Being a first grade teacher, I cannot place any blame whatsoever on my child's teacher (We absolutely adore her and all she stands for in the classroom and out of it). All of his pain and frustration is self-inflicted...not sure where he gets the perfectionist, over-achiever, people pleasing traits from, but they are here to stay nonetheless.
We just survived our first dramatic and drawn out homework episode. I think it might be a world record. We started at about 5:30 and finished at 8:45. The assignment was innocent enough. "Do a nature smart and word smart activity to go along with the book you read tonight." He interpreted this statement as a project. He has been reading a Magic Tree House book called Revolutionary War on Wednesday by Mary Pope Osborne. He chose to depict the setting in a diorama in order to show how the weather impacted the story. Our results are shown above. This was his idea and his work. I assisted only with making the 3D elements stand when glued.
If you ask my mom, she might say that I got a taste of my own medicine tonight. She has probably been waiting for about 25 years to see this happen.
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