Post by librarychica on Mar 21, 2019 20:48:51 GMT -5
I am in the process of renting out our rental. Again because we allowed a shortt-term while we did some repair work. A suspicious prospective tenant called me while I was in the shower because they couldn’t find the house on the property appraiser’s office (they misheard the house number?) and thought maybe this was a scam. I haven’t asked them for a dime — they haven’t even seen the house yet!
DD is performing a drill team dance at school right now. I’m at work, working on something I took on because I was worried it was poorly done, and I caught some flack for that (because I was choosing to work on this instead of letting someone else - I feel quite vindicated - they said it was perfect and 4/6 is dead, unambiguously wrong).
So while I am ready to rip someone’s head off at work, DD is dancing. And I am not there. Again. Does it really matter? No. But it sucks because last night was so bad (girls blowing up my phone when I left for an HOUR for DS’ soccer practice because DH got home early and freaked out about who knows what) that I swore at DD and went to bed with no dinner at 8:15 after getting the kids down. I’m still pretty angry. Now I’m angry and mom guilting.
Post by covergirl82 on Mar 22, 2019 7:50:09 GMT -5
sandandsea, my kids had Gizmo watches when they were 6/7. I liked that there was only a limited group of people they could call. The downside was that they can't really text. There are preset text messages that the kids can send, but if they need to give you specific info, they need to call and talk to you.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Mar 22, 2019 13:01:29 GMT -5
I don't think this deserves it's own thread, but I have a question:
We have DS' parent teacher conference today and received his report card yesterday. He is doing great.
In language last quarter, he received all S's and in math all S+ (on a scale of E,S,N,U and we're told not to expect an E). Anway this quarter he received S+'s in reading and S in math.
Like...do ya'll think there's a measurable difference? I guess there is since she put it in there. There's not an explanation on the Third quarter report card so we don't know what the difference is. I mean, we'll ask but my expectation is that in this instance the S and S+ are basically the same...
mustardseed2007, hmm maybe last quarter he knew all the Math stuff up to this quarter, but he doesn't know the stuff for next quarter? I have no idea. Just a thought. I would ask. Could be completely arbitrary or maybe she adds points together and you have to get this many to get an S+
mustardseed2007, I would ask. I really dislike the 1,2,3,4 or E,S,N,U because it doesn't really tell what or how the teacher came up with the grade. I have questions on DD's report card and will be asking for a conference next month. The district doesn't do spring conferences anymore.
DD's wpm for reading was 166 and her fluency is 99. The benchmark for the end of year is 80 for wpm and fluency is 50. I get that she is way ahead but not comment on where those scores line up in the grand scheme. I looked it up online and got she is at a 6th grade level but then DD tells me they still read Pinky and Rex for small group reading.
mustardseed2007, Well I hope there is an actually system. I would hate it if the teacher just decided that he couldn't have all S+ so she had to switch it up.
Post by sandandsea on Mar 22, 2019 14:59:27 GMT -5
At our school there would be a difference based on material learned. So he could have been fantastic and ahead at the beginning but now as the material is more difficult as the year progresses, maybe he’s not as ahead as before.
186momx - middle hit 12th grade reading level in 3rd and was still reading things like Rainbow Fairies. It was way easier than explaining adult themes in YA fiction - she tried to read some fluffy romance of her sister’s without my knowing and asked some really weird questions. It is useful because she can totally handle things like complex instructions, but for reading at school, I would rather she stay with kids books.
Having said in third that her reading group read Lemonade War and the Candy sequel and things like that - and she was included in a fifth grade book club that read Where The Red Fern Grows (because she asked the librarian after school, without telling me and I got a permission slip). But at “teacher table” she was reading really little kiddish stuff.
I haven’t seen it impact her negatively. She read Ghosts (graphic novel) on the beach in less than an hour, then read DS a WWII strategic battle summary and explained it to him pretty decently.
2chatter, I forgot about that part. I caught DD reading one of my murder/mystery/romance books. Luckily for me she didn't get very far into it so nothing graphic had come up yet. DD is just really bored at school so is complaining loudly at home and small groups has been the loudest complaint lately. Messaged her teacher today and told her DD wasn't planning on returning after break because there is no point and she can learn more from studying at home. Her teacher was shocked and doesn't understand why DD said that because she is always well behaved and participates in class so everything is going great at school. We've had this discussion before so it shouldn't be new news for the teacher.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Mar 22, 2019 21:24:43 GMT -5
So for math it’s based on test scores and he just did not quite as well but still totally fine, as y’all said. It’s an actual average.
Reading and writing is more consistently demonstrating an ability to read, understand, and communicate what he’s read by writing an explanation or synopsis that can be understood. So that’s a bit subjective although she said she tries to make it as standard as possible.
She showed us his CPAA test scores and, lol, I’m glad I. Hadn’t seen them earlier. He was so behind when he started, jumped up crazily for a period, then had a hard time when starting the new material on his third test. However, recently his reading took off which made doing math problems easier and he really recovered. I didn’t need to know all that detail as it was happening though.
By the way, those tests are all on a computer and he doesn’t use a computer at home. That’s something she didn’t know but she said it does totally make sense bc he always needs help, which they do provide.