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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, August 14, 2006 - 2:16 pm
7.7 I actually was "trying" to get my son held back. He was a very late talker and has a late birthday and was diagnosed last year with a learning disability (he's a year ahead in math a a year behind in reading) and yet they said they really don't like holding kids back... In fact that is why I kept him in the catholic school, in case we did hold him back, he'd repeat the grade in a whole new school. They say he is too bright to hold him back. Then why can't he read yet?
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, August 14, 2006 - 2:21 pm
7.8. They passed my son in first grade, when they should have held him back. They did the same in second, thinking he'd catch up. Since he struggled through 3rd, now they think it's a good idea. 7.9 I try to work with the school & his teachers but it can be very frustrating. You hope they are making the best decision for your child. 7.99 You know your child better than anyone Julie. If you think he needs to be held back, keep pushing. There is also resource or special ed available ... if they haven't offered it, ask for it.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, August 14, 2006 - 2:40 pm
7.999 Hopefully he will get what he needs this year. I put him in public school this year because they can offer him so much more than the catholic school could. He will get 200 minutes a week of reading help plus speech and OT. He has an IEP. Having parents, siblings, etc who are teachers and principals really helps steer me in the right direction. Let's hope this year he makes bigger strides in reading.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, August 14, 2006 - 2:44 pm
7.10 I am soooo ready for school to start. In a half hour's time (as I was doing laundry) he managed to write on the couch and get chocolate all over (i mean all over) the carpet. This kid never did anything like this when he was 2 or 3. Why he is suddenly doing it at 7? I think he is bored... ARRGGH! 7.11 Hairspray will get out the ink (I hope) but what's the best thing for the chocolate? I think it was a tootsie roll....
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, August 14, 2006 - 9:50 pm
7.81 Vaca...I think that you made a good decision to hold your son back. 4th grade is SO dependant on reading to learn (as opposed to learning to read) and there are HUGE jumps between 3rd and 4th. I see absolutely nothing wrong with holding kids back. Their self esteem would be in the toilet if they face failure every single day in school. Giving them the gift of repeating a year may actually raise their self esteem because they can actually DO the work! Julie....give Ryan another year before you make a decision...with the late birthday and late talking, he just may need some extra time to mature. Boys catch up in 2nd or 3rd grade. How are his fine motor skills? Memory? <Marm steps off her child development soapbox!>
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 4:39 am
7.82 Marm, his fine motor skills are okay as far as I can tell, but they are still giving him OT. Well, he still can't tie his shoes, so I guess he's not that good. His memory is exceptional if you ask me. That usually works against me!!! (feel free to step back on that box whenever you like!) 7.83 I fear I have pushed reading too much. Though I have laid off plenty the last month. Every time I suggest that we read a book (something he used to love) he resists big time. ARRRGH!!!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 8:14 am
1. Nic and Julie, good luck with your sons. I hope they both have wonderful school years. Same to Wargod and Landi's kids. 2. I had such a great weekend going back to my hometown for that wedding. Saw so many old friends. 3. I also met 3 deaf people on 3 separate occasions who signed. It was so cool. Unless I go to a "silent dinner," I can go months and months without meeting another person with a hearing loss who speaks in ASL. I love talking in ASL. It feels very natural to me. 3. Tomorrow will be my 10 year anniversary for sobriety!!! Wow. A whole decade without alcohol. Never saw that coming. There was a time I couldn't make it a week. 4. I pulled a muscle on Sunday and it hurts so much I am afraid I may have torn something. I'm hobbling. It feels a little better today, but not much. I'm so impatient for it to go away so I can run again! 5. I hate going back to work in the fall. I'm just glad football season coincides with the start of a new school year. Takes the sting out of it. 6. I love football! 7. I finally got my wireless working and can now sit outside while on my laptop. I love it! 8. I have been sitting on my butt for two hours. Time to get off the computer and go hang out wth my nephew.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 8:21 am
8.1 I am so proud of you for your 10 years!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 8:21 am
1. I agree with Marm completely about the differences between 3rd and 4th. 2. Like I said, I think holding them back when they're struggling can only help them. It seems like our schools are pushing kids so hard these days and if they move up without having the skills needed it's just so hard to catch up in a new year when they're introducing new ones. 3. My niece finished first grade with reading skills comparable to end of the year kindergarteners. There was no way she could have caught up in the second grade, where they fully expect (at least out here) the child to be reading independently and with some level of comprehension for what they are reading. I know though it was still a tough decision for sis and bil to keep her back this year even though they knew how hard it'd be to move forward. 4. First day of school and the air smelled cleaner, the sun shone brighter, and I woke up grinning. 5. Kids weren't too thrilled, lol.
6. Met the teachers and caught up with friends the kids haven't seen since June. There were only a couple kids in Kota's class she knew well (two of them being the girls who like to pick on other girls, sigh.) 7. Caleb's teacher had the class line up according to height. That put him right smack dab in the middle of a group of friends of his, all of these little boys just talking and talking. Then she said the reason she lined them up like that was because that was the seating chart! I got to giggling looking at Caleb and his buddies standing their yapping. Yep, that's going to last, lol! 8. Julie, Dakota is to the point she pretty much refuses to read out loud. I think it's because, while she reads well and comprehends well, her out loud reading is still so stilted and stuttery (is that a word?) and she has trouble and gets frustrated with it. Now we try to encourage her to read to my littlest niece so she can read books written for a much younger child. She doesn't have nearly as many problems reading something like Goodnight Moon outloud as she does something written for her own age/reading level. The hope is that it builds her confidence and she'll be willing to try reading her own books outloud.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 8:23 am
Watch out! Wargod may pull a wily mod trick and reverse our posts so it looks like she beat me to 8. Jimmer tried that last night in the Chatters thread.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 8:47 am
8.1 Hermi I am also so proud of you!! 8.2 Wargod, great picture!! Love the first day of school!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 8:56 am
9. LOL, Hermi, nope I was too slow, you beat me! Congrats on your 10 years!!! That is amazing and "congrats" doesn't seem enough! {{{Hermi}}}
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 11:59 am
9.1 Congrats Hermi!!!!!! 9.2 War, I cannot believe how big the kids are!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 2:42 pm
1. They just keep growing and growing, Retired, I can't stop them! 2. Seriously this is Caleb's last year of elementary school and I don't like it at all. 3. 4 minutes home and I am already "mean mom." The kids handed me their packets of paper work to fill out and Caleb handed me a blank piece of paper. Told me to write "20" and sign it. I asked what it was for, it's his reading log. Did he read? Nope, just sign it mom, I'll read later. Yeah right, lol. "Mean mom" was uttered under his breath as he stomped off to read for 20 minutes. 4. My sis and I talked on the phone for over an hour today. I miss that during summer break, neither one of us usually has time for a long phone call. 5. During the school year we can call, visit, go shopping together or out to lunch. 6. My nieces will be here Thursday (the little one's coming in the morning while the older one is at school) and will be with us til Sunday sometimes. Littlest niece overheard that earlier and went to pack her bag, lol. She was all ready for her trip here by 1pm today! 7. Sis and bil are also trading cars with us for their trip to Vegas. I hate losing my van for a few days, but they've loaned us theirs on occassions and at least she's leaving me her van in it's place. 8. It was so nice to get my housework done early today and have it stay neat throughout the day. Was also nice not having to turn the swamp cooler on early this morning, in fact, I didn't turn it on til I left to pick the kids up. 9. Darren's got home from work yesterday feeling like crud. He's got a cold. I'm hoping he is greedy and doesn't want to share it with anyone else! 10. Dakota has been sneezing like crazy and has red itchy eyes but I'm pretty sure hers is just allergies. It started to get a bit windy earlier and there's a lot of crud in the air.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 6:42 pm
1. I can't believe that after two years of being in this house with cable modem, I FINALLY got my wireless internet to work! WHOOHOO! I wonder if it will work out by the pool? Or upstairs? Gosh, I won't be tethered to the sofa anymore! YIPPEE!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 7:15 pm
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 10:14 pm
1. DH and I just returned from LAX after dropping off our son for his flight back to college in NY. 2. There was lots of traffic at LAX due to all the news cameras at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. 3. Apparently that man who supposedly confessed to the Jon Benet Ramsey death was arriving from Thailand. 4. There were also many news helicopters in the air which was strange if you think about it...I mean, they were in LAX airspace and wouldn't that cause problems for the control tower with flights coming in and taking off? 5. Opps....I think I was only supposed to do 2 facts, but I just had to share this very usual encounter at LAX. <runs outta here before the schticklers come after me....>
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 10:44 am
1. My grandson Jacob is starting high school tomorrow. How did this happen! 2. I'm afraid that NASCAR has permanently infected my brain. My daughter who moved out near San Francisco this year, called to talk to me yesterday. She said, "Guess where I went this weekend!" I said, "Where?" She said, "Napa!" I said, "The autoparts store? Are you having trouble with your car?" (Jeesh...what a dork). 3. For those of you who don't read the Treasure Hunters thread...I am really going to miss that show. For those of you who do...Well, I guess you already knew that!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 10:50 am
2.a. marysafan, i LIVE in napa. gotta come visit your daughter some time!
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 11:02 am
1. It's been a while since I've been in this thread. Been BUSY! 2. I have a new job in case any of you missed. I am a teacher for a center that helps adults get their high school diplomas. 3. The students are currently watching some shakespeare as part of their orientation day. 4. I'm starting to feel crampy and that makes me not happy! I am just hoping they hold off for another 2 hours!!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 10:48 am
1. Hey Saxy! How is the new job going? 2. I'm about to finish my first week back at work for the new school year. We have done 10+ hour days through today and do not work tomorrow. 3. We have 9 bulletin boards in the library and I am doing every single one of them. 4. I keep putting my supplies down and not remembering where I have put them! I have "lost" 2 pairs of scissors and a yardstick. They will probably show up during 9th grade orientations! 5. My nephew is spending the night with me tomorrow night. My sister emailed me last night and told me that he is super excited. Cuz, ya know, there are no rules at Aunt Carolyn's! 
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 11:03 am
5.a. i wanna go visit aunt carolyn's!!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 3:26 pm
1. I FOUND my cash card! WHOO HOO! The old one expired the end of July while I was in Europe, and I had to dig through two months of mail to find the new one. 2. I had the WORST first day of school in almost 25 years of teaching. It's a funny story....so pull up a chair and I'll pass the popcorn. 3. 4:30 am on Monday, and I am awakened to the TV saying "name of my physical therapists husband" from "University where I used to work." I sit bolt upright very quickly and pull something in my neck. 4. And writhing in pain I am wondering why the heck is "university where I used to work" on national tv? It's really small and is really only good at wrestling and maybe theater. 5. My PT's husband is the athletic trainer, and was doing a story on "How to not injure yourself by stretching properly." 6. The irony of this was not lost on me. It was much funnier on Wednesday when I could actually move my head!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 3:03 am
1. Are we twins Marm? As I was reading your story I'm sitting here cracking up (not cuz you hurt yourself!) but cuz you reminded me of the time I was freezing in bed, yanked the covers up, had my hand slip and whacked myself in the nose! I walked around looking like a raccoon and when people would ask what happened and I'd tell them, they'd start to laugh. 2. It's been a fun couple weeks. The kids have really gotten back into the swing of things at school. 3. Caleb came home with a math book that had pages upside down and out of order. He told his teacher he'd handle it til they got a new book for him and that was cool til they realized he was also missing half the first chapter. He's now got a book that's falling apart at the seam. Some of their reading books were also messed up, they'd been printed backwards or something, instead of reading left to right the book was printed to read right to left. Those were replaced immediately. 4. The third grade classes have already broken the kids into groups for math. Dakota was placed in the advanced group (no surprise really.) Also no surprise, she brought home homework and asked for help, I took one look and told her she'd have to wait for dad. 5. The kidlets friends came over to play today. They had a good time. While Dakota's best friend (the sister) isn't in her class this year, Caleb's friend (the brother) transferred in earlier this week. She was happy to have a friend in class with her, and I'm happy cuz I'll be volunteering one morning a week, while the friends dad will volunteer two. It's nice to know that three mornings a week one of us will be in there. 6. About 18 months ago Darrens mom gave him this beat up, barely running truck. About once a week he goes out and works on it, takes it out for a drive then the rest of the time it just sets in the driveway. Since we've had it, we've had a couple people stop and ask if it was for sale. Nope, it's Darren's toy, lol. Tonight we're getting ready for dinner and this guy knocked on the door and asked if it was for sale. Darren went out to talk to him, then came back and got a piece of paper to write his name and phone # on it. He said, the guys offering $450 for it, I enjoy tinkering with it, but honestly I just don't have the time to put the type of work it needs into it, why not? If he calls back and wants it, I'll sell it to him. I silently cheered, LOL! 7. The county fairs in town for the next 11 days or so. We're debating rather we want to go or not. It's gotten so expensive the last few years to go, especially with the kids wanting to go on carnival rides and play the games!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, August 28, 2006 - 4:49 am
1. I came home from St. Louis on Saturday night to see SIX deer in my neighbors yard, 2. They were very beautiful! 3. We have had lots and lots of rain yesterday. 4. I need to mow the grass. 5. I have my first 9-9 day today! Maybe I'll take a nap in the middle! 6. My family is coming to visit for Labor Day! YIPPEE! 7. We have a "state fair" near where I live and I think that I'll take the family. 8. I highly recommend the DiGiorno's "garlic bread crust" pizza--or whatever it is called! YUM!
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