As promised on plurk.. are you plurking, no?? For god sake why not?!? (no Mum, you cannot plurk)..here is the powerpoint, have zipped it up if you want to have a looky.
Hayden got an assignment, do a presentation on a planet, follow these questions on the sheet bla bla bla..sweet. He got it about 6 weeks go, we had plenty of time, if we hadn’t have forgotten all about it till the last week. Seemed easy enough, we could knock it over pretty quickly. He decided he wanted to do Saturn.
You had to do a 2min talk, and a presentation of your choice. Like a model (yeah right) or a poster, which is what he wanted to do. I was picturing how poxy that was going to look, but what ever. So we went out to buy cardboard and some glitter to prettify it and such. I was getting shitty ‘cause I couldn’t find the coloured cardboard, glitter and stars I wanted to make it look like the one in my head. He then informs me we could have done a powerpoint presentation… You tell me this now! Surely we can cope much better with something puter related rather than crafty.
Generally, I hate powerpoints with.a.passion, most if not all I have ever seen are hideous. I don’t care how much you tell me it is very cute, or very funny. I don’t believe you and I am not opening it.
Never made one before in my life, but he said he knew what he was doing. After spending the rest of Saturday downloading a free trial of office as I generally just use Google docs, we were set.
So we managed to get it done. He was pleased with it, I was pleased he was pleased with it..but personally thought it was a little lacking. Of course I told he it was fan bloody tastic. But I guess it was better than the poxy arse poster had any hope of being.
The problem I have always had with homework and such is how much are you suppose to help them? I never know. Do you let them do the whole thing themselves without any help at all? That seems cruel for the average kid.
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The question of homework is interesting. I like this kind of assignment and can see that the kids would learn a lot (assuming they did the work) but wonder why they can’t do it in class? ie do individual research and make their project with the teacher’s help … I guess they have so much else to do as well.
It seemed a little redundant to me. He has obviously has been doing a lot of work on it in class, he already knew pretty much everything there was to know about Saturn, and all the other planets. Nice to see him taking an interest in learning something, I really was blown away with everything he knew.
I saw some of the models and such that other kids brought in o.O you can’t tell me that kids made those!
Boo is impressed. That is impressive.
Oh and I don’t help with homework unless asked. And then the bare minimum. It sucks when kids come to school with awesome homework assignments that I know their parents spent hours on!
I think he did a pretty good job Leigh….well done Hayden!
Glad he got the thumbs up form Boo, the powerpoint master
Just wait to see what mark he gets now, every other kid in the class did a model..obviously they have much more crafty Mums.
I don’t know how to answer your question. I don’t like to help them too much as it is their homework, not mine, and they need to be responsible for it.
BUT! That’s all good and well, until there’s something last minute to be done and they are whining and I am wanting to slap them upside the head for being forgetful, and throwing pots at them and all that.
I hate teenage parenting. Totally.