wathe
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There are lots of recipes online to make your own bars/bites. Some are quite simple and cheap.
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We've done tube knitting with toilet paper rolls and popsicle sticks, something like this
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Mine will microwave eggs in a glass dish. Then eat them out of the same dish. Almost instant, no prep by me.
They also help themselves to bread for toast, and fruit. Breakfast done!
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Nice article. Exactly our approach - we do all elementary science this way.
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Eldest read them at 5. It was his first series. He loved them and read every single volume our library has. At 7, he likes to re-read them for pleasure.
Youngest is 6, and nowhere close to being able to read them yet.
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I read it a few years ago, and re-read recently. Very thought provoking, and covered some new ground for me. I highly recommend it.
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Some other provinces also have pre-K, so kids going there can be 3.
While pre-K is a bit more like pre-school, it's been pointed out by pre-school teachers that the public school pre-K teachers have different rules for number of kids per teacher, and they are often elementary school teachers and don't have an ECE qualification.
Here Pre-K (K4) and K5 are the same:
My province has full-day, 5 day per week JK and SK (K4 and K5). Cut off December 31. So one third of kids are 3 when they start kindy. The province aims for no more than 28 kids per classes, but classes maybe (and often are) larger. Classes are generally JK/SK splits (because, really, a class of 28 three and four year olds would be chaos!). Each class has one teacher and one ECE. The program touts itself as play-based, but reading is pushed, and there is an expectation that kids will be reading by first grade.
This full-time public kinder program was implemented in my school board the year my eldest should have entered JK. It is the reason we chose to homeschool. It's a very long, very busy, very noisy day. My introverted eldest would have crashed and burned.
Interestingly, mandated daycare ratios for the same age group (30 months to 5 years) are 8:1.
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If you sew, Jalie has fantastic patterns. If you can source the fabric for a decent price (I buy ends on clearance), you can sew leos for just a few dollars.
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Some Say Marry Money But My Mother Says Big Boots Mean More (for function of cranial nerves above: Sensory, Motor or Both)
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Winnie the Pooh: We like enjoy the Peter Dennis and the Dench/Fry/Palmer. The Peter Dennis version is a true unabridged reading. He does different voices for each character. The Dench/Fry/Palmer, whilst still a reading, feels more like a radio play with some sound effects added, and "he said", "said Kanga" etc cut out of the dialogue. Geoffrey Palmer does a fantastic Eeyore. Peter Dennis keeps every single word of text. The Peter Dennis version was less expensive (came a s a boxed set with both Pooh books and both poetry books included for a very nice price".
Beatrix Potter: Shelley Fraser's narration is lovely. Potter is public domain. You might find a free version on Librivox that you like.
Wizard of Oz: Also public domain. The free Librivox version read by Phil Chenevert is pretty good. He has read the entire series for Librivox. We also have a purchased version read by Brooke Shields which is also good.
Pippi: Esther Benson is excellent.
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We like the Cricket family of magazines best. DS 7 (who will be 8next week) gets ask and likes it. Good mix of short and longer articles. There are no ads. He also likes Highlights magazine, also no ads.
We were gifted a natl geo kids subscription last year. I cancelled it. Way too many ads (hot toy, movie marketing type ads that make me crazy). Ads blended in with content. Pages super busy with bullet point /rapid fire fact type articles . Feels as though it's trying very hard to compete with video media. It just wasn't for us.
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Health care in Canada is national in the sense tht all provinces are required to follow the principles outlined in Canada Health Act, which manadates that health care be 1)publicly administered, 2)comprehensive, 3) universal, 4)portable (if one travels from one province to another, one's health care is covered with no special need for travel insurance) and 5) accessible. Health care is provincially administered and delivered. Each province has made up it's own system and there are significant differences from one province to another. It's a single payer system. There is no parallel private system for services that are publicly funded. It is illegal for MD's to bill privately for services that are covered by provincial plans (certainly true in Ontario. I understand there are some clinics in BC that have been testing the limits of the rules with this). This ensures that all have equal access (in theory). Also important to note: When we're talking about publicly funded health care in Canada, we mean hospital and doctor fees only. Things like prescription drugs, dental, are physiotherapy are generally not covered by public plans.
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We have a poodle with only one working eye. No extra care needed. Our vet did recommend that we leave his whiskers intact so he can use them as an extra sense to navigate obstacles. (poodles often have their whiskers trimmed when groomed. I have not idea if this applies to cats or not.)
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Whoa, was that a microaggression?
Rather a little joke from one Canadian to another :)
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Ok - I actually felt a micro-aggression. As a Canadian, suggesting that I'm not all that different from US folks certainly could be a micro-aggression.
But...then I felt like I was a micro-aggressor for feeling that because could suggest that I have some kind of negative feelings about the US.
Now I feel like apologizing.
How Canadain of you. ;)
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A nice bit of
. My DH discovered this one. Thinks it's hilarious and speaks to his experience (obviously in an exagerated way. Satire!)-
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I don't think that it has to be people going around looking for offenses. It can just be that people of other ethnicities get really weary of the same old stuff. Maybe they let it go the first 157 times, and then they're having a bad day and respond. Or they just decide they are going to start being courageous and speaking up because it's better for their soul than just absorbing it over and over and over. Or maybe they do it because it seeing it happen to their kids crosses a line somewhere and they decide they will do what they can to make it different. I know I would not be nearly as gracious as my friends of color are to something I heard day in day out.
And think how tiring it gets not only to experience those types of things everyday, but to have people dismiss you if you venture to speak about them, rather than taking them at their word and assuming the best of them--like there is a genuine sense of exclusion rather than that they are going out of their way to take offense, KWIM?
Yes to the bolded. Witnessing my racially ambiguous 6 year old having to deal with "what are you" from an aggressive complete stranger-kid was my tipping point.
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Vacuum it: dust can cause problems
So can spiders........
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I had all kinds of pencil sharpener woes until I got this one last year. It still works like a dream (and comes in different colors):
Ours looks like that one but is from Classroom Friendly supplies
Love it.
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You know, I've been asked many, many times where I'm from originally. I almost think it's a Canadian thing - except for Aboriginals, all of us originally came from somewhere else. It annoys me, because I'm not Scottish or British. But, I've never thought of it as a micro-aggression and I've certainly heard it enough times and been in enough conversations where a bunch of white people who are second and third and fourth generation Canadian are talking about where they're from that I would *never* even consider that asking someone that would be considered offensive. Tiring, maybe. I tell people I'm Canadian and then I get the - yeah, but what else are you? Just Canadian, thanks.
Context is so important here.
A friendly discussion about origins, where everyone in the group participates and is interested, an isn't directed at and and didn't start with questions about a person of colour specifically, is fine.
Being the only person in the room quizzed about origins, by people you haven't met before, and this situtation repeats over and over and over in your life...not fine.
ETA. I'm Canadian here too. I get the everyone talking about origins thing as a topic of conversation, all participants volunteering origins information about themselves, everyone is white. Part of what's tricky about microaggressions is that they are so invisible to the majority group. DH gets singled out with "where are you from" on a regular basis. So often that the friendly origins conversations I think you are talking about don't feel so friendly to him.
I didn't really get it until I married DH and had mixed-race kids. Oh boy, now do I ever get it.
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"Where are you from" as a microaggresion is a real thing. My non-white DH deals with this all the time.
Note the difference:
a) At a party where many folks don't know each other. "So, where are you from" might be non-micoraggressive normal small-talk: DH answers *particular Canadian city*. Asker accepts this, maybe asks where I'm from, asker might talk about his hometown, conversation moves on. Not a microagression.
b) At a party where many folks don't know each other. "So, where are you from" might be microaggressive: DH answers *particular Canadian city*. Asker does not accept this, and asks "Oh, where are you from originally?". Asker does not ask where I'm from, isn't really interested in comparing hometowns as small talk. Now in this case "where are you from" is really code for "what kind of asian are you/you look different from everyone else here". This is a microaggresion.
ETA. This has happened often enough that DH has developed a scripted answer to the "where are you from" question: "*particular Canadian city* born and raised". A polite response to the literal question, that also shuts down the coded "what kind of asian are you" microaggressive version.
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Wolves of the Beyond is a spin of series from Guardians if Ga'hoole (series about owls). If she liked Warriors, she'd probably also like these.
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y'all are a goldmine! Thaanks!
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Hello all,
My 6 and 7 year olds are loving Harry Potter right now. I'd like to make them a few Harry Potter themed treats/gifts for Christmas. I'm hoping for simple, cheap ideas.
So far I've thought of printing up some Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans labels and making up packets of gourmet jelly beans, and making chopstick/hot glue wands.
They already have cloaks (sewn from black bedsheets)
Anyone have any other easy DIY ideas?
Place value resources
in General Education Discussion Board
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The Math U See place value demo video is pretty good.