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    Struggling with read aloud time

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    6, 3 and 18 month old here.

     

    I read aloud during breakfast and lunch.

     

    One of mine does not stop talking. Ever. Even with a full mouth. So I take what I can get. :)

     

    I attempt two other short read alouds sessions if they end up at the table drawing/colouring, playing with playdough, or are just generally calm and quiet.

     

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    Anyone read Boys Adrift?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Yes, I read it a few years ago.

    Andrew Pudewa actually mentions it in his talks Teaching Boys and Other Kids Who's Rather Build Forts All Day.

     

    I found the case study he discusses on the remote aboriginal community in some northern region of Canada (or was it Alaska?) fascinating. The effects of commerce entering the area (women went to work at new grocery stores, taking away the men's main role as hunters) and the missionaries taking away the men's ritual houses (where culture was passed down where the elders taught the young men to be men) was interesting.

     

    I actually recommend this book to mother's of boys that I know!

     

     

     

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    The bad and nasty things autocorrect has done to you.

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    I have troubles with texting about a "nut allergy" which always changes to butt allergy.

     

    I honestly have the most trouble with text to speech or whatever that is called.

     

    I once texted a friend about testicles when I meant to text about times tables.

     

    Another time I was driving home and used text to speech to tell DH that I was almost home and could he help back it into the garage. He replied Yes please. I didn't understand (as I am not looking at phone-driving) why he seemed so happy to do so. Then I receive another reply that says, "maybe you should be more careful to enunciate clearly or not use text to speech LOL." Which left me wondering what I had said! When I got home I read my text. Text to speech was oh so helpful and changed the word garage to crotch. Ya...good thing it just went to DH. :blush:

    Lol I nearly peed my pants reading this one. I'm seriously dying.

     

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    So many clocks!

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    We changed our clocks yesterday afternoon. The kids unwittingly ate dinner, got ready for bed, and went to sleep 1 hour ahead of schedule.... And they didn't wake up any earlier than normal. Parental win!

     

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    Americans, I need help with this phrasing...

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    I just read what you added. He is a German in France during WWII, so I'm not sure why it has to sound contemporary American. According to the context it sounds like it should be formal and a little forced so I bid you goodnight sounds right to me.

    I was thinking the same thing.

     

     

     

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    Anyone experienced with bad sinus infections?

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    Have you tried steam inhalation? Last month my sinuses were so bad. I couldn't taste or smell. It was so clogged my jaw and teeth were hurting. I started to do to put boiling water in a bowl with a towel over my head and it cleared me out. I did that as necessary for a few days and it cleared up.

     

     

     

     

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    Car seat shopping is the worst...

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    What about those click it strollers? They are compatible with the most popular brands. I bought mine from Once Upon a Child for $40 bucks.

     

    FYI: they still have Classic Connect Gracos. I just bought one last year and still see my same model for sale.

     

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    Court.....Have you ever been? Had to testify?

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    Had to testify once at a drunk driver case. In a past life I was a lab technician at a trauma centre. They questioned us regarding the Chain of Custody of the sealed ethanol sample. Defense was trying to prove we did something wrong with the samples. Which they try to prove all the time, so we're used to that.

     

     

     

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    S/O DH working late: doing dinner/bath/bed with littles with one person

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    I just want to say that I'm really appreciating the honesty here (regarding TV, simple dinners, no daily baths).

     

    My husband works nights and while he is home/awake in AM, the evenings are the hardest!

     

    So much needs to happen in such a short time.

     

    I agree with the pp who said to start early. Today my kids sat down to dinner at 445! They eat, wash up, help me clean the toy room. By then it's just after six, we have time for a story or two or a show (if they haven't already been watching too much in the afternoon) while I finish the dinner time clean up before bed, which is 7pm.

     

    Knowing bedtime is so close usually gives me a spurt of energy around 5pm. Lately I've been especially diligent about keeping to the schedule. Having that time alone (7-9) before my Dh is up is just delightful.

     

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    When do you teach figures of speech...

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia are "poetic devices" or "sound elements". Simile and metaphor are specific types of imagery. Both are discussed more formally when analyzing Literature -- both poetry and prose.

     

    For literary devices/elements (plot, character, setting, theme, mood, conflict, irony, imagery, personification, allusion, hyperbole, etc.) most people wait until about gr. 6-7, closer to the time you'll start using them as part of a more formal Literature study and literary analysis (usually gr. 7-8). These terms are usually introduced and used as part of a Literature program. They are sometimes called "figurative language elements" or "figures of speech", although "figures of speech" is also used as a synonym for "idioms".

     

    While I don't know if they are usually given the official "classification" name of "semantics", homonyms, antonyms, synonyms, and idioms are usually introduced as part of a Grammar program, often along about 3rd-4th grade.

     

    So helpful! Thank you!

     

     

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