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I think you need to talk to the teacher because this could be evidence that she thinks he is at a lower level of reading than he is. Tracking is a beginning reader skill but it should be encouraged to be discarded when the child is reading so as not to get in the way of fluency. If he really feels he needs the finger have him track down the page on the side rather than under the words but I would guess he wouldn't need that. A quick chat with the teacher will tell you if it a required part of the curriculum, something that was misunderstood (ie if you have trouble go trace which was taken as always), or that she thinks he is reading at a lower level than he is really.
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I second the adoptionskin_haircare group....they have taught me EVERYTHING I know about doing my dd's hair. Now I can cornrow and braid like a champ. That said there are some days or week when hair just CAN'T be done. I do my best but that's all I can do. I do enjoy when others will do her hair just so that is a week or 2 where I don't have to take hours on it. I also recommend watching Katelynlyn on U-tube... she is AMAZING. If you want to see some of the hairdo's I have done on my little girl go to http://lifewithmurmer.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair
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A lot goes toward salary and benefits as with any business...sadly the highest paid are administrative people who don't interact with the children and don't get frozen salaries when there is a budget need (I actually think our super got a raise...but the teachers took a pay cut hmmmm)
Also transportation is expensive especially rural areas and then heat, electricity cost a lot.
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Before FIAR is not a curriculum where you do everything listed. So you could read the books to your 2 year old and do 1 or 2 of the activities. Then when they are 3 read the books again and do more the activities. Then again when they are 4. You can also switch through the books throughout the year so do 1 book this month then go back to it in 6 and review the activities and do new ones. I think there is a lot of great info in it. Also the stuff at the back of the book is fun to add in too. Homeschoolshare has more activities for each books so if by 4 you feel you have finished the book you can go there and find even more fun things to do. I do think it is a worth while book to have.
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However, if your buyer paid via PayPal, and you cannot prove you mailed the item, PayPal will refund your buyer.
For that reason, sellers need to purchase DC, and they need to make sure the package is scanned into the system when the post office employee accepts it at the post office. If you drop it off at the post office, and it never gets scanned in, DC won't protect you.
I pay for and print out postage at home. But then I have the postal employee manually scan my package into the system, instead of simply tossing it in the bin like many prefer. I've received more than one dirty look for insisting, but I don't care.
A note: if you print your postage at home and pay for insurance and DC, and you want the item to be manually scanned in at the post office, you need to know the exact amount you paid for the insurance. The postal worker won't be able to scan it in properly without that information.
This! It is the seller's job, according to PayPal, to make sure the buy receives what they purchased which according to PayPal is with a DC showing delivered. So you could still lose the money if they file with PayPal.
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Sounds exactly like what just happened to my dd today. Same exact prescription for what to do. But they said I had to call if it was more than every 4 hours for the inhaler.
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Why couldn't they offer bottled water? We had a boil water act my first year of school...at 6 am the principal was at Walmart buying up as much bottled water as he could and paper cups...we kept the cups on the kids desks and gave them water when ever they wanted...and this was in Phoenix in May. No kids where sent home and school still happened. The school was lazy in my opinion and didn't want to think outside the box.
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Now that we are 1 year into a dairy allergy I can tell you it is really easy...ok so not really easy but not nearly as hard as I thought...basically anything I make with milk can be substituted or a close alternative can be found...ie Mac and Cheese (my favorite food) she just has the noodles with evoo, garlic salt, flax seed and ketchup (she's three). Or if we are having a chicken that I haven't figured out how to make milk free she can have baked /shredded chicken with garlic salt. She is finding all sorts of things that she will eat that she likes. There is dairy free yogurt that takes a bit to find but she LOVES them...also Oreo's are milk free just full of junk but make a great special treat when a milk sweet is offered.
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Basically I think they would try filling other schools or created a government run daycare with little to no educational value and hire minimum wage workers to merely keep children from killing each other. The sad thing is that the government already has no respect for the work teachers do and I could easily see them turn school into daycare so parents can work, we are halfway there.
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For me it is a way to validate to others that its something that needs accommodation and different expectations. It also gives me a starting off place to jump from so that I can help her the very best way possible and sometimes without a diagnosis that hard. So yes I am seeking to "label" my 3 year old but everyone has labels. I rather her be SPD than be labeled the out of control aggressive child that no one wants to deal with.
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My kids are still babies but if you can't get anyone from Vermont let me know, maybe I can help...it looks like its just sending out postcards from each state right?
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Wow! Be open but read read read read read...read about adopting internationally, read about institutionalized children and some of the effects, read about families that are parenting non-infant adoption, and read about the heartache of disruption. I can't say if this is not the right path but know that it could be the most difficult thing you have ever done. It will forever change your family and only you can decided if it is worth all the heart ache, time ect with attachment.
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We LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Dominion. We have all 4 sets out right now....
:iagree: newest fav
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I don't have a Sedona but I do have a KIA and my engine blew at 50000 and they refused to honor the warranty because I had work done outside of a KIA dealership. So I don't really trust them to honor their warranties and would never buy one again.
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I am in agreement with most of what is said. Following Paul's admonition means (for me) that I am seeking what is of worth. Classic literature (and some contemporary) usually of worth. It has a redeeming quality to it that overcomes what may be objectionable. For me, I consider the context...s@x for the sake of s@x is not worthy no matter what, the story of rape and redemption may be of worth but it would strongly depend on what happens and how it is portrayed. So it is a consideration of the parts of the story and the whole of the story.
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Quechee Gorge especially in the fall!!!!
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for the 4-6 you could do a wreath of leaves...basically collect a whole bunch of leaves and glue them onto a paper plate that has the middle cut out...it was way fun for my dd to do
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Good job, Mama!!!
We always have to push to get anything done, don't we???
Congrats :)
Thanks. I am grateful to know that I am not a crazy mom and that I can get the help I need for my daughter. Now to wait the week or 2 until we can get started.
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Rounding can be an amazingly useful tool especially when you get to multidigit addition and subtraction...ex. 18 + 56...if you round 18 to 20 (just 2 more) then it is much easier to add = 76 minus the 2 you rounded up 6 - 2 (yeah easy math) 74...no need to carry. Even better for subtraction lets do 56 - 18 round 18 to 20 that mean 36 but you added 2 so now you need to subtract those 2 again easy math 6 - 2 = 4 74 is the answer again no need to carry. Now this does not work for every single situation but it can be a very quick easy way to do math in your head. I believe that is why rounding is in a 1st grade book and it can be a very valuable mental math tool.
As for how to teach it...I love the above abacus idea. Also playing lots of games about making 10 and then use that to help ie 8 + 2 =10 so if it is 8 its close to 10 but a number that ends is 2 is 8 away from 10 because 2 + 8 = 10. It really is about finding and using the easiest 10.
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I am a certified teacher and worked in the elementary (k, 1, 2) level until this school year. Knowing what I know about the system and especially how they treat "special" children, I knew I had to homeschool my dd. I don't need to have a teacher ignore or not teach her because she is "ADHD and needs meds" or she fell out of her chair to disrupt the class. So we will homeschool which has me excited because then I also don't have to deal with all the other "school" stuff.
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We are milk free so it is either juice or water and our dd will not touch water. I don't understand why but we have tried water for every meal and she will not drink until we add juice so she went a whole day without drinking.
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After pushing more for my daughter (see this thread) they will be doing a developmental screening and sensory processing screening! So there is paperwork to do and appointments to set up but it should get done before Christmas (which is faster than I thought). Diagnosis and treatment will be a great Christmas present! Plus the OT they use is VERY VERY familiar with sensory issues so no having to explain what sensory processing disorder is YEAH!
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Just another thought if she has a cell phone you can text her information while she is on the plane and she can get it as soon as they land as long as she keeps her cell phone available (but off) during the flight. You might even be able to get her the gate number and if it is on time as soon as she gets in...that would relieve a little of the stress in where to look to find the gate number.
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My story has a happy ending but it took over 2 years of symptoms and over 12 weeks of appts before we TOLD the doctor it was a milk allergy and substance she had had since birth. I don't trust doctors either. I now go in with ideas of what is going on and talk through all of them with the doctor...and I go back until I get an answer that I feel is right. But it is scary. The most important thing to remember is Doctors are human like us...they have families and lives and this is just their job albeit an important one but it is still just their job.
concepts- not for everyone
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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While I truly believe a conceptual understanding of math is very important, almost essential, I also believe that an inadequate teaching of conceptual math could be detrimental and lead to more confusion. So if as a teacher you (general not op) can't do conceptual math teaching don't because the child will probably do better than if they where totally confused because the teacher is totally confused. This is the biggest problem in schools with conceptual math programs. Teachers don't understand it, try to but not correctly or completely, and kids end up super confused and no one ends up getting it. Children have strengths and weaknesses and so do teachers. Teachers need to understand their own weaknesses try to learn but also teach with their strengths and if that is scripted non conceptual drill and kill (not that these are bad just the opposite of the conceptual) hey at least their children are learning math right.