Validation
I’m always wondering how I’m doing as my kids’ primary teacher and how they are doing academically in this setting.
Recently, I administered the IOWA/CogAT exam to my oldest. While I don’t assume the exam is an all-knowing sort of thing, it does provide some nice feedback on areas of strengths and weaknesses. I was very nervous to open and see his results, knowing that it would be a direct reflection of my teaching skills. Thankfully, his results were of a positive nature. Had they not been, I might be crying as I write this now. There’s a great deal of pressure that comes with this job. If they do well, you can breathe a little easier, if only for a fleeting moment. Tomorrow still brings new challenges and hurdles.
Another exhausting day
Mother’s day tea, probability, fractions, operations, took lunch and a birthday present to my girlfriend, technology lessons, logic, critical thinking, poetry, art history, spelling with SWR, money, independent reading, matter, Paul Bunyan, team gymnastics, and more travel soccer try-outs. It’s been a full and somewhat stressful week. I may hibernate this weekend!
An honest stressor for me at this point in motherhood-not having a clear, defined path of interest for my oldest kid. I hear parents talk about their child wanting to do a certain “thing” from an early age. I don’t have that feedback from my son yet, and it bothers me. I know it shouldn’t, but admittedly, it does. Need quiet time to calm my anxiety..
Another homeschooling day down
Full schedule again:
Adverbs, diamanté, tesserae in art, French tutor, math drills, visual mapping, sun and seasons, book reports, fraction reduction, cursive, reading, spelling with SWR, and so forth..
After school: team gymnastics, soccer and lax practice, library run, duck watching, painting the garage, Papa John’s Pizza for dinner:)
Thank goodness for the weekend!
I have babysitters coming in so that I don’t have to cart all of them around to the others’ individual activities. Is it wrong that I’m hoping lax gets rained out in the morning?
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