This Wednesday, as I have tried to to all year, I volunteered in Kaiya's classroom. The entrance to her classroom has a window next to the door, from ceiling to floor, there are blinds which are never closed. This week as I approached the classroom, I peeped in the window to glance at the happenings of the room before entering, the students were all very diligently at work. Kaiya was sitting right in front of the door and window, and was leaned over looking at the other students work. The student whose work she was looking at is a little boy who has been for lack of a better word "picking on her."
The week before, I received a note on her progress report stating she needed to learn to work better with all students and not just with her friends. I asked who she wasn't working well with, she stated the students name. I of course knew exactly why! Why would she want to work well with someone who has pushed her around so much on the basketball court she refuses to play it anymore, or who has shoved her to the ground and twisted her arm behind her back!! Hello!! I wouldn't want to work with him either. But, being mom, I took the road I had to take and we talked about how when our teacher asks us to work with someone even if we don't want to, we have too. And how we don't always get to work with people we like, our friends.
I opened the door, everyone was quiet. Fully expected to see other students working in pairs, because my first thought was, "Oh, he must be lost or doesn't understand and bug is helping him." However, I open the door and I instantly recognize what is on their tables, it is the district timed math tests. And I just caught my daughter CHEATING!! I stood their quietly for a few minutes, her teacher was on the computer. He catches me out of the corner of his eye, and his head pops up. Kaiya turns slowly, and gives me for lack of a better word, the look she gives me when she has been caught. I just whisper, "I don't think you are suppose to be looking at his paper." She smiles slightly.
My heart SUNK!! We have had the entire, why is cheating wrong . . . aside from getting the answers wrong, she doesn't seem to get why it is wrong. We spent lots and lots of time talking about what cheating means. Is it honest or dishonest. If mom isn't there to catch you and teacher doesn't catch you, who always knows you did wrong? And of course, we went over what will you do next time you are tempted to cheat!! At times, I wonder if I explain things well enough for her to understand . . . and I hope that I am not too easy or too harsh when disciplining!!
I love this little girl. She is amazing!!
The week before, I received a note on her progress report stating she needed to learn to work better with all students and not just with her friends. I asked who she wasn't working well with, she stated the students name. I of course knew exactly why! Why would she want to work well with someone who has pushed her around so much on the basketball court she refuses to play it anymore, or who has shoved her to the ground and twisted her arm behind her back!! Hello!! I wouldn't want to work with him either. But, being mom, I took the road I had to take and we talked about how when our teacher asks us to work with someone even if we don't want to, we have too. And how we don't always get to work with people we like, our friends.
I opened the door, everyone was quiet. Fully expected to see other students working in pairs, because my first thought was, "Oh, he must be lost or doesn't understand and bug is helping him." However, I open the door and I instantly recognize what is on their tables, it is the district timed math tests. And I just caught my daughter CHEATING!! I stood their quietly for a few minutes, her teacher was on the computer. He catches me out of the corner of his eye, and his head pops up. Kaiya turns slowly, and gives me for lack of a better word, the look she gives me when she has been caught. I just whisper, "I don't think you are suppose to be looking at his paper." She smiles slightly.
My heart SUNK!! We have had the entire, why is cheating wrong . . . aside from getting the answers wrong, she doesn't seem to get why it is wrong. We spent lots and lots of time talking about what cheating means. Is it honest or dishonest. If mom isn't there to catch you and teacher doesn't catch you, who always knows you did wrong? And of course, we went over what will you do next time you are tempted to cheat!! At times, I wonder if I explain things well enough for her to understand . . . and I hope that I am not too easy or too harsh when disciplining!!
I love this little girl. She is amazing!!
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