10 year olds " project"

[Tortington]

i have twins - so everything i say x 2

year 6
came home with a project today they have to do a project of their choice. this must include an contents, index, bibliography and glossary of terms. front and back cover appenendix.
this project includes a presentation to the class - daughter asked if she could do hers on an ohp ( am of a mind to stick it on my laptop and borrow the sodding projector from work)

they have a few weeks to do this - fair enough.

does anoyone else in the universe think "........but they are only 10 YEARS OLD"??

AND
this is sats year too with exam pressures
AND
the head already hates me as i have already complained about this years school trip at the cost of hundreds x2 to the isle of sodding wight. to which they again .....again refered me to the poor fund aaaarrrrrrrrrgh i dont want the money i want the school to stop putting parents in thisposition.

And
i always get lumbered with homework blues as hubby is a pig

The jump from junior to secondary school is a huge one. They have to begin to get used to researching on their own and presenting projects etc. This is nothing compared to what they will have to do next year.

I don't really know how kids manage school these days, there seems to be so much more to learn than when I went.

It does seem a lot for children of 10 to do..

(god - and thenmultiplying by 2!!)

Is there a "subject" their particularly interested in which they may be keen to do? ( grasping at straws here!)

I would stick it on laptop - have you got powerpoint? - easy to use and could be effective for presentation??
Good luck (x2)

thanks sonnet and janstar - no it gets worse

its ancient greece
" doctors, science and medicine" for daughter
" cities and city structures in ancient greece" for son....then he goes and tells me he really wanted transport in ancient greece but someone else got it!"

my daughter cant even say hipocrates!

It must be a pain in the a**e making sure that teachers don't accuse them of copying each other.

cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Ancient_Civilizations/Greece/Daily_Life/

Might help a bit

good god custardo - some of the graduates we have starting with us couldn't manage that! I'm not sure they'd all know what a glossary was, never mind our new secretaries who only spell in txt!

lmao janeway!

Custy big sympathies to you, I'm in a similar position. Dd1 year 7, has come home with a project to do about a place of worship. She (therefore me too) is expected to find a place of worship to visit, photograph, find the history of etc. This is on top of the other 2 -3 pieces of homework she is expected to do every night, not forgetting dd2 and ds1's homework, which has to be fitted in, and ds2's physio.

I have big big issues with both the amount of homework she is getting, and the subject matter of this topic, but I don't want to start a mumsnet barney, so will keep quiet.

Oh my God!!! This sounds scary - what is it going to be like when dd is 10? I remember loving school and know I wouldn't have done so if I had such projects. The first time I had to include glossary and/or appendix was at uni!!!!

And they say educational standards are dropping...

Lmao Beety! If only. Maybe I could get her to do a double worship of Robbie and Justin?

Seriously it's a pita. I haven't got time or inclination to do such ear bleeding stuff. I think we will be cyber searching.

There are plenty of church type things around, but they will fall down if I enter.

A Buddhist temple would be good, lou. They are pretty tolerant I think!

Yes but that would mean actually having to get off my bum and find one.

I want to get my juices flowing without my kids watching though.

Another thing. Does anyone know anything about Georg Ohm? She's got another project to do,grrr.

Beetroot, that was so nice of you! Listen Custardo, I bought a book called Painless Research Projects, by Rebecca Elliott and James Elliott: Int'l Standard Book Number. 0-7641-0297-4 . This is for middle school, but maybe it would be helpful to you. See if it is on Amazon or another vendor over there that has some deep discounts. It is a book done by Barrons, www.barronseduc.com I have children 18, 13 and 9 and boy do I know what you are going through, but at least I didn't have twins!! Good luck to you, try oh try to have some laughs while you are doing it.

In secondary school they routinely come home saying they need money for books, equipment, or they might say Miss X or Mr Y says they need to bring an example of this or that with them - tomorrow! A lot of these things are not necessarily things you would just have in the house and I often wonder if my kids really tell me when they have been told or if they 'forget' until the night before.

The classic is when you are watching TV and they come downstairs at 11pm to tell you what they need for the morning - I could crown them sometimes!

Totally relate Janstar! This is where part of my hording sickness began. I have a closet STOCKED with, poster board, presentation board, magic markers, felt, glitter, notebook paper, construction paper, composition books, graph paper, tabs, presentation folders for reports, every color pen and pencil available, new crayons, tissue paper assortments, gift bags and wrapping papers, birthday presents for children of all ages, greeting cards for abosultely every occasion and gift cards from several department stores. I vowed that I would never be caught running to the store like a psychopath at 8:00 at night for another school project!.