My hands had been bothering (carpal tunnel) me since my blogs joined the top ten in each category. This dropping thing is too much for me. I think being in top ten for 3 months is way too much for my body to handle. I have to slow down again and give someone else blog be on the top.
I have been wearing my magnetize wrist band for about a month now, and it doesn't seem that it will get better anytime soon. I think the only thing to do is slow down for a few months. I will try to drop back, but I will not drop 300 a day anymore. I need to get ready for my children transition to traditional home school. We (DH and I) don't know what we are going to teach them yet, but I am sure we can come up with something. It would be nice to teach them about the words of Yeshua, but we don't want to belong with any religion. We are spiritual family and we don't want to be associated with any of them.
The best bet is the internet, we can gather all the information out there and teach them from that. I am open for any suggestions, as long as your suggestions do not lean to any religion/organization out there.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Schwa Accent
I have learned a new sound today along with my DD. This pertains to the vowels. Schwa a toneless unstressed neutral vowel sound in some languages like American English.
An example is wagon. The word has two syllables and the accented syllable is wag. The unaccented syllable is on, and becomes short /un/ instead of short /on/ because we say it softly.
Now with the word garden. First syllable gar has the accented sound, and den has the schwa sound. It is pronounced with short /dun/ instead of short /den/.
And here is the symbol for the schwa sound /ə/, an upside down e. DD was asking me what it was the first time we got the letter tiles, and I could not answer her. Today we found out what it is for. What have you learned today?
I have a question, how do you make the sign for short vowel sound? I can do the long vowel sound but I can't find what to use for the short vowel sounds. Anyone can tell me which one to use.
An example is wagon. The word has two syllables and the accented syllable is wag. The unaccented syllable is on, and becomes short /un/ instead of short /on/ because we say it softly.
Now with the word garden. First syllable gar has the accented sound, and den has the schwa sound. It is pronounced with short /dun/ instead of short /den/.
And here is the symbol for the schwa sound /ə/, an upside down e. DD was asking me what it was the first time we got the letter tiles, and I could not answer her. Today we found out what it is for. What have you learned today?
I have a question, how do you make the sign for short vowel sound? I can do the long vowel sound but I can't find what to use for the short vowel sounds. Anyone can tell me which one to use.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Let's Make Paper Boat
The same process like the paper hats. You just have to keep going until you can open it without messing up the shapes. This time I use a newspaper.
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