If your child has just started their school year they may have been asked to fill out a number of worksheets about "what I did in the holidays" or "what I like about school".
Here is the worksheet that came home from Padawan Learner yesterday:
ABOUT SCHOOL THIS YEAR
I think my favourite subject will be:
Maths (yep, he would've added 'science' if he could've spelt it)
My favourite school lunch is:
Meat Pie (as if you'll ever get one, but good try)
In School it would be very strange if:
We had no classrooms (again, hopeful, but true it would be strange)
My favourite place in school is:
The Playground (that figures, see above)
This year, I really want to do this in school:
Go to bed
Yes, well, yawn, I know the feeling...
15 comments:
Oh, yawn, so do I.
Very insightful!
This evening I asked PL why he wrote 'Go to bed' and he said: "The question asked what I wanted to *do* not what I wanted to *learn*; that would be a different question".
Well, yes, very true. I see a future in linguistics for him. Or perhaps questionnaire design.
And don't even get me started on what he put in his journal entry about "what I did on my holidays". I'm still expecting child services to knock on my door any minute.
According to the Climber's prep & 1st grade assessment of school there was nothing going on in the inside world. It was ALL about the playground.
I think you have a meat pie eating Honor Student on your hands...who likes recess.
Why does the "What I did on my holidays" topic persist? Boys seem to love recess and the playground while the girls like reading circle and art. When I ask J.T. about his day, all his comments revolve around the playground or P.E. I remember in Kindergarten when they made us take naps after lunch. Sigh, I wish someone would tell me that NOW.
Ha! I loved this. Great answers. I would like to have seen the teacher's answers, if he/she were honest enough!
Oh - Mrs G: QLD Kindergarteners still nap after lunch. :)
Sounds like a good match for Margot!
At the end of last year Son #3's class had to answer a few questions about school. Lots of answers involved 'more playtime' and 'a swimming pool in the playground'. Natch.
My favourite however was my son's answer to the question 'What do you need to put more effort into at school?', which of course was 'There's nothing I need to put more effort into."
So there.
Alice, the teacher put big ticks against all the answers with the exception of the "go to bed" one which was curiously absent of any tick or stamp (or even a wry comment).
M:
I meant if the *teacher* had to complete the same task, what his/her answers would be.
Hee Hee yes, I'm sure that going to bed would've featured highly! Favourite place: the staffroom.
Hi M
Hope things are going well with the kids in their classes. Miss A was having a bit of an emotional 'woe is me' session at bedtime tonight. Missing all that is familiar. She doesn't want to ask the girl who she has being playing with at school to come over for a play just in case she is only being nice at school and doesn't really want to be her real friend.
My poor baby - I do so feel for her.
PS. I have my first job interview tomorrow (well agency interview anyway). I'll keep you posted.
The teachers would like to bring their beds along too. A quick nap would be soooo much better than playground duty at lunch time.
Suse, perhaps our children are related. In response to the statement: I could improve...
my son (in grade five)wrote: nothing comes to mind right now.
I think *nothing* must be one of the first words boys learn to spell. Last year, in Grade 1, PL responded to this question:
What do you want to learn this year?
with: "Nuthing" (sic)
It was pasted to the board above where their bags hang, with photo attached, ALL YEAR.
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