TracyR
03-08-2011, 06:15 PM
This year has been the most stressful year I have ever had. It was my daughters' first time in a school and to be honest I regret ever sending them.
Granted its a good school and all but all I feel like is that they find every negative thing. I don't think not one of my children don't have some kind of problem with something.
My oldest two are struggling with math. They use Saxon and my oldest can't wrap her brain around the math. The 2nd one just doesn't comprehend math period no matter what I do. She's always struggled with math but we were able to get through it at home and if something didn't work I would use something else to get the point through.
My 3rd daughter has language issues. She was a late talker ( talked at 4.5). I think she is just catching with speaking and with words. But today her teacher calls us in the afternoon saying they want a conference beecause she was struggling. Which puzzled me like nuts because she has A's and B's and has gotten 2nd honors for the past two (almost three quarters now).
My 4yr old reads at a high level but her comprehension isn't quite there yet. I'm trying to work on that but she is my youngest reader and am not sure what to do about that. I ask her questions and sometime she answers them and sometimes she answers it with something off the wall. But she's little and my girls really didn't start comprehending what they read until they learned to read more fluently ( she is only reading at a 1st grade level at the moment) and I think she is focusing more on the words rather then what is going on in the story.
She doesn't put her numbers in order. She knows them. They have little number flashcards and they put the numbers from like 0-10 in order, then the higher numbers. My daughter just mixes them up and acts like she hasn't a clue in school. But I have the same number cards at home and she does it just fine at home. Of course it doesn't help her teacher because she isn't doing it for her. So her teacher assumes she doesn't know this stuff (which by the way I thought she was supposed to being taught at school too, not just at home.)
I just feel like everything I've done with homeschooling, everything I do isn't good enough and everything my kids do isn't good enough either.
I mean I'm glad that their teachers care but I'm feeling overhelmed and like a failure. I would of thought that the teachers would be happy that they had at least a mom and dad there that cared enough to do more and continue on with the teaching at home. Maybe I'm wrong.
I understand that they have to show the bad with the good but its the negatives that seemed to be more focused on and the negative rather than the positive.
Maybe I'm taking these teacher conferences the wrong way. This is their first year in b&m school. But really I come out of them feeling really defeated.
Granted its a good school and all but all I feel like is that they find every negative thing. I don't think not one of my children don't have some kind of problem with something.
My oldest two are struggling with math. They use Saxon and my oldest can't wrap her brain around the math. The 2nd one just doesn't comprehend math period no matter what I do. She's always struggled with math but we were able to get through it at home and if something didn't work I would use something else to get the point through.
My 3rd daughter has language issues. She was a late talker ( talked at 4.5). I think she is just catching with speaking and with words. But today her teacher calls us in the afternoon saying they want a conference beecause she was struggling. Which puzzled me like nuts because she has A's and B's and has gotten 2nd honors for the past two (almost three quarters now).
My 4yr old reads at a high level but her comprehension isn't quite there yet. I'm trying to work on that but she is my youngest reader and am not sure what to do about that. I ask her questions and sometime she answers them and sometimes she answers it with something off the wall. But she's little and my girls really didn't start comprehending what they read until they learned to read more fluently ( she is only reading at a 1st grade level at the moment) and I think she is focusing more on the words rather then what is going on in the story.
She doesn't put her numbers in order. She knows them. They have little number flashcards and they put the numbers from like 0-10 in order, then the higher numbers. My daughter just mixes them up and acts like she hasn't a clue in school. But I have the same number cards at home and she does it just fine at home. Of course it doesn't help her teacher because she isn't doing it for her. So her teacher assumes she doesn't know this stuff (which by the way I thought she was supposed to being taught at school too, not just at home.)
I just feel like everything I've done with homeschooling, everything I do isn't good enough and everything my kids do isn't good enough either.
I mean I'm glad that their teachers care but I'm feeling overhelmed and like a failure. I would of thought that the teachers would be happy that they had at least a mom and dad there that cared enough to do more and continue on with the teaching at home. Maybe I'm wrong.
I understand that they have to show the bad with the good but its the negatives that seemed to be more focused on and the negative rather than the positive.
Maybe I'm taking these teacher conferences the wrong way. This is their first year in b&m school. But really I come out of them feeling really defeated.