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To be honest, I heard both itsy bitsy and inky dinky. I just don't remember which I heard first...the mind is the first thing to go.
The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
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I've heard of both, but when I was little, I sang it, Eensy Beensy. Now that you bring it up, I think I still sing it that way?! haha
moanin', Voltatics.
Tritium, Darwin Award time for him, without a doubt!
I was thinking about your comment regarding the Levis you bought. If they are "new generation", made in the last ten years or so, a size 34 is actually a 36" waist. That change was made to accommodate the burgeoning waistlines of American males so they wouldn't feel bad about themselves because they were gaining inches in the middle. Yet another example of "feel good" at any cost.
Tritium, Darwin Award time for him, without a doubt!
I was thinking about your comment regarding the Levis you bought. If they are "new generation", made in the last ten years or so, a size 34 is actually a 36" waist. That change was made to accommodate the burgeoning waistlines of American males so they wouldn't feel bad about themselves because they were gaining inches in the middle. Yet another example of "feel good" at any cost.
Good morning, Voltmaniacs.
No puppies yet!
Today should be a nice day to work with the horsies. Supposed to be 58 degrees and not much wind.
No puppies yet!
Today should be a nice day to work with the horsies. Supposed to be 58 degrees and not much wind.
I've always remembered it to be - "itsy-bitsy" . . .
Of Course - More Info can be found here: Itsy Bitsy Spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just Sayin' . . .
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Of Course - More Info can be found here: Itsy Bitsy Spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just Sayin' . . .
Forgot all about the hand motions that got with the itsy bitsy, teeny weeny...hey, isn't that a yellow polka dot bikini?
It looks like "itsy-bitsy" wins. Thanks for all your input. I do still wonder how all the variations came to be.
Repeat it, substituting all the variations. Would be nice to do a visual of it, with hands painted different for the different spiders' names?
Hey awsum!
I might have to go with 34 waist and 31 inseam (32 seems to be ok too.) Will look into it more, might be the design of the pants though, a levis 522. I can wear the regular and slim fits but this was a different design i went for it. Seems a bit large behind the thigh and on the front but probably a tailor can bring it up to size this time.
Found a cheap leather jacket (real leather and they tailor it on your size) and i'm half there on paypal
, can only do this online since work stopped and i'm running on fumes here, slow progress but no problems so far.Well it's british but i found a few local ones if you don't like it lol.
Tutoring report.
This evening, as well as driving the kids up to their house, I took their mom and we had more chance to talk, but the interesting thing was that the little boy was more talkative in English with his mom in the car than he usually is.
They didn't have a decent pencil sharpener, so I told their mom to get one some time ago, and it finally arrived. The little one told me right away, "We got the pencil sharpener!" I wasn't quite sure I understood his blurry speech, so I checked with his mom, and sure enough, the pencil sharpener had arrived!
Today, they told me they want me to contact his teacher about coordinating our work with him. I emailed her this evening.
Tomorrow, I go with the new girl's mom to meet her teacher and discuss her progress. I had met with this teacher before when she was the older boy's teacher in 3rd grade.
So today I started with the old girl, the 3rd-grader reading Kipling. I'm beginning to teach her participles, which is the verb form you use with have, had, and has. Like: Simple past: I went to the store. Past participle: I had gone to the store. Present participle: I have gone to the store. All this just blew her mind. She thinks she'll never get it straight, but I told her she would, that things that seem complicated when you first learn them become easy with practice.
We read some of the Jungle Book, too. She is getting good at all the words like thee and thou. At first, she had no idea. I guess that I had a better one with some religious training, because the King James version of the Bible uses that heavily, and I'd hear it in church and Sunday school. Or maybe I just don't remember struggling with it. I think it'll help when she gets to Shakespeare in high school.
The older boy was sloppy about his homework. I don't know how to get them to check it over for mistakes or to really read and go back when they don't remember the reading comprehension. The older boy admitted he pays more attention to schoolwork than to my work. Why? Probably because I'm more permissive. Or maybe it's because there aren't marks involved. Hmm ... Should I give grades? I really don't want to go there.
The girl did her usual best, though her homework is also more sloppy than I'd like. Still, she is probably my star pupil, though the new girl may eclipse her if she keeps up the good work.
I started a new tactic with the little boy: Singing the Hokey Pokey and getting him to put his right or left foot or hand in. This is new, and he doesn't know the right from the left and wanted to mirror me when I played and sang with him. We'll work on right and left.
The new girl didn't finish the writing assignment I gave her. She has been so faithful! I was disappointed. She said she got busy. Yes, but I'm sure she had a spare moment for another few sentences to write the half page I asked for. Of course, that's like climbing Mount Everest to a kid who is barely literate at writing, but I don't expect perfection. Still, she circled the words she didn't know how to spell and did a reasonably neat job of what she did write. I gave her a hard assignment about sharks, which she is very interested in. It's 3rd-grade level, and she really isn't there yet, but she likes sharks, and it was all I could find in her reading realm. So we read together the homework reading and now she has to write about 2 shark species, comparing them and deciding which she'd rather study. She already decided on the hammerhead shark rather than the whale shark. We are working on sounding out words, and she has improved immensely. We are also working on comparatives and superlatives, when to use words like good, better, best.
This evening, as well as driving the kids up to their house, I took their mom and we had more chance to talk, but the interesting thing was that the little boy was more talkative in English with his mom in the car than he usually is.
They didn't have a decent pencil sharpener, so I told their mom to get one some time ago, and it finally arrived. The little one told me right away, "We got the pencil sharpener!" I wasn't quite sure I understood his blurry speech, so I checked with his mom, and sure enough, the pencil sharpener had arrived!
Today, they told me they want me to contact his teacher about coordinating our work with him. I emailed her this evening.
Tomorrow, I go with the new girl's mom to meet her teacher and discuss her progress. I had met with this teacher before when she was the older boy's teacher in 3rd grade.
So today I started with the old girl, the 3rd-grader reading Kipling. I'm beginning to teach her participles, which is the verb form you use with have, had, and has. Like: Simple past: I went to the store. Past participle: I had gone to the store. Present participle: I have gone to the store. All this just blew her mind. She thinks she'll never get it straight, but I told her she would, that things that seem complicated when you first learn them become easy with practice.
We read some of the Jungle Book, too. She is getting good at all the words like thee and thou. At first, she had no idea. I guess that I had a better one with some religious training, because the King James version of the Bible uses that heavily, and I'd hear it in church and Sunday school. Or maybe I just don't remember struggling with it. I think it'll help when she gets to Shakespeare in high school.
The older boy was sloppy about his homework. I don't know how to get them to check it over for mistakes or to really read and go back when they don't remember the reading comprehension. The older boy admitted he pays more attention to schoolwork than to my work. Why? Probably because I'm more permissive. Or maybe it's because there aren't marks involved. Hmm ... Should I give grades? I really don't want to go there.
The girl did her usual best, though her homework is also more sloppy than I'd like. Still, she is probably my star pupil, though the new girl may eclipse her if she keeps up the good work.
I started a new tactic with the little boy: Singing the Hokey Pokey and getting him to put his right or left foot or hand in. This is new, and he doesn't know the right from the left and wanted to mirror me when I played and sang with him. We'll work on right and left.
The new girl didn't finish the writing assignment I gave her. She has been so faithful! I was disappointed. She said she got busy. Yes, but I'm sure she had a spare moment for another few sentences to write the half page I asked for. Of course, that's like climbing Mount Everest to a kid who is barely literate at writing, but I don't expect perfection. Still, she circled the words she didn't know how to spell and did a reasonably neat job of what she did write. I gave her a hard assignment about sharks, which she is very interested in. It's 3rd-grade level, and she really isn't there yet, but she likes sharks, and it was all I could find in her reading realm. So we read together the homework reading and now she has to write about 2 shark species, comparing them and deciding which she'd rather study. She already decided on the hammerhead shark rather than the whale shark. We are working on sounding out words, and she has improved immensely. We are also working on comparatives and superlatives, when to use words like good, better, best.
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