They are just sales people on a mag crew. They are not students. They sometimes can go on a trip from commission but it isn't really a contest. Their job is selling magazines and they travel to a bunch of cities throughout the US. Most are not scams in that you will get the magazines but it isn't students doing it for a school or charity. A coworker who used to work with my husband and his wife used to sell magazines across the country. In the company they worked for you did get your magazines. They buy magazines from mag crews now since they used to get paid by commission. They have good memories from that time in their life and liked working on a crew but they knew they were not going to make a career out of it.

My 4 year old can now sound out a cvc word but he makes pauses between sounds before he blends it into a word. He does p i n pin rather than ppiiinnn pin. I just looked up how to help kids blend more smoothly and apparently I should have been teaching him how to blend without pauses. Oops. He learned from reading bear but I would often sound out words for him too and I would pause in between sounds. What are ways I can work with him to get him blending a little smoother without pauses.

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Our Realtor said that she doesn't do open houses because it is mostly buyers that are not buying right then it is people are are feeling out the market and neighbors. I personally find houses I want to look at and go look at them. If there was an open house for it I would go to it but not having one wouldn't keep me from looking at a place.

I agree about the practices of the companies but there is a lot stuff out there says that GMOs are dangerous and that I don't agree with.

My first dd was measured at 20.5 inches at birth. A few days later she was measured at 18 inches. I know that newborns seem like they lose height because of the cone head going back to normal but it isn't enough for her to lose 2.5 inches. When you take measurements with paper they are subject to user error and people have different ways of measuring.

IRL most of my friends or acquaintances are pretty crunchy. A lot of them eat organic, don't vaccinate and don't believe in conventional cancer treatment. Most of them are against GMOs. I do not like Monsanto's business practices and I think they do business very unethically in many countries including our own. I don't like that they take control over seeds or how we grow lots of stuff for livestock etc etc. I don't like the company but I am not against GMOs or the herbicide they make in certain applications. I looked at all the evidence from both sides and I am not scared of GMOS. I don't think genetically modifying food in itself is dangerous and will give you cancer and make you really unhealthy. I am not looking to debate those studies but I was wondering if I was one of the only one who is not scared of GMOs. I guess some may think this is a JAWM thread. I am not looking for agreement just hoping to find others who don't think GMOs are the devil in all instances. I also am a little disappointed the environmental movement became about hot button topics like dietary methods, GMOS, certified organic and "natural" stuff and doesn't address big issues very often.

I guess my 6 year old is pretty behind then. She can do BOB books and the first readers from AAR and things like the easy Dr Seuss books but she ca't do the level 1 books yet and she quite a ways off from stuff like Amelia Bedelia.

My dd's class is doing a Christmas play. Her teacher does it every year. Her teacher works with the kids from both of her classes during her break period. My dd got a part in the intro which I am happy about since I think it will be good for her. She is slow to warm up/shy but starting to come into her own and I think having a part will be good for her. Her whole school has a traditional turkey lunch on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The kids all dress up as historical figures. She got to stay late to have the lunch even though she has half day school and stays late for play practice every day until her performance. My son's preschool class has a Christmas play too. They work with the kids starting in October learning their Christmas songs.

I got one too. Thanks for posting about this.

My youngest did that. I was looking at something in the freezer section. Umm mam your baby is standing up. My kids have ridden in the basket portion at times. Shopping carts are tippy but they are tippy no matter where the child is sitting. The top part is actually more tippy than the basket though. If my kids are in the basket portion they must sit or they get out. My youngest wiggled out of her strap and stood up in the seat portion. That was riskier than being in the cart portion. Kids can fall in shopping carts but it isn't that high of a fall. My ds sat in the basket recently because he was really tired after a long day and wanted to rest rather than walk. My kids have been in various arrangements in stores from being in a baby carrier, the top part of the cart and in the basket and walking besides me. I had a lady stop me once about the carrier saying how dangerous it looked. She saw a kid tip out of a shopping cart recently and thought that the baby carrier looked dangerous too.

I'm glad to see I am not the only one who tried lots of different things some of which worked ok and others that didn't. I have a pretty big list of what I tried until some of started sticking. I'm really hoping AAR works for ds so I can get away with only using one program. That is the point in the book my dd got stuck too. She did good until then and then there were too many words in the sentences and she was no where near fluent. I hope you find something that works. Like This Quote MultiQuote

With my oldest I started with funnix then my computer crashed and I did teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. She got stuck halfway through the book. I then tried a few other things but settled on reading bear. She is doing WRTR at school but they are not caught up to what she knows yet. If I could do it over again I would have used an Orton Gillington method from the start since reading was a lot of work for her. With my ds I used reading bear to teach him to blend. I am working through AAR with him now and I will see how it goes. He is picking up things faster it seems but it also seems like it is going to take a lot of practice and work for him and it isn't going to come naturally for him either. I don't even know what I learned to read with in my day. I didn't learn until I was older and they taught it in school but once I did learn it wasn't a struggle at all. I went from nothing to reading really fast. It has been work for my kids so far. I hope AAR goes well for ds because it has been a struggle with dd. I know for some kids it isn't but some kids do need a lot of practice in multi sensory ways to learn. Neither of them were ready for BOB books right away because they needed to sound out every word and they needed a little more than stuff like 100 easy lessons or OPGTR. I wish it was easier and didn't take so much effort.

No it is her that does not read the books once she gets to too many words that stump her.

Yes that is what we are working through right now but I need some readers to go along with it. Thank you these are perfect! I should do this with her. She does balk when I have her read books that she thinks are interesting that are too easy of a reader for me to read to her. She is getting so close though. It is only a couple of words that hold her back and I can probably help her find some choices that she would do better with. She is getting so close after all the time we been working on it which is exciting.

Yes that is one we do too.

My dd's class uses the program. We haven't gotten to that yet but they had to make some corrections on phonograms because how they teach it isn't how we say it in this country. I'm guessing that is an example of that because those words have the same sound the same to me.

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She really has struggled with fluency but she read the three readers from AAR1 fast. She picked up each book and read it in one sitting in not much time. Some words she sounds out a little or she makes a mistake here and there but she moves through them pretty fast and understands what she is reading. She is good at reading the words in those books and can do it fast now. I don't know that I quite call it instant recognition of words but it seems she needs something a little above those readers. It does sound like the AAR2 readers are the things she is working on that she needs to read in readers now. Maybe I will get them. They are rather expensive but I will eventually need them for ds since I am doing AAR with him and maybe since it is what she is working on it will challenge her and help her more.

DD is 6. I started teacher her how to read last year and it has been slow going. We didn't do much in the summer and she lost some of her skills but she is finally making some progress. She can now plow through bob books and the AAR1 readers I got for my son but she isn't quite ready for beginning reader books with lots of words that don't follow rules and just gets frustrated reading those. She needs something a little harder than BOB books but not as hard as early readers that have lots of varied words. We are working through reading bear right now and she is on presentation 30. She is doing really well and working through each presentation without any issues. I do the funnix story time sentences with her not the whole lessons and that is good practice but it doesn't match up what she is doing in reading bear. She is getting so close but I need something to challenge her and help her progress.

This is a great list of books. I don't have to much to contribute since I haven't done too many classics yet. Huck Finn the classic starts version -Age 4 He is enjoying it and wants to read Tom Sawyer next James and the Giant Peach -Age 6 I got a lot of the books mentioned but my oldest keeps picking fluff to read. I think my 4 year old will probably start liking classics. I just started with him and he is enjoying the one we are reading. I don't know how to convince my 6 year old girl to read better quality material. She likes stuff like Amber Brown, Junie B Jones and Judy Blume. I also wish my kids at least my 4 and 6 year old would read books together but they never want to read the same books.

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I can't figure out how to rate someone anymore when you buy something from them. How do you rate someone?

I think it is worth it because my dd spends so much time playing very imaginatively with it. They also drive me crazy because the hair and other pieces pops off easily and is difficult to put back on. Apparently my kids are pretty rough on stuff because I have definitely have playmobil stuff break. My son who plays with things very roughly.

I do phonics videos, starfall and reading bear with my 2 year old. I was thinking of doing some marshmallow math with her but haven't gotten the book yet.