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I’ve been exhausted for months. I need a reset, a break of enough magnitude that I can begin again to successfully accomplish all the things. My life never slowed down in the past two years, I only experienced increased demands. I’m in need of a vacation from it all. Since that is not going to happen, I see this being a long slow road to getting back the stamina I previously had.
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3 hours ago, Roadrunner said:
As opposed to what? Correcting while screaming?
Must everything nowadays be infused with feelings?I just think we make such a big deal out of such small things sometimes.
As opposed to not correcting any of the child’s work, and never telling them an answer is wrong.
I believe in telling a child when they’ve gotten something wrong and correcting as necessary.
How else is a child supposed to learn, if they are not corrected?
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14 hours ago, Quill said:
I don’t know if this will work; the file may be too large. But I took some short video a few days ago, just so I could share it with my no-cicada friends.
Thank you for sharing! I haven’t heard them yet this year and I miss them.
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23 minutes ago, daijobu said:
You know, I do this a lot. If a student makes an error, I try to be positive as much as possible. I will tell them how far into the problem they were correct. And sometimes I will tell them their error is a common one, or it's a common newbie error, or I'll admit to making the same sort of error myself. I'll offer a way to avoid that error in the future (not skipping steps, documenting more carefully, etc.)
And this, correcting with compassion, I can be on board with.
I have just seen the don’t tell a child they’re wrong taken to such extremes that there is no correction of mistakes. That helps almost no one.-
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2 hours ago, daijobu said:
You are luckier than the students graduating from the Stanford Teacher Education Program. Granted, it's an accelerated program, but if you dig down into their class on Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematics, there isn't much math there. This is the textbook they use:
https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Conferring-Elementary-Math-Classroom/dp/0325098697/
Here's the book description. This is what they spend all year reading:
Conferring in math supports students' learning
How do we support all students' mathematical sense-making and move their thinking forward in the midst of problem solving?
Talking to students about their work, while they work, is a powerful way of supporting learning. We often engage in these conversations with our readers and writers, and these interactions are just as needed in mathematics. What does it look like to talk with students about their mathematical thinking so that their thinking grows?
Practical, research-based guidance for getting started
In the Moment offers research-based guidance for conferring with your students in math. Jen Munson explains how, in just a few minutes, a math conference provides opportunities for supporting productive struggle, helping students grow their ideas, and differentiating instruction.
This is why my child's school was telling me it was ok they didn't have any work she had completed herself, because they discussed math??! It does not make me feel any better to see this is what some teachers were taught.
1 hour ago, HomeAgain said:That seems very similar to the math instruction in my own town. Even my husband was horrified when he got past the Educational-ese and looked up the program they implemented. It's called YouCubed, courtesy of Stanford, and it encourages never telling a child they're wrong, but listening to their logic and then "offering" a different way. Mostly, students work in groups and confer among themselves. This is in conjunction with their other program, Everyday Mathematics, so they write down all their thought processes, too.
Why do so many kids in my town hate math? This is why.
I am a HUGE proponent of exploration and letting a kid work through. I'm also a proponent of direct, explicit instruction that gives kids a base from which they can jump from. They need good tools to apply to more independent work and exploration.Bolding mine, I can't believe this is a widely used philosophy. I was unhappy with instruction I was seeing, but to have it be an actual teaching "method"...
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I don’t think standardized testing should be used as a benchmark to assess homeschooling using the standardized scores.
Someone is always going to be at the bottom of a standardized chart, by definition someone must be there. Requiring homeschoolers to not be those people is not a realistic requirement.
Standardized testing without also measuring personal growth is only a partial picture of education.
I think it’s useful information to have both of these, but I do not believe either of these should be used to dictate where a child should be “allowed” to access education.
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Not all kids in public school are given math. “Special education” is code for nothing in too many situations.
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Yes, we know the feeling. I don’t enjoy the feelings of loss and comparisons, but they are our reality more often than I prefer. We’re still looking and hoping for our tribe someday, where we can just be real and accepted, where we can grow without being held back.
Happy birthday to the birthday boy.
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I'm checking in to see if anyone has the new TR model Speed Queen washers. How do you like it? I'm having a terrible time deciding on a new washer. I have a narrow space I'm trying to fit a washer in.
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Ah gardens, I love seeing all the pictures.
I currently have:
- two bleeding hearts that have sprouted from last year's planting - can't wait to see how they grow
- no hostas sprouting in the front yard yet - north facing, so I guess there is still hope?
- three of the backyard hostas have sprouted!
- strawberries in the raised bed appear to be over achieving and already have flowers - we may get strawberries this year!
- none of the strawberries in the ground have sprouted yet
- the raspberry canes are still wrapped in the evergreen bushes - maybe I'll get those evergreens out this year. Eagerly anticipating raspberries, since they did berry last year.
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https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0116-prescription-glasses-and-contact-lenses
You have the right to a copy of your prescription. Link to FTC regarding rights to your prescription.
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I see many writing specific programs that start at what appears to be upper elementary with paragraph writing. Where are the programs I am missing that would come before these, teaching how to write sentences? What teaches sentence structure, building stamina for the writing process, other early writing instruction that leads to paragraph writing?
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Didn't mean to leak disability discussion onto this board.
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Is Right Start still worth it if it takes us twice as long to get through the lessons and material? I am considering Right Start Math and understand it can be time consuming and parent intensive. I think the manipulative options with Right Start would help make the math more understandable. My concern is being able to put in the time the program needs. I am expecting it to take more than a year per level.
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Haven't read the responses yet, never looked it up, but I guess Charlie and friends to be about 4th grade with Sally & Linus 2nd-ish. Rerun seems to be kindergarten. Not sure I want my imaginings dashed, but off to read anyway.
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Thank you for the Ian knot link!
I think this might finally work. DS can tie a shoe if he stops, takes his time, and really tries. It's been mostly a one time, one shoe deal. I have high hopes for how the Ian knot will work for him. I have learned it myself, the next step is to show him...when he wakes up, lol. Is it wrong to wake him up to teach him this?
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It was either Snow White or ET. I don't know which came first, just that those are my earliest movie memories. I remember my dad getting me snowcaps at ET.
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So many good movies. I just have to add because I am surprised by how many people I talk to who haven't heard of it (this group may be different?):
Clue
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I don't really know what they do with reading here in kindergarten because the focus seems to be on writing. I suppose they are expected to be reading, because they are expected to write. My logic could be off there. They start spelling tests within the first month of school and language arts includes sentence writing. It seems a little excessive to me. Letter and number formation, while not completed dropped, seem to be left at the wayside.
I don't want this to be venty, but I'm having a hard time leaving it out. Preschool seems to have become a mostly academic environment. Woe betide the three year old not ready to sit at a desk and learn to write their letters and numbers. That child will be behind.
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Let's see, I could have died of pneumonia at 12 or 13. If that didn't get me I wouldn't have made it past the appendicitis in my 20's and would not have had any kids.
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Have you seen the Harry Potter MBTI chart? It was on my facebook this morning.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/765632a34986b518fb3f82e304cb351c/tumblr_mpwedjbUzm1sr50suo1_r1_1280.jpg
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Does he feel the same way about taxes for police, fire, or libraries? Perhaps they should all be fee for service as well? Not everyone uses every service in a society. If he doesn't believe in public education for society there are other ways to make his point that might be more constructive.
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I use a breast pocket for "short term" items.
For instance, when I pump gas, I put my credit card there after swiping and before I get back in the car and put it back in my wallet.
If I have a shopping list, I usually put it there.
I find a breast pocket very useful.
Thank you for sharing, this I can understand even though I just use a pant pocket.
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I don't like shirts with breast pockets. I have big Books and I think it would look riducously using a breast shirt pocket.
This is the main problem I see with shirt pockets. It seems a silly place.
I'm strictly a no-pockets on my shirt type gal. Usually because that means they are a shirt which will have to be ironed and let's be honest - any shirts that have to be ironed are going to sit in my laundry room after the first washing until they are so out of style that I give them to Goodwill. I belong to the religious sect that believes picking up an iron will summons the end of times and the four horseman of the Apocalypse. It's an unofficial branch of Catholicism.
Now dresses with pockets ... boy howdy. I love those and find them very useful.
Dress pockets I can get behind. The pocket is usually in a similar location to pants and who can't use a pocket every now and then?
The Vaccine Thread
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Does anyone know, has the FDA decided if they are going to consider anymore EUA’s related to covid? I know they were discussing last month whether to start requiring full approvals, but I haven’t been able to find any outcomes from their discussions.