This year our school is pushing "encouraging your child". N has some important tests coming up over the next month and we got a "secret envelope" sent home explaining that we were to write encouraging notes to her for each day of the test and they'll give them to them. We split it up and I gave dash the extra one! I couldn't help it. I kept wanting to be sarcastic! Here's a couple that came to mind that didn't make the cut:
N,
Don't worry about the test
Do your best
We'll figure out the rest
N,
If at first you don't succeed, don't worry there will be plenty more chances to screw up again!
o
N,
Forget that this test determines if you are a brainiac that will make it into honors classes. There's no pressure--really. I mean it's just the deciding factor for important class choices of your future. No big deal.
N,
2 = 2 =4
s comes before t
(just wanted to help you out on the hard stuff!)
And my favorite one I did not give to her--
N,
Don't sweat it there's always next year. (Oh that's not right) Oh well, who cares!?
Dash told me I miss my hallmark calling! :) I think he's been a bad influence on me! I did my motherly duty and was very kind and wise and encouraging! :) It would have been fun to mess with her brain a little though! :)
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Those might have made her laugh, which would have helped cut the tension! : ) But, if the teacher did any pre-screening of the notes, those might not have made it.
Yeah, I think that would get rid of a lot of tension.
You know, Hallmark is in KC.
I wish I got something like that when I was in school. I might not have had so much test anxiety.
I have a friend who taught first grade and she always threatened to teach them something that wasn't true and then they'd go around insisting something odd like blue was green. A play with their young minds thing. But we always opt to do the good thing afterall don't we? It's fun to play though.
N came home the day that I wrote this and told me that the "secret" was out. She said that she had hoped I would write something funny. I showed her my blog and she laughed. She said that I should have sent it--but then I pointed out that her teacher or someone else might have read them and she said--yeah, I guess it's better that you didn't, but that would ahve been funny!
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