I have gotten a little behind in a lot of things.  For starters let me say that something is up with Yahoo in that I can't reply to emails.  I can compose a new email, but not reply and that is a pain.

Lydia did really well with her school after the first day, and I told her I was so proud of her, etc. etc. Then the next day she did awful again.  She really doesn't even try!  She makes excuses and tries to do other "fun" stuff like watch TV, check her email, play on the computer, do art projects based on Harry Potter.  And thats another thing.  I am SO sick of Harry Potter.  For goodness sakes, read another book!  She's read each book at least 10 times and seen the movies.  Move on! I let her make her own blog and she even put the HP theme song on it.  Grrrr.

That leads me to something else too- she read the Giver last week and I wanted her to write about it for me.  I told her, cover the subject, characters, setting, plot, and give me her thoughts.  The2 pages she gave me read more like a promotion than a report!  If anyone has any ideas on how to get her to write a little more "academically" Iwould appreciate it.  She knows the story, but I can't really accept a report that has sentences like "This is one of the best books I've read.  Really, once you start to read it you won't be able to put it down!"   another grrrr.

Is it at this point that I can throw in the towel?  When things like this happen it totally makes me question whether or not this is a good thing, and whether I can effectively teach the others too.  yet another grrrr.

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