Oh My God!
As if my week couldn’t be any more stressful with the start of class, new babies in, and my Yahoo Mail issues (72 hours later, STILL nothing!), today my kids were with me for an hour after school before being picked up, and I suggested Lil Man do some homework while he had the time.
It was a Grammar test, or SPaG, as they are called now – Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – and the first 5 questions were perfectly simple for me to deal with. then they became a little more complex, and I really needed to think! I even asked a colleagues opinion to make sure I wasn’t thinking wrong…
Then they hit us with these alien words!
I say alien, as I really don’t remember ever learning this as a grammar exercise with these names – does that make sense? Heck half of my degree was English!
Subordinate clause, modal verbs, the correct place for dashes, as opposed to brackets, relative clauses… Jeez, he’s 10!!!!!
I told him to just leave it, as he was getting so stressed… (and I couldn’t be of any help, as I felt clueless myself)!
Still, as it was his homework, I did some research for myself, then tried to explain them all, so he could have a good go at actually trying to answer the questions!
I feel like I have been tested myself… and failed miserably!
And in other news, school was great, less crying from our new babies, and a longer session too. Wish me luck for tomorrow, as my co-teacher doesn’t work Thursday and Friday, so I am solo with my assistants! GULP!
Oh, and I was presented with a new bit of classroom furniture too… after my co-teacher had left. A large shelving unit that we have no space for. ERM…. not sure what to do here! I could envisage where it could go, but I am a little nervous to actually do anything without consulting the team. Yes I am the TEACHER in the classroom, but there is another, who is more experienced, and the others are also older and more experienced too!
I had a re-jig, temporarily, and I hope the others can see what I am thinking when they come in tomorrow!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Sep 10, 2015 @ 18:44:46
It seems a little advanced for a 10-year-old!! I can barely get to grips with the way the kids are taught nowadays!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 19:39:05
It’s so confusing Judy!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 19:45:06
Too right, I don’t seem to have much of a clue anymore!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 19:49:18
It’s the names they give everything! We do know it, we just don’t know the names!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 19:50:04
Don’t fix it if it aint broke!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 19:52:02
Agreed!!!!
LikeLike
Sep 10, 2015 @ 07:16:06
I attended the parents night at school this evening. I will only add that I had an extra glass of wine to forget whats in store for the rest of the year, while my child sleeps blissfuly for one more night !!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 12:45:15
We have my sons tomorrow… Though as a teacher here , I kinda know!! 😊
LikeLike
Sep 10, 2015 @ 05:28:16
Geez! As my little girl will start school from next March, this scares me already 😦
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 07:09:24
It is crazy… education has changed since we were young!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 07:35:25
Don’t scare me even more 😦
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 12:48:59
They’ll be fine!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 13:05:09
🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 03:28:12
Good Luck!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 07:07:12
I’ll need it Nia!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:23:36
Good luck tomorrow sis☺☺
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:28:56
Thanks bro!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:33:42
And I know what you mean with the school work I used to be the same when ours were younger I never remembered learning that at that age☺
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:17:05
Ritu, I understand you. 16 years back they had a reformation of the German ortography and also punctuations. My kids learned the new rules already, but I am mostly sticking to the old spellings and comma rules. Anyway, when my daughter was in 3rd grade they had to learn for a test of dividing words. I told her a complete BS and she failed at the test…. shame on me. I was perfect in German. It was my greatest skill in school and commercial school after. But since that reformation I am a dummie.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:21:54
I know!! It threw me totally!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:31:38
Glad I am not the only one 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 07:02:01
Why do they change perfectly good names and methods of doing things?? Don’t get me started on Maths and Numeracy!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 08:39:59
That is something I simply stooped thinking about. Simplifying sometimes makes everything even more complicated. Maths… nooooooooooo!!!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 19:26:56
I know! I hated Maths at school!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 20:42:02
So did I!!! It was a pain throughout the school time.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 21:33:23
I had the added pressure of certain teachers thinking that because I was Indian, I was brilliantly mathematical!! Oh how wrong they were!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 21:42:04
Oh this bloddy prejudice… You proved them wrong.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 22:10:39
I did indeed! I passed my Maths GCSE, but it was definitely not a straight A!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 22:19:40
Same over here. At least we did it somehow 😀 and thank God it’s over!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 10, 2015 @ 22:39:42
But I feel for our kids!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 11, 2015 @ 10:12:21
That is why you are aware of it and why your love will always tell them more than those situations.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 11, 2015 @ 11:55:31
😊😘
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 11, 2015 @ 14:44:36
💖💖💖
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:01:39
I think it’s nice that you want your colleague’s opinions. Sometimes they see things differently.
As for your English. I’m certain it’s perfectly fine 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:07:38
Phew! Thank you! It made me really pity some of these children though, the paper was pretty tough! I could have guessed a lot of it, but he needed to know the correct reasoning!
And as for my colleagues, we are a team, and I would hate to come in as the newbie, even though I am the full time teacher, and start throwing authority around… I was brought up better than that! Respect for one another goes a LONG way!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:22:35
Respect for one another is the only way. I’m sure they will appreciate.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:23:13
I hope so! 🙂
LikeLike
Sep 09, 2015 @ 22:54:47
soooo…i probably shouldn’t pass out chocolate tomorrow?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:04:45
Chocolate’s good, no matter what the reason!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:05:57
ok…but them kiddos might get hyper…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:08:49
It’s nearing the end of their first week.. they’re getting tired… I think they might need a break!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:15:39
well…cool
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:17:11
They need the energy!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:18:19
yes indeed
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sep 09, 2015 @ 23:22:28
🍫🍫🍫🍭🍬
LikeLike