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  1. Speaking of my broad beans... They're flowering! Only about 15cm tall, rather than taller than me, but the bloody things are flowering!
  2. She's studying at the moment and barely has time to scratch her nose.
  3. Please start a new thread. This one is too old.
  4. Mm Writing and speaking are kind of the same when talking about expressive issues. Should they be put together or separate? Speaking is supposed to lead to writing, but for mine it was kind of the other way around.
  5. It is very, very common for handwriting skills to be behind reading skills. They are on different developmental trajectories. If he's not complaining, you can keep doing whatever you're doing. If his handwriting ends up that bad, despite your attention, it's going to be dysgraphia and there's only so much one can do about that. At this point, though, neat handwriting is unrealistic. He's only 3. The best thing you can do really at this age is motor skill work. Fine motor skills are reliant on core muscles, so all the gross motor skills like running about like a feral at the playground and climbing the clothesline are important. This is all the behind the scenes, foundational work for handwriting and a lot more fun for both of you than correcting handwriting. As for grip, that should develop on it's own but in some places kids are taught to write using fountain pens, so the pen can correct their grip instead of the adult nagging. There are pens made for kids, but I forget the brand we used.
  6. Keep it in this thread, please otherwise the amount of stickies gets cumbersome. It says "composition issues" in the title.
  7. I think this thread has come to the end of its useful life span.
  8. You can imagine my shock when talking to mates in one of the rural cities that they don't keep the Emergency app open all summer!
  9. Is this the thread for spelling? Apples and Pears is made for the dyslexic brain and I liked it for providing different strategies. The lessons were too long, so I halved them, and for the first book I had her fingerspell the words (using the Auslan alphabet) rather than writing them, except for the tests. That took a lot of pressure off and allowed the spelling lesson to be a spelling lesson instead of an everyyyything lesson.
  10. I emailed Ronit Bird about the minicomputers once and she said they were mere computational devices. I disagree. They made a wonderful foundation for future work on fractions. After all, Kid had been used to breaking numbers up and putting them back together, so it was no big deal to learn that you can break a one and put it back together too.
  11. Not married but seem to have similar arguments with a neighbour every other year. Well, he more has them at me than with me. It beats me how he can feel threatened enough by me when he's bigger I am, far better trained and can shout louder, longer and nastier than I can. I assume at those times he's been hijacked by his inner 14yo. Last time it took him seven months to 'fess up to the real problem, which was that some other chick friend of his had done the same to him and he hadn't been able to unlock and apologise to me until she finally apologised to him. *shrug* I don't have to live with the guy, only beside him, so I enjoy him when he's being enjoyable and avoid the bugger when he's not.
  12. My dd wouldn't have learned maths at all without CSMP, and lots of translating back and forth between their pictures and standard notation.
  13. ElizabethB's video lessons on thephonicspage.org but I don't think that method works too well with kids under 7. And obviously lots of discussion and explanations for comprehension.
  14. My daughter couldn't remember letter shapes until I taught her in joined pairs, then she picked it up within days.
  15. I only have a one bedroom and dd has it. As Ester Maria said, when a kid moves out, she doesn't get to take her parents' accomplishments with her. Spending the pittance I do have on a room my kid can't take with her won't help her launch successfully. The education I provide and the petrol money I spend does.
  16. If I knew people he knows, I'd let them tell him why he wasn't hired. 😝
  17. I've come to think being rude is an important skill to have. Parenting is weird.
  18. They've seen worse and called because they know it's safe. No need for you to feel anything worse than a bit irritated with your kid.
  19. Ordinary old over-stimulation can do that too. I had some stuff that un-integrated my Moro reflex to the point where I was jumping at everything, even when I knew it was there. It wasn't really anxiety, but it acted like it.
  20. That's not weird. That's inspired.
  21. Take a book, then you won't notice if anyone looks at you funny.
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