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Sep. 5th, 2006 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaThis felt like a full day. They are only going to get fuller I'm afraid.
We woke up late (of course!) and had to rush to get to Zoe's and Luci's trial gymnastics class this morning. We made it and I think they enjoyed it. Not entirely sure what I think yet. The sessions are only 5 wks long, so we will probably try a session to see. I met two woman whose children were also in the class and we seemed to really hit off. Both are relatively new to the area too, one a coast guard spouse and one a state department spouse, so both know the life of moving every couple of years. One of the women's son is going to be in Zoe's preschool class, so that was neat. We exchanged names and numbers. Even discovered that they are both solidly church going Christians of confused Protestant heritage. Should be fun to get to know them. So that would be a plus of continuing with this gymnastics place. But I thought the class was run a little strangely. First of all, the warm up is done with a Parent-tot class that happens at the same time and seemed really chaotic to me. Then the teacher of the the preschool class seemed a little overwhelmed. She really had too many kids in the class for one teacher. She took the kids to three different obstacle type courses, set them down and explained the entire obstacle course (these are three and four year olds and there were at least six to eight different stations at each course) and then just expected them to know what to do! Each course had one station that needed a teacher to spot and help, so she couldn't go around the course and help the other kids when they didn't know what to do, and very few of them could remember what to do after the second station. Who expects three and four year olds to remember more than two or three directions at a time? I even heard her gently ask Zoe why she wasn't listening when the directions were given a couple of times when Zoe was just standing at a station looking confused. It just didn't seem very age appropriate to me. I started to worry that Zoe would especially would get discouraged by the teacher expecting so much. Also the classes last an hour and Luci did not last that long. About 45 minutes and she was done. So...I'm not sure what we'll do. I should probably try another gym, but, man! It was really cool to meet two woman that seemed like friend possiblities! Selfish of me, huh?
School was tough this afternoon too. Luci did not want to be occupied for the two hours Mari and I are concentrating. She didn't want to do what we were doing, didn't want to do anything I suggested for more than two minutes, she just wanted my undivided attention, and made thing very difficult. But we struggled through. So far this Calvert K stuff is way below Mari's level. This is the same kind of stuff I was doing with her a year and half ago...colors, number, classifying, basic phonics. I hope she doesn't get bored. I'm a little concerned about it actually. I'm trying to figure out if we could sort of skip ahead, as I can tell about three fourths of the way through the course is about where she is now. The stuff we are doing now is actually exactly where Zoe is. This is the risk I took buying a "boxed" curriculum. I don't think I'm far enough into it to really make a judgement yet, but I'm thinking we might need to do some tailoring and supplementing really soon.
Of course, in between these other activities, there was the usually housework and meal making and child care routines. Life feels very busy and full. I can't imagine having more children. I really can't. Sometimes I want them...but right now, life seems so full
Brad didn't come home until about 7pm, and this is my first chance to be alone for a minute all day. I feel bad deserting him, but I really needed a break. I should get back upstairs to my family now. I need to bathe the girls and put them in bed and visit with my husband.
We woke up late (of course!) and had to rush to get to Zoe's and Luci's trial gymnastics class this morning. We made it and I think they enjoyed it. Not entirely sure what I think yet. The sessions are only 5 wks long, so we will probably try a session to see. I met two woman whose children were also in the class and we seemed to really hit off. Both are relatively new to the area too, one a coast guard spouse and one a state department spouse, so both know the life of moving every couple of years. One of the women's son is going to be in Zoe's preschool class, so that was neat. We exchanged names and numbers. Even discovered that they are both solidly church going Christians of confused Protestant heritage. Should be fun to get to know them. So that would be a plus of continuing with this gymnastics place. But I thought the class was run a little strangely. First of all, the warm up is done with a Parent-tot class that happens at the same time and seemed really chaotic to me. Then the teacher of the the preschool class seemed a little overwhelmed. She really had too many kids in the class for one teacher. She took the kids to three different obstacle type courses, set them down and explained the entire obstacle course (these are three and four year olds and there were at least six to eight different stations at each course) and then just expected them to know what to do! Each course had one station that needed a teacher to spot and help, so she couldn't go around the course and help the other kids when they didn't know what to do, and very few of them could remember what to do after the second station. Who expects three and four year olds to remember more than two or three directions at a time? I even heard her gently ask Zoe why she wasn't listening when the directions were given a couple of times when Zoe was just standing at a station looking confused. It just didn't seem very age appropriate to me. I started to worry that Zoe would especially would get discouraged by the teacher expecting so much. Also the classes last an hour and Luci did not last that long. About 45 minutes and she was done. So...I'm not sure what we'll do. I should probably try another gym, but, man! It was really cool to meet two woman that seemed like friend possiblities! Selfish of me, huh?
School was tough this afternoon too. Luci did not want to be occupied for the two hours Mari and I are concentrating. She didn't want to do what we were doing, didn't want to do anything I suggested for more than two minutes, she just wanted my undivided attention, and made thing very difficult. But we struggled through. So far this Calvert K stuff is way below Mari's level. This is the same kind of stuff I was doing with her a year and half ago...colors, number, classifying, basic phonics. I hope she doesn't get bored. I'm a little concerned about it actually. I'm trying to figure out if we could sort of skip ahead, as I can tell about three fourths of the way through the course is about where she is now. The stuff we are doing now is actually exactly where Zoe is. This is the risk I took buying a "boxed" curriculum. I don't think I'm far enough into it to really make a judgement yet, but I'm thinking we might need to do some tailoring and supplementing really soon.
Of course, in between these other activities, there was the usually housework and meal making and child care routines. Life feels very busy and full. I can't imagine having more children. I really can't. Sometimes I want them...but right now, life seems so full
Brad didn't come home until about 7pm, and this is my first chance to be alone for a minute all day. I feel bad deserting him, but I really needed a break. I should get back upstairs to my family now. I need to bathe the girls and put them in bed and visit with my husband.
