(no subject)
Dec. 9th, 2014 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckTell us about something wonderful that happened this year. (for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rthstewart)
I can't think of anything spectacular that happened this year. My life doesn't tend to such things. The moments of wonderfulness are smaller and recur-- I mean, the fact that Cordelia will let me braid her hair every night at bedtime is pretty darn wonderful. She sits on my lap for five minutes while I do it and gives me a hug afterward. She's eleven. From what I gather about adolescence, there aren't going to be a lot more occasions when she hugs me and tells me that she loves me, not for several years. Scott's already feeling the drought.
Let's see-- What else? "Not All My Grief" has been really well received even if the person I wrote it for seems not to have liked it. I think it's quite the most popular thing I've written. Given that I wasn't sure I could pull off writing Susan, I'm very pleased. I'm still getting kudos on the story (it has more than anything else I've written).
I suppose I'd count the changes at Cordelia's school as wonderful. I wasn't looking forward to sending her off to the big middle school. My own middle school years were really, really terrible, and I was afraid Cordelia's would be similarly bad. Cordelia would have been riding the bus for the first time. We'd have been getting up earlier than we were used to. Clague is a large school with about two hundred students per grade. It's easy for kids to fall through the cracks.
Instead of going to Clague, Cordelia's been able to stay at her elementary school while still getting some aspects of the middle school experience. The sixth graders have lockers and switch classes (admittedly, it's mostly going back and forth across the hall). The school is working hard to have sports available (though this sometimes involves busing the kids who want to play to Clague). They have promised us some after school clubs, but I'm not counting on that for this year. I think it may require more middle school age students to be worthwhile.
I like the approach the new program is taking to the curriculum. They're really dedicated to group projects, and they're working at making the kids computer literate. All the sixth graders have Google accounts, and they're learning about sharing documents that way. Their social studies textbook is available online. I'm pretty sure there's something online they can do with their reading assignments, too. (Cordelia's doing well, so I haven't dug as deeply into the details as I would if she were having the least bit of trouble.)
I'm pleased, too, by the teachers. When we had our parent-teacher conference, we saw both teachers at once (one teaches math and science while the other teaches English and social studies), and they knew who Cordelia was and who her friends were. They knew the details of what she'd been doing in their classes. They took notes on what we had to say. They've also been quite responsive when I've e-mailed them.
rthstewart)I can't think of anything spectacular that happened this year. My life doesn't tend to such things. The moments of wonderfulness are smaller and recur-- I mean, the fact that Cordelia will let me braid her hair every night at bedtime is pretty darn wonderful. She sits on my lap for five minutes while I do it and gives me a hug afterward. She's eleven. From what I gather about adolescence, there aren't going to be a lot more occasions when she hugs me and tells me that she loves me, not for several years. Scott's already feeling the drought.
Let's see-- What else? "Not All My Grief" has been really well received even if the person I wrote it for seems not to have liked it. I think it's quite the most popular thing I've written. Given that I wasn't sure I could pull off writing Susan, I'm very pleased. I'm still getting kudos on the story (it has more than anything else I've written).
I suppose I'd count the changes at Cordelia's school as wonderful. I wasn't looking forward to sending her off to the big middle school. My own middle school years were really, really terrible, and I was afraid Cordelia's would be similarly bad. Cordelia would have been riding the bus for the first time. We'd have been getting up earlier than we were used to. Clague is a large school with about two hundred students per grade. It's easy for kids to fall through the cracks.
Instead of going to Clague, Cordelia's been able to stay at her elementary school while still getting some aspects of the middle school experience. The sixth graders have lockers and switch classes (admittedly, it's mostly going back and forth across the hall). The school is working hard to have sports available (though this sometimes involves busing the kids who want to play to Clague). They have promised us some after school clubs, but I'm not counting on that for this year. I think it may require more middle school age students to be worthwhile.
I like the approach the new program is taking to the curriculum. They're really dedicated to group projects, and they're working at making the kids computer literate. All the sixth graders have Google accounts, and they're learning about sharing documents that way. Their social studies textbook is available online. I'm pretty sure there's something online they can do with their reading assignments, too. (Cordelia's doing well, so I haven't dug as deeply into the details as I would if she were having the least bit of trouble.)
I'm pleased, too, by the teachers. When we had our parent-teacher conference, we saw both teachers at once (one teaches math and science while the other teaches English and social studies), and they knew who Cordelia was and who her friends were. They knew the details of what she'd been doing in their classes. They took notes on what we had to say. They've also been quite responsive when I've e-mailed them.
