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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Heck yes. Single mom, working from home full time. 2 second graders. Just got an email today from one of the teachers that one of my girls hasn’t turned in her social studies and science slides since May 4 and will likely impact her final assessment.

WTF?! Second graders are expected to self teach about the American Revolution.

I have struggled, pushed, reviewed and corrected mat and ELA slides on a daily basis for 2 kids since March. The Science/Social studies slides were posted in the weekly discussion section, not the daily assignments.

I’m so angry, overwhelmed, and feeling like complete f’ing failure because I can’t be a mom, employee, full time caretaker, homemaker, and teacher at the same time. [/quote]

Hi PP, please don't feel like a failure.  There's no way you could be doing it all.

I am a teacher; I can't speak for your child's teacher but from my point of view, I have to send emails letting parents know their kids didn't complete work to cover myself if they complain about the grade.  WHO CARES about a second graders SS grade though?  If you don't I am sure it won't be a problem.

But right now I am being urged to get all makeup work in so I am reaching out to parents to let them know their child has missing work.  I am willing to sit down with the kids over a Zoom or Google Meet conference and talk them through their missing assignments too.   If you just let the teacher know what is going on she might also be willing to help your child just get credit

[b]OR just go on the damn slides and fill them out for your child and send them in.  [/b]There's always that low stress option.  Don't worry about it.  Make life easy on yourself and your kids.[/quote]

This is what I did with my kindergarteners math :).  
He knew how to do it, but didn’t want to do it on the iPad.

Do it or don’t do it.  Get a Magic Tree House or American Girl story on the revolutionary war and read it to your kids before bed.  Done.  
As far as I know, second grade social studies is about creating hooks to hang some scaffolding from.  [/quote]

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