Oh, woe is me. It’s so cold, I just sit under a heated blanket. I did walk outside, but only a mile. Tomorrow is new day and it’ll be a little warmer. I really am exhausted from thinking about water freezing and central heat bursting. I’m making sure the chickens have water and food . The birds have food too.
Hope you are warm and have no frozen pipes.
Ashenazi Jews emerged in the Holy Roman Empire are one the end of the first millennium CE. They migrated to northern and eastern Europe during the Middle Ages due to persecution. Simply speaking they are European Jews.
I’m proud of my two daughters for the Moms they are. Erin and Ada watched a video on YouTube about making roll out sugar cookies. Then they did just that. After they had them all mixed up—Ada said—now, we have to chill them♥️ She paid attention to the video! Learn and do. She made dinosaurs but pretty hearts too.
Greta’ s team finished their season by topping Greenwood. They trailed most of the first half, but came back to win by 4 points I think. Track is next she puts the shot and throws the disc. She looks like the tallest on her team now. Shes’s 5’9”.
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️🤍❤️Russellville Fifth Grade used to have a tea on Vanentines Day, but they served punch. Boys dressed nicely and girls did, too. Astrid is sitting with Eleanor and who knew she’d grow up to marry her cousin! Sigrid had more than one dress to pick from. She came over and modeled them for Pop. He helped her choose. Ingrid is absolutely stunning. When you grow old one thing you have in abundance is memories!
Learning Life Skills Through Tea Etiquette
Throwing a tea party will teach kids valuable life skills through tea etiquette.
-Learning how to behave around a table. Sitting (relatively) still, listening to the individual talking, and learning how to ask questions are all things you do at a tea party, and these are important skills to work on at an early age.
-Waiting your turn is an important skill, and the tea party setting makes it fun. Waiting your turn to take tea and sweets, or waiting your turn to ask or answer a question.
-Sharing! Need I say more?
-The absence of electronics- knowing when to put the devices away is so vital these days.
-Saying 'please' and 'thank you'. This takes constant practice and repetition. Putting it in the context of a tea party makes it fun, and it will become second nature after enough practice.
Larry was a gardener! He studied plants and how to grow them! He was tall 6’9” tall. His gardens were big. The rows were long. I know ‘cause I hoed them! He also had a Farmall with hillers and tillers and all sorts of attachments! He had big buckets of fertilizers and chemicals for whatever might sttack his plants! He had an electric fence for the deer! Too many rabbits— he shot them. A scarecrow to scare the crows! He’s been gone 5 years but I’m dreaming of a garden! Maybe a few raised beds. I could take care of that! We return to our roots!
In early 1942, just weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Office of Civilian Defense encouraged Americans to plant Victory Gardens. The concept revived an old WWI tradition of Americans planting War Gardens to support the war effort from the Home Front. Victory Gardens had several purposes, but one of the most important was providing healthy food for American families while lessening their need to purchase food from outside sources.
It’s going to be colder for a few days. Not Arctic weather so I’m trying to be thankful.
Just finished this book about a college educated woman who took a job as a sheep herder. I liked it. A life so different from mine. Being able to read well is an inherited trait, but reading for pleasure is controlled by environment. Children can’t read for pleasure if they have no books. Thank heaven for public libraries and Dolly Parton. And yes, reading problems like dyslexia are inherited.
I have six grands and the first five are all good readers. I don’t know about little Ada but she knows lots of words and loves books. Of my six, Ingrid is my only read pleasure grand. She prefers to buy books and keep ‘em ‘cause she loves them. 🤍 Siggie and Astrid read to learn about things that interest them. Clayton and Greta read well too. I wish I had been taught phonics. During the 50’s one of the educational trends in Arkansas was to focus on reading by sight. I don’t recall much teaching of phonics. Think heaven the pendulum has swung back toward more stress of phonics. I hope you enjoy reading. It’s a wonderful hobby.
Good reading ability is crucial in modern literate society. It has a fundamental role in how we acquire knowledge and has been associated with employment level and socioeconomic status. Twin studies are best to research when looking at whether something is innate. Here’s data from a study of 6,000 twins. There’s lots of studies concerning ready ability and genetics.
Children who are avid readers are typically good readers, and children who seldom read a book voluntarily often have dyslexia. Psychologists and behavioural geneticists from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, studied this in 6,000 7-year-old twin pairs. They discovered that how well children read influences how much they read, and not the other way around. Furthermore, they found that how well children read is very inheritable, while how much they read is influenced equally by genes and the environment.
The good readers all read a book for pleasure now and then, and almost half of them even daily. Only 1 out of 5 of the struggling readers read daily, and 1 out of 10 never read. It is known that how much you do something and how well you do it are related, but for reading this study seems to solve the chicken-and-egg problem. The study is published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ‘Why do children read more? The influence of reading ability on voluntary reading practices’, Elsje van Bergen et al.