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Oh, and one MORE thing.
Check out the tax situation in WA state. It's pretty nice..... :) -
Oh ya, before I forget it, the Tri City airport there is pretty cool. They have a leg for http://www.allegiantair.com air there- and very good prices to scoot out of town for the weekend. Lots of folks dash down to Vegas for example. It's very inexpensive to get yourself over to Seattle or Portland to fly out of their hubs too if you want.
It's not a bad drive either to get to them, like two hours. There's also the train which you can take out of there, it's quite entertaining. The drive along the Columbia Gorge is absolutely epic. If you go to visit, that is one of the first things I'd do. I miss that weekend getaway drive. You will fall in love with the area in two seconds flat.
Here, go look at some pictures: http://tinyurl.com/ljy4zl8 -
"Annoying" spider...laughing...hahahhahahha...no such thing! :)
My first visit there, I was picking up the newspaper to see what was going on, you can find it at: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/
The Richland library, which I love (so much I got married in it) is here: http://www.richland.lib.wa.us/The general population there is well educated because of the Nuclear Industry- you'll find people from all over the world there.
The mall: http://www.simon.com/mall/columbia-center (very nice, and very, very big)
The boat races there are a VERY big deal: The wine industry is the number one tourist attraction, they call it wine country. It's hard to imagine orchards and vineyards in the middle of the desert, but yet, it is.
Food prices are dirt cheap.....
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Would anyone like to talk about the brief quotation opening?
I think there is a lot of interesting things to ponder here.
I know that we live in an age where the homely or psychological detail is considered all-important. We like heroes in shirtsleeves, or, in other words, we don't like heroes. But things were not always that way, and today is not forever. - Louis Auchincloss
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I would hope that anyone who actually finished Norms would be capable of having a reasonable discussion!
Roaring with laughter and recognition. You are funny!
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We are praying right now we can return there.
Good place to raise a family? Yes. Gorgeous country. Two hours in any direction you can have any climate you wish. Food? Very inexpensive. Excellent healthcare. Park system is wonderful. Diversity, both ethnic and religious is present. Man, I miss that place.
Library system is good. Housing is what you'd expect on a nuke area. Weather is fabulous. Lots of different foods, restaurants, roadways are smooth. Tons of history to study there.
The wind storms, ya, they can be a little weird...there is city transportation, very nice, fast, clean system. Shopping is diverse.
Spiders - ah, you learn to live with them. Or not. Wildfires can be an issue, you have to stay alert. Those are the worst two things I could say. But the fires kill the spiders, so it all sort of balances out. :)
Nice place to homeschool as well, it's extraordinarily common there. -
Yummy. Long.
Intro:
So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in suppressing such manifestations. But when the dumb unrest grows into conscious expression and becomes almost universal, it necessarily affects all phases of human thought and action, and seeks its individual and social expression in the gradual transvaluation of existing values. An adequate appreciation of the tremendous spread of the modern, conscious social unrest cannot be gained from merely propagandistic literature. Rather must we become conversant with the larger phases of human expression manifest in art, literature, and, above all, the modern drama–the strongest and most far-reaching interpreter of our deep-felt dissatisfaction.Complete article at:
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Mine came in today.
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Well, when the library opens today I'll call and see if I can do a ILL, they've become accustomed to me asking for odd books. They make strange comments when I go pick up my order. LOL
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I hauled that book around from a friend for months and couldn't get past page ten.
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Bill was one of the first to befriend me here. :001_wub: He has a special place in my heart,
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Maybe we should set up a Norms and Nobility Challenge? Whaddya think? How hard could it be?
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I have a full load today. And because of that I expect several phone calls will come in to tear me away from my home projects.
You know how that goes.We've had severe weather here, the recovery is going well, most of the streets are open now, so there's that to be thankful for.
I hope Wednesday dinner at church is on, I am going to need a break and conversation after this is over....
I am also going to need my brain to get things done today. I hope it shows up soon. 8 a.m. would be nice... :) -
I was absolutely after schooled by my mother. It was different times then, and I thank her everyday for it.
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"You are grounded!"- it's like the last straw pronouncement sometimes. Maybe other people use other words, but you get the idea.
Let's tell stories about grounding our kids and if it did any good or not. -
I don't know the ages of your kids, if they are a bit young yet, use a voice activated recorder to have a conversation as you ask the questions, Dragon speak is excellent for this..
If your kid struggles with writing, this is the perfect band aid. Just open word, ask some of the questions, let the machine do the transcription errors and all.
Print it. Title it: First draft.
Go back over it, clean up the grammatical errors.
You will be absolutely amazed when you see it in written form how much they actually know. -
Start with the old version, "Frames of Mind."
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Okay, the first thing that comes to mind for me is that WTM is a method of thinking so that you can actually finish and understand N & N. Which I've never done...that is one hard book.
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Oh Holy Cats! We gonna Norm & Nobility chat!!! Iz so excited! Let's roll! :) ::big ears:::
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I had to look that up, so I guesssed other people would have to also.
Yep, it's real Cinderella food. :)
There's a little movie on this page that shows the debutante deal.
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Blooms gets politicized at a certain point. For a long time, it was considered cutting edge, experimental. I'm not sure at what point in time the edu-speak crowd grabbed ahold of it (it may have been near the publication of The Bell Curve) and well....when you get the Department of Education endorsing it, holding conferences and workshops, the sense of what Blooms is...and it's actual application *now*- look nothing like the original.
It was just recently revised in the last few years as well. A lot of folks jumped on the bandwagon talking about what it meant in day to day application, how to apply it to state curriculum in practice.
Again, I would steer you toward Gardner first and encourage you to just do a light tour of his works so you can find your feet with it. I think his most important work is the one on Multiple Intelligence Styles. Understanding the different "types" can help you identify with your kids best learning qualities & avenues. For example, in math, they may be kinetic (very often you'll find this with boys until about the age of ten) but in the area of language arts it may be a more visual process or auditory (said nicely, they are loud and love loud stories with lots of POW ZOOM BANG action) - so you have to first identify the style and match that to the later application of Blooms. It's not a straight across the board type thing. You have to customize each and every time, and over time and maturity lines, it's going to flex and change again. It's a winding road and not a straight line.
Now when Bloom was originally getting his papers done, we did not nor did he even consider the impact of technology in learning. Everything was old school and very cerebral. This is the point that classical methods enter, and they are the bedrock and most secure avenue there is to getting the learning across.
Some of the publications on Blooms now, from the Department of Education are supposed to be modeled on a heavy favoritism of Blooms, but the contemporary translation of it is really off base.
Even more heavy controversy enters when you see it discussed in ...what do I want to say...just certain groups out there...the most often voiced complaint I see leveled at Blooms/Gardner is that it does not respect the individuality of the child. I think that is also a mistake because as I said before, it's a flex and flow and constant re-adapting process. You may find yourself using all of the seven major categories of learning styles and mashing those up with only a few of the hierarchy patterns in Blooms.
For an at large classroom to implement Blooms, even the attempt at it, is admirable, but it does fall short only due to the fact they cannot customize to each child through each subject. It's simply too vast. The only place Blooms could effectively be implemented is one on one in a home education imho.
Each level has rabbit trails attached if you want it to, and it can result in some pretty amazing depths of knowledge. The wisdom kids can pick up on in that pattern is very much like the rise and progression of the process of SOTW. Excellent, through and you just never know what's going to stick and stay, light those fires of curiosity in kids.
I'm a little bit of a snob when it comes to Blooms. :)
It's great stuff, but read the OLD stuff, not the contemporary and newest on the shelf for background on it.
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Ya, this is one of the secondary reasons we want to come back. $$$ cha ching!