From the never ending homework chronicles. Tonight Tucker pulled this paper out and asked for my help…
Apparently they are teaching these 3rd graders some kind of frickin hieroglyphics for grammar shorthand or something.
I found myself asking him if there was a legend or a key to the ‘secret grammar code’ in the instructions.
What is the point of this?
I guess if my kid ever gets captured by the KGB while working on a secret mission as an undercover agent he can send well diagramed sentences about grammar to his contact disguised as doodles.
So there is that.
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It looks Greek to me!
I bet you can’t wait until the chapter where they cover how to set off an introductory clause (I guess if my kid ever gets captured by the KGB while working on a secret mission as an undercover agent) with a comma!
The cussing of me may commence now.
Amber is in 6th grade and that was her homework tonight. It is part of her studying Egypt and she has to actually write a paragraph using hieroglyphics
every few years, they change books/systems/philosophies and then end up back to the old 3 ‘R’s anyway. I’d homeschool if I had any motivation. Or direction. Or interest.
Have you talked to the teacher about why he/she is assigning homework like this? Unfortunately, at the elementary level homework tends to punish families who already take an active interest in their child’s education.
And I thought new math was annoying. If we get a paper like that I might scream.
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I’ll bet this is the newest ploy to make the subject seem like ‘fun’.
You could test the teacher for bullsh**: have Tucker make a bunch of symbols up and use them randomly to see if SHE even knows what the hey it’s all about.
It’s times like these I ask myself why we don’t all make rafts and put out to see with a candle, _To Kill a Mockingbird_, and a box of Ho Hos.
I am with you with the homework annoyance. Some of the ways they are teaching kids these days are just so confusing!
Ha! Can’t wait for homework.
I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out my godsons homework the other day. I’m doomed when I have kids.
WTF is that? Back in my day…. We were expected to jot down the assignment off the blackboard – correctly – and then turn it in on our own paper – done correctly. Of course, that was in the 7th grade, when we were actually smart enough to know/care about the subject, predicate, noun, verb, capitalization and punctuation. Somehow I managed to get two advanced degrees with such a slow pace of learning.
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