I do have more than a few southern friends who do say coke for soda. Every single one of my many southern friends has accents of a varying degree. Only THEY don't think they have an accent. To someone from MN they certainly do. Not everyone drinks sweet tea but it is prevalent in the southern states. Not so much in the northern states and not even an option for most in the northern states. Sure, stereotypes don't apply to everyone, everywhere. But they were created for a reason. Usually they are based on a general consensus from what people observe and experience. Catholic community was relevant to the OP because her family is catholic and she would like to be able to insert herself into a Catholic community.

Robert Levy did so with his son. And his son went on to receive his double Major in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at 16 years of age from UH. For us we are using a variety of things but Go Math! Is our spine until my son is old enough to start Saxon. It is a mixture of Singapore and Saxon.

My son loved Biscuit books when he started out reading. But they outgrow those so fast. Something that my son loves that is not particularly boyish are the little house picture books. They have a few with Almanzo Wilder in them. I also highly recommend the Usborne complete farmyard tales. It is my sons favourite book of all time! There are 20 short and simple stories in it. Great for a new reader and for buddy reading. He can read the book by a simple sentence along the top of the page. Or you can read the more difficult sentences along the bottom of the page. Or you can just enjoy looking at the pictures. The book is over 300 pages long and my son flips through it almost every day.

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Lol. My question was worded poorly too. I should have said Which child has more oranges Mary or the boys? Or who has more oranges Mary or one of the boys? As for the original question... I do see the ambiguity. 5. Which kind of trip was more popular, a trip to see live animals or a trip to either the museum or the planet show? Live animals = aquarium OR zoo? Or is it aquarium AND zoo? I think I will have to change my initial stance. It seems that the key words are "which kind of trip was more popular?". If it was aquarium OR zoo it should just say "which trip was more popular?" So it would be, which is more popular live animals OR museum OR planet show.

No not too hard for 2nd grade. This is just dealing with doubles. My son has had questions like his in various workbooks from pre-k to 1st. I would show this's in several ways. Easiest way is to give her 134 Cheerios and separate them into 2 different bowls.

It is super simple. Basically the question is asking.... Which one is the most popular and by how much? Answer: Museum by 14 votes. By saying a trip to see live animals it just another way of saying the zoo or the aquarium. Logic puzzles are worded like this all the time. And I have seen similarly worded questions before in 1st ans 2nd grade math books when learning data. Here is another example. Number of oranges children have. John: 26 Mary: 53 Patrick: 17 Frank: 45 Who has more oranges Mary or the boys and by how much? Just another way to say who has more oranges Mary, John, Patrick, or Frank?

Fwiw, when I was a bit older.... 13 or so, my friends and I, who are all non religious. Sat down and read the OT. We shared snippets of interesting things as we read it. There were certainly passages that interested us. My 2 best friends were called Sarah and they loved being able to read about god adding the H to Sarah's name. Then of course we all tried to find out names in the bible. :)

Fwiw, I don't think I have ever seen it written James's. Even friends with children with the same name. And maybe that is because it is how newspapers do it too. And I have to say I adore those little SotW toys Farrar!

Bela, Any idea what it says about punctuation being inside as opposed to outside of quotation marks? That is another one that has many acceptable variances.

Oops I guess I got the syllable thing around the wrong way. :) I just know after my son was born that for the first time in my life I had to figure out how to write his possessive correctly. I settled on James', knowing that it wasn't actually incorrect, and I have stuck with it since. :) Wouldn't you say Moses-es room with three syllables too?

If you have an iPad the classical conversations app cycle 3 has a really good section for American history.

Non religious here... I also don't really see this as anything more than differences friends. If it wasn't religion it could have been an invitation to a shooting/paintball party. Or they could have been reading from a book about guns. Guns are something I don't particularly want my son to know much about at his young age. But I can't stop what his friends and him talk about, play, read, when I am not there. And neither can the teachers. Instead I would take it as an opportunity to teach my son about saying no to something he feels uncomfortable about, teach him about tolerance and try and give him an open mind to other people's passions, interests and beliefs.

And this would be a blessing right now. :)

Both are acceptable. If I recall correctly one might be an English variant and the other an American. Just the same as how the words colour/color, jail/gaol, cheque/check, grey/gray, center/centre are all acceptable. My son is James and I just use James' all the time. Saves myself typing the extra s. I do think is also read once that syllables matter also. James' is for one syllable but for a name like Moses it would be Moses's.

I would like to think that most ed majors are required to do courses teaching math strategies. However my education was in Australia. When I was working on my early education degree I was required to take a class in teaching mathematical strategies. I also took other classes teaching things like reading strategies and strategies for teaching exceptional learners. (GATE and LD students)

Thank you! I figured there would be more inappropriateness than I recalled. I know when I was younger there was a lot that would go right over my head. I remember watch ghostbusters as a kid and being scared of it. I had no idea until years later that it was a comedy!

As a kid I loved the back to the future series. I wonder if they are worse than I remember though. As for a family movie. I love Dreamer. It has Dakota Fanning in it. It is a horse movie.

And very few Americans don't realise that. Marry, merry and Mary are differently pronounced words.

I am Australian living in America I have never heard the short I version. I always say respite with a long I. We learn something new every day. :) I have a friend from NJ and she has no idea why in a lot of kids books they always make dog rhyme with log. To her dog is pronounced "dawg".

If you sign up at notebooking pages Debbie (I think) will email you a lot of great information. Then I think anyone can take if from there.

How about introducing a book like draw write now. It is basic but covers drawing and writing. He can spend more time coloring his drawing. How about adding books like the Kumon Let's (fold, cut, paste) series. A sheet from each won't take long to do but it gives him some practice with fine motor skills. Give him a tray of Montessori inspired activities, lacing, pouring, sorting, etc. or just give him some playdoh and a hammer. All of the above he can complete on his own. But together you can read him selections from a book like What Your Kindergartener Needs to Know.

How about introducing a book like draw write now. It is basic but covers drawing and writing. He can spend more time coloring his drawing. How about adding books like the Kumon Let's (fold, cut, paste) series. A sheet from each won't take long to do but it gives him some practice with fine motor skills. Give him a tray of Montessori inspired activities, lacing, pouring, sorting, etc. or just give him some playdoh and a hammer. All of the above he can complete on his own. But together you can read him selections from a book like What Your Kindergartener Needs to Know.

Do not like scripted. I don't really follow teachers guides too much. Most of the time I just need to be told the big idea, smaller ideas and a list of vocabulary can be nice. However I have studied early childhood education for over a dozen years formally and informally and I don't often come across anything new as far as strategies go. Often new strategies are old ones revamped. If I do come across something new. Like Vedic math or Singaporean graphing I study it myself first from various sources until I feel competent enough to teach it.

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