Samantha has a tough time following directions. More specifically, she says that she doesn't LIKE to follow directions. I have tried to tell her that she will have to follow directions for the rest of her life, so she better get used to it.
Her Grammar test said to underline the verb TWICE. Did she underline it twice? No. Just once. This is the third time I've had to take an assignment back to her to follow directions. Her response? "There was nothing else to underline so why did I have to do THAT twice?"
Her writing book (Writing Strands) actually starts the first lesson with the title "Following Directions". It said that its main purpose was to see if you can follow directions. I pointed that out to Samantha again.
I had given her a math problem to do redo and specifically said "get a clean piece of paper and rewrite this problem" (she missed it because she scribbled her answer into a space too small and missed something as a result). She brought the problem back squeezed onto the bottom of another sheet - AGAIN. Her answer: "That's a waste of a piece of paper". I told her if she told me that again, she was writing the problem again five times and each time would be on a new piece of paper.
Whew! She's gonna be a handful! | 