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!
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