Myrtle
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What I want to know is why the trucks never come through the neighborhood when it's hot and we have the house closed up and they ALWAYS come through on the nights that it's nice and we have the house open. You should see us flying around closing the windows to keep out the stink!
Malathion kills bees and bees are safely asleep in their hives at night.
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It soaked completely through from top to bottom. Yes, I know. Gross. I just need to know whether to throw it out or whether it is salvageable. If you think it's worth trying to save, please tell me how to do that exactly.
Whether you throw it out or not depends on how "monkish" you are. Monk would suggest that you not only get rid of the mattress but burn down your entire house and start all over ;-)
The pet thing sounds like a good idea, but try this....
Get old absorbant towels and put them on the wet areas and apply weight to them drawing out as much liquid as you can. Apply the pet stuff. Put the mattress out in direct sunlight until it is completely dry, this might take a couple of days. Get a very good waterproof mattress protector that is soft on oneside.
Even grown ups needs to have a barrier on the mattress in case of the vomiting, bloody noses, periods, profuse sweating, etc.
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We are considering planting a garden. One concern that I've had is that the city (or somebody) sends trucks out in the summer that spray for mosquitos. I have no idea what's in that stuff. I'm wondering how safe it would be to grow fruits and veggies with regular spraying of insecticides. Any ideas?
Malathion is the active ingredient in most mosquito spray trucks.
This is a very good FAQ about malathion. Malathion is used on commercial crops for insect control. But, basically, yes, you'll need to wash your veggies first.
I think there are other ways of mosquito eradication such as something called "biomist" so malathion is not necessarily the chemical that they are using. You can call up the department that sprays and ask, they probably have a website up that tells you what chemicals they use.
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Yeah, and it's also creepy that people who have 1,000+ posts can see who you're pm-ing. yikers!
Really?!
I mean, they can see the name of the person you are PMing or simply that you are PMing?
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You know what's even "creepier"- if you click on any user name who is online and view their profile you can tell which thread they are viewing of if they are PM'ing.
As for the threads that you've posted you can go up to the search button and do an advanced search under your name. There is one other way that I know of but I'll have to go double check it and get back to you.
ETA: Just click on your user name on any thread you have open. One of the options is to bring up all posts by that user name.
I think you can go to your user panel and choose "invisible" and opt out though. I don't remember exactly what screen that showed up on.
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If you say it to yourself with an accent, it's funny:
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Except for sex ed & the handling out of feminine protection (pads), I don't remember anything from my health classes. I think most of us were just concerned with how to get the pads out of class w/o the boys seeing what we had.
Health is to be practiced not "studied."
When I read people defending its inclusion in the curricula the reason given is that there are "some" kids who don't learn this at home.
Althooooooooghhh, when I took it in the 9th grade we learned first aid and CPR and had a really good CPR dummy to practice on.
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We need some "students" for our Reading assignment:) The "classroom" is supposed to graph what pets the students all own. I hope to get the poll working, but if not, just hit reply -
Choices are -
Dogs
Cats
Turtles
Fish
Birds
Hamsters
Others
I'm hoping to make more than one choice optional. If it doesn't work and you have multiple pets, hit reply and post your answer. Thanks so much!!
I voted for "hamster"...but it's really a gerbil. We have a cat too but I only voted for one.
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What do those of you with first grader use with Explode the Code? Do you have another phonics program to use with it, or just use readers/books on their level?
I used Plaid Phonics "MCP" Phonics, Bob Books, and the stories from 100 Easy Lessons which I typed up by hand because I didn't like the funky symbols they used.
I tried to use the readers that goes with ETC, I really did. It didn't work out because the stories were too long and bizarre. I still like them, and think they are neat, but the kids never did.
My daughter caught on to reading about the middle of the first grade and I don't do readers with her any more. She chooses her own reading material now, sometimes I have her read to me from science texts for elementary school kids.
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I openly admit to being a bathroom reader. I have always been a bathroom reader. Mom labelled the bathroom "Jennifer's reading room" when I was younger (best place to hide from chores...lol). Every once in a while if I am really into a book it gets to spend some time next to me on the couch.
LOL
Someone should do a "where do you read poll' and include bathroom.
Sometimes it's the only place you can get more than five minutes of privacy and then only if you deadbolt the door.
I remember a few years ago someone posted about making bookshelves that fit on their toilet tank top.
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Heart and Soul by T'Pau...
or Could've Been by Tiffany.
Cheesy, I know. What's yours?
I'm left out.
I bet nobody knows who Mecano, Hombres H, or Claudio Baglioni are.
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When the cost of electricity goes through the roof like gas (predicted to happen in the near future) you'll be glad you have a small house.
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. The only other idea I have to cut the budget back is getting rid of the pets and dh and the boys won't hear of it yet so.....
They don't want new families??!
he he
""I'm afraid I have no choice but to sell you all for medical experiments."
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Okay, I was going to suggest the cloth wipes--as a joke:blushing: I've seen it on a few blogs, but I just can't imagine many people in this country using that method. I don't care if it is a greener method (which I'm not sure it is), it makes me turn green in another way:ack2: Even if I chose to use them personally, I don't want to have to clean everyone else's, and I can't imagine having them out for guests to use. No, I will give up a lot of things before I give up my toilet paper. I could do it if I had to, but I just don't see myself ever getting to the point of it being an absolute need. Come on folks, we're talking about a $2 price increase! What other ways can you think of to save $2? Would you really be saving? I think that would call for more water, soap, and electricity--not to mention plenty of bleach! I just don't see how it would really save that much to make a difference. Go ahead, do the math for me and prove me wrong. Show me the money!
A bidet at Lowe's is like $150. That would give a cost savings of what per year?
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I thought that Saxon would be more fun when I read the description in TWTM, but so many are saying their kids are bored to tears. I am using Horizons now which many seem to like and think is not as boring, but that is just a workbook. I want some hands-on.
I am looking into MUS. Is it complete? (clocks, graphs, shapes, fractions, etc.) What is the difference between the old version and the new version?
Any other suggestions?
Singapore 1-3 has many fun worksheets. Mazes filled with numbers are completed, frogs and rabbits hop on numbered lily pads and stones, the lines that match numbers cage in animals...math problems are solved to decode secret messages... My daughter enjoyed coloring some of her pages. It's not all fun every day and they are pretty much weaned off of fun worksheets by the fourth grade.
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Should have posted this here I think, instead of the curriculum board.
I have been looking at Singapore Science for grades 7 and up. Has anyone here used any of them and what did you think? How do-able were they at home experiment wise? Thanks
I'll be doing interactive Science (grade 7) this year coming up.
I've looked through all the experiments and I have in mind to order the
Chem C3000 chemistry kit because it has many of the chemicals that the lab requires, bunsen burner, etc and if not the exact chemicals it has a lab on the same topic. The price is shockingly high on that site but I think I can find it for about $150 elsewhere. I already have a good microscope from a previous year that will get use again, I think the only thing I still need are vernier calipers.
The new Interactive Science series also has several labs that involve the use of software along with gadgets that hook up to the computer that I don't have access to so I guess we won't be doing those.
But the real draw back for me is that the answers to the workbook and lab are no longer in the back of the book! To compensate, I'm going to order direct from Singapore a review book called "Excel in Science for 7th grade" that will hopefully give us more practice opportunities.
I don't know how we are going to handle Chemistry or Physics labs later on, that may be something we have to postpone for community college.
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I grew up with 3 brothers and 13 male cousins.
Boys would generally prefer going home or finding new friends before they let someone else push them around.
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My eight year old has gone on friendship strikes lasting six months because he felt that he was mistreated by another child. At the same time he has friends with whom he "spars". It's not really a fight, per se, it's some sort of chimpanzee-esque dominance ritual (where no one really gets hurt or bothers to complain) and he has to work that sort of thing out for himself, but I draw the line if it's happening under my nose, as in the back seat of the car.
On the topic of opposing aggression:
Holding the ball back from another kid IS aggression. It's passive aggressive. In the male world, the way to stop passive aggressive behavior is with direct aggressive aggresive behavior.
I held a ball back in the 7th grade and got punched for it. Lesson learned.
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Why I like Singapore Science:
Stays on one topic for an extended period of time.
Each topic builds on the concepts of the one before it. Cycles through all major topics every two years (It's on a two year cycle) Emphasizes biology, chemistry, and physical science which is a back to basics approach.
Complete Curriculum in a box, tests included. Test bank includes review sheets, chapter tests, as well as cummulative tests along with scoring guide.
Hands on labs with items around the house! (I've only needed to get a microscope)
Tests and workbooks ask questions which make you think, they don't ask for regurgitation. For example, they'll show a diagrams of electrical circuits and the kid has to figure out which one will not work, or which one would light up the brightest based on concepts. They give you the answer and it's always "Oh, I should have thought about that!" or Why didn't this experiment work out? Why do you think the worm died? Why can't these plants reproduce?
Comes with various kinds of teacher manuals. My favorite is one which teaches the teacher the same concepts as the student is learning, only more in depth.
I've emailed folks who are content experts, hold degrees science fields, samples of workbook pages and tests on the topic that they are in and they've told me it's very good.
No silly emphasis on either creationism or evolution as if they felt pressured to make some sort of statement about it.
The lessons do not fill out a full academic year and this leaves us a LOT of time to explore biographies of scientists, outside reading, and spend more time on labs.
I really detests "labs" that are about entertainment and not about demonstrating some topic. Singapore labs are, for the most part, not edutainment.
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Hi Jann,
These people do appear to be very poor, but I am struck by how clean and kempt everything is. I didn't know if that was indicative of the local area in general or if was just the mission itself.
Do you know why the school girls have shaved heads as well as the boys? Is it the general style of all women to have shaved heads?
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" If you want to be further along in English (that's our issue) you'll have to study hard on your own time. Maybe you can give up some of that playstation II time and do English instead."
That's the problem. Kids complain that they can't beat out the other kid but it doesn't bother them so much that they are willing to put in extra effort on their own time. They want to be better without putting in the extra effort.
My oldest son has had some rivalry issues as well. He's settled into a more healthy, "He's better at X because he likes it better than I do and spends more time on it." We've dicussed the role of motivation and interest in both performance and practice and downplay the supposed role of talent and intelligence.
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Not so much sayings but adjectives....
Monkishness - a polite euphemisim for someone's reticence about touching things they percieve to be dirty. Based on the tv show "Monk". This morning I was surprised to see on this board monkishness about used books. People wipe them down! Who knew? Maybe I was raised in a sty?
"Let's cuddle" - Said when there is no intention of cuddling. This started with someone remarking about the gullibility of girls who believe boys who say, "It's okay, we'll just cuddle"
Corporate - Used as an adjective instead of "perfunctory. Corporate accomodations, desks, art, bathrooms, cubicles are very unexciting and standard, emotionaless, and without sincerity. Whatever you get it's not meant to be personal and is just like everyone else's. "Can I have my corporate hug before you go?"
Good at turning silk purses into silk purses - phrase I use to describe superficially promising programs whose success is more attributable to the characteristics of the participants than the program itself.
We say these with a deep exaggerated Southern accent:
Go on git! This started as a command I wanted the dog to be trained to respond to appropriately and now we jokingly use it with each other.
Hey y'all watch this!
Honkytonkbadonkadonk Because these are the funniest fighting words I've ever heard. I don't know how someone can manage those syllables with a straight face much less get so angry as to start a fight Now Big John McCarthy can use this phrase instead of "Let's git it ooon" when signaling the beginning of a match in ultimate fighting.
From Well-Trained Mind we've picked up on the use of the words "box-checking" for subjects that we feel compelled to do but secretly don't want to put a lot of effort into. "Let's just box-check history this year." Somebody else used the word "bubble people" in regards to the cartoon characters in the Singapore math books and I use it all the time with my kids now...it's morphed into "What would a bubble person do?" Also, "I singapored my way through it" to refer to solving any sort of problem using brute intellect and patience in math, or real life, for which there was no standard algorithm/solution known. Someone used that once on this board and it really caught on. Example, "I had to singapore my way through that ipod software."
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The context in which I hear about stressed out, burned out kids is when they are compelled to attend a school with a busy schedule and super high standards. They kid can't quit and the teacher also has to stick with the program. You, on the other hand, can stop whenever you want and hang out at the park, go fishing, or drop down to a half day schedule if you think that's what you need to do. And you can then pick things back up when everyone is refreshed and ready to go.
If your kids seem happy, they ARE happy. Trust your instincts that they are just fine and be flexible when they need a break.
Everything is going to be fine, you'll see.
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Sheesh!!! Hello???? We spend $9139 per pupil (this does seem to include stuff like new school buildings) as of 2002. That is over $100K per pupil for 12 years.
And now the National Council on Adult Literacy wants the government to spend even more on adult education (non-pdf version with highlighting of terms). Admittedly, only $1000 per adult served per year, but with 20 million adults, that adds up to $20 billion!!!! Each year!!!! and admittedly that's a drop in the bucket compared to the annual $435.4 billion spent on childhood ed, but why is it that the same National Council which tells us the huge amounts spent over 12 years have failed now recommends more of the same?????
So, for over $100,000, we get 93 out of 230 million adults who are illiterate or barely literate:
And the suggestion is that in 12 years we should have geared up to provide educational services to 20 million adults every year? That means that after another 12 years, we will have been able to "serve" an additional year of education for every adult. (Not to mention that the likelihood of the expense going up is very high.)
Does anyone else think that there is something seriously wrong that is not being addressed in our society?
Or am I weird?
No.
But perhaps it's not just basic adult literacy that special interest groups and leaders are interested in:
Take Mary Ann Corely and her impeccable career and credentials for example:
Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D., a Principal Research Analyst at AIR, directs the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project, whose mission is to design and deliver professional development for California’s adult educators. From 1996-1999, Corley was Director of the National Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities (ALLD) Center. In this role, she led the research, development, and training team of Bridges to Practice, a nationally funded and disseminated training module for literacy providers who teach adults with learning disabilities. She also served as founding director of the Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy at Loyola University New Orleans.Dr. Corley has 30 years experience in teaching and supervising adult literacy and workplace literacy programs, having served as Administrator of the GED Testing Program for the State of Maryland and as Adult Education Supervisor for Baltimore County Public Schools, where she assisted local businesses to establish workplace literacy programs for employees. In 1988, the Baltimore County Program that she directed was named “Outstanding Adult Education Program†by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
Her interests in teaching the teachers are that they,
" Have the "courage to teach" antiracist and anticlassist curricula ...provide professional development for instructors to help them explore issues of poverty, racism, cultural dominance, power, and internalized oppression "
As she says, this can't be instutionalized over night, but if she has enough money she could probably achieve her social goals quicker.
I live off-grid: Any questions?
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Would living off the grid in Texas be crazy impossible? What are the problems associated with living off the grid in Texas? Is the problem that A/C uses up too much electricity? Would a swamp cooler work in West Texas? How deep of a well would you need in West Texas for a water supply? What about rain catchment in San Antonio or further west?