I am cleaning house. There is something about the routine and urgency to get things correct at Kaley's school that I think is bringing back my tendency to organize. Public school is new to Kaley and her going to public school is new to Kim and I.
Kaley is trying hard. She wakes up on her own at 6:15am, makes her own lunch, her own breakfast, packs everything. We get to the bus stop as the sun rises. She's home at 4:00pm. After that she does homework, like she's doing now, for 3 to 4 hours.
She's made a couple not-so-good grades in her math. I wrote last year, while teaching her, that she just didn't like it. I had a hard time being the tough guy and pushing her. I think that is one of the reasons Kaley wanted to go to public school. She realized she needed some other motivation.
I am trying to help her now prepare for quizzes and tests. I find that I am not sure what she needs to know. I don't feel weak at teaching, I just don't have a good feel for what's expected of her. At the same time, I am hoping she'll be the one who knows what she doesn't know so she'll ask the right questions.
It's all kinda stressful!
Trying to get a handle on the bigger picture, as in "What are you learning?", she surprised me by telling me about her Texas History class - The Galveston Flood at the turn of the century. I kinda sat back and thought that if nothing else she's learning Texas History and is civic/story minded. The irony is - at the "science magnet school" her favorite subject is Texas History... but that's a Vetter for ya.
Okay... on to exponents, commutative properties, negative * negative and all that mumbo jumbo.
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I dreamed last night that I had this trusted accountant that had to level with me. He said, "You are $500,000 in debt." I said, "How?!" He said, "Well, it just happened." All I could think was, "I'll never catch up. I'm done. The interest is astronomical." Then I woke up.
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