Agamemnonsmom
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I would have her to speak to them in German starting now! My son is speaking Greek because his grandparents visited once a month for a weekend and spoke exclusively in Greek to him. I am now slowly teaching him to read Greek. They could also talk on the phone, read stories to them, watch cartoons in German with them right now.
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He just keeps coughing...
Agamemnonsmom replied to sbgrace's topic in General Education Discussion Board
My son takes two inhalers when he's sick (diagnosed with cough variant asthma). He takes the albuterol (4-5xday) to open his airways and then a steroid inhaler (2xday). His cough won't go away until he's been on the steroid inhaler for a while. Also, find a cough syrup that's an expectorant not a suppressant. Warm baths to help break it up also (or breathing in steam from boiling water, being careful not to get burned by the steam) HTH -
What vocabulary should a 1st grader know?
Agamemnonsmom replied to SKL's topic in General Education Discussion Board
When my son took the CAT last year before entering 1st, he did really well on vocabulary. His teacher for 1st grade here was also impressed with his vocabulary. (we put him in school starting the second half of the year) I think the 2 things that helped were Explode the Code (words come up in there that aren't used in our normal conversation so I usually google a photo or a video, most recently a bagpipe and a trapeze). Also, I can tell a big difference in how many new words he's using when I'm consistently reading to him out of good books. When I read 30-45 minutes a night, his speaking vocab increases, when I'm down to 10 minutes a night reading fluff (like right now:tongue_smilie:), he doesn't increase his vocab as much. We also tried Evan Moore word a day for a while but now that he's back at school, we don't have the time for it. HTH -
I had an ASD that I found out about when I was pregnant. I had chest pains, thought I was having a heart attack. The ER didn't find anything. After my son was born, I found a cardiologist who took me seriously. He said I just had to keep an eye on it to make sure it didn't get bigger. (he found it with a transesofogeal echocardiogram, TEE for short). He wanted an echo done every 2 years. 6 years later, I moved and changed doctors. This one specialized in holes in hearts (I had no idea that was possible) and said I needed to get it fixed based on my stress test. My oxygen level wasn't high enough and something else was too high during the stress test. He said if I didn't get it fixed, it would shorten my life. He said I should do it within 5 years. I went ahead and had it done at 37 years old. It wasn't open heart because of the location. It was a one night hospital stay, they went up through my groin. I was on blood thinner for 6 months while my heart grew over the patch. HTH
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I tried to comment but it made me have an account somewhere else. Can she set it up to take anonymous comments so people don't have to sign into another account (google, wordpress, etc)
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If you have a child in 1st grade
Agamemnonsmom replied to pinonheightsacademy's topic in Parents' Forum Afterschooling Board
This week is bird, total, animal, habitat, mammal, reptile, increase, together, altogether, amphibian Next week is slowly, quickly, forest, desert, polar, aquatic, minus, reduce, decrease, difference. Last month he had some that I was surprised about -- communicator, appreciate, refraction I'm supplementing with AAS to make sure he's continuing to learn the spelling rules, not just lists. -
If your parents live far away from you.....
Agamemnonsmom replied to Gwen in VA's topic in General Education Discussion Board
We Skype every week, sometimes more than once a week. My in-laws have visited twice, my dad zero. We will visit once over the summer for 3 weeks. Skype is the best thing for us. My 7 year old will Skype his grandparents several times a week and they don't mind if he wakes them up because of time zone differences. We've only been here for 5 months but so far so good. -
We're on level 2 also. I just remind him we haven't learned that vowel team yet. He would use "oo" for a few times but after reminding him, he doesn't anymore. Same thing with "ea" instead of "ee". When we got to the "ee" step, I had to remind him we haven't learned the "ea" vowel team yet for spelling. I'm not sure what will happen when we do learn the additional vowel teams though.:tongue_smilie:
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Which ETC do people usually skip?
Agamemnonsmom replied to skeeterbug's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
I wanted to add, we are about to start 6 but will do 4 as a review of AAS where we just started syllables.