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Trit, I like the colored carrots, especially the purple ones. I wonder if the difference in color makes the nutrition differ. Do you know?
I tutored today. The older boy is still away visiting his aunt.
The girl read some boring (her word for it) definitions of words she's unlikely to know (and she didn't) in something I want her to read next time. It's a fun story, and most times, the story explains hard words, but I wanted to prepare her, since, although I think she'll enjoy the story, there is a more difficult vocabulary than I think she's ready for. I thought of making it a story I read aloud to them, and I would have done that today, except I thought the boy would be back by now. This story is more suited to the girl than her older brother. I wish I had brought the story with me, but no one tells me anything, so I have to just anticipate who will be in the next tutoring situation.
One thing the girl has really gotten into is word ladders. She really likes word puzzles. Word ladders are changing a word like "pouch" to "peace." She got it by herself -- "Easy peasy," she said, while I checked her homework. The idea is to trade one letter for another, not changing their places, and make from the first word a progression to the end word: pouch, poach, peach, peace. There were 3 of these, and she did them all without much help from me, other than to ask, "Is poach a word?" I said it was and explained what it meant. She also had "chili" to "stall," and I said, "Yes, shill is a word," explained it, and then she tried "chall," which I said isn't a word, and then she got "still," and that led to her target word, "stall." So she got: chili, chill, shill, still, stall. Pretty good, wouldn't you say?
On the drive from their house to the restaurant, their grandmother said she likes to come to Ithaca in summer because it's too hot in China. She says lots of people are in the hospital from the heat in China, and her friends are amazed that not so many are in the hospital here. I wondered where in China she calls home, since some areas (it's a big country) are far to the north. I asked her if it was a dry heat or humid, but I doubt she really understood. She said it was dry, though. So I found a map of China and printed it out. I want her to circle the city she lives in -- she said it was a city with buildings sometimes 30 stories high -- so I figured it's one of the major cities. She said there are no trees to cool it off in China, but here there are lots of trees. I'm curious about where the family comes from and what I can find out about the area. Maybe if she can locate a city, I'll know more. It might also provide a teaching opportunity for the kids.
The little one is learning to write his name as well as other words. He was quite excited that one of the words today was "window," which he knew. We also sang "I'm a Little Teapot," with hand motions that I learned in kindergarten. I got the idea from my lesson earlier with the girl, where one of her vocabulary words was "spout." I asked her if she knew the teapot song, which uses that word, and she didn't. So I first had her sing along with me and use the signals. I think she grudgingly cooperated, thinking it was too babyish. It's perfect for her little brother, though. He has a little handheld thingy that sings songs to him and comes with a songbook with the words. I was using that Friday, and thought I'd teach him "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," but I forgot to print out the words.
When I mentioned it Friday, the girl thought the words would be too much for him. Maybe she's right, but I remember my daughter at about his age loving a certain book, "Hansel and Gretel," the Little Golden Book, and memorizing it after having me read it aloud umpteen times. Then she pretended she was reading by knowing what words to say on each page, and finally, she started connecting the words she was saying to the printed words. She more or less taught herself to read that way. (I think I pointed out the correlation of the printed words with the words she knew.) With this learning style in mind, I thought that learning the song's words and its printed words might click in the little one's head.
It's different, though. He's older (4), knows Chinese well, but hardly knows English, though today, while we were sitting in my car, waiting for Grandma, he said, "The car is hot." It was, and I rolled down the windows and turned on the air conditioning to cool it off while we waited for her to lock up the house and come to the car.
I tutored today. The older boy is still away visiting his aunt.
The girl read some boring (her word for it) definitions of words she's unlikely to know (and she didn't) in something I want her to read next time. It's a fun story, and most times, the story explains hard words, but I wanted to prepare her, since, although I think she'll enjoy the story, there is a more difficult vocabulary than I think she's ready for. I thought of making it a story I read aloud to them, and I would have done that today, except I thought the boy would be back by now. This story is more suited to the girl than her older brother. I wish I had brought the story with me, but no one tells me anything, so I have to just anticipate who will be in the next tutoring situation.
One thing the girl has really gotten into is word ladders. She really likes word puzzles. Word ladders are changing a word like "pouch" to "peace." She got it by herself -- "Easy peasy," she said, while I checked her homework. The idea is to trade one letter for another, not changing their places, and make from the first word a progression to the end word: pouch, poach, peach, peace. There were 3 of these, and she did them all without much help from me, other than to ask, "Is poach a word?" I said it was and explained what it meant. She also had "chili" to "stall," and I said, "Yes, shill is a word," explained it, and then she tried "chall," which I said isn't a word, and then she got "still," and that led to her target word, "stall." So she got: chili, chill, shill, still, stall. Pretty good, wouldn't you say?
On the drive from their house to the restaurant, their grandmother said she likes to come to Ithaca in summer because it's too hot in China. She says lots of people are in the hospital from the heat in China, and her friends are amazed that not so many are in the hospital here. I wondered where in China she calls home, since some areas (it's a big country) are far to the north. I asked her if it was a dry heat or humid, but I doubt she really understood. She said it was dry, though. So I found a map of China and printed it out. I want her to circle the city she lives in -- she said it was a city with buildings sometimes 30 stories high -- so I figured it's one of the major cities. She said there are no trees to cool it off in China, but here there are lots of trees. I'm curious about where the family comes from and what I can find out about the area. Maybe if she can locate a city, I'll know more. It might also provide a teaching opportunity for the kids.
The little one is learning to write his name as well as other words. He was quite excited that one of the words today was "window," which he knew. We also sang "I'm a Little Teapot," with hand motions that I learned in kindergarten. I got the idea from my lesson earlier with the girl, where one of her vocabulary words was "spout." I asked her if she knew the teapot song, which uses that word, and she didn't. So I first had her sing along with me and use the signals. I think she grudgingly cooperated, thinking it was too babyish. It's perfect for her little brother, though. He has a little handheld thingy that sings songs to him and comes with a songbook with the words. I was using that Friday, and thought I'd teach him "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," but I forgot to print out the words.
When I mentioned it Friday, the girl thought the words would be too much for him. Maybe she's right, but I remember my daughter at about his age loving a certain book, "Hansel and Gretel," the Little Golden Book, and memorizing it after having me read it aloud umpteen times. Then she pretended she was reading by knowing what words to say on each page, and finally, she started connecting the words she was saying to the printed words. She more or less taught herself to read that way. (I think I pointed out the correlation of the printed words with the words she knew.) With this learning style in mind, I thought that learning the song's words and its printed words might click in the little one's head.
It's different, though. He's older (4), knows Chinese well, but hardly knows English, though today, while we were sitting in my car, waiting for Grandma, he said, "The car is hot." It was, and I rolled down the windows and turned on the air conditioning to cool it off while we waited for her to lock up the house and come to the car.
I doubt we'd want to consume WD-40, but antioxidants from food are good -- preventing cancer, I hear.
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I think everybody left 'cause you don't come around much. 
I'd love to listen to that vid but I've almost reached my data limit.
I'd love to listen to that vid but I've almost reached my data limit.
Today is Jerry's birthday.I think everybody left 'cause you don't come around much.
I'd love to listen to that vid but I've almost reached my data limit.
OK, who's on FB? He's probably still hanging out there...Jerry is gone but Happy Birthday Jerry.
Jerry!
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