I agree, it’s all about practicing for state tests and being able to jump through hoops! How about learning and discussions… and teaching kids how to study
I don’t have kids but I do think how much attention you pay to your kids mental state and how protective you are of them is so beautiful and awesome. Helping them maintain balance must be soooo helpful. I completely burnt out in high school and ended up dropping out 3 times because I didn’t have the skills to balance anything and I burnt out BAD. You just seem like such a great mom!!
Oh and as someone who learned cursive in school and loves calligraphy/hand lettering: I feel like we learned it because it was faster than print writing was and to keep up with the school load we needed it. But then computers became a thing and I stopped using it for years. So I’m not sure if kids ‘need’ to learn it if they have access to computers. It’s certainly fun for me now, but I have to go much slower because I got out of practice.
I agree with you about too much iReady, it’s a tool but too much causes frustration and stress. Some kids really work at it and some kids don’t pay any attention to it and it’s not effective. Too much of anything isn’t a good thing. You’re right, it’s a trickle down from the State Department which is probably a trickle down from federal.
Truth. It causes my kids anxiety and burn out. I get working the homework muscle but give them paperwork or at least what they’re learning right now. IReady to me is a tool. And like you said too much of anything can be not good.
Your speaking about I-Ready made me think of a conversation that one of my younger cousins had with my mom a few weeks ago. My mom recently got a new job. She worked in an Elementary School for years in the office. She recently got a new job, still in the school system, just with the system itself instead of a specific school. My cousin asked my mom if she could change I-Ready because she was tired of doing it and it was boring. It gave my mom and me a good laugh, but she did have to tell her that she couldn't fix I-Ready. My cousin is a little younger than Spencer (she is the grade behind her).
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i personally don’t think memorization is learning and i’m not for standardized testing but I do think if they’re going to do “open book” the kids should be taking their own notes on the material for the tests instead of it just being handed to them
Truth. Memorization isn’t learning on its own. But there is some aspects that do need to be memorized like multiplication tables. The open book quizzes/tests are from their own answers to questions they have to answer. Unfortunately there isn’t any real note taking. Most of everything is done on their chromebooks 😞
Classic memorization doesn’t really equate to learning but memorizing tools like order of operations, pneumonic devices, etc are helpful, rhymes, help to remember specific lists, e.g., the 12 cranial nerves, taking notes and reorganizing them, many of these tools I learned in high school and college, they stick with you. I doubt The’s iReady lessons do. (I’m a semi-retired speech pathologist and really believe in memory peg type things as opposed to memorizing everything.) Understanding how to solve problems, logic, etc. is more important than these iReady lessons- they are meant to complement other instruction but state departments are trying to demand more time on these programs so kids know how to take state tests several basic knowledge things are left out of the curriculum know, basic geography, history, world knowledge and a whole host of other things are left out and not introduced now until middle/high school - just my opinion - sorry for rambling
I know someone who just graduated high school and she couldn't read her own diploma because it was in cursive. The states/school systems are definitely failing our children.
There was a program here called ‘No Child Left Behind’ and basically if you failed a class you could do a 2 week class during the summer and “pass” the class. Absolutely did not understand how that helped the student! 🤷🏼♀️ 🤦🏼♀️ I’m thankful my children had graduated high school before this.
Oh!! Yup ok that makes sense now. We didn’t have our kids yet when all that came about. I paid less attention to it then obvious then I do now. School is a lot different from when I went not sure if it’s better though. Still feel like we’re missing the mark.
No child left behind no longer exists but it wasn’t utilized like it should have been either. The school systems aren’t set up to help the kids anymore it seems like it focuses on testing scores and getting school system level awards for those scores. It’s truly sad. I have a senior in high school and an eighth grader in middle school.
Just a curious question. Why do you do the days of the week different for each habit tracker on the sidebar? One starts with monday at the top and the other is sideways and monday is on the bottom but sort of on the left
lol. You know I’m not sure 🤔 When I first started doing my habit tracker that’s just how it made sense to my brain. My hobby tracker is newer and again just the way I did it. And I never noticed it until you said it. 🤣💕🤷🏼♀️
I think iReady has made some teachers lazy. I feel the same about Google classroom- my boys get fatigued from being on the computers all day for school work so when they come home they are over it. Homework is hard to do when you have to get back on the computer to get it done.😢 School now is nothing like it was in my day.
I really like how you used the full box to background the sticky notes for your happy moments this week! I played violin and cello growing up, so it's fun to hear Spencer will be playing cello this year. I used to teach high school (and my husband still does). At the school we both taught at, school admin had a number of conversations about how much homework we were assigning, so I started having my students put their start and end times so I could better gauge how much homework I was actually assigning. I didn't use anything like i-Ready, though - just single assignments or longer projects. My husband currently teaches at a different school, where he uses a program similar to i-Ready for his high school math students. They have to do 6 hours of it and a total of 25 assignments each quarter. He said it works out to about 45 minutes a week. I also did a quick Google search to confirm the recommended homework amount, and the National Education Association and the National PTA recommend 10 minutes per grade level (so 50 minutes for 5th grade). I hope that helps!
Thank you! 🙏 I’m excited for her I hope she enjoys it enough to continue in middle school like Wes has done with the clarinet. I don’t mind homework I mean if I being honest I’m not a huge fan of it. But it’s like a right of passage and it does have value. I do not like iReady used as homework. I think it should be used in the classroom, especially if a child is having trouble with math or reading the teacher is there to help. Yes the recommendation for 5th is 50 mins which she should be doing to workout the homework muscle but like homework not iReady minutes.
As a teacher, kids are always wowed at how much information I just know. They don’t learn anymore 🥲 It doesn’t stick in there the way we do things now. I got the biggest compliment last week when a kid told me “this is the only class I actually learn anything.” 🥹
Catching up on alllll my PLWE content and am LOVING all the fall vibes!
🙌🏻💕💕💕🙏
You're absolutely right about the school system. As a student, it's painfully obvious how broken it is 😅
I agree, it’s all about practicing for state tests and being able to jump through hoops! How about learning and discussions… and teaching kids how to study
This makes me sad. Because at the end of the day the kids are the ones losing out. It shouldn’t be like this. What grade are you in?
Yes 🙌🏻 Annette so true.
I don’t have kids but I do think how much attention you pay to your kids mental state and how protective you are of them is so beautiful and awesome. Helping them maintain balance must be soooo helpful. I completely burnt out in high school and ended up dropping out 3 times because I didn’t have the skills to balance anything and I burnt out BAD. You just seem like such a great mom!!
Oh and as someone who learned cursive in school and loves calligraphy/hand lettering: I feel like we learned it because it was faster than print writing was and to keep up with the school load we needed it. But then computers became a thing and I stopped using it for years. So I’m not sure if kids ‘need’ to learn it if they have access to computers. It’s certainly fun for me now, but I have to go much slower because I got out of practice.
I agree with you about too much iReady, it’s a tool but too much causes frustration and stress. Some kids really work at it and some kids don’t pay any attention to it and it’s not effective. Too much of anything isn’t a good thing. You’re right, it’s a trickle down from the State Department which is probably a trickle down from federal.
Truth. It causes my kids anxiety and burn out. I get working the homework muscle but give them paperwork or at least what they’re learning right now. IReady to me is a tool. And like you said too much of anything can be not good.
Beautiful spread - love these colrs
Thank you! Yes me too 😍
Your speaking about I-Ready made me think of a conversation that one of my younger cousins had with my mom a few weeks ago. My mom recently got a new job. She worked in an Elementary School for years in the office. She recently got a new job, still in the school system, just with the system itself instead of a specific school. My cousin asked my mom if she could change I-Ready because she was tired of doing it and it was boring. It gave my mom and me a good laugh, but she did have to tell her that she couldn't fix I-Ready. My cousin is a little younger than Spencer (she is the grade behind her).
I do love that Washi - it is so feminine! Do you have it in any other colourrs?
Yes it comes in black, white , brown , pink and light green
Here my affiliate link if you’re interested
thewashitapeshop.com/products/baroque-lace-pet-tape-sticker-set?_pos=1&_sid=daacb87c3&_ss=r&aff=1339
i personally don’t think memorization is learning and i’m not for standardized testing but I do think if they’re going to do “open book” the kids should be taking their own notes on the material for the tests instead of it just being handed to them
Truth. Memorization isn’t learning on its own. But there is some aspects that do need to be memorized like multiplication tables. The open book quizzes/tests are from their own answers to questions they have to answer. Unfortunately there isn’t any real note taking. Most of everything is done on their chromebooks 😞
Classic memorization doesn’t really equate to learning but memorizing tools like order of operations, pneumonic devices, etc are helpful, rhymes, help to remember specific lists, e.g., the 12 cranial nerves, taking notes and reorganizing them, many of these tools I learned in high school and college, they stick with you. I doubt The’s iReady lessons do. (I’m a semi-retired speech pathologist and really believe in memory peg type things as opposed to memorizing everything.) Understanding how to solve problems, logic, etc. is more important than these iReady lessons- they are meant to complement other instruction but state departments are trying to demand more time on these programs so kids know how to take state tests several basic knowledge things are left out of the curriculum know, basic geography, history, world knowledge and a whole host of other things are left out and not introduced now until middle/high school - just my opinion - sorry for rambling
I know someone who just graduated high school and she couldn't read her own diploma because it was in cursive. The states/school systems are definitely failing our children.
@@sherrijobe7422 absolutely! People need to learn how to write and read in cursive
There was a program here called ‘No Child Left Behind’ and basically if you failed a class you could do a 2 week class during the summer and “pass” the class.
Absolutely did not understand how that helped the student! 🤷🏼♀️ 🤦🏼♀️ I’m thankful my children had graduated high school before this.
Oh!! Yup ok that makes sense now. We didn’t have our kids yet when all that came about. I paid less attention to it then obvious then I do now.
School is a lot different from when I went not sure if it’s better though. Still feel like we’re missing the mark.
No child left behind no longer exists but it wasn’t utilized like it should have been either. The school systems aren’t set up to help the kids anymore it seems like it focuses on testing scores and getting school system level awards for those scores. It’s truly sad. I have a senior in high school and an eighth grader in middle school.
What is the budget planner you referred to? I couldn't understand the name.
It’s from Christina Loves Planning
christinalovesplanning.com
You can use code Erin15 to save
Just a curious question. Why do you do the days of the week different for each habit tracker on the sidebar? One starts with monday at the top and the other is sideways and monday is on the bottom but sort of on the left
lol. You know I’m not sure 🤔
When I first started doing my habit tracker that’s just how it made sense to my brain. My hobby tracker is newer and again just the way I did it.
And I never noticed it until you said it. 🤣💕🤷🏼♀️
I think iReady has made some teachers lazy. I feel the same about Google classroom- my boys get fatigued from being on the computers all day for school work so when they come home they are over it. Homework is hard to do when you have to get back on the computer to get it done.😢
School now is nothing like it was in my day.
I really like how you used the full box to background the sticky notes for your happy moments this week!
I played violin and cello growing up, so it's fun to hear Spencer will be playing cello this year.
I used to teach high school (and my husband still does). At the school we both taught at, school admin had a number of conversations about how much homework we were assigning, so I started having my students put their start and end times so I could better gauge how much homework I was actually assigning. I didn't use anything like i-Ready, though - just single assignments or longer projects. My husband currently teaches at a different school, where he uses a program similar to i-Ready for his high school math students. They have to do 6 hours of it and a total of 25 assignments each quarter. He said it works out to about 45 minutes a week.
I also did a quick Google search to confirm the recommended homework amount, and the National Education Association and the National PTA recommend 10 minutes per grade level (so 50 minutes for 5th grade). I hope that helps!
Thank you! 🙏
I’m excited for her I hope she enjoys it enough to continue in middle school like Wes has done with the clarinet.
I don’t mind homework I mean if I being honest I’m not a huge fan of it. But it’s like a right of passage and it does have value. I do not like iReady used as homework. I think it should be used in the classroom, especially if a child is having trouble with math or reading the teacher is there to help. Yes the recommendation for 5th is 50 mins which she should be doing to workout the homework muscle but like homework not iReady minutes.
@@PlanningLifeWithErin Yes! That makes sense - especially for math, which is taught so differently now in elementary from when we were growing up.
Open house? Are you moving?
Never mind now I see it is school open house! Duh!
Yes for the school. It would be awesome if we were moving though 🤣
As a teacher, kids are always wowed at how much information I just know. They don’t learn anymore 🥲 It doesn’t stick in there the way we do things now. I got the biggest compliment last week when a kid told me “this is the only class I actually learn anything.” 🥹