Thus ends my least favorite term. Term two, that is. I always dislike the second term of the year, at least in comparison with the other terms. Why? Well, I suppose it is that we are most likely to get sick, and scratchy voices make it hard to practice our memory work or our beloved songs. It always feels a bit cluttered, but in a weird way {like preschool swimming lessons or unexpected doctor visits}. And there is never a Continue Reading…
March 18, 2012Can you believe it’s exam time already? I certainly can’t! In the middle of the term, my Year Four student got a little overwhelmed by all I had planned for him, so I added a week, and spread out what he had left. Even though I did this, we still ended up getting an entire week off for Thanksgiving {well, there will be field trips, but not much formality}. Hallelujah! Most of you know that our exam week consists of Continue Reading…
November 13, 2011Whew! We made it. The past couple weeks were tough for me to push through. I was mentally done for some reason. Thankfully, I get more of the summer itch than my children, who were happily oblivious to their mother’s internal struggles to make it through the day without ditching school and going to the park. Or something. As if it isn’t hard enough to finish the year without a certain boy having a birthday, and company in town to Continue Reading…
May 29, 2011I‘ve been changing a few things with my Year Three student after his recent exam. It’s not that he bombed it, but his answers were markedly inferior to his Term One exam. In my opinion, the exams are mostly a tool for me to learn from, a way of guaging the effectiveness of what we are doing. After all, if he cannot remember something three months later, it cannot be said that he really learned it. I was surprised at Continue Reading…
March 19, 2011
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