Clarita
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1 hour ago, KrisTom said:
We are still going to do the Pathways, but I chose level 2 for AAR. Maybe it will be super easy, but I feel like he needs more "activities," or perhaps I need more help with them laid out for me.
I think AAR level 2 will be a good choice. It is a good thing to build up confidence in reading. Using AAR below level for us have been working much better than when I was trying to use it at level.
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I really like Orange County in southern California, but I do like the area I live in now SF Bay Area in northern CA. I have realized living in California makes me too spoiled in terms of weather. I am a warm weather girl so I wouldn't mind Maui in Hawaii either, but I don't think my husband could do it year round (he thinks it's too hot and humid there).
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No not right now. I did when I was breastfeeding but I had those breastfeeding/sports bra type things. TMI my boobs went up 2 sizes while breastfeeding and I leaky.
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My mom pushed me to be a career woman. She did feel like it would be better if I had a husband but no kids. She was very disappointed in me when I when I decided to have a second kid and when I decided to be a stay at home mom.
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A few things, I haven't read all the posts so forgive me if already mentioned.
1. Since it is now more permanent see if you all as a family can find a better space for him. Some compromise may be necessary. You may also see if his company offers some monetary help in that area (my husband's work offered one-time monetary help for office equipment the caveat is the company owned whatever you bought. - mostly meaning if you left the company you'd have to give it back)
2. I had a job that actually required my office space to be super neat. I do not work that way. So at my cubicle I had a big ole drawer where I put my piles most workdays it meant that at the start of the work day I pulled piles out of the drawer and before I went home for the day I put all my piles back into the drawer. (I even had a poster board that I put up all my papers/post it notes that I needed out, that got pulled out and put back every workday.) You can substitute drawer with super oversized plastic container.
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1 hour ago, Terabith said:
I mean, to be fair, the alphabet lessons are almost all for four year olds. I can't remember if four year olds are allowed to eat hot dogs or not.
I think I read an article somewhere that said no hotdogs (unless cut in half) until 5, because they can still choke. At any rate my 3 year old is clearly a genius because she is fully capable of eating and not choking on a hotdog. Of course hotdog letter activity will fail at my house because my 3 year old would eat it before I had time to finish sculpting it.
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You could also suppliment your not colorful curriculum with Generation Genius | The Next Generation in Science Videos. I found it easier to suppliment with their videos than the Mystery Science. The Generation Genius videos are like long well produced you tube videos. It was easier to search to find the right video that correlates with the topics. I could look up volcanos and there would be a video on volcanos, or rock cycle, or composition of the planet earth. Whereas there is more chance in Mystery Science volcano topic is buried in the general topic natural disasters.
I like both and Magic School Bus. You could also get a good encyclopedia to get a little more visuals into your science lessons.
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5 hours ago, Terabith said:
He seems to have decided that the solution is just to go outside for short periods frequently and then come in and complain.
Make sure you really listen and acknowledge his complaints though. Otherwise he'll be emotionally scarred for life. 😜
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3 hours ago, Bootsie said:
I have ended up forgetting my wallet, losing my keys, etc.
My fix for this is my Kate Spade continental wallet (I got for $35 at Kate Spade outlet). I could just use this as my purse with my keys attached to the wrist loop. It has been super helpful especially because I often switch between a reasonable sized purse and the diaper bag.
When I had fancy functions then I do have to pull out things from this wallet to fit, but then those bags of mine only carry my license, phone, 1 creditcard and depending on the purse my keys maybe attached to the outside of my purse.
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When my cat was a young cat we would throw little foam cat balls. We amped it up by putting up obstacle courses and really bouncing those balls off the walls etc.
Then when the 2nd cat got to be a young cat rather than a small kitten then we got Kitty City Play Cube Tunnel Cat Toy - Walmart.com type thing ( buy the cheapest you can find they will be destroyed). They would hide in them and "pounce" on the other one. We would also put a few in the room and go to town with a cat ribbon, Da Bird Feather Teaser, or anything stick with stuff at the end. They LOVE it if you act more like prey. Basically scurry around/near them, occasionally stop, try to hide and run away when caught. I learned from Jackson though at the end of the play session to give your cat a payout (meaning let them catch their prey). This helps signal the end of playtime and they don't continue to be amped up.
Yes, we got two cats about 6 months apart in age. The youngest was 5months old when we got her.
Conversely my MIL trains her cat to do tricks, like roll over.
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7 minutes ago, Baseballandhockey said:
So, just to make it confusing, this isn't the "Baseball" in my name, that's my 14 year old, and the baseball situation there is complicated.
Oh I didn't think you were specifically going for baseball. That's just what I know because that's the one my son loves at the moment. There has been a lot of talk in that sport about people pushing kids to do things that are physically inappropriate for their age. I don't know if there are such things for Hockey (a sport I don't know a lot about).
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I have all the purses (OK well I've never spent more than $1500). There is a definate difference between a Coach and a Target bag. If you are hesitant to drop that sort cash on a bag I would suggest you look at the types of bags that you have purchase and choose a style that you would be happy with for 10+ years. For my MIL I saw that she continues to essentially buy the same purse again and again. So, I bought her a Coach bag in that style.
My advice would be to be picky with that $200+ bag if buying new return it if you aren't 100% satisfied with it. There are a lot of good high quality brands ( I do agree usually they are $100 - $200 plus unless you get lucky) and a lot of them come up with new designs bi-annually, don't feel like you have to buy NOW or a particular brand.
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28 minutes ago, Baseballandhockey said:
We're just disagreeing about whether to add things like a travel team and more private coaching in one sport.
I don't know what sport you are looking at but this is an interesting article with respect to baseball talking about travel ball (year-round baseball).Stealing home: How travel teams are eroding community baseball - The Washington Post
If your DH really wants too look into being intentional with a sport I suggest really digging into the risks of doing so and what to look for. For baseball (that's our 5 year old's sport of choice), there is an issue of people wearing out their arms in their youth or practicing particular pitches which are physically damaging for not fully grown arms. I would look at what is age-appropriate (mentally and physically) so you know when to step in.
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15 hours ago, Eisakka said:
But (bringing this back to my initial question), I was disquieted to see that both AAR and LoE encourage students to guess at which sound a particular phonome is making in a word while sounding out the word. So these OG programs teach kids all the sound U can make but then have them guess at which of the four sounds is could be in any given word. Huh. A similar analogy would be having a child guess at what 4+4 equals in a math class.
I think it's because to really dig into the meat of why which ea sound to use they would have to go into the linguistics (roots not sure what the currect word is for this) in english or the fact that English is not a 100% phonetic language. It incorporates a lot more meaning to the spelling of its words than just how to say the word. Which is a lot to teach when the learner is just starting out learning how to sound out words. Look at read and read, you don't know how that is pronounced by just the letters. If AAR works but you don't want your kid to guess, you could encorporate a little bit of "structured word inquiry" stuff into it to tell them why a particular word is pronounced the way it is but spelt the way it is.
Not defending AAR it is not a perfect program. Just if it is working for you this might be a way for you to tweak their lessons.
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I found that MCT has a before Island level language arts "The Poodle Level" MCT Language Arts Curriculum Preliminary Level: The Poodle Level - Series by Royal Fireworks Press (rfwp.com). I don't know if anyone has tried that. I haven't I just know it exists.
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We use Singapore math K which can be workbooky I mean it comes as two workbook things (one is technically the textbook and the other is the workbook). We've made it not workbooky. I look at the problems they are doing and we may do the problems and/or similar problems using manipulatives or orally or through a game or discussion etc. Caveat is I'm not against workbooks/book work/seat work stuff and my oldest will ask for it (sometimes he just wants to finish the lesson quickly to get on with his life).
I use a Montessori math program when my kids were younger and parents asked the maker to essentially make worksheets for them.
I do find individual subject curriculums better at telling you what they are trying to teach, so it's easier to use them without doing their workbook or worksheet.
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If it were me I would get it appraised, like someone willing to buy it appraised. Then take that information and ask your kids if they want it. Ultimately though it's up to you what you want to do with it.
FWIW I am probably going to inherit jewelry from my grandma after my mom and her sisters pass away. The jeweler said " Oh this is pretty. They don't make things like this anymore. Yes it's real gold." When he gave us the price it wasn't really worth selling and spliting the money. (The price was that low.) So, all the girls (mom, aunts (including ones through marraige), me) decided we'll just keep it to use for future weddings. We are Chinese so there is some tradition of using family jewelry for weddings. There is no sentimental value other than the Chinese wedding tradition.
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I don't trust Amazon at all, just because they have so many distribuitors and stuff. I heard behealthyusa.net and bonafidemasks.com were reputable. I have yet to recieve my bonafide order though I think they are super swamped with orders.
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7 hours ago, thewellerman said:
There is just a lot of day...after day...after day...of the same things. Thank you for all the ideas. I'm going to see if any of them click with my littles.
If you find a solution for that I'd like to know. I'm so nervous about Omicron bringing us back to the days when there are no activities again. Things have opened up again where I live so there are some outdoor activities (like zoo, parks, exercise/sports classes) and indoor things have started to open up as well (library). By open up I mean we have to be fully masked regardless of vaccination status. I realized through this forum some places act like COVID doesn't exist. Some places/cities near me adults have to show vaccination status to enter.
When we first started COVID and we had shelter-in-place I taught my then 3 year old how to read. We ended up doing a lot of academics just because we were so bored.
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I only know for the littles. We do Quiet time around here for an hour. They get to bring quiet toys and books to their room, if they make too much noise or bother me it's lights off. They are allowed to go to the bathroom. They aren't allowed to hangout with each other; we tried that they need a break from each other. That's my break. For the pandemic I've had to be firm with myself that I don't even do housework, meal prep or school prep during that time.
Otherwise I trained my kids to occupy themselves. So I would tell them it's free time sometimes during the day to do the things I needed to get done. In that case they can choose to help me with whatever I'm doing or figure out something to do without me. I did have to institute a no TV-time unless the playroom was clean before dinnertime because for a while this led to all their toys all over the floor all the time. If it's clean they get 2 episodes of TV while I make dinner which I allow to leak into dinnertime.
This has been smooth for me for a week. We recently decided we needed to cut naptime for my youngest which led to the changes. 6 months ago both my kids were napping for 2 hrs still in the middle of the day. I'm lucky my eldest didn't quit nap until he turned 5; just to be clear that has nothing to do with my parenting skills.
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I would leave it alone for now. If ever it cracks all the way then you can superglue it back together.
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In my fully masked pretty cautious area, parents have generally stood around outside to pick up kids. So, we say hi and connect. I would feel uncomfortable going up to someone's car knocking on the window to say "Hi." Mostly because I would be a little frightened if I were the person in the car (but that is entirely a me problem).
In your shoes and I wanted to make friends I would stand out in the cold for a bit to see if any other parents wanted to join me and talk to someone instead of waste time in their car.
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I've tried several different meal kits in the past. In my opinion they are not what you are looking for. They do the grocery shopping for you which is great but then the meals themselves usually include a few courses that you make, and really they only provide you with enough ingredients for just that one meal. So, they really take more time than if you went with some of the online crockpot/instantpot/frozen meal planning stuff online.
I've enjoyed meal kits in the past but what I really enjoyed about them was they taught me how to cook and expanded my cooking abilities.
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The behealthyusa.net has a sale on some Christmas masks. Update posh masks are what I ended up getting my kids; my little girl really wanted Christmas masks which is a win for me. We will see how reusable they are for my kids.
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Countertop compost/scrap bin?
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Don't know if this one has been recommended. I enjoyed this one when it was just my husband and I. AmazonSmile: Full Circle Fresh Air Odor-Free Kitchen Compost Bin, Green Slate : Home & Kitchen. Now I have a bowl that I empty constantly because I was filling up that compost bin everyday and at that point it's easier just to have a bowl.