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Good morning, Volt-spies.
The camara thing sounds cool and I want one
Chilly 18 degrees out. My little puppy is looking more dog like and less slug like by the day. We still have weeks before we can pick him up in Oregon.
Hoping to work with Pony Baloney later today and get him used to being touched. He needs some grooming!
The camara thing sounds cool and I want one
Chilly 18 degrees out. My little puppy is looking more dog like and less slug like by the day. We still have weeks before we can pick him up in Oregon.
Hoping to work with Pony Baloney later today and get him used to being touched. He needs some grooming!
The latest with the tutoring kids:
I started out with the littlest boy. As I planned, we did some simple description. I told him to choose a toy, and then we described it, mainly what colors it had, but I worked on it this way. He had a train so I said, "What is it?" And he said, "A train." So I pointed to it and said, "This is a train." I asked him to repeat it. Then we identified colors. "What color are the wheels?" They were green, so I wanted him to say, "The wheels are green." We got doing that a bit, but I could see he was getting bored with it, so we went back to the table to do some writing. He is still learning his right from his left and how to read "right" and "left" and identify pictures that are on the right or the left. My big mistake was, when he was correct and said something was on the left, I said, "Right!" and then I had to qualify it. "I mean, good, that's the left!" Whew!
Then the girl. She read the last page of her Mowgli chapter. We'll start "The King's Ankh" soon. But next time, she and the new girl are going to read a synopsis of The Nutcracker, since next Sunday, a week from tomorrow, we'll go see the Ithaca Ballet perform it. The girls take ballet lessons every Saturday morning, so I think they should see a real ballet performance, live. Just the girls are going because the older boy isn't interested in ballet, and I think the younger boy wouldn't like sitting through a whole ballet. He's too young for that kind of attention span. I suggested it to the parents, and they are getting the tickets.
I'm going to start participles with the girl. She and the others have been doing a lot more writing, and she misused a past participle in her writing because no one ever taught her it, so it's time. She is getting very expressive, though she still makes fairly elementary grammatical errors, which I point out and have her correct. I do emphasize that her writing is very good, and I am nitpicking at the errors to make her better. I want her to have the confidence to keep expressing herself. She read some poetry last time, the one about the wind -- "Who can see the wind?" -- which every child should have heard at least once, IMHO. Her homework assignment was to read it and then write about it. I wanted her to picture the trees bowing their heads, etc. My directives asked a lot of questions about picturing things and she got it! I find these kids are not as adept at picturing things and using their imaginations as I was or my daughter was. So this girl is my big hope for inspiring some imagination.
After that, her older brother. He did his writing, 2 things, one sloppy and one neat. I had not specified for the sloppy one that he had to be neat, so he said, since I didn't tell him so, he didn't take pains to write legibly. Aargh! I have to specify neatness, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, proofread, etc., to have him do it? Aargh! At least they are mostly trained to answer in complete sentences. I drilled that into them. I remember resenting the "complete sentences" rule, too, so I know how they feel, but now I know why my teachers required it. You want to be sure the kids know what a complete sentence is and that they can form a grammatically correct one. The boy is reading from a book I picked up in the free box at the library about water, and there's some info I learned from it. I never thought about it, but do you know that pretty much the same water is on Earth now as when it began? The water is just recycled and redistributed, but it's not added to or removed in any way. Of course! But I never really thought about it before.
Then off to the new girl. She is doing quite well. We still struggle over sounding out words. She wants to guess what the word might be on pretty flimsy evidence. Often what she guesses doesn't even start with the same letter. Today, I explained that wild guesses instead of sounding it out might be a waste of time. She agreed that there were so many choices, but sounding it out narrowed the choices. Yay! Still, it must become a habit.
She also needs more focus. Often, she is in the middle of writing a word and begins to tell me something and forgets that she hasn't finished the word. So I am working on balancing chat with work. I don't mind some discussion, since that, too, is practice with English, but it has to be at the right time not in the middle of doing something else, which just distracts her from the job at hand. One thing I noticed is that when she reads a book, she spends some time looking at the illustrations. She gets cues from them for how the story is going, I think, plus, she seems very visually oriented. I appreciate that she is so interested in the illustrations, but not in the middle of a sentence or written thought, so I'm training her to examine the pictures either when she turns the page or when she finishes reading the page, not in the middle. She's doing that a lot more now without being prompted.
I can't tell you how enthused I am about having this job! It's a dream come true. I love teaching, I think I'm fairly good at it, and it's not one of those high-powered jobs you'd have to dress for success for, which I'm totally not into. I dress for comfort. Also, I'm not having to tutor kids who are bad students because of low IQ or attitude, and the parents support me without question.
I started out with the littlest boy. As I planned, we did some simple description. I told him to choose a toy, and then we described it, mainly what colors it had, but I worked on it this way. He had a train so I said, "What is it?" And he said, "A train." So I pointed to it and said, "This is a train." I asked him to repeat it. Then we identified colors. "What color are the wheels?" They were green, so I wanted him to say, "The wheels are green." We got doing that a bit, but I could see he was getting bored with it, so we went back to the table to do some writing. He is still learning his right from his left and how to read "right" and "left" and identify pictures that are on the right or the left. My big mistake was, when he was correct and said something was on the left, I said, "Right!" and then I had to qualify it. "I mean, good, that's the left!" Whew!
Then the girl. She read the last page of her Mowgli chapter. We'll start "The King's Ankh" soon. But next time, she and the new girl are going to read a synopsis of The Nutcracker, since next Sunday, a week from tomorrow, we'll go see the Ithaca Ballet perform it. The girls take ballet lessons every Saturday morning, so I think they should see a real ballet performance, live. Just the girls are going because the older boy isn't interested in ballet, and I think the younger boy wouldn't like sitting through a whole ballet. He's too young for that kind of attention span. I suggested it to the parents, and they are getting the tickets.
I'm going to start participles with the girl. She and the others have been doing a lot more writing, and she misused a past participle in her writing because no one ever taught her it, so it's time. She is getting very expressive, though she still makes fairly elementary grammatical errors, which I point out and have her correct. I do emphasize that her writing is very good, and I am nitpicking at the errors to make her better. I want her to have the confidence to keep expressing herself. She read some poetry last time, the one about the wind -- "Who can see the wind?" -- which every child should have heard at least once, IMHO. Her homework assignment was to read it and then write about it. I wanted her to picture the trees bowing their heads, etc. My directives asked a lot of questions about picturing things and she got it! I find these kids are not as adept at picturing things and using their imaginations as I was or my daughter was. So this girl is my big hope for inspiring some imagination.
After that, her older brother. He did his writing, 2 things, one sloppy and one neat. I had not specified for the sloppy one that he had to be neat, so he said, since I didn't tell him so, he didn't take pains to write legibly. Aargh! I have to specify neatness, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, proofread, etc., to have him do it? Aargh! At least they are mostly trained to answer in complete sentences. I drilled that into them. I remember resenting the "complete sentences" rule, too, so I know how they feel, but now I know why my teachers required it. You want to be sure the kids know what a complete sentence is and that they can form a grammatically correct one. The boy is reading from a book I picked up in the free box at the library about water, and there's some info I learned from it. I never thought about it, but do you know that pretty much the same water is on Earth now as when it began? The water is just recycled and redistributed, but it's not added to or removed in any way. Of course! But I never really thought about it before.
Then off to the new girl. She is doing quite well. We still struggle over sounding out words. She wants to guess what the word might be on pretty flimsy evidence. Often what she guesses doesn't even start with the same letter. Today, I explained that wild guesses instead of sounding it out might be a waste of time. She agreed that there were so many choices, but sounding it out narrowed the choices. Yay! Still, it must become a habit.
She also needs more focus. Often, she is in the middle of writing a word and begins to tell me something and forgets that she hasn't finished the word. So I am working on balancing chat with work. I don't mind some discussion, since that, too, is practice with English, but it has to be at the right time not in the middle of doing something else, which just distracts her from the job at hand. One thing I noticed is that when she reads a book, she spends some time looking at the illustrations. She gets cues from them for how the story is going, I think, plus, she seems very visually oriented. I appreciate that she is so interested in the illustrations, but not in the middle of a sentence or written thought, so I'm training her to examine the pictures either when she turns the page or when she finishes reading the page, not in the middle. She's doing that a lot more now without being prompted.
I can't tell you how enthused I am about having this job! It's a dream come true. I love teaching, I think I'm fairly good at it, and it's not one of those high-powered jobs you'd have to dress for success for, which I'm totally not into. I dress for comfort. Also, I'm not having to tutor kids who are bad students because of low IQ or attitude, and the parents support me without question.
Oh, yes. one more thing. With the new girl today, I described how north, south, east and west stays the same, no matter which way you tun your body. She thought north was in front of you, south was behind, east was to the right, and west was to the left, no matter what. All that came about with the discussion of the word "southern." We also discussed how it's pronounced differently, though "northern" is pretty much the same pronunciation. That crazy English, with so many exceptions the rules hardly make sense! We also discussed when to use "a" and "an." I said there were exceptions like "an hour," but they made more sense, since "hour" is pronounced without the "h" so if you go by how it sounds rather than how it's spelled, you can tell if you need "a" or "an" better.
English is a confusing language, SandySu
The one boy really is a bit of a challenge with not wanting to make a nice job of his homework. He will probably improve as he is encouraged to do better.
Good morning, Voltpuppywatchers
Isn't my puppy adorable?
I worked with Pony Baloney yesterday. He doesn't like being touched but I got him to let me brush him some and work on his really tangled mane. We have quite a bit of work to do to get that mane straightened out!
No luck on working on his tail. I'm going to have to work on having him hold still while I work my way back to the tail. I think it will happen, it is just going to take a few more sessions. Also, maybe a few treats would help.
I got Pony to move out from me while on a rope. I was having no luck at all with that but suddenly it has come together and he moves out gently and goes in a circle while on the 12 foot rope. Nice!
Supposed to be windy later so if I want to work with Pony today, I will need to do that pretty soon.
The one boy really is a bit of a challenge with not wanting to make a nice job of his homework. He will probably improve as he is encouraged to do better.
Good morning, Voltpuppywatchers
Isn't my puppy adorable?
I worked with Pony Baloney yesterday. He doesn't like being touched but I got him to let me brush him some and work on his really tangled mane. We have quite a bit of work to do to get that mane straightened out!
No luck on working on his tail. I'm going to have to work on having him hold still while I work my way back to the tail. I think it will happen, it is just going to take a few more sessions. Also, maybe a few treats would help.
I got Pony to move out from me while on a rope. I was having no luck at all with that but suddenly it has come together and he moves out gently and goes in a circle while on the 12 foot rope. Nice!
Supposed to be windy later so if I want to work with Pony today, I will need to do that pretty soon.
moanin', Voltillians.
Another frosty morning with everything dusted with white. There was some freezing fog up in northeast PA and that sure isn't much fun!
Just going to be working around the house, shampooing the carpets today, I think, after my nap this morning, LOL.
Another frosty morning with everything dusted with white. There was some freezing fog up in northeast PA and that sure isn't much fun!
Just going to be working around the house, shampooing the carpets today, I think, after my nap this morning, LOL.
The camara thing sounds cool and I want one
ME - Too, but an inexpensive one for inside "My" apartment, especially NEED to have record of Management coming in when they want without informing "Me" . . .
THANKS ! ! ! Ya' taught an "Old" Man a new grammar trick today too . . .
YEP - Can't wait until he is in "Your" arms . . . AND - Just in case "You" forgot:
Look at what I found . . . Hopefully, it will make Shopping for American Sizes easier for Ya', especially since it has Men's Body Measurements in both cm & inches listed and also shows a variety of different size possibilities such as: What are the sizes for Men's Formal Clothing; What sizes there are that would equal Small, Med, Large, X-Large, etc. for Casual Men's Clothing; in addition to Slim Fit, Athletic Fit, etc., OH - Than there is the size of Socks too:
ME - Too, but an inexpensive one for inside "My" apartment, especially NEED to have record of Management coming in when they want without informing "Me" . . .
THANKS ! ! ! Ya' taught an "Old" Man a new grammar trick today too . . .
YEP - Can't wait until he is in "Your" arms . . . AND - Just in case "You" forgot:
HEY THERE - @Tritium . . .
Look at what I found . . . Hopefully, it will make Shopping for American Sizes easier for Ya', especially since it has Men's Body Measurements in both cm & inches listed and also shows a variety of different size possibilities such as: What are the sizes for Men's Formal Clothing; What sizes there are that would equal Small, Med, Large, X-Large, etc. for Casual Men's Clothing; in addition to Slim Fit, Athletic Fit, etc., OH - Than there is the size of Socks too:
Maybe you could help me with women's sizes
I never have figured out what misses, etc. really means.
Hey Uncle, thanks for the link i kept it on my favorites.
Go to the ebay links there are some cheaper ones. awsum40 might have more info on this.
Go to the ebay links there are some cheaper ones. awsum40 might have more info on this.
Lizzie, when you comb out the pony's mane, do you use some sort of detangler like Cowboy Magic? I think the kind you rub on might be better than the spray-on kind. The sound of spray bottles spraying frightens some horses till they get used to it, so I wouldn't suggest Show Sheen.
Maybe you could help me with women's sizes
Well - Did a quick check/search on Google for "What misses means" and found this article:
Also - Found these from 2 more popular Clothing Manufactures which might help Ya', just remember these manufactures are normally making clothes for "Younger" (aka Children/Girls) Women . . .
Clothing Size Charts & Measurement Guide For Women, Men & Children - J.Crew
Oldnavy.com | Old Navy
IMO - The best Sizing Charts in general - I found is from Land's End & "Brooks' Brother's:
Lands' End | Customer Service |Size Charts
Women's Size Charts and Sizing Guide | Brooks Brothers
(World Sizes - and including thing like Hats/Gloves)
BTW: I noticed these Sizing Charts also provide sizes in cm & Inches . . . Just Sayin' . . .
No Problem - Glad I could help . . .
Now - Why would I want to ask @awsum140 about eBay . . .
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Don't NEED anything to fancy, just real easy to use and very inexpensive . . . Maybe something like a "Nanny Cam" . . .
Maybe a chinese wifi camera so you can use it with your phone or laptop or tablet or toaster.
Don't get in the megapixel range awsum uses, he uses that to count hairs on delivery men or see their name tags lol
Don't get in the megapixel range awsum uses, he uses that to count hairs on delivery men or see their name tags lol
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