Note: To All Our SSD School Teachers!

[lizzyfizzy]

I miss you.

Now that school has started your all gone and I just wanted to say...I miss hangin' with you all during the day!

P.S. Thanks for doing what you do...it doesn't go unnoticed!!

p.p.s. gah. i'm such a ditz. they won't even see this cause ummm...they are at school. keep this thread alive my friends.

[newfiemountiewife]

Ditto!

[iJenny]

Well, I"m not technically a teacher, but I am a school nurse and my SSD social life has GREATLY suffered due to the start of the school year. :(

But I'm still here and I miss being such an active part of this community!

XOXOXOX

[*Kelly*]

I'm here for 4.5 more weeks.. *like that matters :p *

[lizzyfizzy]

YES!!!!! your included!!

i miiiiiiss my jenny and i tell you that every week i see you. :D

[kscwgirl]

I miss you guys toooooooo

[lizzyfizzy]

sara! those boo flairs are TOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!

[kscwgirl]

sara! those boo flairs are TOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!

LOL thanks!! I llike my scary dinosaur pumpkin too.

[lizzyfizzy]

LOL thanks!! I llike my scary dinosaur pumpkin too.

haha. yes. i have that in my avies to rotate!

[my3hens]

I miss them too!! And I could really use their help cause my daughter just got something for homework that I don't understand LMAO Yes shes in 1st grade. I should be embarresed huh!

[lizzyfizzy]

I miss them too!! And I could really use their help cause my daughter just got something for homework that I don't understand LMAO Yes shes in 1st grade. I should be embarresed huh!

i feel you. maddie is in 5th grade (doing 6th grade/middle school) math and i am CLUELESS!!! daddy has to help with math homework. :p

[*Kelly*]

Sarah.. I teach first grade, I might be able to help!! :thumbup:

[SamaraGugler]

Lizzy- I teach 6th grade math, maybe I can help. :)

[ZaCola3]

Gahhh...I miss all of you too...Like mad...I haven't had time to check in from work this week because we are rotating staff and I'm doing a 1:1 posistion this week...It's amazing to see what the 1:1's do all day...so stressful and different from my normal routine...My boss is genius to make us all more understanding of all the jobs in our program!

[my3hens]

Oh Kelly that would rock honey LOL! So Lily gets a packet of homework from her first grade teacher every monday. It has 4 sheets and we can choose the pace as far as doing all in one night or one a night until Thursday. (Its due on Friday) Then she has another sheet every night (mon-thurs) from her reading helper and a book report she gets on Wednesdays due the following Wednesdays so she gets super frustrated. its not unlike her to spend over an hour on homework or more a night. I digress, I tend to ramble sorry LOL. So most of her homework has been math. Just greater and less then or parts and whole and all that but she got this phonics one from her reg 1st grade teacher and its about consonant vowels and consonant vowel consanants. Theres a bunch of little words at the bottom of the work sheets shes supposed to label one or the other. I have no freakin clue what it is LOL I even googled and just read and seriously my brain was hurting LOL.

[lizzyfizzy]

Lizzy- I teach 6th grade math, maybe I can help. :)

oooo...i am so asking for help next time!!!

[lizzyfizzy]

Gahhh...I miss all of you too...Like mad...I haven't had time to check in from work this week because we are rotating staff and I'm doing a 1:1 posistion this week...It's amazing to see what the 1:1's do all day...so stressful and different from my normal routine...My boss is genius to make us all more understanding of all the jobs in our program!

:( shannon!!!! we wub you!!

[Mel+hergirls]

Believe me, I wouldn't know my 6th grade English if I didn't teach it. Honestly I don't remember doing half the stuff kids today do when I was in middle school!

On lunch, I always check in. I'm so SSD addicted. LOL

[SirScrapalot]

I feel so removed now that school has started!! I check in here a ton though, and I bust to do the challenges, but I miss checking in every hour like I did all summer.:thumbdown:

Hey, I teach 6th grade math too!! Any help I can be, let me know! Samara, what are your students working on?

[SamaraGugler]

We are just finishing up our chapter on fractions:
*Simplifying
*Mixed
*Improper
*GFC
*LCD
*Prime factorization

and much more that even I can't remember. :)

[SirScrapalot]

We just finished up data...they like us to do it first so we can use it all year...now we are working on a number sense unit, prime numbers etc.

[Mel+hergirls]

I may be switching over to 6th grade math in the next year or so. I'm excited cause I love math and right now I teach reading, english, spelling, and writing. LESS WORK! lol

If anyone needs any help, just let me know! LOL

[MelindaH]

Ok, I think I get this. They are wanting to know whether she can tell the difference between consonants and vowels.

So, if the word is : milk, you would put cvcc because i is the vowel. If it is food, then you would put cvvc. for consonent, vowel, vowel, consonent.

I think that's what they are talking about, without seeing the worksheet.

Does that help?

Melinda
(an unemployed teacher -- looking for work!)

[schock77]

... my SSD social life has GREATLY suffered due to the start of the school year. :(

But I'm still here and I miss being such an active part of this community!

XOXOXOX

I couldn't have said it better!!! I LOVE my job, but I also miss my "friends" and all of the SSD fun. I peek in but sometime by the time I'm home, get the family taken care of, I'm about done. Anyway, thanks for letting us y'all miss us! :)

[schock77]

BTW.. I teach special needs preschoolers so absolutely no math help here!

Ha ha!

[*Kelly*]

Sarah, I just saw this.. sorry so late in responding. I'm nicer with my homework *lol* I give it to my kids on Friday and they have until the following Friday to turn it in. Easier on them and me.. enough about that. Also wanted to say that it shouldn't take a first grader more than 20 minutes to do their homework and the amount of homework given shouldn't take longer than that. IMO, homeowork is review/practice of what has been learned and should never be new information to the child. If she is frustrated with her homework because she is not understanding it, then I think you should let the teacher know. If she is frustrated because she doesn't want to do it (I have MANY kiddos like this) then have her take a mini break and come back to it. Fighting over homework will only worsen the situation and frustrate not only her but you too. Teacher lecture over *lol*

Okay, the phonics homework sounds like she just needs to choose what pattern the words are following.. is the word a vowel-consonant-vowel word,etc. What words are at the bottom of the sheet? I'm sure you know this but AEIOU and sometimes Y are vowels and everything else is a consonant. PM if you need more help.. I like to help where I can. :)

Oh Kelly that would rock honey LOL! So Lily gets a packet of homework from her first grade teacher every monday. It has 4 sheets and we can choose the pace as far as doing all in one night or one a night until Thursday. (Its due on Friday) Then she has another sheet every night (mon-thurs) from her reading helper and a book report she gets on Wednesdays due the following Wednesdays so she gets super frustrated. its not unlike her to spend over an hour on homework or more a night. I digress, I tend to ramble sorry LOL. So most of her homework has been math. Just greater and less then or parts and whole and all that but she got this phonics one from her reg 1st grade teacher and its about consonant vowels and consonant vowel consanants. Theres a bunch of little words at the bottom of the work sheets shes supposed to label one or the other. I have no freakin clue what it is LOL I even googled and just read and seriously my brain was hurting LOL.

[ashliwolf]

hey girlies..i MISS y'all TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Life just isn't the same in my little scrappin' world since i rejoined reality on august 14........things have been HAYWIRE...but just wanted to let y'all know ihavean AMAZING class of 3 year olds this year...we are learning SO much..and things are going MUCH more smoothly with my son, Kane, who is also in my preschool class! The first day of school he announced that he was neber going back to school and that he wanted a new mommy! :) nice!

love to my fellow teachers....HOLLA! :) xoxo.ash

[my3hens]

Aww thank you for the help honey. I think I get it. She took the paper back to school already with a note from her very embarresed mommy about not being able to help lmao. They are going to be like who can't help their first grader with their homework lmao!