Showing posts with label math class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math class. Show all posts
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Still Here
And still pluggin' along.
Biggest Events Lately
The van is in the shop... and currently fixed. We found out about it when Jess got out of work at the Club, though, so no pick up of it as yet.
After having almost the whole week off from the Cafe BECAUSE the owner decided at the last minute to close for the week, Jess quit on Friday. The first thing he said when telling me about the whole thing was that the owner wanted to serve items unfit for service. Knowing Jess as I do, this is not only repugnant to him as a person, but irresponsible and unethical as a Chef. Added to this issue, the boss actually yelled at Jess (and the other employees) TWO times because things were not happening as fast as she wanted to see. This is ridiculous for a few reasons. #1 Boss had everyone off for almost a week and expected to be able to pick up and go with them coming in at their regular time and opening at regular time. This is preposterous because the guys go in at 10:30am and they're supposed to open at Noon. Why is this preposterous and ridiculous? Well, almost all the product in the place was no good and not only did the boss NOT have anyone in there to check on and get rid of such items, but there was also NO ON in the place to prepare foods for the day they would be open. #2 Boss didn't bother to see what the guys were doing when she first yelled at them about not accomplishing anything. They were, in fact, sitting outside (two of them smoking) and discussing how to tackle the project and frustrations at hand. The second time she yelled at them was only minutes after the first time and they were trying to resume their cool and calm after being unfairly treated the first time. Normally Jess would have weathered this stupid storm and been all right. But given all that he's been going through with everything WE have been dealing with AND the stop smoking trials... well, it was too much given the circumstances and the fact that the Boss has been adding more and more bits of ridiculousness for months now.
Jess and I are working as a team to find new work. I look for the stuff online (and otherwise) and have it all set up for him to go down the line, fill out applications, submit, and check off a list I have prepared. Thus far, he's completed ELEVEN applications! WAY TO GO JESSIE!!!!! ^_^
Through all the difficulties and frustrations, trials and troubles that have beset and felt rather overwhelming to us lately, Jess is still on the road to becoming a NON-SMOKER!!!! It has not been easy at all in the last two weeks, but he's really accomplishing something tremendous because he's not purchased OR lit up!!!
Even though I'm currently sick (the same crud I had during third trimester with Ria AND Kat), I've still walked 5 days this week! ^_^ YEAY for me!! Can you believe I'm around 28 weeks preggie now?? So far, so good.
Ria and Kat are doing pretty darn well. They know that things have been different, but they haven't been "off the hook" (relative to how I know they COULD be!!).
Kat has actually been telling us when she wants to sit on the potty AND she usually produces SOME thing every time. Sometimes it's a bunch of farts, but, HEY, those can feel like turtle heads, right!?? :) Also, she has PEED AND POOHED at least once a day for the last few days! ^_^ So nice to have fewer pooh pooh diapers to clean up after. :) I have hope that she might potty train herself by the time the babe arrives. We'll see. It's fine either way, of course. We'll deal with what we have to as it comes. As we always do, right.
Ria is still an amazing student. She asks to do school every day, which has led to Kat asking to do 'cool,' too. ^_^ Ria and I have been working on numbers for a few weeks now and she is writing them REALLY well!!! I've only recently (within the last week) really done anything with numbers more than 10 and she has seriously amazed me. We did a matching worksheet I found free online (probably from a page I have to the side). In the matching she has to read the number in number and work form and draw a line to connect the matches. She, without hints from Mama, read AND found MANY of the teen numbers' matches! ^_^ I was super pleased and happy about that! She's such a smartie!!!
I caught Ria reading to Kat again today. The interesting and fun part about the "catch" this time is that Ria and Kat were in their closet reading! ^_^ It was so cool!! I have pictures, but they are not uploaded as yet... and I'm actually supposed to be doing Primary stuff right now. So, I'll have to bid you adieu for now and play catch up on the photos later. (I know I still have some from a previous post to share, too!)
Oh, we went on a family walk for the first time (for Mama's walks). It was really nice. :) Funny enough, Jess took Kat to go peepee before we left and then suggested that I should go, too. This is funny because I think HE thinks I'm still peeing outside on my walks, or something. I've figured out that I have to stop drinking water about an hour before the walk and then only have something to drink when I'm over half way through my walk and I won't have to pee until we get home. But, of course, Jess didn't know that. He also almost asked me to prepare a snack... like I don't do this almost every day! ;) So funny and wonderful how we're so concerned that things should go smoothly, isn't it!? I mean, I know that's why he was making his suggestions. He has no idea what my routine looks like, REALLY. The only thing he sees is when I go for a walk and he keeps the girls. Ya know? We walked the raised walking path for Betty Stefflick Park. I'd never been on it. Very nice, I have to say. I really love this area!
Biggest Events Lately
The van is in the shop... and currently fixed. We found out about it when Jess got out of work at the Club, though, so no pick up of it as yet.
After having almost the whole week off from the Cafe BECAUSE the owner decided at the last minute to close for the week, Jess quit on Friday. The first thing he said when telling me about the whole thing was that the owner wanted to serve items unfit for service. Knowing Jess as I do, this is not only repugnant to him as a person, but irresponsible and unethical as a Chef. Added to this issue, the boss actually yelled at Jess (and the other employees) TWO times because things were not happening as fast as she wanted to see. This is ridiculous for a few reasons. #1 Boss had everyone off for almost a week and expected to be able to pick up and go with them coming in at their regular time and opening at regular time. This is preposterous because the guys go in at 10:30am and they're supposed to open at Noon. Why is this preposterous and ridiculous? Well, almost all the product in the place was no good and not only did the boss NOT have anyone in there to check on and get rid of such items, but there was also NO ON in the place to prepare foods for the day they would be open. #2 Boss didn't bother to see what the guys were doing when she first yelled at them about not accomplishing anything. They were, in fact, sitting outside (two of them smoking) and discussing how to tackle the project and frustrations at hand. The second time she yelled at them was only minutes after the first time and they were trying to resume their cool and calm after being unfairly treated the first time. Normally Jess would have weathered this stupid storm and been all right. But given all that he's been going through with everything WE have been dealing with AND the stop smoking trials... well, it was too much given the circumstances and the fact that the Boss has been adding more and more bits of ridiculousness for months now.
Jess and I are working as a team to find new work. I look for the stuff online (and otherwise) and have it all set up for him to go down the line, fill out applications, submit, and check off a list I have prepared. Thus far, he's completed ELEVEN applications! WAY TO GO JESSIE!!!!! ^_^
Through all the difficulties and frustrations, trials and troubles that have beset and felt rather overwhelming to us lately, Jess is still on the road to becoming a NON-SMOKER!!!! It has not been easy at all in the last two weeks, but he's really accomplishing something tremendous because he's not purchased OR lit up!!!
Even though I'm currently sick (the same crud I had during third trimester with Ria AND Kat), I've still walked 5 days this week! ^_^ YEAY for me!! Can you believe I'm around 28 weeks preggie now?? So far, so good.
Ria and Kat are doing pretty darn well. They know that things have been different, but they haven't been "off the hook" (relative to how I know they COULD be!!).
Kat has actually been telling us when she wants to sit on the potty AND she usually produces SOME thing every time. Sometimes it's a bunch of farts, but, HEY, those can feel like turtle heads, right!?? :) Also, she has PEED AND POOHED at least once a day for the last few days! ^_^ So nice to have fewer pooh pooh diapers to clean up after. :) I have hope that she might potty train herself by the time the babe arrives. We'll see. It's fine either way, of course. We'll deal with what we have to as it comes. As we always do, right.
Ria is still an amazing student. She asks to do school every day, which has led to Kat asking to do 'cool,' too. ^_^ Ria and I have been working on numbers for a few weeks now and she is writing them REALLY well!!! I've only recently (within the last week) really done anything with numbers more than 10 and she has seriously amazed me. We did a matching worksheet I found free online (probably from a page I have to the side). In the matching she has to read the number in number and work form and draw a line to connect the matches. She, without hints from Mama, read AND found MANY of the teen numbers' matches! ^_^ I was super pleased and happy about that! She's such a smartie!!!
I caught Ria reading to Kat again today. The interesting and fun part about the "catch" this time is that Ria and Kat were in their closet reading! ^_^ It was so cool!! I have pictures, but they are not uploaded as yet... and I'm actually supposed to be doing Primary stuff right now. So, I'll have to bid you adieu for now and play catch up on the photos later. (I know I still have some from a previous post to share, too!)
Oh, we went on a family walk for the first time (for Mama's walks). It was really nice. :) Funny enough, Jess took Kat to go peepee before we left and then suggested that I should go, too. This is funny because I think HE thinks I'm still peeing outside on my walks, or something. I've figured out that I have to stop drinking water about an hour before the walk and then only have something to drink when I'm over half way through my walk and I won't have to pee until we get home. But, of course, Jess didn't know that. He also almost asked me to prepare a snack... like I don't do this almost every day! ;) So funny and wonderful how we're so concerned that things should go smoothly, isn't it!? I mean, I know that's why he was making his suggestions. He has no idea what my routine looks like, REALLY. The only thing he sees is when I go for a walk and he keeps the girls. Ya know? We walked the raised walking path for Betty Stefflick Park. I'd never been on it. Very nice, I have to say. I really love this area!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Homeschooling
Ria and I did our regular reading class this morning. She read another pretty tough book, though this one was shorter than yesterday's. I was pleased with her efforts. This afternoon we worked on writing numbers AND started Math class! She's so excited to add another class (and movie; for a while) to the day! :) Her penmanship was quite good. We didn't work on the divided lines for teaching writing, but she had the shapes of the numbers almost right away and they looked almost perfect! I'm so pleased.
I'm research reading a lot more again. It took me a while to get my brain in gear to resume the heavy reading that tends to come when I'm researching. Today I've resumed delving into the subject of homeschooling and issues facing homeschoolers. It's really quite amazing how much we have to take into consideration as we make choices as homeschoolers! It's definitely a LOT more involved than sending the kids off to public school. I mean, I already knew that would be the case as far as the whole bit about teaching my own kids, but it's SO much more than that! Anyway, I wanted to share the articles I've been reading, in case there are others who are looking in to homeschooling and would like to be responsible about what kinds of choices they make AS homeschoolers. :)
I have to say, before I share what I've been reading, that I before altering my behavior drastically about 3.5 weeks ago, I was really dreading the never ending-ness that is the life of a homeschool Mama! I mean, what a relief it must be for most Mamas to have the break of Public School to look forward to. I mean, they get to sending some of the kiddos off to school and having more quiet time with the younger ones! I can totally understand how many (most?) Mom's look forward to the onset of the school year after the months of summer. The changes I have, with the support and guidance of FATHER, brought about in myself have really helped me tremendously in EVERY way. One key way those changes have helped is that now I don't dread always having my children around at home. It's still tough, but I don't wish I could send them to public school, like I was for a while there. I mean, I don't need the break from them that Public School would have provided because I'm in control of me! It's such a relief and I only pray that I'll be able to endure to the end in this wonderful change FATHER has wrought in me!!! ^_^ However, I'm grateful for the understanding I have been blessed with by those very psychologically difficult moments over the course of many months that I wished for PS. I'm also VERY relieved and even joyful in knowing that homeschooling my children really isn't some random personal choice, but what FATHER REALLY wants me to do with/for my family!
Okay... moving on: This is just from today and I'm sure I'll be reading on this topic regularly. So, check back often for more links to even more articles if you find any of these interesting! :) Oh, and as of today, these are all from one site. But I've got quite a few other resources to look into... so there will be more diversity of voice in the future as well. ^_^
Your Homeschooling Decisions Affect My Homeschooling Freedoms
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/182/match.html
Practical Ways to Claim Responsibility for Our Homeschools
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/203/mjtch.html
Working for Homeschooling Freedoms: Chore or Opportunity?
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/171.00/jf_clmn_tch.html
Why the Question of Homeschoolers' Playing Public School Sports Affects All Homeschoolers - Larry and Susan Kaseman
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/173.00/mj_clmn_tch.html
I'm research reading a lot more again. It took me a while to get my brain in gear to resume the heavy reading that tends to come when I'm researching. Today I've resumed delving into the subject of homeschooling and issues facing homeschoolers. It's really quite amazing how much we have to take into consideration as we make choices as homeschoolers! It's definitely a LOT more involved than sending the kids off to public school. I mean, I already knew that would be the case as far as the whole bit about teaching my own kids, but it's SO much more than that! Anyway, I wanted to share the articles I've been reading, in case there are others who are looking in to homeschooling and would like to be responsible about what kinds of choices they make AS homeschoolers. :)
I have to say, before I share what I've been reading, that I before altering my behavior drastically about 3.5 weeks ago, I was really dreading the never ending-ness that is the life of a homeschool Mama! I mean, what a relief it must be for most Mamas to have the break of Public School to look forward to. I mean, they get to sending some of the kiddos off to school and having more quiet time with the younger ones! I can totally understand how many (most?) Mom's look forward to the onset of the school year after the months of summer. The changes I have, with the support and guidance of FATHER, brought about in myself have really helped me tremendously in EVERY way. One key way those changes have helped is that now I don't dread always having my children around at home. It's still tough, but I don't wish I could send them to public school, like I was for a while there. I mean, I don't need the break from them that Public School would have provided because I'm in control of me! It's such a relief and I only pray that I'll be able to endure to the end in this wonderful change FATHER has wrought in me!!! ^_^ However, I'm grateful for the understanding I have been blessed with by those very psychologically difficult moments over the course of many months that I wished for PS. I'm also VERY relieved and even joyful in knowing that homeschooling my children really isn't some random personal choice, but what FATHER REALLY wants me to do with/for my family!
Okay... moving on: This is just from today and I'm sure I'll be reading on this topic regularly. So, check back often for more links to even more articles if you find any of these interesting! :) Oh, and as of today, these are all from one site. But I've got quite a few other resources to look into... so there will be more diversity of voice in the future as well. ^_^
Your Homeschooling Decisions Affect My Homeschooling Freedoms
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/182/match.html
Practical Ways to Claim Responsibility for Our Homeschools
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/203/mjtch.html
Working for Homeschooling Freedoms: Chore or Opportunity?
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/171.00/jf_clmn_tch.html
Why the Question of Homeschoolers' Playing Public School Sports Affects All Homeschoolers - Larry and Susan Kaseman
http://www.homeedmag.com/HEM/173.00/mj_clmn_tch.html
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