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Sep. 24th, 2007 06:52 pmWriting: untangling a logistic plot problem; maybe I have the big parts down and will then get to fine-tune.
Critiquing: in the middle of a ms.
Reading: somewhere in Mary Hooper's Petals of Ashes (? something like that in English). It's short, which is good, since I don't have many minutes strung together to stick to the German.
Just got back from a meeting for all the preschool children's parents at the kindergarten (which is really a preschool to Americans). They will be learning no letters and no reading, but all of the conceptual stuff will be there (listening for sounds at the beginning, middle, ends of words; rhymes, syllables, etc. Just the graphic stuff is left for first grade.) It doesn't matter too much how you split things out over K-1, as long as you're continuing in the same system, so it's not like they're "wrong" not to do any formal reading this year. It's just that next year my daughter will be expected to be able to read some. I need to find out exactly what is considered basic/required math and reading in the States in kindergarten so I can get her up to snuff this year. Ideas, anyone?
Also, when the teacher was explaining the games they'd be playing to study syllables, she said, "The kids will be coming up with their own words and clapping them out. So maybe they'll come up with a word like....hm....Erdbeermermeladekochmaschine. (Strawberry jam cooker machine) That's a good one, that'd give you a good ten syllables." My daughter is going to be a syllable EXPERT after dealing with the German language!
Also, ideas on handling children's friends when they walk in your house, go through your cupboards, and trash the bathroom? I can see younger kids doing that (3-4 years old), but by the time they're in second grade you'd think they'd know you don't do that. I know I should have reacted faster, but I wasn't expecting to be busy with one kid in one room and walk in and find said friend and son so...busy. I've had to kick the friend off the computer a couple times now, as well as give a hands-off-the-printer warning. I'm in a slightly difficult situation where my kids really need friends, so I guess my job is to train the kid to act right or make him go home. I just feel somewhat uncomfortable getting after a kid who isn't my own for behavior he should know is unacceptable at someone else's house. Anyone have any good advice/sympathy? Or am I the only one who has to deal with this?
Critiquing: in the middle of a ms.
Reading: somewhere in Mary Hooper's Petals of Ashes (? something like that in English). It's short, which is good, since I don't have many minutes strung together to stick to the German.
Just got back from a meeting for all the preschool children's parents at the kindergarten (which is really a preschool to Americans). They will be learning no letters and no reading, but all of the conceptual stuff will be there (listening for sounds at the beginning, middle, ends of words; rhymes, syllables, etc. Just the graphic stuff is left for first grade.) It doesn't matter too much how you split things out over K-1, as long as you're continuing in the same system, so it's not like they're "wrong" not to do any formal reading this year. It's just that next year my daughter will be expected to be able to read some. I need to find out exactly what is considered basic/required math and reading in the States in kindergarten so I can get her up to snuff this year. Ideas, anyone?
Also, when the teacher was explaining the games they'd be playing to study syllables, she said, "The kids will be coming up with their own words and clapping them out. So maybe they'll come up with a word like....hm....Erdbeermermeladekochmaschine. (Strawberry jam cooker machine) That's a good one, that'd give you a good ten syllables." My daughter is going to be a syllable EXPERT after dealing with the German language!
Also, ideas on handling children's friends when they walk in your house, go through your cupboards, and trash the bathroom? I can see younger kids doing that (3-4 years old), but by the time they're in second grade you'd think they'd know you don't do that. I know I should have reacted faster, but I wasn't expecting to be busy with one kid in one room and walk in and find said friend and son so...busy. I've had to kick the friend off the computer a couple times now, as well as give a hands-off-the-printer warning. I'm in a slightly difficult situation where my kids really need friends, so I guess my job is to train the kid to act right or make him go home. I just feel somewhat uncomfortable getting after a kid who isn't my own for behavior he should know is unacceptable at someone else's house. Anyone have any good advice/sympathy? Or am I the only one who has to deal with this?
