Oct
31
Woof.
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I had on a dog collar, and a dog eared hat for my kid’s Halloween party at school. One kiddo, Alex, after confirming that I was a dog asked me, where are the little thingies that hang down were. So I asked him, you mean the dog tags that are heart shaped? He said, yes. [...]
Oct
12
Facebook for me
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A year ago I posted this: No More Facebook For Me
My husband was adamantly against facebook and I decided it wasn’t worth the strife in our marriage and let it go.
Patience is a good thing.
I started getting friend requests from people that I hadn’t seen in years that I still cared about, and [...]
Oct
10
So, I’ve started letting Hazel, who is six years old and in first grade, type on the computer in Open Office. Her file is called surprises for me, since she’s basically writing to me, but it’s also got this journal quality to it.
I sat down at the computer to start doing homework and saw [...]
Oct
7
Syllables
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Syllables is an interesting topic. Cunningham talks about clapping syllables and having categories of words to play around with when learning this concept. (Cunningham, 2009) It brought to mind what my daughter’s first grade teacher does in her class. She has these “caught being good” cards which she hands out to hard workers, especially when [...]