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Post by azucena on May 8, 2021 8:16:55 GMT -5
DD12 got a 61 on her presidents quiz. She's mortified and mad at herself. Here's to the life lesson of you can't expect to memorize the president list in a hour the night before the quiz. Your excellent memory has limits.
And maybe a tiny dose of your youtube song mthd didn't work because the song you picked didn't have a melody, you didn't sing it out loud at all, and you didn't write them out a few times like I suggested.
Biting my tongue today except to give the advice that she should email her teacher and own that she messed up and ask if there is any extra work she can do to earn a few points back. Offer to write a paper on one of them. Her overall grade went from 100 to 90 which is a B (92+ is an A on our scale).
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Post by azucena on May 13, 2021 8:04:50 GMT -5
Posted this on another thread, but hoping some of you can weigh in. What are your kids learning in 7th/8th science? I think a huge part of our problem is that the teacher is teaching at 9th/10th grade level. I'll have to check with DD for 7th grade topics, but I know 8th graders have spent two months on physics.
DD12 had a heck of a time with the science teacher this year. I have an email all ready to send to the principal a couple of weeks after school ends. She didn't know this, but approached me with a bullet list of things she'd like to discuss with the principal about him. She was able to tell me how she's tried to work through them with him to no avail. First on her list is that he constantly tells her class that they are the worst one he has. Motivating, huh. She also wants to say that he teaches totally differently when the principal observes. Pretty sure she's observing because other parents have complained. She had a great meeting with the principal last year about the Spanish teacher that in some small way helped us get a new one this year. I'm teaching her to frame this up as constructive and also to include positives so it's not just complaining.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 13, 2021 9:44:07 GMT -5
DD12 got a 61 on her presidents quiz. She's mortified and mad at herself. Here's to the life lesson of you can't expect to memorize the president list in a hour the night before the quiz. Your excellent memory has limits. And maybe a tiny dose of your youtube song mthd didn't work because the song you picked didn't have a melody, you didn't sing it out loud at all, and you didn't write them out a few times like I suggested. Biting my tongue today except to give the advice that she should email her teacher and own that she messed up and ask if there is any extra work she can do to earn a few points back. Offer to write a paper on one of them. Her overall grade went from 100 to 90 which is a B (92+ is an A on our scale). Tell her next time try this
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Post by azucena on May 13, 2021 10:08:45 GMT -5
That song has a lot of lyrics but would have been way better than what she used.
She decided not to ask for extra credit and is instead going to ace the constitution test. She went to school this morning for a 7:15 study session. DD8 has been quizzing her nightly since the study guide is very easy to follow. It's so sweet to watch. Unfortunately, it means DD8 will have less to learn when she gets there as she's also blessed with an incredible memory.
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 14, 2021 10:23:33 GMT -5
From what I've read, science teachers are hard to find. That might play into the issue as well.
I received a phone call from my kids' principal responding to my bringing up TT skipping up a grade. They're going to add some 3rd grade tests for him onto their regular end of year assessments next week. Then we'll discuss the social/emotional aspect of it. As the youngest, he's used to and prefers hanging out with older kids. He's still not great emotionally, but being bored out of his mind every day doesn't help either
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Post by finnime on May 14, 2021 10:40:32 GMT -5
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Post by azucena on May 14, 2021 13:04:19 GMT -5
DD12 got a 100% on her constitution test. It brought her grade back to a 92 (B+). Here's hoping there is one more test.
DH was quizzing her this week, and I overheard that there were key people's names on the study guide including a couple of the SC justices. I asked if RGB was included and she said no, so I teased her that she should write in "favorite justice - RGB". Lo and behold, she did and got a 'cool' back from the teacher. I'm now left trying to figure out if that made him chuckle while he was grading one night or if he's like that family is way more liberal than I thought LOL. Remember the context is small Lutheran school...very conservative.
These last few weeks with DD12 have been really fun. I've let her know that I'm immensely enjoying my time with her lately.
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Post by taz157 on May 14, 2021 19:09:55 GMT -5
My brother and I are 15 months apart. My DD will be 10 in August while I’m due another DD a few days after her birthday. My brother’s DDs are almost 9 and 5.
My DH and I have a 5.5 year age difference (he’s older).
DH has 3 siblings that are 9-12 years older than DH is. He was 13 when his first niece was born so there’s a wide range of ages. My ILs grandkids (DH’s nieces and nephews) range in age from 9 to 34 and there’s 10 of them right now. Of those nieces and nephews, some of them have since had kids so there are 13 great-grandkids ranging from 7 months old to almost 13! 😱
My point is I’m getting ready to have a baby in about 3 months. One of DH’s nieces called to tell me that she’s pregnant and due in about 6 months! 😱 [I’m not surprised this niece is pregnant as she just got married in September (and she already had 2 kids with an XBF).]
Needless to say by the end of the year, my ILs will have 11 grandkids ranging in age from 4 months to 34 (almost 35) and 14 great-grandkids ranging in age from 1 month to 13.5! 😱😱
Meanwhile on my side, my parents will have only 4 granddaughters ranging in age from 4 months to 10!
The joy of families and age ranges! 🤣
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Post by azucena on May 15, 2021 3:56:37 GMT -5
I'm 11 yrs older than my youngest brother. He and I were very close growing up. He was like my shadow in certain periods. It's extra special that DH and I started dating at 17 when bro was 6 yrs old. Bro literally doesn't remember a time without my DH. They are super close because of it. DH is able to notice similarities between bro and DD12 that are eerie. Age ranges are what you make of them. Crazy that you're 3 months away. I feel like you just told us
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 15, 2021 8:37:43 GMT -5
The generations are whacky in my family. My mom had me at 42, and I had my kids at 37/40. My older 1/2 sister was 9.5 years older than me and had her first at 21. That neice had her first 3 years before I had my first. She had her 2nd a little before I had my second, and now she's pregnant with her 3rd, something like 9 years later. The generations are whacky for me on the older end, too.
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Post by raeoflyte on May 15, 2021 9:35:20 GMT -5
My brother and I are 15 months apart. My DD will be 10 in August while I’m due another DD a few days after her birthday. My brother’s DDs are almost 9 and 5. My DH and I have a 5.5 year age difference (he’s older). DH has 3 siblings that are 9-12 years older than DH is. He was 13 when his first niece was born so there’s a wide range of ages. My ILs grandkids (DH’s nieces and nephews) range in age from 9 to 34 and there’s 10 of them right now. Of those nieces and nephews, some of them have since had kids so there are 13 great-grandkids ranging from 7 months old to almost 13! 😱 My point is I’m getting ready to have a baby in about 3 months. One of DH’s nieces called to tell me that she’s pregnant and due in about 6 months! 😱 [I’m not surprised this niece is pregnant as she just got married in September (and she already had 2 kids with an XBF).] Needless to say by the end of the year, my ILs will have 11 grandkids ranging in age from 4 months to 34 (almost 35) and 14 great-grandkids ranging in age from 1 month to 13.5! 😱😱 Meanwhile on my side, my parents will have only 4 granddaughters ranging in age from 4 months to 10! The joy of families and age ranges! 🤣 That's a big family on your in-laws side!
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Post by taz157 on May 15, 2021 9:41:15 GMT -5
My brother and I are 15 months apart. My DD will be 10 in August while I’m due another DD a few days after her birthday. My brother’s DDs are almost 9 and 5. My DH and I have a 5.5 year age difference (he’s older). DH has 3 siblings that are 9-12 years older than DH is. He was 13 when his first niece was born so there’s a wide range of ages. My ILs grandkids (DH’s nieces and nephews) range in age from 9 to 34 and there’s 10 of them right now. Of those nieces and nephews, some of them have since had kids so there are 13 great-grandkids ranging from 7 months old to almost 13! 😱 My point is I’m getting ready to have a baby in about 3 months. One of DH’s nieces called to tell me that she’s pregnant and due in about 6 months! 😱 [I’m not surprised this niece is pregnant as she just got married in September (and she already had 2 kids with an XBF).] Needless to say by the end of the year, my ILs will have 11 grandkids ranging in age from 4 months to 34 (almost 35) and 14 great-grandkids ranging in age from 1 month to 13.5! 😱😱 Meanwhile on my side, my parents will have only 4 granddaughters ranging in age from 4 months to 10! The joy of families and age ranges! 🤣 That's a big family on your in-laws side! Yes it is. Also, 4 of the nieces and nephews haven’t had any kids yet. 😱 FWIW, my ILs only buy for my DD and stopped with the other grandkids turned 18. I don’t think they do anything for the great-grandkids.
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Post by steph08 on May 17, 2021 8:25:10 GMT -5
Chloe turned 5 last week - I really don't know how that happened.
She had an Avengers party yesterday. I love her own unique love of different things - right now it is Avengers and The Nightmare Before Christmas (which I really can't understand the hype behind this movie, but whatever).
Harper only has 2.5 weeks left of first grade. Gah!
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on May 17, 2021 11:16:27 GMT -5
We screwed up. K and C have had matching days off for 2 years. We assumed today was another one. We were wrong and got the call of 'C is absent' We're letting him have the day off. I called the school back and told him he was staying home. K is sliglhtly bummed we're not making him go in but she'll survive. She's got like 6 days left, after today and he's got til June 11th.
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Post by gs11rmb on May 18, 2021 7:28:02 GMT -5
As some of you may already know, I'm coordinating gift cards to help giramomma during her cancer journey. If you'd like to contribute, please message me and I'll send you my address. I'm going to gather everything together and then forward to Gira. I'll let everyone know when I receive their card and when it's mailed out. I'm guessing the best way would be to put a gift card inside an envelope addressed to Gira and then put that inside another envelope addressed to me! She would appreciate cards to the following: Wendys Chilis Culvers Target Woodman's' Pizza Hut Subway They don't have a Sam's club in town. I've sent a message to Moon asking her to make a general post to the entire board (because I don't visit very many sub-boards) and I'll also post this message on YM-Off Topic. Thanks, everyone!
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Post by raeoflyte on May 18, 2021 8:27:56 GMT -5
As some of you may already know, I'm coordinating gift cards to help giramomma during her cancer journey. If you'd like to contribute, please message me and I'll send you my address. I'm going to gather everything together and then forward to Gira. I'll let everyone know when I receive their card and when it's mailed out. I'm guessing the best way would be to put a gift card inside an envelope addressed to Gira and then put that inside another envelope addressed to me! She would appreciate cards to the following: Wendys Chilis Culvers Target Woodman's' Pizza Hut Subway They don't have a Sam's club in town. I've sent a message to Moon asking her to make a general post to the entire board (because I don't visit very many sub-boards) and I'll also post this message on YM-Off Topic. Thanks, everyone! Thank you for coordinating!
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 18, 2021 9:35:12 GMT -5
We never actually went over math with TT. He learned multiplication and division from an extra workbook his teacher gave him. We'll, yesterday he said he didn't recognize some of the symbols on his 4th grade math test. Great-- he understands the concept, but doesn't recognize symbols that would take 1 day to learn...just great.
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Post by chiver78 on May 18, 2021 12:32:27 GMT -5
My brother and I are 15 months apart. My DD will be 10 in August while I’m due another DD a few days after her birthday. My brother’s DDs are almost 9 and 5. My DH and I have a 5.5 year age difference (he’s older). DH has 3 siblings that are 9-12 years older than DH is. He was 13 when his first niece was born so there’s a wide range of ages. My ILs grandkids (DH’s nieces and nephews) range in age from 9 to 34 and there’s 10 of them right now. Of those nieces and nephews, some of them have since had kids so there are 13 great-grandkids ranging from 7 months old to almost 13! 😱 My point is I’m getting ready to have a baby in about 3 months. One of DH’s nieces called to tell me that she’s pregnant and due in about 6 months! 😱 [I’m not surprised this niece is pregnant as she just got married in September (and she already had 2 kids with an XBF).] Needless to say by the end of the year, my ILs will have 11 grandkids ranging in age from 4 months to 34 (almost 35) and 14 great-grandkids ranging in age from 1 month to 13.5! 😱😱 Meanwhile on my side, my parents will have only 4 granddaughters ranging in age from 4 months to 10! The joy of families and age ranges! 🤣 that could have easily been the case for my Memere and Pepere, had more of us grands had kids. my dad's the youngest of seven. the thirteen grandkids on that side range from 12 (I think?) years older than me, down to my sister at 4y younger than me - currently 38-54. the first grand to get married did so right out of HS in 1988, and her kids are 30 and 28. the 28yo has a 9 and 6yo as well. but other than the line from that cousin who's now a Meme herself, there's only 6 great-grands (plus one who passed). on my mom's side? I've got a cousin who's older than his aunt. yes, large Italian Catholic family. lol..
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Post by tcu2003 on May 18, 2021 16:18:41 GMT -5
Can someone link me to a post/thread about gira’s cancer? I totally missed that. 😕
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 18, 2021 19:20:07 GMT -5
Highly annoyed with Carrot. He's had this project they've been working on all year at school (writing an autobiography). The teacher has sent out emails a couple times in the past month giving parents the heads up that this is coming due and while he has been giving ample time in class all year to work on it, some kids still have a lot of work left. I ask him because he never works on it at home and he tells me he's on track to get it done and has been doing it in class. Fine. Last night he comes home with the book and has a CRAP TON left according to the checklist. So, I help him with the things like printing pictures and pasting things in his book. We get what I think is almost done and he just has a few pages left according to the checklist and he tells me, "no problem, I can get this done in work time in class tomorrow, all the sheets I need are in my desk anyhow". Today he comes home and it was due at the beginning of class and he had no work time, so now it was going to be at least a day late. And to top it off, he didn't bring home the other sheets he needed because he apparently lost them. So, he says, "no problem. I'll just send an email to my teacher and he'll send me new sheets". Yeah, sure kid. Your teacher is just sitting there at 5pm checking emails from students. Two hours later and no response. What a shocker. And now they're quarantined for covid, so he can't go in and I'm not sure how he turns the book in anyhow. I'm ready for school to be done!
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 18, 2021 20:02:56 GMT -5
Great aunt question for the moms: 13 month old great nephew got roseola after his return to Toronto. Had a very high fever but doctors didn't want him in the office.
This child has developed no immune system. Since he has been born, the only people he has ever been around is my sister and me last July and then the entire family during the visit here to get their covid vaccines.
He gets car sick, but they cleaned him up without taking him in anyplace. So he didn't go indoors or see anyone on the way home.
So there are two possible sources of exposure:
1. a 4 year old who was at the party without a mask who goes to day care (this has been the source of the problem since the deal was he would arrive until baby was in bed) or
2. They stayed at a hotel in Chicago on the way home. They went directly to and from the room with baby. One of them did pick up for a meal.
Baby got sick about a week after he got home. Dr. Google is telling me incubation time is 5-14 days.
Are they correct to be pissed at the adults who brought the 4 year old? That is who they are blaming?
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 18, 2021 20:20:08 GMT -5
Probably the 4 year old. I think its most likely little kids get each other sick. well, TT isn't skipping 3rd grade because he didn't excell in the 4th grade math tests, I guess? I don't know why they gave him that and not the 3rd grade ones. I mean, he would still need to learn stuff in 4th grade. If he aced 4th, wouldn't that mean he should go to 5th grade? He did get a B+ in 4th grade reading. Anyway, he will have the same awesome 3rd grade teacher that his older brother had, and we will keep an eye on him and reevaluate at the beginning of the year. If I worked with him, I could get him up to speed on that, but then if he doesn't skip, he'd be even more out of sync with his class than he already is.
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Post by steph08 on May 18, 2021 21:01:56 GMT -5
I would guess the 4yo as well. My oldest had roseola right around 12/13 months as well - high fever and then the rash after the fever broke. There's no treatment for it except medicating with tylenol or ibuprofen.
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Post by tcu2003 on May 18, 2021 22:53:53 GMT -5
My guess is also the 4yo. That said, this just hasn’t something I’d be upset over. Kids are germ factories, and at some point you need to build your immune system. Better now than later, and roseola generally seems a pretty mild illness. M had it as a baby, and other than the fever and then subsequent rash, didn’t have any other symptoms that I recall.
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Post by finnime on May 18, 2021 22:55:31 GMT -5
That sounds really arbitrary, Lizard Queen. Having an excellent teacher next year should help--she/he can help get it all sorted for TT.
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Post by finnime on May 18, 2021 23:05:14 GMT -5
Celebrated DD's 35th birthday today with dinner out and a German chocolate cake she requested I make, using a chocolate fudge cake instead of the more typical cocoa. She loved the cake and the things we got her. She is a bit down. She's been taking stock and not very happy with the total. She has plans to have a child/children, and her own home, but now is just a year post-divorce. One step or day at a time, I think.
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 19, 2021 7:06:16 GMT -5
I would guess the 4yo as well. My oldest had roseola right around 12/13 months as well - high fever and then the rash after the fever broke. There's no treatment for it except medicating with tylenol or ibuprofen. It was the high fever that scared them. They didn't want the farewell party and didn't want the 4 year old in the house. It was the argument with parents over the unvaccinated people not doing what the adults had agreed on that caused them to leave early for Toronto.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 19, 2021 8:10:14 GMT -5
My oldest had roseola as a baby as well, it's extremely common. He was somewhere in the 6 months to a 1 year range. He was also the kid that I stayed home with until he was 3 and was not in daycare before that. Carrot never got it and was in daycare from 3 months on.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 19, 2021 9:31:37 GMT -5
I got lucky neither kid got roseola or hand/foot/mouth. However Gwen had croup every two minutes till she was about 5, which is when the pedi said they usually grow out of it. Never had a problem with Abby. LICE have been another plague unto our house. Don't know what it is about our kids that is so darn appealing to the little bastards. Abby managed to get them a couple months ago. .. we've barely been in school! I told Gwen if we make it to middle school and she gets them because she shared someone's cell phone I will murder her. What I did not anticipate is DH and I getting constantly sick. I thought I had a fantastic immune system. ..nope it was I didn't have children. They'd have a tiny sniffle and I would be prostrate in bed for two weeks.
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