DDA Chapter 15

[my3princes]

I spent several hours wrapping presents. Hunter never left my side. He is so into Christmas this year. Of course none of his friends believe anymore and they keep telling him. He has asked several times, but I can't break his heart, not just yet.

Colby's teacher called me this evening. She asked if I would be willing to come up with a craft that I could do with the kids on Monday. Her FIL just had a brain tumor removed and is now undergoing cancer treatments. She said that she doesn't have a creative thought these days. I had anticipated this and ordered christmas crafts from Oriental Trading when I ordered the Thanksgiving crafts

 

[PNO4TE]

We get our calls at 5 AM. Who gets up at 5 AM?

me!

 

[my3princes]

me!

I'm so sorry for you. I don't think that our clocks have a 5 AM

 

[Tammi67]

me!

Crazy woman.

 

[PNO4TE]

Did you guys see this?? (Terry & Stephanie on the cruise with Deb Wills)

http://land.allears.net/blogs/debwills/

How cool!!

Very cool! Our DDA ladies are quite the celebrities! We won't be able to live with them when they return...

 

[PNO4TE]

We have finally finished our homework marathon. Both kids worked for 3 straight nights to make up what they missed. WE ARE DONE!

 

[my3princes]

I told Chris that you were all waiting for a trip report. He laughed. Apparently he doesn't remember too much other than we had a hard time catching our plane and our plane didn't land at MCO, it landed on Mainstreet USA I guess he dreams big.

 

[PNO4TE]

Are you watching Santa Claus is Coming to Town?

nope... I was singing. Not one child showed up at the library tonight. The whole staff was shocked. It is usually packed!

 

[PNO4TE]

We have some good news on the home front. There is a young couple who love our house. They came last weekend. Well their parents are buying them a home (lucky them! ) & want to see it too. If they like it then it looks like we may get our house sold soon.

That is wonderful news, indeed, Anne Marie!

 

[PNO4TE]

I'm so sorry for you. I don't think that our clocks have a 5 AM

 

[PNO4TE]

Crazy woman.

and when, pray tell, do YOU get up, lady??

 

[bear74]

We get our calls at 5 AM. Who gets up at 5 AM?

I get up at 5:45 on the days I work

 

[PNO4TE]

now, because I get up at 5:00 it is time for bed! Good night, everyone.

 

[bear74]

Are you watching Santa Claus is Coming to Town?

no, we ended up watching Silver Bells

 

[bear74]

now, because I get up at 5:00 it is time for bed! Good night, everyone.

I am headed to bed as soon as the weather is over.

 

[babytrees]

I have a favor to ask of you all:

If you have not sent out your ornaments for the exchange....PM me when you think you will get them out.

If you have sent out your exchange but haven't seen a thank you...PM me who they went to and when they left you!!

If you haven't received your exchange PM me please!!


I am sorry for dropping the ball this year on this one!!

 

[babytrees]

my headache never went fully away but it abated enough that I was mostly able to enjoy the concert.

Our favorite piece was the final combined one...they played TSO's Midnight in Sarajevo...it was beautiful.

This was the first concert where I remembered to take my tripod so I actually got more decent pictures.

 

[babytrees]

with that I am going to bed and hoping to get more than the 4 hours of sleep I got last night.

Good night, friends!!

 

[my3princes]

I'm mulling over Hunter's grades. I'm wondering what you all think about this. Since some of you have been or currently are teachers It will be interesting to read the responses.

Hunter's teachers seem to be very strict and not at all parent friendly. For example: they sent a letter home at the beginning of school telling us that they will not answer the room phone during the day. That means if I need Hunter for any reason I have to make someone in the office walk down to get him to call me. I could leave a message on the teacher's voicemail, but she does not check it until the end of the day. They prefer email, but my experience has been that it takes days for them to respond.

I mentioned at the teacher conference that I wanted to be notified immediately if Hunter was having any homework or schoolwork issues as it is much easier to address them as the happen rather than weeks later when she gets around to notifiying us. The class is doing a weekly assignment that has some vocabulary words on the front and they have to write a comment, thought or connection on the back. Hunter did not fully understand what she wanted and totally did the back wrong for 3 weeks before she sent a note home. That was 4 D's or F's as grades and I had no idea. Once the note came home I spoke to him and he spoke to her and he has done the work with no problem since. The newest problem is that if the kids forget their name on their assignment/test/homework the entire thing is shredded and used for bunny bedding for the rabbit in the next classroom. When did a name become more important than the assignment. When I was a student, if you forgot your name the teacher held up the paper, you raised your hand, got the grade and everyone moved on. I could even understand taking points off, but a zero seems ridiculous. What about all the work that went into it. I know that I've sent out cards without signing them, or forgot names on presents. If I put myself in Hunter's shoes I would probaly resent my teacher. I know that Hunter is not enjoying school this year for the first time ever. I'm now wondering if the stress is causing the headaches. I'm not saying that he is perfect, but he is struggling and her policies are certainly not helping. I think I want to address it, but both 5th grade teachers do the same thing and they are not parent friendly. I'm wondering if I should go to the principal or the guidance counselor. Another little peeve is that he frequently has so many books to carry home for his homework that he has broken the plastic buckel off 2 backpacks since the start of school. I weighed his backpack one day and it was 18 lbs The poor kid only weighs 62 lbs. I want to make sure that I am not overreacting and that my concerns have a basis before I go in.

Please and Thank you for your advice.

 

[my3princes]