Jacquelyn in NC
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Just a thought if you like something cold and sweet at night: I often have a small serving of frozen fruit at night after the kids are in bed. My favorites are frozen raspberries and frozen blueberries. They're cold and sweet, so for me at least they satisfy that craving for sweets, and you can't eat them fast so it feels more satisfying. Also, it's a good way to get in an extra serving of fruits!
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Some ideas from our co-op this fall:
Guacamole. I gave each student a quarter of an avocado, let them peel it and mush it up in a bowl, and add onion, tomatoes, and hot sauce to their liking. Eat with tortilla chips.
Kites are quite popular in Chile. If it's a nice day, they can test them outside after they make them. You can find a lot of nice easy patterns online if you need one.
Brazil has Carnival. We made carnival masks using black eye masks from Hobby Lobby. Ours were birds, so I cut out a triangle of craft foam and glued it on the masks for beaks, then let them glue on feathers and tissue paper squares.
There are a lot of good folk stories from South America. Check your library.
We counted from 1-10 in Spanish and Portuguese.
Hope that gives you a starting point.
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We often get together with family out of the area around Christmas, but we rarely see them ON Christmas Day. Instead, we have Christmas to ourselves and travel on the 26th or 27th. We have some time together around the holidays, often stay through New Years (which can have some fun traditions of its own), then we get back to school. It puts a pretty firm end-limit on the vacation, which might help in your case.
Good luck with however this plays out. You are fortunate to have family who loves you and makes the effort to spend time with you.
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The Lucky Ducks game is horrible. There's no OFF switch (unless you remove the batteries), so my cats would set it off in the middle of the night by sitting on the box or just brushing up against it. There's nothing worse than waking up to "quack-QUACK-quack-quack, quack-QUACK-quack-quack." Blech.
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I second My Big Backyard. Great pictures, nice read-aloud stories. Both my kids loved it.
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There are a lot of different types of word problems, so setting up a word problem can be a bit of an art. There are several things to look for that can help.
I always tell my math kids that I tutor that setting up a word problem is like translating from "English" to "Math." Just as in any foreign language translation, you need to know which words translate to which symbols.
Addition: look for words like added, some more, more than, increased by, additional, sum.
Subtraction: took away, decreased, less than, difference.
Multiplication: double, triple, factor, (equal) groups of, product.
Division: divided, split up into groups, quotient.
The word "of" in phrases like "Susan gave half of her cookies away" translates to multiplication.
The word "is" translates to an equal sign.
Hope this helps get you started, at least.
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write the word "bed" with lowercase letters. The word actually looks a bit like a bed with a headboard and a footboard. Then by saying the word they can see which is the "b" and which is the "d."
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70 favorite family recipes written up (especially the ones that she just "knows" but aren't written down somewhere)
70 hand prints of family and friends
70 stamps
70 favorite songs burned onto a CD
70 butterflies to release at the party
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We like Chick-Fil-A best.
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I sent him a card today but to the old address. I hope it still gets to him...
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I've been using a Mooncup for over three years and have never had a problem with it. I love not having to cart around supplies and it's very comfortable.
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The probability of an individual person picking 7 is one chance in ten, or 10%. Even though 4 people picked 7 in this problem, which is higher than you might expect, if you repeated the experiment often enough the average number of people to pick 7 would approach 1 person in 10.
There may be a second (implied) part to this problem, though. If you took the answers of all 20 people and put them in a hat and picked one, the chances of picking a 7 from THAT pool is indeed 4/20, or 20%.
HTH.
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My daughter is doing an experiment right now with an egg and toothpaste. She covered an egg in toothpaste for a day (two or three might be even better). Then wash off the toothpaste and submerge the egg in vinegar. Have a second control egg in the vinegar that hasn't had toothpaste. The goal is to see if the flouride in the toothpaste will slow the decalcification of the egg shell in the vinegar.
For a science fair you could try coating eggs with several different brands of toothpaste and record the difference.
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My daughter had a similar problem a few months after she was potty trained. Turns out she had a urinary tract infection, and this was her only symptom. A round of antibiotics cleared up her wetting problem almost overnight.
Just a thought.
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Caramel Apple Cheesecake
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I'd say 1,000 was a large number. I am 34.
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The dad was pulling his son on a sled behind their truck and the sled slid out to the side and ran into a parked car along the side of the road. The son's jaw was broken and he lost three teeth. The dad was devastated. The police were brought into it, too.
Just not worth it for a few minutes of fun, IMHO.
Jacquelyn
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In our house, Santa decorated the tree, so the first time we saw it was Christmas morning in all its glory. It was amazing. The tree came down on Epiphany (January 6th), so it was up for the twelve days of Christmas. It was beyond a doubt part of my best Christmas memories. When I was older, I got to help be Santa for my younger sister, which was magical in a totally different way. As we both got older, we decorated the tree after the Christmas Eve service as a final act of welcoming Christmas.
We don't do this with our kids, but that's my dh's choice, not mine. We still put it up late, sometime after my dd's birthday on the 18th. I am trying to teach them that Christmas doesn't start until the 25th. All the Christmas preparation time in December is just that: preparation. Last year we did special things together every day of the 12 days of Christmas, and it really made the holiday about so much more than presents. It was wonderful.
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I have a moderately picky dd7 who is starting to come around and try more foods. Recently she moved cauliflower from the "not with a 10-foot pole" group to the "please make it again" group. I asked her what she had done with my daughter! :001_smile:
We only have two rules about food in our house. First, if you won't at least try each food served, there is nothing until the next meal. Sometimes this gets her to try a new food, sometimes she decides it's an acceptable trade-off. Second, there is no room at the table for an attitude. There's a huge difference between "No thank you" and "Eww!! That's looks disgusting!" If they do the latter, they get a double portion of what I would have given them normally, and eating it becomes mandatory. I think I've had to enforce that rule only twice.
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When my sister and I ran cross country, my mom would hang our nasty, smelly, mud-caked sneakers on the clothesline. It worked great - the smell would just dissipate.
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Put the pork chops in a crock pot and cover with about half a bottle of Italian dressing, then cook. How easy is that? :001_smile: It tastes great!
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I travel 12 hours to spend the holidays with my family or in-laws. Honestly, three hours isn't too much of a trip. Could you have a Thanksgiving brunch/early celebration together, then travel in the afternoon to see the rest of your family? We used to do this for Christmas when we lived closer to relatives.
This would give you the best of both worlds -- time together with your immediate family, then some time with your extended family. You could spend the night and come home the next day and still have the holiday week-end with your dh. Sometimes a compromise works best.
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She often makes a Gift Tree. She starts with a small table top-size Christmas tree and ties 20 or so gift slips onto it. They could be for a batch of his favorite cookies, a pass to get out of a chore of his choosing, a back massage, a visit to a cemetery (yes, my parents are weird -- this is their idea of a fun date:confused:), etc. The gifts don't have to cost much, if anything, but you can pick ones that mean something to him.
Need a Scandinavian Christmas craft
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Advent calendars originally came from Sweden. I've had the kids make advent calendars for a Scandinavian craft before.