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post #1 of 3
1/31/08 at 5:50am
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So I got Tessa's report card yesterday...
She is doing much better this term (thank goodness)... apparently getting a bad report card and realizing that this teacher really wants to see her work has helped.
The only thing her teacher says she is struggling with is being organized...

Which her teacher says isn't a big deal this year... but will just get to be a bigger and bigger problem as she progresses.

So any tips on how to help an almost 9 year old get organized? I know that my research on gifted kids has said this is a big problem for most gifted students, but no real tips on how to fix it.
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post #2 of 3
1/31/08 at 9:37am
Oh man, do I wish I had some advice for you. Haley has struggled with organization for years now. She gets more bad grades because her homework was lost than because she didn't apply herself to the assignment. In fact, she has "homework detention" tonight because she couldn't find an assignment AND lost her copy of the book the class is reading.
I've tried to sit down with Haley and her books & binders to help her come up with a way to stay organized so she doesn't have this problem anymore, but she can't seem to stick to it long enough to make it habbit. We even went the simplest route possible and had 1 folder. In one side she was supposed to put unfinished assignments and the other she was supposed to put completed work. That way, she only had to remember one folder instead of multiple notebooks and binders. Two days after starting the new method, she lost it and ALL of her work. It a constant battle in this house and it gets very frustrating...
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post #3 of 3
1/31/08 at 10:59am
Michael and Devon struggle with this. I just keep trying to teach them ways to be organized. I hope it clicks one day.
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