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Cold, Gray Day
Sep. 16th, 2009 10:55 amIt's cold and gray here in Saint Paul and I'm feeling far too exhausted from my work out to feel like doing anything other than staring at the computer screen while my brain goes, "zzzzzzzzzzzzz." Alas, I have about 30,000 words to write in 29 days. Actually, best if I got that done sooner since I need to find a Wyrdsmith or two to read it and critique it before I send it off to my publisher.
Bleah.
I think I shall fuel up with tea and a sandwich.
Mason is now starting to get homework. Personally, I find this rather atrocious since I don't remember getting homework until 3rd grade or so, and, worse, I have a feeling Mason is going to be wicked bored by it. He needs to work on his handwriting/penmanship, it's true, but Shawn and I worked out a good system for encouraging that, I think. But some of the other stuff is like, "count the number of letters in the month of September. Now count the number of letters in your name. Which one is bigger?" Mason was counting the number of letters in things in Pre-K. In fact, he surprised both me and his Pre-K teacher when they were doing a stickering project where you put three stickers on a page next to the number three and you know, four next to the number four, etc. He hadn't finished it at school, so he brought it home. At home here we have some letter stickers for Shawn's scrapbooking and spontaneously, he spelled out the word: "octopus" and put it under the number seven. Because, you know, octopus has seven letters. And he just had that floating around in his head. At four years old.
Still, it's a requirement, so we'll find a way to do it and hopefully expand it and play with it in a way that makes it fun instead of rote. Wish us luck.
Speaking of homework, I'd better get to mine.
Bleah.
I think I shall fuel up with tea and a sandwich.
Mason is now starting to get homework. Personally, I find this rather atrocious since I don't remember getting homework until 3rd grade or so, and, worse, I have a feeling Mason is going to be wicked bored by it. He needs to work on his handwriting/penmanship, it's true, but Shawn and I worked out a good system for encouraging that, I think. But some of the other stuff is like, "count the number of letters in the month of September. Now count the number of letters in your name. Which one is bigger?" Mason was counting the number of letters in things in Pre-K. In fact, he surprised both me and his Pre-K teacher when they were doing a stickering project where you put three stickers on a page next to the number three and you know, four next to the number four, etc. He hadn't finished it at school, so he brought it home. At home here we have some letter stickers for Shawn's scrapbooking and spontaneously, he spelled out the word: "octopus" and put it under the number seven. Because, you know, octopus has seven letters. And he just had that floating around in his head. At four years old.
Still, it's a requirement, so we'll find a way to do it and hopefully expand it and play with it in a way that makes it fun instead of rote. Wish us luck.
Speaking of homework, I'd better get to mine.
