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| Helping LarryD take over the internet one week at a time. |
School started last week for #1 and this morning for everyone else. I love the first day of school where they all are eager, listen well, and work hard, and I don't have to spend any of my day nagging them to get back to work. It's the day I lie to myself that it will always look like this:
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| School at the kitchen table |
I ended last year frustrated with my ability to help #3 control his ADHD long enough to learn well. What do you do with a boy whose body needs to be constantly in motion? This year I have a plan.
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| Problem solved |
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#1 did her college algebra homework last night in the near frantic What-if-I'm-not-perfect-? manner which has defined her school career up until now. She worried and fretted and then got a 100 on the electronic assignment. (On line math homework that grades itself! I love it!) She grinned at us sheepishly as she realized that she knows the material and might just want to take a deep breath and calm down a bit.
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#5 started kindergarten this morning. It went pretty well, and he begged to do more. I just wish that when he was younger that he'd
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My #3 couldn't sit still with working either. I used to call it "Full Contact Math".
I told myself that lie today. I'm going with it for the next 12 hours at least.
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We need to get our boy a seat of that nature. Not a ball, though. The dog would be tortured, stuck all day at home with a giant ball she wasn't allowed to chase.
I was wondering if anyone started kdg today!
Our first day went very pleasantly, too. So has our second day. Dare I hope?
Love the ball idea! Lol
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