Here is my favorite website! You will have to scan it on your phone, and you have to download it! Luckily, it’s free.
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Last weekend, I went to a lava tube cave in Flagstaff. I would rate it a 5!!!! I went inside this mile- long cave that was really fun. I tripped a little, but that was fine. Watch out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a little slippery with ice. And it’s about 30 to 35 degrees, so wear your jeans and coats!
Here is their website:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/recreation/peaks/lava-river-cave.shtml
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Secret Code Backpack Chains
- Beading cord or hemp
- Lanyard hooks or key rings
- Assorted lettered or colored beads
- Tie a long piece of beading cord or hemp to a lanyard hook or key ring.
- Write the telephone number or locker combination your child needs to remember on a piece of paper. Then have her choose one of the codes below and string on beads as described.
- Tie a secure knot at the end of the strand and trim the ends.
Secret code-
a-red
b-orange
c-yellow
d-green
e-blue
f-indigo
g -violet
h-magenta
i-gray
j-black
k–aqua
l-teal
m-pink
n-purple
o-crimson
p-amber
q-beige
r-brown
s-burgundy
t-fuchsia
u-violet
v-peach
w-saffron
x-salmon
y-tangerine
z-lavender
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Hello everybody!!! It’s a new school year and I am starting 3rd grade!!!! I would like to know what you did over the summer and I will be happy to respond.
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If you love the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, you’ll love this!!!!!! Its Jeff Kinney’s newest book, Cabin Fever!! You can pre-order it now, or you can wait until November 15!
Heres where you can pre- order it:
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I just went to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, and I went on the Giant Dipper. It is super duper awesome 
Its for MAJOR rollercoaster people. It is not good for people with back injuries,or physical problems. You have to be at least 5o inches tall. Here is a link to a virtual ride! http://youtu.be/_zE3EPGVzPA.
The Giant Dipper goes up 70 feet!
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Go to http://bighugelabs.com/ for royalty-free bead art and more!!!
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Hello everyone!
I just got back from Disneyland and I went on Tower of Terror and California Screamin’! It was so fun!!!!!!!! I went upside down on California Screamin’, and on Tower of Terror, we went down about six stories. We had frozen lemonade, and that was the only time we stopped. We ran and ran to get to other rides.
We hardly waited at all, four days at Disneyland with only about a hour of waiting, but at the California Adventure Park the line was longer at Toy Story then on California Screamin’! But that was probably because it broke, and it just opened when we got on it.
My top three favorite rides in order are:
- California Screamin’
- Space Mountain
- Big Thunder Railroad
I recommend these rides. They are the most fun!
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I am FINALLY going to Disneyland for the first time. We are taking our cousin with us. She is nice,and she is always cheerful. It will be so much fun going to Disneyland with her! I can go on all the rides. I will probably like Indiana Jones best. It is not as scary as Space Mountain,but it may be a little scary.
Can you give me some advice?
First:
- Do they have good room service?
- Do they have installed elevators?
- Do you have to cook your food, or do you have to buy it?
- What is your favorite ride?
- What ride do you think is the most fun?
- What ride do you think is the most dangerous?
- What ride is the longest?
- How long is the drive from Orange County to Disneyland?
- Are there any rides that were not fun?
Thank you! I really appreciate it.
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Although Lucy has already been identified as gifted and is currently enrolled in a self-contained gifted class, we now have her little sister coming down the road to kindergarten. With this in mind, I am reluctantly revisiting our experience with Lucy in order to try and have a better outcome with her sister. When Lucy was tested at a very early 4 using the Stanford-Binet IV, the results were not reliable or accurate. We seemed to have few options for getting her properly educated, though, so thought we had little choice but to test her prematurely. At 4, she was already reading chapter books and doing pretty advanced math – so we knew there was no way that she could be appropriately challenged in the regular Kindergarten classroom in public school.
We explored our options and at the time (this program has since changed), there was a self-contained gifted Kindergarten classroom in a nearby community that seemed to be a viable option. This is the ONLY reason we had her tested – because I had serious reservations about the accuracy and reliability of testing at that age… and it turned out that my instincts were right on target.
Her test scores were not what I expected, particularly considering where I thought her academic level was – WAY above the K level. In retrospect, I think a lot of it had to do with the pitfalls of “testing” a 4 year old that has never been in an academic environment of that nature. At the time, I second-guessed myself a lot after Lucy’s lackluster test results:
Was Lucy not as gifted as I thought that she was?
Was I just projecting my own bias into my observations?
Is it weird, pushy, and cruel to subject a 4 year old to IQ testing?
Lucy is now performing at the top of her gifted class, so I am convinced that the initial test results were inaccurate probably due to Lucy never having been exposed to a “test” prior to the big day. She is also having the time of her life in her 2nd grade class, so I am confident that we’ve made sound decisions thus far. But, as any parent of any special needs child knows (gifted DEFINITELY is special needs), education decisions are made day-by-day and year-by-year.
Gifted Testing Preparation?
Although I vehemently oppose putting a very bright child who can excel in the regular classroom in a classroom of gifted kids where they perpetually struggle to keep up, I do think that a modest amount of “test prep” is called for in our situation. I am in the process of exploring a few gifted testing prep websites that perhaps will help ensure that Lucy’s sister’s test results are more aligned with reality. I don’t intend to do any sort of coaching, but I also don’t want her to be totally taken off guard on the big test day!
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