Sassy Themed Papers 5 - Happy Birthday!

 Report cards came out today and the lectures have just finally finished at my house lol!  The kids are so smart ... but so lazy!  I am sure a lot of you can relate.  I am so worried about dropping the ball and letting them skate through that we are just all over them about trying their best and working to their potential.   Don't get me wrong - their marks were okay (A's and B's) but the lowest marks were B- and I didn't care for those much.  We finished off the talk by pulling out our own report cards from grade 5 (yes we are "those" people) ... I was able to retrieve them out of the archives in my basement in less than 1 minute!  Apparently we were not nearly as lazy as our children! 

Funniest thing of the day:  Brent was having a hard time getting himself out the door this morning and came downstairs for a second cup of coffee and said:

"I am moving at the speed of smell this morning"  - where does he get these things?!!!

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Happy Birthday to Denise and Stephani!

Comments

[Valj]

Thanks so much for the COOL bday papers!:)

[Sue]

Wow! Impressive you have your report cards. I wish I had mine. My Mom was never so organized to save them. :)

Thanks for the goodies and have a great weekend!

[Patti]

My hardest problem was that the school before college was easy for me. Then when I got to college, I didn't know how to study!!

Thanks for the freebies!!

[Donna P.]

thanks!

[tajicat]

It sounds like they are still doing pretty well, it could be worse! Thanks so much for the cute papers! :)

[Tanja]

Thank you so much!

[Carrie]

Please don't call your kids lazy. I had a teacher call my son lazy and I nearly came unglued. We had him tested because he was so smart, but he could not organize things on paper or show how he arrived at a math answer. It turned out he had a processing learning disability. He just needed some extra help in how to organize things on paper. Yes kids need to do their best, but be careful what you say to them. It imprints them for a long long time.

[Gee Gee]

Love the papers and did purchase your dream trip QP and can't say how great they turned out. Thank you for all your hard work.

[makeyesup]

Thanks for the papers, they're great. Don't stress too much on grades, we all expect our children to be perfect and they just don't need that stress. Make learning fun and then they will always do their best. Most people say their children are so smart and should have high grades. Always remember learning should be fun.

[Jayleigh]

Thanks for the papers, and for your dedication to this humongous project of 3 kits at once. My daughter was "always" an A student. She was diligent about her homework, etc, and usually was at the top of her class. My son is dyslexic. It didn't affect his reading ability, in fact by second grade, they couldn't test his vocabulary and comprehension because he'd passed college-level in both of those. But, he reversed numbers when presented with a column of numbers to add. If he could have done it all orally, he would have aced math tests, and he was fabulous at story problems, where most kids have difficulty. But, when my kids brought their report cards home with less than perfect grades, i would say, "Did you do your best in this class?" If they could truthfully answer "yes," then i knew there was a concept they hadn't grasped and i would help them in that area. If they said, "No, I didn't work as hard in this class..." I would simply say, "Well, then you know what you have to do to bring that grade up to your standard." Grades can be sooooooo important, i found as a teacher, that some children will cheat to get an A in each class because they don't want to deal with the flack at home. That's not real learning, and it won't hold up when they have to do independent study in college and later in life. It's better to help them understand the material to the best of their ability than to demand all A's. Truly, trust me on this - you have good, smart - REALLY SMART kids - and i know you love them - but don't make their grades the focus of their educational experience. i taught school for years, Pre-K and Learning Disabilities up through 8th grade. Oh, my daughter was valedictorian of her class and had mucho mas scholarships.She is a cardio-pulmonary nurse in a major US hospital. School was a struggle for my son because of his teachers who would not teach him in the way his brain was wired to learn. But, he's a Stationary Engineer for a major American Company today. Sorry this is so long - it's meant to encourage you that your children will do well in school, and a B is still a good grade. Grades only measure what a child has learned from a particular concept, and also how well the teacher taught that concept. In a way, a child's grade is a reflection on a teacher's ability to teach.

[Tami]

Thanks for sharing!

[Kyrsten Henrie]

My hubby is laughing because I too have my report cards - I must say theat even those my grades were good I still was laid back about the schoolwork. Comes with being a kid I guess - no foresight - lol. The papers are super cute!

[Lisa]

When my kids ask me where MY report cards are, I cross my fingers behind my back and say they were thrown away a long time ago! Of course, if they look above the closet at Grandma's house, I would be in trouble. It's like do as I say and not as I do! lol My daughter is in her 8th year of teaching now.
"Moving at the speed of smell".....???? can't figure that one out! Thanks for the great papers.

[dannethia]

wonderful papers thank you