I thought I was until this year. With three girls in fifth grade I have had a double, triple dose of the fifth grade curriculum. I glanced over at the end table in my bedroom, where I was attempting to blog and saw a copy of the kids science packet, How Is Energy Passed Through an Ecosystem? I am a mom who doesn't mind helping my kids with their homework, but after an hour I want to be done. I want my kids to well educated. I want them to know the things they are suppose to know in the grades that they are suppose to know them, but do I really have to learn about energy and the ecosystem again? I was once in fifth grade (28 years ago) . Where I am sure I learned about the ecosystem. I am just having a hard time reading about it again these many years later. I guess what I am trying to say is that I am done doing homework. I am burned out with homework. Sometimes I envy June Cleaver. I want to live my life in a 30 minute episode, come home from school, do homework, fix dinner and enjoy the evening sitting around the table talking, laughing and enjoying each other. That is what I envision. It just seems that homework seems to consume our evenings at times and I just want to be done.
So, to answer my own question...No, I am not smarter than a fifth grader. If I was, I would know the answers to everything they brought home, we would be done with their homework in less than an hour and we would be having dinner on time every night:) Wishful thinking.
5 comments:
Energy passes through an ecosystem???
The word Ecosystem alone scares me. I'm not looking forward to homework.
I don't EVER remember having homework until middle school or something like that!!! I'm not looking forward to maybe having to do homework one day!
I tell Randy he is smarter than me all of the time. I am going to make him help with the homework.
I did my student teaching in a 5th grade class. That meant that I was usually in the University library studying concepts I would be teaching that week. Yah, they learn a lot in 5th grade. And apparently most of it doesn't stick. (Otherwise I wouldn't have had to spend so much time studying as a teacher). But you are good to help them. Maybe by the end of this year you will be smarter than a 5th grader :)
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