AuroraSilvermist
October 20th, 2004, 10:11 AM
This is one for the family scrapbook. I just had to share!
My daughter Shayla, age 7, was having a very hard time with her math. She'd struggled with a homework sheet all night, only to show it to me and have me tell her, gently, that about 60% of her answers were wrong. I decided to make her a math line; something used often at school to help her with addition and subtraction. I made it on the computer and decorated it with some of her favorite things. I also added her name. She was very proud of "Shayla's Math Line!" Working with the math line, she redid the worksheet and got all the problems right.
About 10 minutes later, while I was reading and she was supposed to be getting ready for bed, Shayla came to me with a card she had made. She had drawn a picture on the front and decorated it with stickers. Now, it'll be helpful to know that Shayla has trouble pronouncing her "th" sounds, so they sound like "f," instead...so when she's sounding something out phonetically, sometimes she'll write an f in place of a th. Sometimes her n's look a bit like c's. Occasionally, she doesn't quite close her a's so they look like u's. As a rule, I get the gist of whatever she's trying to say.
I love my daughter, and I didn't want to laugh at the lovely THANK you card she was giving me, but I couldn't help busting a gut when I opened my card and it read:
"Dear Mom,
F-ck you very much
for helping me!
Love,
Shayla"
My daughter Shayla, age 7, was having a very hard time with her math. She'd struggled with a homework sheet all night, only to show it to me and have me tell her, gently, that about 60% of her answers were wrong. I decided to make her a math line; something used often at school to help her with addition and subtraction. I made it on the computer and decorated it with some of her favorite things. I also added her name. She was very proud of "Shayla's Math Line!" Working with the math line, she redid the worksheet and got all the problems right.
About 10 minutes later, while I was reading and she was supposed to be getting ready for bed, Shayla came to me with a card she had made. She had drawn a picture on the front and decorated it with stickers. Now, it'll be helpful to know that Shayla has trouble pronouncing her "th" sounds, so they sound like "f," instead...so when she's sounding something out phonetically, sometimes she'll write an f in place of a th. Sometimes her n's look a bit like c's. Occasionally, she doesn't quite close her a's so they look like u's. As a rule, I get the gist of whatever she's trying to say.
I love my daughter, and I didn't want to laugh at the lovely THANK you card she was giving me, but I couldn't help busting a gut when I opened my card and it read:
"Dear Mom,
F-ck you very much
for helping me!
Love,
Shayla"