Gailmegan
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TAR, Survivor, DWTS, and all the Food Network shows.
I do admit to getting sucked into BB, Hoarders, and Bachelor/Bachelorette out of sheer morbid curiosity.
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Her writing level makes me think I need to put her in Grammar Island.
I plan on using IEW for writing. Would MCT and IEW be overkill or confusing?
I don't think so. The writing in Island is very minimal. I use it with WWE and it's not too much.
I agree with starting her in Island. My 8 y/o is doing Island but I'm skipping MCT next year because I know he won't be ready for Town until he's 10.
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Private, secular school late 1980's. There were groups of kids who did coke and some got caught with it on campus and got expelled. A good number smoked pot at parties, but I never went to those parties. So it wasn't exactly the norm, but it was there and we all knew about it.
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Okay, so after 2.5 hours on the phone I found a Developmental Ped - an hour away - that would see my son in 9-12 mos. I kept calling psychiatrists on my insurance company's list, none of whom would do an assessment for a PDD, and finally found one 10 minutes away who would see him June 1st for an evaluation. I think the decision has been made for me. :tongue_smilie:
But I'm still open to opinions and personal stories. I had one friend suggest that I have an OT evaluate him, but his PCP didn't offer that as an option. :confused:
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I have suspected my son has a PDD (probably Aspergers) for a while now, and I got to talk to the primary care pediatrician today. She guessed what I was suspecting without my telling her after just talking to him for five minutes! She said I could take him to see a Developmental Ped or a Psychiatrist, but I don't know how to choose. Apparently the only Dev. Ped. near me isn't taking new patients, but the thought of a psychiatrist is kind of overwhelming (and the list the insurance company emailed me doesn't match what I fond doing my own online search on their website) - so I'm really confused!
Help! Should I try to find another Developmental Ped, or would a Psychiatrist be better? What providers have offered the best services for those with kids with PDDs?
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I've been using WWE/WWS along with MCT. I like using WWE3 and Sentence Island together (different approaches and neither one is too time consuming.
My 5th grader this year was doing WWS1 and the grammar/vocab/poetics part of MCT Town. But he hit a wall with WWS1, so we put it aside and have been doing Paragraph Town with more success. For 6th grade he is going to do MCT Voyage only. I have heard that Voyage is much more challenging than Town, so I think adding anything else would be too much, but he will do some WTM-style (outlines and summaries) writing with history. Depending on how that goes, I'd like him to do WWS2 in 7th grade and we'll consider whether or not to add some MCT to the mix.
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Did anyone watch the season finale of Castle on Monday? :001_wub:
I did. It's about time. But you know that means the writers will have to drum up trouble for them next season.
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At least he has SOMETHING on in that picture! :D
Amen!
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Must they have included Richard Hatch? :tongue_smilie:
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You don't see the posts of the people on your ignore list. It just shows their name, and you can click "view post," if you really want to see it. It is just a reminder to myself not to talk certain people. You can see their posts when they are quoted, that gets me in trouble sometimes.
I had one person on ignore for a brief while, but curiosity always got the better of me and I just had to read the post anyway. Actually I felt more compelled to read it than had I not blocked it, so I turned that feature off in a hurry. LOL
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Speaking of snakes, my mom saw one garter snake in her garden last year, so she has been paying my boys in Legos to weed for her. You should see their stash.
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Pffft. You are going to have to be WAY ruder (or crazier) than you have been so far, if you want to make my ignore list.
Considering I agree with 99% of what I've seen you post and the fact that I have better things to do than exchange heated words with people on the internet, I wasn't too worried. I'm just in a silly mood and couldn't resist. :tongue_smilie:
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Mrs. Mungo - you haven't replied to my PM.
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But seriously - people use the "r" word here? Thankfully I haven't seen it.
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None of the conservatives are going to wake up one day from reading the liberals here and think, "Hey! I'm pagan now! Woohoo gay rights!" And the same is true for the other side. I'm never going to wake up and think the bible is the truth or the way of light or whatever Xtians are calling it now.
And none of us liberal Christians are going to wake up and think, "Hey! I am a pagan now. I think I'll be more politically conservative" ;)
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I thought it was okay. The last season seemed so contrived though - let's rush to get some closure with EVERYONE and everything. I do like Kenny though. I think his personality is a good match for her.
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I poke a few cloves in mine, then put it on some sliced onions and just add 1/2 cup of water. 2 hours before eating I remove the water/onions/cloves, pull the pork apart and add barbecue sauce.
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I can't be the only one curious to see what happened today, can I?
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Students who work Geometry after Algebra 2 are at a GREAT DISADVANTAGE when they take Pre-Calc because Geometry (even honors Geometry) only requires BASIC Algebra 1 skills... no review of Algebra 2..
Pre-Calc texts jump right on in-- do not expect ANY review!!!
You posted while I was typing. I guess that explains why we reviewed a good bit the first quarter in precalc. But I remember thinking precalc was really easy. It was one of my favorite courses in high school (second to geometry because I loved the proofs), so I really didn't struggle with getting the concepts even after a year off from alg 2/trig.
What is the difference between coordinate geometry and analytic geometry? I assumed analytic required what was taught in alg 2/trig and that's why the school did it in that order.
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I am going to email and ask them about the recommended order. If it is listed on the website in the recommended order it would be Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry then Pre-Calc.
What is the difference between trig and pre-calc??
That's a really good question. I just found the teacher's manual for my old Houghton Mifflin Precalc book (Dolciani series, but she didn't author this one) and it came in the mail a few days ago, so I was glancing through it. It has a list of possible options for using the text:
A. Basic 1-year course for students with little or no trig or coordinate geometry.
B. Basic 1-year course for students with some trig and coordinate geometry.
C1. Semester course in analytic geometry and trig.
C2. Quarter course in trig.
D1. Semester course in advanced mathematics and introductory calculus for students who have studied analytic geometry and trig, but not trig addition formulas (Chapter 9).
D2. Quarter course in advanced precalculus ideas.
E. Semester course in elementary functions.
Since I had analytic geometry and some trig along with Alg 2, I assume we were using it as D1/D2, but we did spend my whole junior year on this book; then we did calculus my senior year.
I just found my high school first semester syllabus in the book. We reviewed a lot the first quarter. Besides the Trig and Intro to Calculus sections, there is a good bit of statistics, probability, and number theory: complex numbers, sequences and series, vectors, determinants, matrices...
I still have a few years till mine get that far, but I'm drooling already.
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Great numbers! So are we allowed to celebrate now, officially that is? :001_smile:
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Just stalking the thread to see if you got another blood test today.
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I am not familiar with TT, but I voted fro Alg 1, Alg 2, then Geometry, since that's what we will be doing. Does TT has a sequence recommendation?
In my high school, most students took Alg 1, Geometry, then Alg 2. But the honors track took Alg 1, Alg 2/Trig, then Geometry. The whole school used the same texts for the algebra classes, but the honors geometry used a more advanced text. I am thinking it depends on the specific program whether the Alg 2 needs the geometry or the geometry needs the alg 2. so I'm not much help I guess. Sorry.
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Um, you know that since you didn't record it you have to do it again until you do get it recorded. :D
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I'm so glad to hear it worked out.
Must-reads for reluctant readers?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
Posted · Edited by Gailmegan
Both my boys are slow readers. They "read" for an hour each day, but they don't seem to get very far. Every year when I plan ahead I get these huge lists of suggested books, but they never finish them all. I am trying to decide how to prioritize to make sure they at least hit the most important ones.
So, which books do you absolutely make sure your children have read by the time they finish 3rd and 5th grades (respectively)? If you will give me your top 5-10 for each year, that would be great. Thanks!