4th Grader Speak
The teachers are ALL mean and they never explain anything to you and they always yell at you for NO GOOD REASON! It's horrible! They give you a ton of homework and I never have any time to play with my friends. I want to move back to California because school was better there.
In Math we are learning fractions and I don't understand them. The teacher didn't tell us anything about them. She just tells us not to bother her and do our work. In Science we have a million questions to answer every night. I have to use my text book and look up the answers. I don't know how to do that. I did like it when we learned about sound though. I might be an Ear Doctor. Did you know that there is a bone in your ear that looks like a snail?
Anyway, you have no idea what it is like to be a 4th grader. My life is so hard. I never have any fun. Everybody expects so much out of you. I'm just a kid. I want to go back to Kindergarten.
Translation
The teacher's expect me to pay attention, and when I don't, they point that out. I have quite a bit of homework and if I didn't fool around, or go into total melt down mode every night, I could get it done quickly and then go outside to play. It was a lot easier when I was in California because I was in Kindergarten and learning my ABC's and shapes.
Math can be pretty tough but if I just sit down and actually concentrate, I'm pretty good at it but I like it better when Mama sits by me while I do it. Sometimes the teacher gets frustrated at me because I don't listen so I don't know what to do. In Science, we have to look up answers to our homework questions in our textbook. I am not used to that and it gets kind of frustrating. Sometimes Mama gets frustrated at me because I don't want to sit still long enough for her to explain it to me. It was fun when we were studying about sound. We got to learn all about the ear. I want to be an ENT when I grow up.
4th grade is pretty hard. It's a big step up from 3rd and I thought that was hard! Sometimes I don't think I'm going to be able to do it. I still say that I want to go back to Kindergarten.
Mama Speak
We go through this nearly every day after school. My husband and I were talking, and we remember we went through the same thing with Chickie when she was that age. If Chickie is any indication, Meelie will get past this and, provided I don't sell her first, she will do just fine.
I, on the other hand, keep thinking that a nice Box of Pink Wine may just help me through this phase.
Comments
box of pink wine...love it!
Posted by: Janet at September 6, 2007 9:59 PM
Oops, forgot to say, Hi, Michele sent me!
Posted by: Janet at September 6, 2007 10:00 PM
As a mathematics teacher, I somehow understand what goes inside the mindof a child. We all have our perceptions.
Sorry for being late here from Michele's!
Posted by: gautami at September 7, 2007 3:35 AM
oh gawd, I DON'T miss those days! but I have definitely been there, done that, got the college student and working man to prove it.
Posted by: bob at September 7, 2007 1:20 PM
The 4th Grader speak sounds more accurate.
Michele sent me.
Posted by: Jean-Luc Picard at September 7, 2007 2:07 PM
Hey, Moogie! Michele sent me to say hang in there. The start of the new year is always hard and I hear similar things about fourth grade being an especially difficult year. More's expected from the kids than ever before and it's a bit of a culture shock.
Before long, Chickie will own the fourth grade. And you'll wonder where all those wine bottles came from.
Posted by: Susan Helene Gottfried at September 8, 2007 3:20 PM
i agree ! 4th grade sucks
lol
Posted by: shane at September 8, 2007 5:01 PM
