November 14, 2008
Yesterday was much better. The morning started off rough because Madison didn't want to finish her homework though. Mark was home in the morning so while I drove Madison to school we had a little heart to heart.
I spent the day getting ready for a Tastefully Simple party I have Saturday and Chloe played like an angel. I can't tell you how easy my days are with her.
After school Madison wasn't allowed to play until she finished her homework. She resisted a bit, but my foot was down and since I wasn't laughing, she knew. Her homework got done and the girls started playing. They were so good all evening! Mark was working the night shift so them being good was really appreciated. They played so well together all the way until their hugs goodnight. I went to bed without a headache, I cleaned up, I even had enough energy to watch a movie in bed while I waited for Mark to get home.
Madison will turn her homework in today and I'm interested to see what her grade will be. She gets homework once a week and I really don't think it's that easy. Most of what they do in class is cutting/pasting, matching, circling answer kind of stuff, but the homework is completely different.
She had a "book report" to do where we read her a book, then she needed to decide what happened in the beginning, middle and end. She had to draw a picture of those three events and write below her picture what it was.
They're given a week to do these assignments and it's a good thing. We have to piecemeal it with Madison because she really loathes homework-yes already. We quickly learned that the mornings are the best times to work on her homework because she's a hyper mess after school. Last weeks homework was the first assignment she enjoyed. They were studying the moon, sun and the suns rotation so each night she had to draw what the moon looked like. At the end of the week she had to compare them and write the difference.
They also have tests once a week on whatever they're working on. This week is two dimensional shapes.
I think one of her hurdles in school will be her perfectionism. The class had a worksheet yesterday that showed pictures of objects and they had to color the shape that matched it. All they had to do was color it, any color, any way. She didn't want to simply color the shape purple or red, no she wanted to color the shape exactly like the original picture. So the packet of seeds (where the shape was a rectangle) she felt the need to make that rectangle look exactly like the original picture. I leaned in to her and whispered in her ear that she didn't have to color it like that (in case she misunderstood the directions) and she said "I know, but I want to".
The eight pictures took her forever and she missed some playground time, but she got it done.
It's supposed to rain all day here, but I have food to make for the party tomorrow so that's fine with me. Bella might not be so happy though, she's not a fan of wet grass, or rain in the eye.
I'll try to update with some pictures of her soon. She's gotten bigger, but still a little peanut.
Happy Friday.
Posted by Amy at November 14, 2008 06:04 AM