this is what greeted us as we got out of the car after school.
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Timmy!! Git in thar n do yer homework!!
i am not too impressed with my son. and no he is not called timmy.
now i am sure there are many parents out there who will agree with me, (and there are sure to be a heap who dont as well, there always is)
i know my son is smarter than he is acting right now.
i have watched my boy grow, and learn, and open his eyes with wonder and naivety at all the amazing things around him,
since he was so very young. he was one of those toddlers who had to explore, hated being in his pram, always had to touch and feel and ultimately taste, whatever was within reach and if it wasnt, he would put himself within reach.
At the age of 3 he was learning the planets in the solar system and could name them when asked, on his first day of kindy, he already knew how to draw cars and write his name, mum, scott, dog. he could count to 100 on his first day of school and was starting to realise how to read by stringing letter sounds together to make words, (although not always sucessfully) all this because i took an active role in his learning
and yes, hes only 5, but to see how he is behaving now at school makes me a little sad. maybe i have failed on the discipline side of things.
Every Day at bell time this week his teacher has looked around me, waiting paitently at the door of the classroom, to see what other parents are waiting (my stomach sinks into my ankles when she does that) and one by one dismisses the other kids as their parents arrive, leaving me til last, with said sunken stomach, to 'have a talk'.
he just isnt paying attention in class, isnt completing the (meagre amount of) work he is set and is more focused on whatever he has set in his head he wants to do, rather than doing what he is asked like everybody else. his attention span is that of a.. well.. he quite reminds me of
manny from 'over the hedge'. which although it is amusing at times, is quite exhausting 24 hours 7 days.
buuuut ill cope. im thinking of taking all products with flavour enhancer 621 out of his diet again. it worked the last time. but i mean, do you know how hard it is to find products that dont contain flavour enhancer 621?
check that packet of twisties youre eating...
now i am sure there are many parents out there who will agree with me, (and there are sure to be a heap who dont as well, there always is)
i know my son is smarter than he is acting right now.
i have watched my boy grow, and learn, and open his eyes with wonder and naivety at all the amazing things around him,
since he was so very young. he was one of those toddlers who had to explore, hated being in his pram, always had to touch and feel and ultimately taste, whatever was within reach and if it wasnt, he would put himself within reach.
At the age of 3 he was learning the planets in the solar system and could name them when asked, on his first day of kindy, he already knew how to draw cars and write his name, mum, scott, dog. he could count to 100 on his first day of school and was starting to realise how to read by stringing letter sounds together to make words, (although not always sucessfully) all this because i took an active role in his learning
and yes, hes only 5, but to see how he is behaving now at school makes me a little sad. maybe i have failed on the discipline side of things.
Every Day at bell time this week his teacher has looked around me, waiting paitently at the door of the classroom, to see what other parents are waiting (my stomach sinks into my ankles when she does that) and one by one dismisses the other kids as their parents arrive, leaving me til last, with said sunken stomach, to 'have a talk'.
he just isnt paying attention in class, isnt completing the (meagre amount of) work he is set and is more focused on whatever he has set in his head he wants to do, rather than doing what he is asked like everybody else. his attention span is that of a.. well.. he quite reminds me of
manny from 'over the hedge'. which although it is amusing at times, is quite exhausting 24 hours 7 days.buuuut ill cope. im thinking of taking all products with flavour enhancer 621 out of his diet again. it worked the last time. but i mean, do you know how hard it is to find products that dont contain flavour enhancer 621?
check that packet of twisties youre eating...
Monday, March 17, 2008
The Sniffles
This morning when we all got up to face the new day i realised my son had the sniffles. Now for starters, how the hell does anyone get a cold when its hot as and has been for the last couple of weeks. So needless to say i didnt send him to school for fear of infecting the other kids at school and forever being looked down upon by the other mothers as "that woman who was cruel and mean and sent her child to school while ill and he proceeded to infect the whole class including my child" so now, (if only in my own imagination) i wont be "that woman." Although heres to hoping he's better tomorrow morning, because today he drove me nuts!Apparantly Adelaide has shattered the record for longest heat wave.
"As extreme temperatures spread into other states today, the South Australian capital notched up its 11th consecutive day of 35 degrees Celsius or above to claim an unwelcome record.
And it can expect no relief for at least another six days.
The length of the heatwave surpasses the previous capital city record of 10 days above 35 degrees, recorded in Perth in February 1988"
-The Australian, March 15th 2008
and that was two days ago so i guess its been 13 now. If you want to read the whole article, its here
anyway on a lighter note, while looking for the cute germ picture above (i must say, thats the first time ive ever heard 'cute' and 'germ' in the same sentence) i found this really funny cartoon
i couldnt help but check out his archives and have been laughing my ass off for the last few hours, not even realising the afternoon had been slipping away from me all along, poof! goneIf you have some time to waste and feel like a laugh check out his work.
and if you wanna buy some of his stuff, check out his stores. Theres two!
this ones for shirts, and this ones for other stuff.
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