Homework. AKA Blaine's teacher is a maniac!

Blaine entered the world of P2 in August.  Hurrah!  He was flung back to school at great speed as soon as the bloody holidays were over and he soon settled back into his old routine.  That routine being something like this:  Up at 7am, tantrum over breakfast as he's not allowed cake/biscuits/crisps, finally get him to eat a bowl of Rice Krispies.  7:45am tantrum over getting washed and dressed as he hates his school uniform.  8:15am tantrum over what to have for play piece and lunch.  8:40am tantrum over getting shoes and coat on.  8:45am leave house and walk to school. While he's having all these hissy fits I'm also trying to get Imogen ready for nursery, do her bottles, and get myself organised for work.  It's a bit mental. At 8:50 I leave him at school gates, head into work make strong coffee and relax.....

So he's been back for a good few weeks now, and he has a new teacher!  She's a probationer.  Groan.  They all have to start somewhere I suppose and, for some mental reason, the headteacher of Blaine's school have decided that she'll get flung straight in at the deep end and have a class of hyper active 6 year olds who would rather wrestle than read. She's a young lady, at the moment she doesn't look like she's turned into an alcoholic or had a mental breakdown. I'm sure this will come.  She's also far too enthusiastic and obviously has far too much time on her hands to do marking as she's suddenly turned into a homework slave.

This is what Blaine has to do in a week.  Mon-Thurs.

1. Reading book.  His reading is coming on great so he actually loves this.  Sometimes 2 books a week.
2. Education City - online homework stuff, again he loves it as it's on the computer and easy.
3. Spelling - 10 words that he has to learn to spell by Friday as they get tested on it every Friday.
4. Sentences - he has to write 3 sentences which incorporate the spelling words
5. Maths sheet - this week is subtraction, moving onto fractions soon?!
6. Jolly Grammar - trust me, it's far from Jolly.  This week he is learning the -ar sound and focusing on Common Nouns.  He has a worksheet to complete.
7. Research Homework (to be fair this is a 2 week project) researching jobs that people do at sea. Make a poster to show the class and present it to them next week.

According to his Homework Contract (yes, they have a signed contract and everything now!) He has to do 20 mins every night.

So tonight it went like this.  Bearing in mind I get home at 5:30pm due to bastard work. 

5:30 - Blaine needs a drink.  This is the start of the distraction techniques.  He has millions of these.  He then needs a pee.  Then he wants tea.
6pm - tantrum over teatime due to the food being hot or something.  Eventually calms down to eat it.
6:30pm - tantrum over getting the TV turned off as he needs to do homework.
6:45pm - I put Imogen to bed, Tom in shower.  Blaine takes this opportunity to fuck off outside to play with his friends. Grrrrr..... homework still not started.
7pm - Blaine brought back in and told he has to do homework
7:20pm - tantrum over.  Bargaining begins - "If you do your homework you can get 5 mins on the DS" Blaine - "I want 10 mins on DS"; me "No, 5 or nothing"  Blaine "FINE! I HATE YOU!"  Good, good.  Sigh.  I contemplate cracking open the vodka, however I'm on call for work so can't even do this......
7:25pm - Blaine decides he'll do Education City.  Which he completes with ease, but I get distracted by a phone call and while doing so he's managed to access the Lego website and is playing some shooting game when I return from the call.
7:30 - time to turn off PC and go to bed.  No tanturm, but instead he plays deaf.  I end up turning the computer off for him and he goes to bed.

So, this week we have managed to complete the maths sheet and Education City.  The project is due in next Friday, so that can wait.  The Common Nouns need done by tomorrow.  So I can see exactly what's going to happen tomorrow morning. Luckily my on-call ends at 7am, so I can quite happily have a splash of vodka over my Special K.

Oh - and it's parent's night tomorrow night.  I'm sure that will be enlightening. Best stock up on the voddy.