Math Facts

What?? I cannot believe there are only 8 more days until my children return to school! AAAARRRGGGHHH! Yipe, where did the time go? Way back when, in June, I know I said to myself (and maybe to a friend or two...K!) that they would learn their math facts, practice instruments daily, and log all their reading.

Um, yeah. I believed that in June. Really. That must be another deficit I have... ADDD (Adult Delusional Deficit Disorder).

Recently Spincerely commented that she didn't have her DDs practice facts as much as hoped either... so I thought a poem would be appropriate on this topic. Here goes:

It all started one day in June
Our kids were out, and MUCH too soon
My friends and I we did all swear
That our kiddies would not despair

For we would continue their schooling with glee
They'd keep learning you all see
We'd practice math, clarinet and spelling
For an hour a day, and there's no telling

Just how many books we would read
Then as we got closer we'd pick up speed
Math facts, math facts, every day
"They'd know them all by gum!" we'd say

So here I write, August is ending
And all my standards I am bending
There's no way we'll get it all done.
Oh well, at least we had..... fun!

So, yes, before a bajillion of you tell me that summer is for children to be footloose and fancy free - I know. It's just the teacher in me arguing with the mother in me I suppose. Balance is the key. They practiced some facts, they read, they had fun, they were enriched. All in all a good summer.