A Defibaugh
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A Defibaugh
@MissDefibaugh
Retired but forever a teacher at heart! Lover of books, cats, bird-watching, and folk music.
Katılım Ağustos 2014
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@WilliamWood10 @HannahWardEdu @SuGreer I may not like this new series (I don't even have Netflix) but I love the chance to talk about LIW and LHOTP! I've been a fan of the books and the author for 60+ years.
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@WilliamWood10 @HannahWardEdu @SuGreer And like Laura and Grace, it is believed that she died (age 75) from complications from diabetes, which ran in the family. She married a widower and was a stepmother to his two children. And she had a career as a printer.
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@BiblicalBeauty I chose to be a public school teacher because I saw that as the ministry to which God called me, but I was becoming increasingly frustrated because there was no way I could meet the needs of all my students & then came the state tests. Teaching changed dramatically as a result 🙁
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Both of my older children needed a much longer time period than I anticipated they might need to learn to read. We kept at it, and one day, it suddenly clicked for our oldest, and she immediately became a bookworm. Our middle child has unexpectedly had a similar breakthrough this week, and is happily announcing, “I can read!”
I’m so thankful for the flexibility that homeschooling provides. They were never compared to everyone else in a class or made to feel that they were failing or dumb simply because they needed more time than others to learn this vital skill. I had the freedom to adjust to their individual needs and help them keep learning in multiple other ways while we practiced reading at their own pace.
Children are different, and homeschooling makes it possible to honor those differences instead of labeling them as deficiencies.
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@AuthorGFAllen Probably the Anne of Green Gables series of eight books
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Which celebrity would you most like to sit next to on a long flight?
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@Mamatolottacats @RuthSummie I heard about that. I don't have cable myself, but when I saw it on the tv listings at my mother's house, I chose not to watch it.
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@MissDefibaugh @RuthSummie Hallmark did a movie of the first "Mitford" book - I never saw it, but I saw a trailer for it, and they ruined it. Father Tim was a young man, Dooley was about 5 years old, on and on. Jan Karon was deeply disappointed.
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Unpopular opinion;
I do NOT want my favourite books to get shows/ movies.
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@MrShikaki33959 @JerseyGeneral34 @DaddyWarpig To be honest, I don't disagree with you on that. But when I was teaching grade 3, the state decided the curriculum I was to teach.
I myself learned multiplication back in the 1960s when we just memorized the facts. That education served me well - and I majored in math in college.
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@MissDefibaugh @JerseyGeneral34 @DaddyWarpig We dont need children who are learning 3x4 to involve themselves in math theory
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Teachers too stupid to understand that four threes and three fours are the exact same thing shouldn't be teachers.
Besides, even in baby-talk multiplication, the kid is right. "take three four times"
Fire the teacher, burn their last paycheck, send them to Alaska.
Math Files@Math_files
Teachers who are incapable of controlling their emotions towards children they're meant to be teaching shouldn't be teachers.
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@MrShikaki33959 @JerseyGeneral34 @DaddyWarpig 3 x 4 = 3 groups with 4 in each group
4 x 3 = 4 groups with 3 in each group
Each has a total of 12, but the way the 12 are grouped is not the same.
If you are using practical business calculating, you see the totals.
If you are interested in math theory, you see the difference.
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@MissDefibaugh @JerseyGeneral34 @DaddyWarpig I actually make money using math without needing the government to pay me. 3x4 is the same as 4x3. 3+3+3+3=4+4+4.
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@rebecca_linam My favorite chapter is the one when Rufus gets his library card!
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Anybody ever read the "Moffat" books? I just read the first one. I'll be starting the 2nd one tonight. Life in America in the early 1900s with a family of 4 kids and their adventures.
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@rebecca_linam Yes: The Moffats, The Middle Moffat, and Rufus M.
A companion series is about the Pyes: Ginger Pye, and Pinky Pye
I loved them as a child!
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@MariaEyre1873 I clearly remember my mother telling me that I would not be four years old until after my nap. It would "happen" while I was napping.
(I was born at 4:05 AM)
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Lol. When my 4 year old was informed that when he turned 5 there would be some growing up changes, he threw a fit on and off whenever he thought about it. Then he brightened up and decided he was not going to turn 5; he was skipping it to turn 6.
Faye L Root@littlebayschool
Just remembered that after her ballet class yesterday, my 4yo informed us that another kid in her class was 5, about to turn 7. When asked about 6, she said she was skipping 6. When pressed on that, she said she was probably going to be 6 for a little while, then move quickly on to 7.
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@AaronIrber "The Day Christ Died" by Jim Bishop. (It's an old one.)
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@ThatEricAlper The standard Christmas gift in a classroom gift exchange with a price limit of 50 cents in the 1960s.
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@AdamTwelv @VixenRogue Actually, the character named Nellie was a composite figure of three real life girls that Laura Ingalls disliked.
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Even if this doesn't suck it won't capture the magic of the original. There's no chance Netflix would be so brazenly Christian or paint a town of white settlers as mostly good people.
Netflix@netflix
Here is your first official look at Little House on the Prairie. Meet the Ingalls family as they discover what “home” really means. Little House on the Prairie, based on the beloved books, premieres July 9, only on Netflix.
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@kjgillenwater @VixenRogue Yes. The old tv show was NOT like the books. I'd like to see Laura's friends Cap Garland, Mary Power, Ida Brown, and Ben Woodworth instead of imaginary adopted kids that wet the bed or take drugs.
And BTW, Mrs. Oleson was a pleasant woman in the books, even if Nellie was a brat.
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@VixenRogue What I'd like it to capture is the magic of the books. Which was not the 70s/80s tv show. They had a few things that aligned with the original tale, but then went WAY WAY WAY in their own direction. I'd love to see something more authentic to the books...and this could be it.
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@EchoedChaos_ Long book: "The Robe" by Lloyd C. Douglas (masterful descriptive writing)
Short book: "Stone Fox" by J.R. Gardiner
Very short book: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan
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@New_E_Mom @brittilina That's how I feel about Wonder Woman (only ever Lynda Carter)
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@brittilina There is only one good actor for pa Ingalls
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