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  1. My first thought, too!! But, my husband is messier than the kids. He also vacuums, though.
  2. Vitamin D update. No 50 degree sun angle needed to make D in Northern half of the US, reaches Miami by 31 Oct: http://suncalc.org Overly enthusiastic vitamin D wiki has Covid-19 vitamin D links, + new "Pascal's Wager" for vitamin D. There is actually a small amount of risk from people taking too much D if they don't check their levels, but there are other proven health benefits from having good vitamin D levels. https://vitamindwiki.com/Pascal's+wager+applied+to+Vitamin+D (Everyone here probably knows this, but a good time to remind friends and family heading into winter cold/flu season.)
  3. Vermont Country store has a similar shirt, their products last a while, they sometimes have sales. https://www.vermontcountrystore.com/perfect-pintuck-sleeveless-cotton-tunic/product/76818
  4. Me too! I'll just invite myself over to dinner at several houses, although no one else has Helen Keller yet.
  5. Also, whether you do gray or white or off white, you want a color that looks good next to the existing trim or you'll have to redo trim, too. Make sure to hold your sample color up next to trim on all walls in various lighting. The white in the rooms with the blue undertones clashed with our existing beige trim, LOL, again, son didn't care but daughter did, we did too for a common room, so we bought new white. The gray we picked for another room had to be one that went well with beige trim, some grays clash with beige trim.
  6. There are about 1,000 shades of white. Then there is beige. 1,000 additional shades, LOL. We had a white that looked awesome in the garage but terrible in the rooms, it actually has a blue undertone. We got a warmer white for the bedrooms, except our son, who didn't care.
  7. I would want one of my 5 to be Hellen Keller. Can I have a free interpreter? If not, maybe I'd pick Anne Sullivan as one, she's pretty interesting, too.
  8. You could do one wall fake brick. I'm not sure how good they look a few years later, but they seem to look good at first. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/253257179020053833/
  9. A lot of my students do better with comprehension when they read aloud. Even a small accuracy difference in word level reading can make a big difference in comprehension. You are forced to read more accurately and more from sounds when you read aloud. Given this, I would actually instead do the quick screen reading test, the nonsense word test, and the full MWIA II. She should not miss more than 1 word on either section of the MWIA II and should not have a slowdown, the words on p. 7 - 8, you do not have to do the "Vote" reading. http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/mwia.pdf Here is an article explaining how a small loss of accuracy can make a big difference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/measuring-reading-liz-brown/ If she is reading accurately, I do have comprehension suggestions, but I have had many students who did not have decoding fully automated, their "comprehension" problems cleared up after their decoding accuracy improved--and it was small, just 2 to 6 words missed out of 220, but my good readers read all 220 phonetic words correctly, occasionally 1 misread due to carelessness, but never more than 1. I remediated these students with my syllables lessons and a lot of nonsense words, there are extra nonsense words on my syllables page. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html
  10. So far, so good lately, they don't seem to be experiencing the 2nd wave that it looks like Norway and Denmark and perhaps Finland are starting to see.
  11. Vitamin D as a preventive for other respiratory diseases: 25 eligible randomised controlled trials (total 11 321 participants, aged 0 to 95 years) were identified. IPD were obtained for 10 933 (96.6%) participants. Vitamin D supplementation reduced the risk of acute respiratory tract infection among all participants (adjusted odds ratio 0.88, 95% confidence interval 0.81 to 0.96; https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
  12. And, there was a reason the Canadian grandmas in Anne of Green Gables pushed Cod Liver Oil in the books. Vitamin D gummies go over much better than Cod Liver Oil, my husband and kids take them happily. I have to take special formulated pills weekly because of allergies, I alternate powder and olive oil based.
  13. I don't know Touch, type, read and spell. Read, Write, Type is good for learning phonics and spelling basics and learning a bit of typing at the same time. It just goes over the basics of phonics, but the child can do it on their own. The good thing is it doesn't encourage guessing at all, most online things do to some extent, and the child can do it on their own once you help them through a few times. You can try the first few lessons free. https://www.talkingfingers.com/read-write-type/
  14. I heard that. Sad if true. My location is now in a time of the year where you cannot make vitamin D from the sun anymore, I checked to make sure my husband was taking a winter load of vitamin D. Basically all of Canada and the Northern part of the US is now in that zone.
  15. That is half of the reason I own 20+ reading programs, so I can pretend I'm doing something different with my students who need a lot of review. You could also use the old Open Court, it starts with long vowels so it is truly a different sequence, it works well. Sounds, then blue book, then orange book, you can make much better stories with long vowels. http://wigowsky.com/school/opencourt/opencourt.htm
  16. I would evaluate her reading. She may have been compensating and as reading got more difficult, it got harder. My grade level test: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/40L Test.pdf Nonsense word test: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/NonsenseWordTest.pdf MWIA Version 3--should have no slowdown, should not miss a single word on either section. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/The MWIA Version 3 new.pdf To keep up with an AP class, she should be reading at a 12th grade level, if below that, or behind on the other 2 tests, I would work through my syllables program, do extra nonsense words if there is a slowdown on the MWIA or the reading rate or accuracy of nonsense words is low. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html
  17. Give me your list of foods you can eat and I'll brainstorm, I'm on a five day rotation diet with very limited foods due to my food allergies, also I did a lot of weird experimentation when I was "only" allergic to 17 foods, now I'm allergic to a lot more. You can find weird foods in Asian and other ethnic grocery stores, also usually much cheaper than in something like a Whole Foods. Also, you should be able to eat anything you've never eaten before or don't eat often; quail eggs may be a possibility, for example. You can use spaghetti squash and fried cabbage as starches. If you cook and freeze chopped squash, chopped cabbage and defrost for a day or two, it just takes 1 min of lightly frying to be edible. I make a breading from 100% rice with oil and water that works really well. It is a bit expensive but really yummy and I just use it myself in a separate pan so it lasts a while, I use cheaper breading for others. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E4X881M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  18. Do a lighter school day Friday and have everyone help with meal prep and cleaning that day. (And other days have them help, but do a lot on Friday.) You can make extra meat and freeze. A food saver and bags is worth the money. For example, make twice the taco meat and food saver portions extra to use in tacos, burritos, enchiladas. Get an extra freezer if you don't have one. With my food allergies, I make my own taco seasoning, it's easy and very yummy, I make extra, it microwaves easily after freezing. I'm now allergic to something in the chili powder in grocery stores, this is more flavorful and cheaper than in store! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RHVH58/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Chili powder, oregano, garlic, salt, cumin. I used to use pepper as well, but this chili powder is so spicy I now omit pepper. Cook turkey in 100% corn oil, add spices, add water, simmer. Have your husband make extra chicken or pork or steak on the BBQ, have BBQ for Friday dinner, food saver extras to later use in stir fry, fajitas, soups, etc. Get an instant pot, make meat in it, make extra to freeze. Pork and beef cook well in the instant pot, cheaper cuts turn out well. Make large batches of rice, freeze. Bake a bunch of potatoes, sweet potatoes, chop, food saver, freeze. For gluten free sides: rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, chopped cabbage fried in olive oil. (Rice and sweet potatoes freeze fine, I'm not sure about cabbage, but cooked cabbage should freeze fine.) You can get a second screen with a laptop. Google for what is required to work with the specific laptop, cord and screen specific details. Screen size does make a big difference for work ease and productivity. You could do sandwitches/wraps/burritoes for lunch often, gluten free can use corn tortillas or have a potato bake or stir fry with their meat, microwave rice or potato, stir fry microwaved rice taxes 1 min. Food doesn't have to be fancy, many meals can be a meat and a side and some quickly cooked veggies from cans or frozen. Can you hire someone to do some meal prep once a week, cooking and chopping and freezing some things for you? Are there any meals at Trader Joes that you can eat? They have some interesting meals that might work.
  19. Talking Letter factory and Read, Write, Type. https://www.talkingfingers.com/read-write-type/ After a month of letter factory and Read, Write, Type, you can then play my nonsense word game with her for 5 to 10 minutes a day, or play it with her and the 7 year old, or have your older 2 play it with her. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Phonics/concentrationgam.html After a few months of this, pay one or both of the older children to work through phonics lessons and readers with her. I love teaching phonics overall but the first stages of phonics is a slog. Continue Letter Factory and Read Write Type as needed.
  20. 60 second sweep. Print 2 copies, on one write out answers (6X7 below 42, 2X6 and 3x4 below 12, etc.) Anything not answered within 2 seconds (1 second eventually), flip to other sheet and answer, go back to sheet without answers. https://www.wccusd.net/cms/lib/CA01001466/Centricity/Domain/60/60 Second Sweep.pdf You can also eventually do it online, but you get cut off at 60 seconds, so it's not helpful until you're close to mastering everything already. One a line is all within 1 second, start practice at next line for a few days, then go back and review all. https://60ss.firebaseapp.com
  21. My son learned and told me that Boliva has two Capital cities and that there are several other countries that do, too. (From his Spanish class, he is taking some classes at local high school and some classes homeschooled. Local high school is currently virtual but going back in a month if cases stay low, K-2 and Special Ed going back next week.)
  22. Yes, thanks for sharing your smoke! 🤣🤣 We had a bad fire year last year so not burning much this year, just getting Oregon and California Smoke. WA smoke is not coming our way.
  23. A long car ride when you're sick is no fun. I'd vote adjoining hotel rooms in the area of the school. My daughter's school has had several cases, we know several of the students who had it, they all had it very mild, one slightly worse than a normal flu, the others didn't even notice they had anything. The have had 56 off campus students and 17 on campus students have it so far--they are being very strict with on campus procedures, masks at all times except in your room, no visitors in rooms, cannot even visit other rooms in your dorm. The students were the first cases where we've actually known anyone with Covid.
  24. If he got sent home sight words, he probably has some guessing habits--also accelerated reader, other balanced literacy practices cause guessing habits that need to be untrained. This article "At a Loss for Words" by Emily Hanford explains what the schools teach and why it doesn't line up with science, especially the latest brain research. This link is all her articles about reading, they are all interesting: https://www.apmreports.org/collection/reading To untrain guessing habits you need nonsense words, I have a game that makes them: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Phonics/concentrationgam.html My remedial program designed for students that get typical balanced literacy teaching in school also has additional nonsense words to help fix guessing habits and teaches phonics to a 12th grade level: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html 100EZ lessons is a good start but only teaches to the 1st grade level and you'll need to supplement with nonsense words. Most online things also have some balanced literacy teaching and sight words, the first few stories of Starfall are good but the sight word activities and later portions are balanced literacy based, not phonics based. Reader rabbit also has a lot of balanced literacy influences. The best online program for basics is read, write type: https://www.talkingfingers.com/read-write-type/ Ordinary Parents Guide and Phonics Pathways teach to a 4th grade level. The free online Word Mastery from Don Potter teaches to a 3rd grade level. My syllables program teaches to a 12th grade level but is not a full program, you'll need to follow with all of Webster's Speller, do all the 2+ syllable words there. I like OPG, PP, or Word Mastery better for phonics basics than Webster's Speller but Webster's Speller also works for phonics basics, it's just not as user friendly for that. It is best to give a bit of a break after school ends and work 15 to 20 minuets at at time, two 20 minute sessions are generally better than one 50 to 60 minute session. Physical activity between sessions is also best.
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