Posted on 09/02/2005 7:07:58 AM PDT by Gabz
I had a light hearted topic picked out for today - but am just not in the mood.
Everyone please have safe holiday weekend, and keep our fellow oAmericans of the Gulf Coast in all of your thoughts and prayers.
I was lucky in that in kindergarten they right away bumped Jax up because she was so far beyond the alphabet and sight words and colors.
Technically she will be in 2nd grade - but we won't know propbably until next week if she will be in 3rd or 4th grade for reading, etc.
I applaud you both for your homeschooling - it is just so beyond me.
Big surprise--Josh has a cold. His first since school let out for the summer, coincidentally...
I have spent the past few days frantically getting my boys transferred out of the cesspool they were redistricted into (sorry, grammar lapse!). They are now back at the school they attended last year, and we're all letting out an enormous sigh of relief.
And you probably had PLENTY of time to stare at those curtains! I'd recommend steel-toed, high-topped shoes. :-)
Wonderful news!!!!!
LOL!!!
They weren't high-topped, but the shoes I was wearing when I fell were steel toed work shoes :(
And on that I have to scoot!!!
You all have a lovely afternoon!
>>That's what my 3-year-old does. Also counts in English and Spanish, and recites entire videos, word for word.<<
The teacher said that they would be doing NOTHING academic for 9 weeks because he read a book that says that they don't retain anything anyway.
Sigh....
Also, he doesn't want to hear "I have to go potty." so he is teaching them signs so they will not talk.
Please understand that I think it's great that they are learning American sign language but how does this help them prepare for 1st grade? I can see a student from this class going to a 1st grade in another district and signing until she wets herself.
Sigh....
And really, the presentation of the whole signing thing turned me off when he used a "sit" command as the example.
Can you say Westminster Dog Show?
I have ONE year of this then they come back home. For all the work I did in getting HS connections to build "socialization" its all being busted in one year. For all the time the little one gets socialized, because of her pick up time, the older one loses out.
Sigh.....
>> X-PEL <<
I'm getting it!!!!!!!!
Both girls have waist length hair for Polish Dance.
We did the Mayo thing for a precaution when the THIRD lice scare happened at the old school.
Never again.
>> Big surprise--Josh has a cold. His first since school let out for the summer, coincidentally...<<
Millie's been coughing since yesterday.
We are camping this weekend. Cheapo used Pop-Up but it's great. I saved by 2.63 a gallon tank of gas for this. We're only going 30 miles away but I just want to get away from seeing babies on tv dying of thirst.
Gotta Go, BIG hugs to all of you and have a great weekend!
You have my sympathy, for what it's worth. (I would love to hear "I need to go potty," as opposed to "I need a diaper change!" ... but I digress ...)
Why couldn't they practice saying, "May I go to the bathroom, please?"
It sounds like a total waste of time is planned for the year. Maybe at least they won't get lice.
>>Why couldn't they practice saying, "May I go to the bathroom, please?" <<
My question exactly....
Because I think this teacher is planning on coasting the year as opposed to teaching them to be good first graders.
That's okay because she'll come back home and not have to ask to go to the bathroom.
At my house, she'd learn to say, "Billy won't get out of the bathroom, and I need to GO!"
Have a great time on your camping trip! An advantage of not having TV is that we don't see any of these dreadful things on the news. Just reading a little of it is bad enough.
I'm so grateful that I just put James to bed in a dry bed, in an air conditioned house, with a fan blowing on him ... and that Pat is sitting on a working, flush toilet!
We have birthdays this weekend, also. My daughter turned 5 on Thursday and my son will be 7 on Monday. Grandma's and grandpas are coming to town to celebrate (a.k.a give my kids a bunch of stuff they don't need) on Saturday, which is my dad's birthday!! I'll be glad when the weekend is over!
On other news, we finished our first week of homeschooling and survived! It needs some tweaking and we'll still getting used to each other in our new roles. However, my son LOVES that he finishes so early and is playing when the school busses go by our house.
Jax had a wonderful time at the open house at school.....mommy and daddy didn't. What should have been a 90 minute visit to school, including the hour or so I volunteered for the reading progam wound up being nearly 4 hours.
Instead of reinventing the wheel, I'm just posting here what I posted on another thread about the November Governor's election here in Virginia.............I'm totally aggravated, and very tired - I'll be screaming even more over the weekend.
There was a huge breakout here of lice over the summer, all over the county.
The X-PEL is distributed by Dermedics Labrotories, PO Box91, Jamesville, VA 23388.
Jax used to be able to sit on her hair - even today she was referred to as "he".......it's starting to grow back since I buzzed it in June, but she has mommy's hair not daddy's hair, it grows VERY slowly.
Another great thing about the X-PEL snd the licefree, besides being non-toxic, unlike the Nix and Rid, is they actually smell pleasant :)
You're a better woman than I................
I'm sorry you're starting off the school year with difficulties. Many schools have a very hard time with children whose progress doesn't equal what the "experts" think it should for their grade.
Best case, she'll get to spend an extra hour or so reading; get her plenty of good library books! Worst case, she'll end up teaching the slower kids.
Thanks, TC.
I'm not as upset this morning as I was last night - but am still very angry. I'm re-digesting my conversations with the principal and the various teachers yesterday, and compiling my "talking points" for the Tuesday call I plan to make to the ass't superintendent who made this directive.
The teachers are outraged, the principal is frustrated, and the reading specialist is already making plans of how she can work around it if myself and other parents in the same position can't get the PTB to change their minds....even if it means working with the 25 or so kids already ientified on her own time.
As one of the teachers said to me yesterday "no child left behind" has to mean the smart ones also.
It sounds like everyone that really matters is prepared to keep trying. If your school system is anything like the ones around here, some of the world's most overpaid goofballs are in the administration.
You've got a good point. It sure sounds like the goofballs are in the administration.
The gist I'm getting, and I'll get more details tomorrow when I speak with Jax' teacher again, is one parent didn't like the split day between the 2 grades and insisted the child just be skipped a grade, which the teachers didn't feel the child was ready for and then went over the principal's head and complained to the superintendent.
The way I look at it - the squeaky wheel parent who whined got her way, to the detriment of 25 other children - so now I'm going to become the squeaky wheel from hades and some way or another get that program re-instated.
Shyness dealing with bureaucrats, regardless of titles or letters behind their names, has never been a trait of mine :)
BTW - hubby and Jax are out in the barn preparing the new home for the kittens. there are only going to be 2, one of them had some type of eye problems and the vet was unable to save it.
the women at the Lodge explained that to Jax last night and she is perfectly OK about it.
The gals had me in stitches last night telling me about how one of the other officers, who happens to be one of my closest friends around here informed them she would be taking 2 of the kittens for her children and no amount of them telling her I had committed to taking all of them would dissuade her. This morning Jax told me the kids informed her last night the kittens were theirs. They are going to be in for a rude awakening on Monday at the BBQ when the kittens aren't there and Jax lets them know they are here.
As bad as the mess with the kids is going to be - I'm not looking forward to the ensuing "cat" fight that is going to occur because I have them. It's ging to be interesting :)
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