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Bun, What? The Questions and Ponderations Thread
dang, I missed the snowball fight. You don't know snow until you're in lake effect snow. I'm in for the crepes or Thai, though!
I think they are having a water fight now.::Hands Carol a margarita::
::checks on Ken to see if he needs resuscitating::
I’m always open to a little high-quality tasing. In fact, I just put on my headphones and cranked The Flaming Lips to eleven.
How do you expect us to continue throwing snowballs now, we can't risk hitting the little cutie.
In first grade, me and Donny Johnson were whacked with a pointer by Mrs. Zimmer for starting a snowball fight at recess.
It was the first of many such public-school beatdowns.
It was the first of many such public-school beatdowns.
Bun,what do you want to do after the snowball fight?
I’m having my morning Bloody Mary, after which I will blow up a turkey with a stick of dynamite as a gesture of thanks for the life of Hunter S. Thompson.
BunWat wrote: "Also what is current thinking about teaching TAG populations, because I think I belong to those populations and my god I definitely do not feel that most my teachers had the slightest notion what to do with me other than to bribe or intimidate me to keep quiet and stop disrupting the class."i was not exactly disruptive, but my teachers didn't know what to do with me at all. one teacher (i had him for four years too) was so bad at understanding me he practically bullied me. i hear from my mother the situation has changed since then.
My guidance counselor told me my IQ was too high for me to get stoned, and I have never trusted anybody since.
Memory lapses aren’t warning signs. They’re gifts from above (or in the case of Stolichnaya, from Russia).
If you’d chugged down a string of brewskis and a shot or two without batting an eyelash, THEN I might worry about alcoholism. But hitting the deck with a blackout on the first outing seems pretty normal. I’m just concerned you prematurely turned your back on an affliction-free career of regular drunkenness.
Okay this interests me strangely. One, why are you bundling English Language Learners, and Gifted and Talented? Are there actually overlaps there? If there are overlaps what are they? Let me just start with this one. I should have contextualized this more in the post, I can see why you're asking. We've already done a lot of work on RTI (response to intervention), or what most people would call the "special ed." kids. I also wanted the students to see that differentiated instruction doesn't only apply to kids who are struggling because of special ed. reasons/labels/data. The ELL kids, I try to emphasize, just don't know English but most likely are doing perfectly well in their own language. The TAG kids are advanced. The overlap can best be summarized by the assertion both TAG and ELL kids need differentiated instruction despite the fact they don't have special education labels. So I give the kids a theoretical passage/assignment for third graders, in this case, and essentially ask "What if a TAG kid finishes in two seconds or has proved she doesn't need to do this sort of thing anymore? What if you have an ELL kid who has no background on Thomas Edison (the subject of the passage) and doesn't speak much English? What are you going to do? How can you plan meaningfully for this? How can you keep from getting freaked the fuck out?" I emphasize the ideas that 1) there are no perfect answers, just, essentially, try f--king something and see if it works, don't let the kid, TAG or ELL, sit there quietly, and 2) you don't need to differentiate for every kid all day in every situation, but sometimes you should. I hope that makes sense.
Honestly, sometimes I struggle teaching this material because there aren't easy answers, but I'm trying to build dispositions and get the students used to taking risks based on research-based strategies. I'm in no, way, shape or form an expert in ELL but I'm a bit more comfortable with TAG kids. TAG kids are, arguably, like Sally said, amongst the most underserved in any general school population. There's a lot of bias (e.g. "those kids are already doing fine, they can just help the other kids"), resources are allocated elsewhere, and teachers aren't sure what to do with the TAG kids who may make the teachers feel incompetent.
This page, and this organization, has some great information on what I think you're asking, Buns. Also, yay the internet for essentially writing my lessons for me.
http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=653
I don't know that I ever blacked out drinking. What kind of shot was it, Buns, or do you not remember?
once, in the 7th grade, I was in a 'mixed'class: half eigth graders and half 7th. one day, Sister mary.... spend all afternoon with the 8th graders without giving the 7th graders anything to do. talk about boring..just before the end of the day she loads the 7th graders down with 4hrs worth of homework. she heard me muttering under my breath and specifically asked me what I was saying. I said,"nothing,Sister" hoping she would accept that answer. which of course she did not. She held the whole class until I answered her. When I told her about my complaint...well, my dad had to go to the monsignor to get me back into school. I had to apologize to everyone. And no matter what actual grades I got on tests or homework, I got "D"s the next marking period. Lesson learned: never answer the nun truthfully. tell some polite lie. god will forgive you. No one likes a smart mouth kid.
Hey everyone! aww my newly posted avatar has arrived for your enjoyment.
Yay! You're young-looking for your age, Michele:)
that was why I used it RA. so I would look as young as I feel (today anyway)
Do you want to be well-armed and blue-skinned, too? I approve.
I approve of women who carry big sticks. I walk softly however. I love the color blue. after all, I'm an avatar.
Since I like all you guys, I will be neutral. I will seel the tickets to those wishing to watch this great spectacle, the money to go to the BunWat Trophy Fund for the winners!!Bun, what kind of trophy do you want?
BunWat wrote: "So ever since, I've been pretty cautious about drinking. "
Lightweight...
Lightweight...
Please recommend a GPS for $200 or less. Thank you.
I don't even own a car, Clark, so maybe I shouldn't be the one making this suggestion. But whenever I rent a car I ask for a GPS, and most of the rental companies seem to use this one, made by a company called Garmin:http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-4-3-Inch...
It plugs into the cigarette lighter and seems to work great. Amazon has it for $152 for the top of the line version and about $100 for models that eliminate certain features, like the 3-D visual, etc.
We have a TomTom. It was on clearance at Target. It's pretty good, except when I told it to take me to DC's chinatown and it took me to Chevy Chase instead. The DC map even defeats GPS.
they are not infallible. we use one in our work truck and sometimes they can take you through town instead of around. much easier than staring at a map whilst hurtling down the road though
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "they are not infallible. we use one in our work truck and sometimes they can take you through town instead of around. much easier than staring at a map whilst hurtling down the road though"As long as you're not programming it while you drive.
right. while eating a chalupa, texting, changing the XM radio station and checking out the chopper next to you
Hee. Maybe your cell phone. Not mine. [image error]
Carol wrote: "dang, I missed the snowball fight. You don't know snow until you're in lake effect snow. I'm in for the crepes or Thai, though!"If I make the crepes, I'll bring some maple syrup.
I have a street directory and two children who are very good at reading maps.
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Larry wrote: "I just know where to go."Is that because everyone keeps telling you where to go?
I have GPS on my Android phone. It's awesome. I just need to say an address into the microphone and a voice gives me directions.Didn't Buns say she was heading east for Christmas? Do you thinks he's under fourteen feet of snow, wishing she had never left California?
My husband's GPS tends to send me to some scary places; I don't trust it.
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Bun, I'm unclear until I get to the end where they say I might die if I don't toss out the soaking liquid if it is okay if I just soak the beans and make my chili all in the three hour way by skipping the five hour soak. Am I going to die?
bun, i appreciate your overall knowledge of things in general. just thinking about that.
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Bun, do you know if there's any correlation between smoking and SIDS?
Smoking while pregnant or around the baby? and thanks!
Hello Bun! I have a dog question for you!!!Last Tuesday, Pippa was chasing tennis balls in the backyard and stumbled in a hole. She favored her hind leg while outside, but when she came inside, she walked on all four legs. She was mellow that day, but has been her regular perky self except...
Now I can't get her to go on the grass AT ALL unless I walk her on a leash (and if I unleash her, she runs back to the porch and picks up her hind leg again). Every time I throw a ball, she just looks at it. When we're inside, she won't even come to the back door without me demanding that she do so.
I've taken my shoes off to see if there's anything pokey in the grass, but I can't feel anything. I've also looked and looked at her foot, but can't see anything abnormal.
I plan on taking her to the vet next week to make sure there isn't anything super weird going on with her foot, but what can I do to get her back on the grass? She LOVED running around back there and it kills me that she's scared of it.
Thanks Bun... I really appreciate it! I'm going to think of super tasty treats for her!
Hey Bun, I have a question for you... my herbs have been looking pitiful since the rain from a week and a half ago. And they're getting worse each day... they're wilty. I'm concerned that being inside the downstairs porch area may not be enough sun for them. They were doing so well, too! But now, I'm afraid all that rain may have smothered and/or killed them. Is there anything I can do to save them?
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When Bun and I were working in the Gambino operation together she was known only as 38 Watt. Now that she’s in witness protection, working productively in TSA security I believe SayWat? might be more appropriate.