I went to the children’s school on Monday to turn in the work they had completed from the week before and to collect a new packet of work for the coming week. They also asked us to come back to do the same on Wednesday. I told my daughter’s teacher that since we don’t have a car, getting up to the school isn’t that convenient for me. He said not to worry about it because all of the work for the week was in the packet he put together for Monday pick-up and that we could send it back on Sunday when they return to school.
I told my son’s teacher the same thing. She didn’t seem quite as understanding, but she did say that the additional work would be available online if we needed it. She also let drop that it wasn’t a big deal if they didn’t do it at all because they would catch them up when they returned to school and that she wasn’t even doing much with her own kids.
On the one hand I was glad to hear it because I didn’t want to go back to get more work (they gave us plenty as it was!) but on the other hand, why am I torturing myself and my son with all this homework if it doesn’t matter anyway?
I am happy to report that we are finished with the massive research project. My daughter seemed to enjoy it well enough once we got into it. She even wanted to do extra work on it. Did you know that Henry VIII was an accomplished recorder player? Or that Tudors brushed their teeth with a paste made from ground pumice stone? Or that a folk remedy for headaches was applying a hangman’s noose to your head? I now know more weird and gross facts about life and hygiene in the Tudor times than I really care to!
And that’s the fun of research, whether it’s for yourself of someone else. The most interesting facts are uncovered when you’re looking for something else.
by Terry Odell September 30th, 2009 at 10:52 amThe strange, the weird, and the plain gross… don’t have more of that junk stuffed in my head from research projects??? Glad she enjoyed it after all.
by anny cook September 30th, 2009 at 11:15 am