Maths angst

Maths angst from the mother! Fronting up at a school tomorrow due to a summons to see HOD Maths and maths teacher. Kid is failing big time. Can't do it. No interest in doing it. Probably years behind. Struggled for years. How can a kid go from a stanine 7 at one place to a stanine 4 the next year??????? Kid, due to this, places no realiability on any formal testing anymore. A smart kid who is well above the average kid, but who is also mild aspergers, but you really wouldn't know it outwardly.
Problem is a very low processing function of 16%...... never finished a maths exam and never will. All up there but just takes a loooooooong time to think and write it down! No matter how many times you go over something, it does not stick... Big year and big exams. >br> We spend hours and hours helping him but it fails. School bending over backwards to help (and always have.) I think our Numeracy project is possibly failing thousands of kids and the way maths is being taught I am getting very frustrated over. His school hates the numeracy project and swears all the newbies are turning up confused.
Big problem kids moving from one school to next schooling level and being taught differently too. I have seen many formerly thought they were great at maths kids fall down in the self esteem level and it is not good.
All I will say is 4 years of spanish is over so one school stress gone but maths...
seriouslt getting to the point where he quits maths at the end of year 11....
SIGH...............................

Miscellaneous 1

Internal wardrobe end put up - yay for )capsule) winter wardrobe in same room! Still need to buy some pull out drawers.

Gorgeous new stitch markers. Finished this hat quick fast.

A few hours spent at the Irish Club St Patrick's Day festivities (we have Irish ancestry and hopefully passports soon :)

Up on the bedroom wall now - husband thinks it is silly putting an alphabet sampler in the lounge....

The long summer continues.. we must be going to be told we are in a drought soon??!!

Winding wool spun by a great friend - now knitting her fingerless gloves.
And NOT much university work going on.... oh dear! All my mail is all caught up which pleases me much!

Colour

After a frustrating half an queuing in the post office and trying to sort out the "Real Me" thing with them (needed to do a passport renewal on-line) and being told by the chick that my hair was not equal on both sides for the photo (what the???) , I took myself off impulse shopping at good old Esprit. I can walk around and around the shopping centre trying to find something I like and that fits and always end up at Esprit where I can find huge amounts that I like and that fits!
$20.93 tees - why thank you Esprit. I'll have the same one in 3 more colours to add to my yellow one! Love it when i find something I really like and at a great price! (30% off this weekend for all tees if you have an Espirt card or otherwise 25%). They have lots of nice plain ones too and stripey ones in as well.

And the dear husband finished the other side of the walk in wardrobe today (the right hand bit)for my winter clothing. I have a wee winter capsule wardrobe, which I mix and match with plain or striped merino jerseys (usually bought from The Warehouse). I love my winter wardrobe with my woollen tights and boots. I might need to knit a new jersey to add some colour into it though!

Share your Country Swap

Whew. FRIDAY> This week has been a muck up with me on jury service. For me, that involved sitting around in a room for 3 days waiting for my name to be pulled out of the ballot. It never was. I was discharged Thursday morning. I learnt how rubbish day time tv is and also did lots of uni work.
I returned to school yesterday to a massive backlog. No there is no-one to replace me when I have gone.... I know I am needed! :)
Sitting in the office was a big parcel from Zara.
A rather glorious parcel which several of us oohed and ared over at the end of the day.

The most gorgeous bunting from vintage tea towels.

A very cool table cloth.

A tea towel (why can I never find such gems like these items in op shops???)

A Yardage design bag (oh! I have followed this designer for such a looong time and am thrilled to won something!).
Everything was in this bag. Including a pen for me, a "K" notepad, chocolate and apple rock -

(10 year old stealing it!) rocklea road and this cracked me up - WALLABY bites. How gorgeous! (No wallabies were harmed in the making of this product.) Thank you so much Zara - loved it all. A fab representation of Australia! This is what I sent to Zara -

jury service and drought

I am on jury service this week.
Today involved sitting in a room for around 2 hours with multiple delays due to "legal argument." First ballot of 50 people called. Not me. (thankfully as this trial is 10 days long! I am panicking about library after 1 day let alone 10...).
A bit later sent home and told to come back at 2pm.
By this stage BORED. Very bored. Knitting needles had been confiscated. Wrote a letter. But even I cannot write letters for 6 hours straight. Forgot book at home.
Went home. Got uni work. Went back. Sat in room for another 2 hours. Trial on. Then trial cancelled. Then trial back on. Another ballot. Not me again. sat around some more waiting to see if they needed to re-draw more names.
3.30pm told to go home. today - about an hour of uni work and many hours wasted time. I have WEEKS of work to do at school. And I am sitting there thinking about it. Watching crap day time tv.
Tomorrow - straight in with uni work I reckon. I have apparently 4 more days of this to go - I am hoping I really do get on a trial because then I will actually have achieved something.
The backyard. we need rain urgently!

finishing

Today it was all about finishing several things that had been hanging around for a long time.
Like hand stitching a quilt, which I had finished sewing nearly a year ago...
Completing my milo (wow that knitted up fast!) and a baby vest
and putting elastic in 5 pairs of pyjama pants sewn last winter. All ready for this winter now. (although I am a bit scared about one kid who has grown so much and wondering if any of these may be too short...).
And a well overdue haircut (last June was the last time I had my hair cut! Yikes!). Then a passport photos taken - gosh five years roll around fast!) Bendigo Woollen Mills here I come! Much excitement over that!

needles clicking

I have been knitting again. Several months ago I started a wee vest for a baby in Sweden - still on needles, but I have misplaced the pattern... hmmmm....
So I have started (last week) a "milo". My first ever milo in a 9 month size. It will swim on the baby, who was born this week 10 weeks early, to a dear teaching friend. I am amazed at how fast it knits up. I will then start on some premature baby size things. I have jury duty this week (hmmmmm - kinda not happy but then I have decided a break will be good - no GREAT!) and there is apparently a lot of sitting around, so knitting and writing letters it shall be.
And gorgeous new sock yarn from Red Riding Hood Yarns - her first ever sock club. Divine! And a sweet pouch too. (my I have a fabulous collection of these all of a sudden!)

Do you knit? Any projects going? It is the first day of autumn today!