's hand by 8th grade to make sure the task is done,i can still imagine the review together that goes on now. i think my responsibility is always to be interested in her/his work. i can't imagine that standard slowing down or disappearing just because of my child's age or grade point average.

 

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Registered: 08-27-2005
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 1:14pm

"i can't imagine that standard slowing down or disappearing just because of my child's age or grade point average."

Perhaps the standard of reviewing homework with a child might slow down depending on the course material? I wonder how many parents would be able to review homework for, say, calculus or a foreign language in any meaningful fashion.

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