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Thank you for all the replies! And it looks like I'm going to need to think about balance bikes. Once again, I learned something new from the Hive.
Have a look at some balance bike videos on Youtube. They really are quite amazing.
ETA: I'd recommend metal instead of wood. We had both. The wood looks super cool but need more maintenance and isn't weatherproof or as durable. Ask how I know: My eldest cracked TWO wood balance bikes in half "doing tricks"..........
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Mine got way more use out of the balance bikes than trikes, though they did enjoy both. The balance bike was more fun outdoors and got many more years worth of use. Trikes were strictly indoor toys - they weren't really usable on our gravel driveway and bumpy roads.
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Huge difference in quality. To quote my 6 year old who played with some Megablocks at the library "These Megablocks seem to be junk!" IME creation made with megablock fall apart.
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I really likes Stonez booties for that age. They are like a weather resistant canvas overboots. They were brilliant over either thick socks or wool slippers.
ETA: We used these in Canadian winter weather. They are quite popular in my area.
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Both my kids are lefties. True lefty scissors (with reversed blades) have been essential. They bring their own scissors with them just about everywhere.
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We do all the work in a separate notebook. Every day we do WWE3 I just write the date as in "w8d3" (week 8, day 3) in the margin beside the stuff we write.
So in other words I treat all those weeks and days and just lessons number. I'm not even sure if we ever do a weeks worth of lessons during a week. Trying to keep track of that would drive me bonkers. We had just taken off a few days of school for his birthday. After that we just started back wherever we left off and kept going.
We do almost exactly this. We don't school by the week for any subject. Just do the lessons in series, picking up wherever we left off. I treat each "week" as a four part chapter. We also use a notebook for work, and label each lesson W.d (ie 4.2 for week 4 day 2).
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My first grader very quickly figured out that this answer would have to be copied, so he give the shortest sentence possible!
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Go to the Math U See website and look at their demo videos, particularly the one where they explain Decimal Street. It explains place value in a way that is easily understandable for little kids--there's a street with houses of different sizes. The Unit house is on the right end, and it's the smallest. Only 9 units can live there. If another one wants to join them, they have to make a 10 and move to the Tens house next door. Up to 9 tens can live there, but if another wants to join, they have to make a 100 and move to the Hundreds castle. My daughter got it immediately.
This. The Math U See approach to place value is brilliant.
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My boys liked costumes and various bags.
I made them Winnie the pooh costumes (a Pooh, a Piglet, and a Kanga) by adapting this pattern They were really into Winne at the time. Those costumes got so much wear!
They wore them to tatters.
They also really liked this discoverer's utility belt, and mini messenger bag.
I made them each a "money purse" (small zippered pouch) that snapped into the messenger bags. Big hit.
ETA: I forgot about thier penguin costumes. At ages 6 and 7, they still wear them. Super easy: Sewed fabric eyes (circles) and fabric beak (orange tirangle) to existing black fleece toque. Sewed a white fabric panel to the front of an thrifted adult black t-shirt sized to come to child's knees or so, sewed some black fleece triangle flaps to the sleeve. Almost instant pengui. They wear these with their long-johns, which happen to be black. Occasionally they will stuff a pillow down the shirt to be extra funny.
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How things work. (Physics)
My kids (early elementary) are way too young to participate fully, but they are enjoying the videos and getting quite a bit out of it. Very dynamic presentation style!
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thinkgeek has some fun sciency and sci-fi ones.
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Evidence based clinical guideline on reducing pain from vaccinations Just published a few months ago.
Interestingly, they specifically recommend against acetominophen or ibuprofen.
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What about this series of annotated classics?
I've enjoyed both the The Annotated Oz, The Annotated Alice and the Annotated Anne. They are unabridged texts with copious notes in the margins, and lots of illustrations.
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What gets the most play here, and has for years (6 and 7 yo boys):
Kapla
Lego
Wooden trains (mix of Thomas, Brio and no-name)
Playmobile
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Other. Milk here comes in bags. I haven't seen jug milk in sotres for decades.
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I wouldn't bother specially carrying aspirin. Around here, pretty much the first thing EMS does for a chest pain call is to give aspirin to chew. I figure if I'm having symptoms that I think might be a heart attack, I'm going to the hospital by EMS, and the aspirin comes as part of that package.
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Huh. And if your surname doesn't match your kids'? That would be pretty common in my area.
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I agree that it's ugly. But it's perfect for my kids: both lefty boys with fine motor challenges. Anything beautiful is a pipe dream. I'm thrilled with simply efficent and legible. They will eventually develop their own styles as they mature (I hope)
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As stretch fabrics go, fleece is about as easy as it gets.
However, fleece varies widely in quality. Cheap fleece isn't worth your time - it wil pill and look atrocious after just a few washings. Quality fleece will look and feel great for years. In my experience, fleece with novelty prints is often poor quality. Anything made by Malden Mills is wonderful. Fabric store staff should be able to guide you.
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For us this usually means something from cans in the crockpot served over rice.
Two favourites: 1)Red lentils, can coconut milk, can crushed tomatoes, water or broth in crockpot to make a dahl. If I'm feeling fancy add some onions, bayleaf and spices. 2)jar of salsa, can of posole, can of navy beans, can of corn in crockpot.
We have a rice cooker with a timer. so everything gets assembled int the am and is ready in time for dinner.
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At two: Trains, trains, trains and more trains. Our wooden train set was worth every cent. At ages 6 and 7, both boys still play with it from time to time.
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Contact us page on scholastic canada webpage might be an easy place to start.
Amazon.ca has a boutique francophone with lots of titles. Easiest to search by author.
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Both my 6 year old and 7 year old LOVE to use a fountain pen. It makes their work both neater and messier. Neater in the sense that using the pen requires more thought and care with respect to forming letters and holding the pen correctly. Messier because there is a certain amount of smearing and bleeding of ink through the paper. Both are lefties. They have access to disposables, inexpensive craft store calligraphy pens (cartridge) and my old trusty Waterman.
They also like to do some of their work with quills we cut from seagull feathers. FUN!
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Eye Color in (White) Babies (ventish JAWM)
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