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  Should kids learn cursive handwriting?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  i am an elementary school teacher of the fourth grade.

  in times past, students would start learning cursive handwriting in third grade and by fourth should be transitioning to writing in cursive at all times.

  as you might be aware, this has all but been taken out of the curriculum.

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  Happy New Year! My personal success this year...

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  we've just got finished banging the pots and pans and screaming on the front porch.

  a few shotgun shots ( i hope they were blanks!

  ) and we can hear the low rumble of the fireworks in baltimore about 25 miles away.

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  Share your home remedies for congestion and earache...please?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  the extraordinarily high pollen count has finally done me in.

  i started with head congestion and coughing on friday and have steadily felt worse.

  i now have an earache and a heavy feeling in my chest.. yes, i do have a doctor's appointment for tomorrow, as i'm sure the advice would be!

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  Spring has sprung!

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  though not officially spring, the past two days in the mid-atlantic have been gorgeous!

  it's been over 70°f and sunny.

  i've opened all the windows in the house and have sunshine and fresh air pouring in.. i walked outside today and noticed that my tulips are pushing through the ground.

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  The worst gift of Christmas

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  everybody gets one, the gift that stared up at you hopefully from its beautiful wrapping, and then, like a deflated balloon, delivers the worst gift ever.. i'm not talking about the gifts from small children like the "greatest aunt" coffee mug or the red and black lace folding fan.

  surely you never would have chosen them for yourself, but it's the thought that counts from small people who love you.. then, there's the what the hell were they thinking gifts.

  my mother-in-law has been giving these a lot lately.

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  What did you have for Christmas dinner?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  my inlaws are polish, though my husband is a 3rd generation american, but the food traditions have stuck around.. we have christmas eve dinner starting with red beet soup with sour cream, pierogies filled with mashed potatoes or saurkraut, ham, polish sausage sliced and cooked with saurkraut, turkey (that part is american), krischickies (likely spelled wrong) which are crispy pastries dipped in powdered sugar, and apple pie (also american.).

  there are goodnatured threats toward bad children who may need to get their dupa busted (butt spanked) and therefore santa will bring figismachen.

  i also love golabkis (ground beef and rice wrapped in cabbage leaves), but these were not served this time.

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  Don't tell MomMom we're having ham on Good Friday

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  my husband went to work with a terrible sinus infection today.

  he works outdoors and it rained today, so i felt really bad for him and decided to cook him a nice dinner.. the local grocery store had a promotion in the month before easter where when you shop there for 4 weeks in a row you get a free easter ham.

  we got the ham, i never coded it in my head as an easter ham, just a ham which, for us, is a very nice dinner.. so, today i popped the ham in the oven as a kind of consolation prize to my husband for having to work while sick today.. i completely forgot that today is good friday.

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  JW with cart in front of White House today! It was 32 degrees!

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  well, then, if it was so cold, what was i doing there?

  i was on a field trip with a bunch of 8th graders.

  i volunteered to chaperone and i was in charge of seven 13 year old boys who demanded to see the white house since the bus dropped us off on the national mall and we had 2 hours to look at the war memorials before we had to be back on the bus.

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  Which flag will fly?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  which flag will fly in the morning?

  this was the question asked by a young man as he was held prisoner on a british ship during the battle of baltimore 200 years ago last night.. the british were aiming to take the city of baltimore, but were receiving heavy fire from fort mchenry 6 miles down the bay from baltimore harbor.

  that young man, named francis scott key, looked desperately through "the rockets red glare" to see whether "the flag was still there.

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  "You don't pee next to a cop," and other rules from the mens room that women don't know

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  i was recently at a baseball game with friends and family when i learned something new.

  beer had been drunk and the men made their way to the men's room to relieve themselves.

  when they got back i asked them what took them so long.

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