Spike/Harm ,'Help'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Well done, Burrell spawn!
We had our Parent-Teacher Conference today also.
Matilda is slightly behind grade level in reading, and a bit ahead in Math. Which is basically Bizarro!JZ. (Well, JZ was way ahead verbal when she started school and never caught up in Math.)
But he obviously really likes Matilda and wasn't worried about the reading (and she does see a reading specialist several times a week as she tries to "decode" words).
Reading is so idiosyncratic. It takes as long as it takes. I know Franny was an almost!reader for a long long time, then a struggling reader, and then there was Harry Potter.
My take is that Matilda would have benefited from the pre-phonics era as she likes to sight read the word instead of sounding it out. And she just hasn't built up enough words she recognizes by sight yet.
Pre-phonics? I learned to read in the phonics age. Is phonics back in fashion?
Is phonics back in fashion?
It never went out of fashion. It was coming IN to fashion when I was little. Which is the same time you were little.
Ellie's problem was also decoding. I have learned so much about *how* one learns to read.
I could have sworn phonics went out of fashion sometime in the late 70s. Maybe I'm getting it confused with New Math.
Phonics > New math. Or is that < ?
blood clotting 'ma for Tim!
Dental~ma for Tim.
IOmememeN One of my supervisors found out today what happens when you post a notice of a staff meeting two days before the meeting: I don't make room for it on my calendar. Sure I made polite excuses, but c'mon, if it's not important enough to plan ahead, it's not important.
Also they appear to be cutting people's hours. Not sure how that works when we are short-handed and have a lot of open shifts. I can say that I won't be volunteering to fill in.