Handprint poem for preschool
Foster care is not a fast track to adoption
2024.05.31 22:15 Horror_Eggplant_2485 Foster care is not a fast track to adoption
I am seeking encouragement and reassurance. Please, no negative or critical comments - though I know I'll get them anyway. This period of my life has been my greatest effort in self-examination, self-reflection, internally motivated growth, and externally motivated growth. Please believe me; I am and have been facing the parts of myself and my life that are in need of improvement. Please be kind. I'm sorry, this is very long.
My 3 year old child entered foster care 11 months ago, when they were 2. My partner and I were in the throes of substance abuse. While I believe that I always gave my child the very best of myself, clearly it wasn't good enough. When we entered the DSS office that first time, I was honest with them when they questioned me. My child was removed. My partner and I were responsible for that. We are now trying to face that responsibility, correct our failings, and be reunited with our child.
Our child is in a loving home. It is the second foster care home they have been in since entering the system. They have been there since October. The first home was an absolute nightmare.
There were at least half a dozen other kids in the home. That first day after our child was removed, I went home and collected all of their clothes, comfort objects, and water bottles. Everything was washed, folded, and placed inside a proper suitcase. I had to let out every expansion on the piece of luggage to fit it all. They had several pairs of quality (such as Keen's and See Kai Run) children's shoes: rainboots, sandals, and sneakers. I had just had delivered a fresh case of Pampers and wipes from our Amazon subscribe and save. I took all these things to the office and dropped them off for my child to have.
My child would arrive to our visits dirty and wearing weather inappropriate clothes (long pants and sweat shirts in the middle of summer). One day, they had bruises in the shape of child-sized handprint on their leg, as if another child had grabbed and dragged them by the leg. I mentioned these things to the guardian ad litem. They said it sounded them like I was deflecting from my own failings, so I dropped it.
Fortunately, that family said they realized that they couldn't provide the level of individualized long term care a young foster child would need (they were only meant to be temporary). They did say my child was the "least problematic" child they had ever been placed with, whatever that means.
A new family was found. It was a young couple still in the vetting process of becoming a foster family. They were childless and openly struggling with infertility, and had decided to become foster parents. They were not officially approved yet. The caseworker was very positive and optimistic. She said the foster parents were supportive of our goal of reunification. At our permenancy plan hearing, the agency sought approval from the judge for the placement (since they were still in the process of becoming a verified foster family). We all agreed. My partner and I were invited to be present when the handover took place, to reassure our child.
Our child showed up barefooted with a garbage bag full of clothes. Their comfort objects were entirely absent. I inquired with the social worker about our child's belongings and she responded that "we can't expect families to keep up with all those things." Okay. Oh well. These new parents were so excited and kind to us.
Over the course of the last 11 months, my partner and I have each attended regular therapy sessions, outpatient substance abuse classes, and completed several parenting courses. All as requested in the case plan. We are both still in therapy and substance abuse classes. Unfortunately, our road to recovery has not been linear. We have had setbacks. Things are looking up, though. We have not had any relapses in several months and we are both gaining confidence that we can be successful with this.
Obviously, we are anxious to get our child back. However, we also want what is best for them. We want to truly be ready. We believe that having our child return home, only to be later removed again is one of the least desirable outcomes.
The clock is ticking. Those calendar pages keep turning. We are coming up on a year. The agency has asked the court to review the permenancy plan and for guidance on whether to keep the primary goal as reunification, or not. I'm feeling nervous.
We have never missed a visit, or even been late to one. Our child is excited to see us each week. We are positively engaged with them at each visit. It's only 2 hours per week, of course they should have our undivided attention. We miss them so much.
The foster family, on the other hand, has started resisting the visits. More and more frequently, they are being canceled for reasons such as sickness and bad weather. Last week, my lawyer handed me the printout of an email sent to the guardian ad litem. The email was written by the preschool teacher and said that our child had recently developed behavioral issues at school. Some of this is redacted for privacy but the letter stated "I noticed this change in behavior once visits with biological parents started happening."
I am hurt. I sent an email to the caseworker and the guardian ad litem responding to this claim. I said the visits have been happening since the beginning of the case. The visits are supervised. Our child is always excited to see us and happy at the visits. I said those supervising the visits can attest to that. I said that it shouldn't be a shock to have behavioral issues from a child in foster care. Perhaps our child should see pediatric mental health professionals if these issues are concerning beyond the normal scope of 3 year old behavior. I even suggested that the newly developed behavior could be sign that our child felt a secure attachment with their caregivers and now felt safe expressing their pain.
The DSS supervisor responded immediately. She reassured me that, yes, the visits have been happening since the inception of case. Far longer than the child has been at that school. She said that as our visits are on Fridays and our child does not return to school afterwards that she is not willing to attribute the behavioral issues to the visits.
My lawyer also gave me a copy of the court report, which I have never seen before at any point in the case. I read it front to back. I read that the foster parents "report that the child cries before visits because they don't want to go." Yikes. We are always early to visits because at the beginning of the case, our social worker told us that it's stressful for children who arrive before the parents, that they experience anxiety that the parents won't show. So, we are always waiting in the foyer. As soon as our child sees us, they run into our arms with glee, exclaiming "MOMMY! DADDY!"
So, we have a visit today and our child says to us "Mommy says that I want to go back home with her." My partner asks "which mommy?" They say, "the other mommy."
I thought that rooting for the child meant rooting for the family, but I don't think they are rooting for us anymore.
How bad is this? Should I be afraid that the courts will change the goal of the permenancy plan? In the court hearings that we have sat through waiting for our own case, we have only witnessed one family be reunited. We have seen far more families show up once and never come back. We listened as a parent lost their parental rights (they didn't attend the hearing). We have seen countless adoptions.
If you read all of this, thank you for your time and attention. I know you're just scrolling reddit. This is my life. I feel heart broken, a little betrayed, and terrified. I also feel thankful. I'm relieved my child is safe. I'm happy they are loved. I always tell the foster parents "thank you" each week.
I feel like the foster family wants us to fail so they can keep our child. I'm not shocked they would want to adopt them. My kid is amazing. Absolutely adorable; stunning really. Smart and precocious. Who wouldn't want to adopt my child? But the only thing is, that child is mine.
I'm not sure what I wanted out of this post. Maybe some advice, encouragement, or reassurance? I think mostly just writing it was cathartic for me. Thank you.
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My 3 year old child entered foster care 11 months ago, when they were 2. My partner and I were in the throes of substance abuse. While I believe that I always gave my child the very best of myself, clearly it wasn't good enough. When we entered the DSS office that first time, I was honest with them when they questioned me. My child was removed. My partner and I were responsible for that. We are now trying to face that responsibility, correct our failings, and be reunited with our child.
Our child is in a loving home. It is the second foster care home they have been in since entering the system. They have been there since October. The first home was an absolute nightmare.
There were at least half a dozen other kids in the home. That first day after our child was removed, I went home and collected all of their clothes, comfort objects, and water bottles. Everything was washed, folded, and placed inside a proper suitcase. I had to let out every expansion on the piece of luggage to fit it all. They had several pairs of quality (such as Keen's and See Kai Run) children's shoes: rainboots, sandals, and sneakers. I had just had delivered a fresh case of Pampers and wipes from our Amazon subscribe and save. I took all these things to the office and dropped them off for my child to have.
My child would arrive to our visits dirty and wearing weather inappropriate clothes (long pants and sweat shirts in the middle of summer). One day, they had bruises in the shape of child-sized handprint on their leg, as if another child had grabbed and dragged them by the leg. I mentioned these things to the guardian ad litem. They said it sounded them like I was deflecting from my own failings, so I dropped it.
Fortunately, that family said they realized that they couldn't provide the level of individualized long term care a young foster child would need (they were only meant to be temporary). They did say my child was the "least problematic" child they had ever been placed with, whatever that means.
A new family was found. It was a young couple still in the vetting process of becoming a foster family. They were childless and openly struggling with infertility, and had decided to become foster parents. They were not officially approved yet. The caseworker was very positive and optimistic. She said the foster parents were supportive of our goal of reunification. At our permenancy plan hearing, the agency sought approval from the judge for the placement (since they were still in the process of becoming a verified foster family). We all agreed. My partner and I were invited to be present when the handover took place, to reassure our child.
Our child showed up barefooted with a garbage bag full of clothes. Their comfort objects were entirely absent. I inquired with the social worker about our child's belongings and she responded that "we can't expect families to keep up with all those things." Okay. Oh well. These new parents were so excited and kind to us.
Over the course of the last 11 months, my partner and I have each attended regular therapy sessions, outpatient substance abuse classes, and completed several parenting courses. All as requested in the case plan. We are both still in therapy and substance abuse classes. Unfortunately, our road to recovery has not been linear. We have had setbacks. Things are looking up, though. We have not had any relapses in several months and we are both gaining confidence that we can be successful with this.
Obviously, we are anxious to get our child back. However, we also want what is best for them. We want to truly be ready. We believe that having our child return home, only to be later removed again is one of the least desirable outcomes.
The clock is ticking. Those calendar pages keep turning. We are coming up on a year. The agency has asked the court to review the permenancy plan and for guidance on whether to keep the primary goal as reunification, or not. I'm feeling nervous.
We have never missed a visit, or even been late to one. Our child is excited to see us each week. We are positively engaged with them at each visit. It's only 2 hours per week, of course they should have our undivided attention. We miss them so much.
The foster family, on the other hand, has started resisting the visits. More and more frequently, they are being canceled for reasons such as sickness and bad weather. Last week, my lawyer handed me the printout of an email sent to the guardian ad litem. The email was written by the preschool teacher and said that our child had recently developed behavioral issues at school. Some of this is redacted for privacy but the letter stated "I noticed this change in behavior once visits with biological parents started happening."
I am hurt. I sent an email to the caseworker and the guardian ad litem responding to this claim. I said the visits have been happening since the beginning of the case. The visits are supervised. Our child is always excited to see us and happy at the visits. I said those supervising the visits can attest to that. I said that it shouldn't be a shock to have behavioral issues from a child in foster care. Perhaps our child should see pediatric mental health professionals if these issues are concerning beyond the normal scope of 3 year old behavior. I even suggested that the newly developed behavior could be sign that our child felt a secure attachment with their caregivers and now felt safe expressing their pain.
The DSS supervisor responded immediately. She reassured me that, yes, the visits have been happening since the inception of case. Far longer than the child has been at that school. She said that as our visits are on Fridays and our child does not return to school afterwards that she is not willing to attribute the behavioral issues to the visits.
My lawyer also gave me a copy of the court report, which I have never seen before at any point in the case. I read it front to back. I read that the foster parents "report that the child cries before visits because they don't want to go." Yikes. We are always early to visits because at the beginning of the case, our social worker told us that it's stressful for children who arrive before the parents, that they experience anxiety that the parents won't show. So, we are always waiting in the foyer. As soon as our child sees us, they run into our arms with glee, exclaiming "MOMMY! DADDY!"
So, we have a visit today and our child says to us "Mommy says that I want to go back home with her." My partner asks "which mommy?" They say, "the other mommy."
I thought that rooting for the child meant rooting for the family, but I don't think they are rooting for us anymore.
How bad is this? Should I be afraid that the courts will change the goal of the permenancy plan? In the court hearings that we have sat through waiting for our own case, we have only witnessed one family be reunited. We have seen far more families show up once and never come back. We listened as a parent lost their parental rights (they didn't attend the hearing). We have seen countless adoptions.
If you read all of this, thank you for your time and attention. I know you're just scrolling reddit. This is my life. I feel heart broken, a little betrayed, and terrified. I also feel thankful. I'm relieved my child is safe. I'm happy they are loved. I always tell the foster parents "thank you" each week.
I feel like the foster family wants us to fail so they can keep our child. I'm not shocked they would want to adopt them. My kid is amazing. Absolutely adorable; stunning really. Smart and precocious. Who wouldn't want to adopt my child? But the only thing is, that child is mine.
I'm not sure what I wanted out of this post. Maybe some advice, encouragement, or reassurance? I think mostly just writing it was cathartic for me. Thank you.
2024.05.27 08:12 hellopriyasharma Innovative Preschool Tree Craft Ideas for Every Season
 | Introducing children to Tree Craft activities is a great approach to teach them about the value of nature in our lives and the changing seasons. In addition to fostering creativity and enhancing fine motor abilities, these projects help young students develop an awareness for the environment. These projects might have a special significance for preschools in India, where a wide variety of flora and cultural events are interwoven with the changing of the seasons. Let's look at some different tree craft ideas that young children can do all year long. submitted by hellopriyasharma to u/hellopriyasharma [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/f0xba8r1vw2d1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6aed641c598f13346702fab42d712ac8518ed50b 1. Spring: Blossoming Tree CraftsCherry Blossom Artwork:Materials Needed: Pink tissue paper, brown construction paper, glue, and a white canvas.Activity: Create the tree trunk and branches with cut-out pieces of brown paper. Then, crumple up small pieces of pink tissue paper to represent blossoms and glue them to the branches. Finger Painting Bud Trees:Materials Needed: Green and pink paint, paper.Activity: Children dip their fingers in paint and press them onto paper to create colorful buds, simulating the look of trees in spring. 2. Summer: Lush Green Tree ProjectsLeafy Handprint Trees:Materials Needed: Green paint, brown construction paper, paper.Activity: Use handprints dipped in green paint to create the leaves on trees cut out of brown construction paper. Nature Collage Trees:Materials Needed: Leaves collected from outside, glue, paper.Activity: Stick real leaves onto paper to form a tree, fostering a connection with nature. 3. Autumn: Fall Tree ActivitiesAutumn Leaf Stamping:Materials Needed: Leaves with different shapes, orange and red paint, paper.Activity: Paint the leaves and press them onto paper to create stamps, reflecting the changing colors of the season. Paper Mosaic Fall Trees:Materials Needed: Red, orange, and yellow construction paper, glue, brown paper for the trunk.Activity: Tear or cut the colored paper and arrange the pieces on the trunk to form a mosaic-style autumn tree. 4. Winter: Bare Winter TreesBare Winter Tree Silhouettes:Materials Needed: Black construction paper, white paint, a toothbrush.Activity: Cut out a tree silhouette and use a toothbrush to flick white paint over the black paper, creating a snow effect. Cotton Ball Snow Trees:Materials Needed: Cotton balls, glue, blue paper.Activity: Stick cotton balls onto a tree drawing to represent snow-laden branches. Integrating Tree Crafts with Technology and CommunicationIn the current digital era, it’s essential to balance traditional craft activities with technological engagement:Using School Parent Apps:Activity Documentation: Share photos of completed crafts through a school parent app to keep parents updated on their child’s creations and learning progress.Craft Instructions: Provide parents with digital instructions for crafts via the app so they can continue the educational journey at home. Virtual Show and Tell:Materials Needed: Device with internet access.Activity: Host a virtual show and tell where children can present and discuss their tree crafts. ConclusionTree Craft Preschool activities are a fantastic way to bring the beauty of the outdoors into the classroom and to discuss the seasons. By integrating these crafts into the curriculum, best preschools in India offer a hands-on approach to learning that enhances children's understanding of the world around them. Using the school parent app to share these experiences further bridges the gap between home and school, involving parents in their child’s educational journey. As children craft their way through the seasons, they develop not only their artistic skills but also a deeper respect for nature’s cycles and an appreciation for the environment. |
2024.05.25 00:23 tatooine456 my traveler (tw: alludes to sexual abuse)
hello!! this is the first poem i've written in a long time, it's reflecting on a bad relationship i had end recently.
today's the day i understand
fleeing from my chosen man
a perfect man, i wouldn't say
with my trust, he loves to play
round and round we go and go
it's hard to say, friend or foe?
when he's bored he seeks me out
when he's gone i moan and pout
...
he likes to skin me with his tongue
subdued breaths fill up my lungs
i lie there, tender, tainted, raw
between my thighs, i feel him gnaw
a glistening smile grows on his face
a wicked smirk soon takes its place
he eats my fingers, each one a snack
then ties my wrists behind my back
...
he's on the road, another whim
i look to the sky to pray to him
i sit silent and contemplate
what to do without my mate
my sores fester and i don't care
i pick my scabs in my despair
trace his handprints burned in flesh
long for when the sting was fresh
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today's the day i understand
fleeing from my chosen man
a perfect man, i wouldn't say
with my trust, he loves to play
round and round we go and go
it's hard to say, friend or foe?
when he's bored he seeks me out
when he's gone i moan and pout
...
he likes to skin me with his tongue
subdued breaths fill up my lungs
i lie there, tender, tainted, raw
between my thighs, i feel him gnaw
a glistening smile grows on his face
a wicked smirk soon takes its place
he eats my fingers, each one a snack
then ties my wrists behind my back
...
he's on the road, another whim
i look to the sky to pray to him
i sit silent and contemplate
what to do without my mate
my sores fester and i don't care
i pick my scabs in my despair
trace his handprints burned in flesh
long for when the sting was fresh
2024.05.24 13:28 hellopriyasharma Simple Indian Independence Day Crafts ideas for Young Children
 | Celebrating Indian Independence Day in preschools fosters a sense of patriotism and respect for the country’s rich history. Incorporating Indian independence day craft ideas for preschool kids into the celebration can make this day even more memorable for the little ones. These craft activities not only engage children creatively but also help them understand the significance of Independence Day. Here, we explore simple yet meaningful craft ideas suitable for preschool children, making it a perfect addition to preschools in India looking to commemorate this important day. submitted by hellopriyasharma to u/hellopriyasharma [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/mco8qm6r0d2d1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a6d8199eecbfcfc8deb4dbcaecd4330ffba6e99 Tricolor Flag Making
Handprint Peacocks
Lotus Flower Crafts
Independence Day Wreaths
Tricolor Suncatchers
Patriotic Paper Chain
Badge of HonorMaterials Needed: Cardstock, ribbon, safety pins, and markers.Activity: Children can create their own badges using cardstock, decorating them with symbols of India or the national flag, and attaching a ribbon. These badges can be worn proudly on Independence Day. Incorporating Preschool Independence Day Craft Ideas into the curriculum not only celebrates a significant national event but also encourages creativity, fine motor skills, and an understanding of national symbols and history. Such activities can become a cherished part of the annual celebrations in preschools in India, creating lasting memories for children and fostering a deep respect for the country's heritage. ConclusionIndian Independence Day Craft Ideas for Preschoolers are a great way to use interactive, hands-on activities to teach young students about the significance of Independence Day. These projects encourage creativity and the development of fine motor skills in addition to promoting a sense of patriotism. The preschools in India can create an engaging and educational Independence Day celebration that teaches and amuses young brains by including these crafts into the festivities. Let us encourage our preschoolers to learn about the various colors, symbols, and narratives that comprise the diverse fabric of our country as we commemorate independence. |
2024.05.20 16:15 Negative_Mango_7032 Preschool World Cultures curriculum?
I’m looking for a yearlong preschool curriculum focusing on world cultures. Does this exist?
We currently use Lynn Seddon’s “Exploring Nature with Children” and I love it - each week has a theme (eg, “Grasses”) and for each week she includes a book list, extension activities, poem, and image for picture study. It’s flexible and a great guide/starting point for our learning.
I’m looking for something with a similar format, but focusing on world cultures and religions. No math/phonics/literacy, so not a complete curriculum.
I know I could find websites and books from the library and organize this myself, but the simplicity of a week-by-week organized plan with booklists and some activities is what I’m after.
Any suggestions?
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We currently use Lynn Seddon’s “Exploring Nature with Children” and I love it - each week has a theme (eg, “Grasses”) and for each week she includes a book list, extension activities, poem, and image for picture study. It’s flexible and a great guide/starting point for our learning.
I’m looking for something with a similar format, but focusing on world cultures and religions. No math/phonics/literacy, so not a complete curriculum.
I know I could find websites and books from the library and organize this myself, but the simplicity of a week-by-week organized plan with booklists and some activities is what I’m after.
Any suggestions?
2024.05.11 04:14 LizzieDizzle Suggestions for Elementary Graduation
My fifth grader has been invited to read a poem at her elementary graduation and she wants to read song lyrics from tMG (!!! It’s happening!) They’re her favorite band and she has seen them twice so far.
She has been a student at this school since preschool, and the other two graduates are kids who have been there with her the whole time and they’re all going off in different directions. Any suggestions for something that fits the theme of endings/new beginnings that would be appropriate for the occasion?
(My initial thought is Attention All Pickpockets)
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She has been a student at this school since preschool, and the other two graduates are kids who have been there with her the whole time and they’re all going off in different directions. Any suggestions for something that fits the theme of endings/new beginnings that would be appropriate for the occasion?
(My initial thought is Attention All Pickpockets)
2024.05.08 08:22 S0ng81rd Part 22
I receive message during the most inconvenient times of my day. Since I've been more acquainted with my true self. I've met many others that are exactly as I am.... They were too afraid of themselves, to tell someone, energetic things they notice about others. Most people now will share with me, that I am easy to open up too and they feel vulnerable enough to share private matters. Most of the time, it is about spirituality, death and relationship problems.
Why me?!
I'm not an expert at all. I know the real reasons why, but I still like to entertain myself and ask why did I choose to be placed in that person's path to relate to them. I am there to show empathy because not many have felt that level of pain and it's difficult to find someone that will listen and engage that deeply and inventively.... I'm the one that cares, because when I needed someone to be there for me when I was watching my father die a slow painful death from cancer....
No one cared about me, no one reached out to show me support.
I made it my mission as I've grown older. I'm not going to let anyone, I don't care your age, feel that defeated and abandoned. If there is a mass email of someone at work that has lost a family member or they themselves are dying. I was there to meet with them and offer a hug. I didn't know how else to allow their family member to share energy with them. They told me if I can leave them a message (their message). So I gave them either a gift I placed their energy onto it and I try to bring up God/church/prayespirit/guides/angels..... I like to write long emails.... As you can see! lol
Some have lashed out at me for not being sensitive to their religious beliefs, but I followed my path by listening to my intuition and not ignore it.
So when I am working as a cashier, preschool teacher, chef, server, mortuary assistant, behavioral health technician, music teacher.... I have met many people and helped them in some way at every one of my jobs.
Doesn't matter my profession, it mattered my location, place and time. God doesn't care what I have to do, I had to learn how to allow him to work through me, to follow my purpose and help someone else. He has always made sure the path is cleared and doors of opportunity open for me. Even when I refuse out of resentment and unfaithfulness towards his wishes. I feel a heaviness on my heart and my discernment will place racing thoughts of me completing that task. Until I obey God's plans for me, I no longer have that urge to work towards that first intent to do something about a situation. That is when I know I have followed correctly. I get a feeling of completion and satisfaction. Very positive and uplifting energy that I can thrive off of for a few days in good spirits.
God really made me talk to people. Literally made me do it. I go up and talk about God with my coworkers and the other side.
I have proof of my weirdness!
So, if you ask upperclassman this rumor about me In high school, when I started to notice my gift after my class mates passed away..... I went up to guy in band. He played trumpet, we had to share a kiss at a musical we danced together called "Oliver". I wrote him a 7 page novel about life..... I made him a nice poem and all.... I have no freaking clue why I did it, but I was forced emotionally, I had to do it and I didn't care that he let half the school read my embarrassing letter to him. I didn't have a crush or anything. I just had to tell him, he had a GIFT! It was a spiritual gift of gab. He was a class clown and I felt his depression when we danced a summer together and we never actually kissed, but I secretly fantasied we did. I never had a first kiss back then..... I was 14. The spirit's name, I never told the guy. I never really told him in my letter that I was talking to a spirit..... Well, the name is, Nancy. I don't know him that well, so I never told him. I just wrote a long letter and poem..... Lol...... Just doing God's work..... XD
Now, I notice more often, a loved one's name pop in my head before I hear the person in the room tell me their name. I really had to hold back my urge to want to pray and do my empath superpower.... When God wants me to help someone, I get that weird happy feeling, like someone is lightly touching your head and moving your hair. It feels very calming and push that feeling to them in a ball.
Suz showed me how to do this when I helped at her ghost tours. It was the last thing we offered before she ended her tour. We stand holding hands and exchange energy as she prayed us into a vortex that allowed any trapped spirits to cross over.
I'm learning now that this is actually a thing people pay for..... It's energy work.
I do it for free....
I've been doing this as a kid hanging out in cemeteries. The spirits led me to them, to help them move on. Took me a long time to understand all of these emotions and when I didn't want to believe I am a psychic medium. I was so terrified that I had to have a mental illness or suffered something bad..... I had no idea and every doctor I went to found nothing concerning.I continue to be this way and I've accepted my calling. I've stopped pushing away the messages when I am placed to help another person communicate with someone or feel heard for their pain and convictions.
I didn't ask for this, but again, Suz reminds me that,
"YES YOU DID!"
Ugh..... So, thinking about how to help people...... It gets very tricky.
That saying is true,
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink."
You can have all the answers given to you, but without proper guidance, you can't just learn something overnight as easy as others. Especially the significance of the situation/lesson. Not everything is going to be handed to you on an "easy" play level. Some will be challenging, and others can be enjoyable and engaging. But the only thing is.... You must put in the energy and do the work in order to experience those emotions. You work on yourself, by paying attention to your emotions as you are doing something. Starting off, it's difficult to know what you are feeling for.....
Emotions for me were very numb and shut off. I had to work very hard on this step. Where did I get this step to begin with?! Divine guidance, spirit guide, guardian angel.... I really think it's my Dad mostly.Dad knew how much I started to hate church, so he brought it up most of the time with scriptures and adding his two cents about psychology. Why do I care again?Well, I did the work and this is how I did it...... They helped me during this process. They did most of the work getting my attention and I studied really random stuff, but it all glued together over the years.My random jobs that God leads me too are another thing....
I had to give up my dream to be something I "wanted" out of ego. Because every time I got into a position I considered in the direction towards my dream job, something went wrong and I had to start over from the drawing board. I went towards career paths that involve working with a lot of people, hospitality, customer service. It wasn't school like I thought it was going to be
When I don't want to do something and I mock it.....
That was when God made sure I went into the jobs I talked the most smack about.
He humbled me very quickly.
He told me it wasn't even about the job, it was the opportunity to meet more people. So, I went along with it. Especially during the pandemic. I had to be very creative with my time because of the lock down. I didn't want stimulus checks, I went back to work as soon as I found a job doing anything. Before I went into work, I took the time to sit in silence and give myself a pep-talk. (I started this habit in high school)
Sometimes I prayed, but it was casual, I talk towards a person or bow my head. Other times, I used vibrational music and zoned out for a few minutes and head inside.I think of the things I want to accomplish. I wasn't a people person and mornings are still a struggle to be bubbly and fake. I tell myself to work on how to be more positive. Not engage in oversharing, giving negative opinions, gossip, and work on being a better person.
I thought of being a person I wished everyone would be, if we were without hate/fealoneliness/guilt/shame/envy/etc.... Negative emotions creates a mask of a persona we think will allow us to fit in with that social crowd. With enough time, the effort to try becomes second nature and you adapted yourself into being something you're not. When you notice how you don't feel certain about yourself and how comfortable you are being "yourself". You judge others and become critical. Masking flaws in fear of rejection.
It gets confusing, but you see where I'm going with this?!
You try so hard to be so many things, you confuse yourself into not knowing who you are anymore. After so many years of adapting and learning from being around other people....You must make a conscious decision to walk away from toxic relationships and create boundaries. Shouldn't matter the person and your connection. You need to know your self worth and by doing that, you are already treating yourself better and showing self love.
Start doing things for yourself you wished that others would do for you. Why wait?Do it for yourself.I wrote a list of hobbies, places to visit, stores to explore, towns to travel too, trails to walk, movie to see, books to read, etc.... Then I would work on 1 of those items when I had the energy to mentally allow myself to try something out of my normal routine.I made those things, goals, rewards and positive reinforcement.I worked hard on my character at work, controlling my temper, calming down my behavior, learning about my body and getting checked medically. I made sure I worked on my outer appearance, as well as my center.I had to find ways to cleanse my mind from negativity, bad habits. I had to treat my body as I would a temple and be kind to it.
Not falling into my popular habits of,
Over eating, binge drinking, being hyper sexual, dwelling on past faults, self-sabotaging all opportunities....What do lonely people do in a crappy relationship they feel stuck in, but don't find a way out?!
I became everything I said I was never going to end up. I became that prediction, I made for myself and I allowed my poor habits to take me to that destination.On my sad days, laying in my dark room, curled in my bed sheets with my fur babies and lots of alcohol and junk food..... I worked on myself very slowly and it starts off gentle with what content I stopped looking at, such as snuff videos, killings, murders, crime scene investigation, horror and I just got tired of it after 2 decades. I wanted something better for myself and realized I should watch something the opposite of my past bad habits.
I started watching martial arts movies again. I would look further into the videography and watch the behind the scenes and interviews. I listen to their outlook on philosophy and the world itself. It started to reignite my perspective about life and how to fight battles from within. By using your body and understanding different forces of energy.
So, small steps towards your goals brings you out of patterns of destruction and defeat. Each step you take is one step away from the past and where you came from.
Don't allow it to dictate where you are going.
You can change that path and re-create yourself into a brighter version of who you really are and live in that state of being. Where you are content and happy with where you are in your life with no regrets or looking back into the past for any unresolved conflicts. When you can release those strong holds, that is a step in the right direction.
They have stopped talking now. I'm getting tired and I lost contact. It felt like I was getting somewhere good, but lol.... I worked way to late today. I promise more later....
I notice many people around me that are struggling and not happy for this weekend and I understand why. Many of us are missing our favorite person/people now and it's difficult to enjoy life without them. Some near me may lose their mother as we speak. And we have kept talking as this is happening. Maybe why it's sparking me to bring it up as a topic of interest tonight.
I Don't want you to forget this truth and that "they" are always there with you.
I'll be here to reassure you and help you understand the other side a little more through my stories and lessons they share with me.
I just get tired..... I wish I could write all day sometimes.
Goodnight,
Tina,
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Why me?!
I'm not an expert at all. I know the real reasons why, but I still like to entertain myself and ask why did I choose to be placed in that person's path to relate to them. I am there to show empathy because not many have felt that level of pain and it's difficult to find someone that will listen and engage that deeply and inventively.... I'm the one that cares, because when I needed someone to be there for me when I was watching my father die a slow painful death from cancer....
No one cared about me, no one reached out to show me support.
I made it my mission as I've grown older. I'm not going to let anyone, I don't care your age, feel that defeated and abandoned. If there is a mass email of someone at work that has lost a family member or they themselves are dying. I was there to meet with them and offer a hug. I didn't know how else to allow their family member to share energy with them. They told me if I can leave them a message (their message). So I gave them either a gift I placed their energy onto it and I try to bring up God/church/prayespirit/guides/angels..... I like to write long emails.... As you can see! lol
Some have lashed out at me for not being sensitive to their religious beliefs, but I followed my path by listening to my intuition and not ignore it.
So when I am working as a cashier, preschool teacher, chef, server, mortuary assistant, behavioral health technician, music teacher.... I have met many people and helped them in some way at every one of my jobs.
Doesn't matter my profession, it mattered my location, place and time. God doesn't care what I have to do, I had to learn how to allow him to work through me, to follow my purpose and help someone else. He has always made sure the path is cleared and doors of opportunity open for me. Even when I refuse out of resentment and unfaithfulness towards his wishes. I feel a heaviness on my heart and my discernment will place racing thoughts of me completing that task. Until I obey God's plans for me, I no longer have that urge to work towards that first intent to do something about a situation. That is when I know I have followed correctly. I get a feeling of completion and satisfaction. Very positive and uplifting energy that I can thrive off of for a few days in good spirits.
God really made me talk to people. Literally made me do it. I go up and talk about God with my coworkers and the other side.
I have proof of my weirdness!
So, if you ask upperclassman this rumor about me In high school, when I started to notice my gift after my class mates passed away..... I went up to guy in band. He played trumpet, we had to share a kiss at a musical we danced together called "Oliver". I wrote him a 7 page novel about life..... I made him a nice poem and all.... I have no freaking clue why I did it, but I was forced emotionally, I had to do it and I didn't care that he let half the school read my embarrassing letter to him. I didn't have a crush or anything. I just had to tell him, he had a GIFT! It was a spiritual gift of gab. He was a class clown and I felt his depression when we danced a summer together and we never actually kissed, but I secretly fantasied we did. I never had a first kiss back then..... I was 14. The spirit's name, I never told the guy. I never really told him in my letter that I was talking to a spirit..... Well, the name is, Nancy. I don't know him that well, so I never told him. I just wrote a long letter and poem..... Lol...... Just doing God's work..... XD
Now, I notice more often, a loved one's name pop in my head before I hear the person in the room tell me their name. I really had to hold back my urge to want to pray and do my empath superpower.... When God wants me to help someone, I get that weird happy feeling, like someone is lightly touching your head and moving your hair. It feels very calming and push that feeling to them in a ball.
Suz showed me how to do this when I helped at her ghost tours. It was the last thing we offered before she ended her tour. We stand holding hands and exchange energy as she prayed us into a vortex that allowed any trapped spirits to cross over.
I'm learning now that this is actually a thing people pay for..... It's energy work.
I do it for free....
I've been doing this as a kid hanging out in cemeteries. The spirits led me to them, to help them move on. Took me a long time to understand all of these emotions and when I didn't want to believe I am a psychic medium. I was so terrified that I had to have a mental illness or suffered something bad..... I had no idea and every doctor I went to found nothing concerning.I continue to be this way and I've accepted my calling. I've stopped pushing away the messages when I am placed to help another person communicate with someone or feel heard for their pain and convictions.
I didn't ask for this, but again, Suz reminds me that,
"YES YOU DID!"
Ugh..... So, thinking about how to help people...... It gets very tricky.
That saying is true,
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink."
You can have all the answers given to you, but without proper guidance, you can't just learn something overnight as easy as others. Especially the significance of the situation/lesson. Not everything is going to be handed to you on an "easy" play level. Some will be challenging, and others can be enjoyable and engaging. But the only thing is.... You must put in the energy and do the work in order to experience those emotions. You work on yourself, by paying attention to your emotions as you are doing something. Starting off, it's difficult to know what you are feeling for.....
Emotions for me were very numb and shut off. I had to work very hard on this step. Where did I get this step to begin with?! Divine guidance, spirit guide, guardian angel.... I really think it's my Dad mostly.Dad knew how much I started to hate church, so he brought it up most of the time with scriptures and adding his two cents about psychology. Why do I care again?Well, I did the work and this is how I did it...... They helped me during this process. They did most of the work getting my attention and I studied really random stuff, but it all glued together over the years.My random jobs that God leads me too are another thing....
I had to give up my dream to be something I "wanted" out of ego. Because every time I got into a position I considered in the direction towards my dream job, something went wrong and I had to start over from the drawing board. I went towards career paths that involve working with a lot of people, hospitality, customer service. It wasn't school like I thought it was going to be
When I don't want to do something and I mock it.....
That was when God made sure I went into the jobs I talked the most smack about.
He humbled me very quickly.
He told me it wasn't even about the job, it was the opportunity to meet more people. So, I went along with it. Especially during the pandemic. I had to be very creative with my time because of the lock down. I didn't want stimulus checks, I went back to work as soon as I found a job doing anything. Before I went into work, I took the time to sit in silence and give myself a pep-talk. (I started this habit in high school)
Sometimes I prayed, but it was casual, I talk towards a person or bow my head. Other times, I used vibrational music and zoned out for a few minutes and head inside.I think of the things I want to accomplish. I wasn't a people person and mornings are still a struggle to be bubbly and fake. I tell myself to work on how to be more positive. Not engage in oversharing, giving negative opinions, gossip, and work on being a better person.
I thought of being a person I wished everyone would be, if we were without hate/fealoneliness/guilt/shame/envy/etc.... Negative emotions creates a mask of a persona we think will allow us to fit in with that social crowd. With enough time, the effort to try becomes second nature and you adapted yourself into being something you're not. When you notice how you don't feel certain about yourself and how comfortable you are being "yourself". You judge others and become critical. Masking flaws in fear of rejection.
It gets confusing, but you see where I'm going with this?!
You try so hard to be so many things, you confuse yourself into not knowing who you are anymore. After so many years of adapting and learning from being around other people....You must make a conscious decision to walk away from toxic relationships and create boundaries. Shouldn't matter the person and your connection. You need to know your self worth and by doing that, you are already treating yourself better and showing self love.
Start doing things for yourself you wished that others would do for you. Why wait?Do it for yourself.I wrote a list of hobbies, places to visit, stores to explore, towns to travel too, trails to walk, movie to see, books to read, etc.... Then I would work on 1 of those items when I had the energy to mentally allow myself to try something out of my normal routine.I made those things, goals, rewards and positive reinforcement.I worked hard on my character at work, controlling my temper, calming down my behavior, learning about my body and getting checked medically. I made sure I worked on my outer appearance, as well as my center.I had to find ways to cleanse my mind from negativity, bad habits. I had to treat my body as I would a temple and be kind to it.
Not falling into my popular habits of,
Over eating, binge drinking, being hyper sexual, dwelling on past faults, self-sabotaging all opportunities....What do lonely people do in a crappy relationship they feel stuck in, but don't find a way out?!
I became everything I said I was never going to end up. I became that prediction, I made for myself and I allowed my poor habits to take me to that destination.On my sad days, laying in my dark room, curled in my bed sheets with my fur babies and lots of alcohol and junk food..... I worked on myself very slowly and it starts off gentle with what content I stopped looking at, such as snuff videos, killings, murders, crime scene investigation, horror and I just got tired of it after 2 decades. I wanted something better for myself and realized I should watch something the opposite of my past bad habits.
I started watching martial arts movies again. I would look further into the videography and watch the behind the scenes and interviews. I listen to their outlook on philosophy and the world itself. It started to reignite my perspective about life and how to fight battles from within. By using your body and understanding different forces of energy.
So, small steps towards your goals brings you out of patterns of destruction and defeat. Each step you take is one step away from the past and where you came from.
Don't allow it to dictate where you are going.
You can change that path and re-create yourself into a brighter version of who you really are and live in that state of being. Where you are content and happy with where you are in your life with no regrets or looking back into the past for any unresolved conflicts. When you can release those strong holds, that is a step in the right direction.
They have stopped talking now. I'm getting tired and I lost contact. It felt like I was getting somewhere good, but lol.... I worked way to late today. I promise more later....
I notice many people around me that are struggling and not happy for this weekend and I understand why. Many of us are missing our favorite person/people now and it's difficult to enjoy life without them. Some near me may lose their mother as we speak. And we have kept talking as this is happening. Maybe why it's sparking me to bring it up as a topic of interest tonight.
I Don't want you to forget this truth and that "they" are always there with you.
I'll be here to reassure you and help you understand the other side a little more through my stories and lessons they share with me.
I just get tired..... I wish I could write all day sometimes.
Goodnight,
Tina,
2024.04.23 22:18 leapsandbounds1 The Parent's Supportive Role in Daycare and Preschool Education
Fontana is a beautiful city in San Bernardino County, California. It is known for its numerous cultural, sporting, and recreational opportunities. Leaps and Bounds is a preschool in California that has branches in some of the state's cities, such as Escondido, La Puente, and Fontana. This Daycare in Fontana Fontana is a beautiful city in San Bernardino County, California. It is known for its numerous cultural, sporting, and recreational opportunities. Leaps and Bounds is a preschool in California that has branches in some of the state's cities, such as Escondido, La Puente, and Fontana. This Daycare in Fontana is ideal for your children since it provides all the necessary education and teaching.
Our school, Leaps and Bounds, has qualities that can make your child’s future adventurous and bright. Our Infant Care Fontana Preschool helps your child thrive, but when your child is too young, your mind does not agree to send your child to a school far from home. But Leaps and Bounds assure the security of each child that comes there. If you’re a parent, you can set your mind at peace by knowing your child is in safe and good hands. The Leaps and Bounds school is quite reliable. We also help in preparing your child for kindergarten.
As a parent, your priority towards your child would be teaching basic manners and etiquette, enhancing language, and giving some basic worldly knowledge to make them eligible for kindergarten. Leaps and Bound help you all through it. We have different teachers for children of different ages with various requirements. If you enrol your child in Leaps and Bounds, we will take full responsibility for your child. From enrolling them in kindergarten to enhancing their physical and emotional abilities, Leaps and Bounds take care of everything.
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Our school, Leaps and Bounds, has qualities that can make your child’s future adventurous and bright. Our Infant Care Fontana Preschool helps your child thrive, but when your child is too young, your mind does not agree to send your child to a school far from home. But Leaps and Bounds assure the security of each child that comes there. If you’re a parent, you can set your mind at peace by knowing your child is in safe and good hands. The Leaps and Bounds school is quite reliable. We also help in preparing your child for kindergarten.
As a parent, your priority towards your child would be teaching basic manners and etiquette, enhancing language, and giving some basic worldly knowledge to make them eligible for kindergarten. Leaps and Bound help you all through it. We have different teachers for children of different ages with various requirements. If you enrol your child in Leaps and Bounds, we will take full responsibility for your child. From enrolling them in kindergarten to enhancing their physical and emotional abilities, Leaps and Bounds take care of everything.
Why Should You Choose Leaps And Bounds?
The Leaps and Bounds Preschool Fontana is based on a fivefold path that leads your child to physical, mental and academic development. The stages are:- Proper Development: Your priority as a parent is teaching your child basic manners and etiquette, such as how to behave, respect, eat properly, and have courtesy. All of these are taught in Leaps and Bounds. We take total responsibility for your children.
- Prepare For Kindergarten: There are many preschools, but the difference between a conventional preschool and Leaps and Bounds is that conventional preschools are limited to preschools. At the same time, Leaps and Bounds include a kindergarten plus preschool. We prepare our children to enrol in kindergarten.
- Skills Development: Leaps and Bounds offers different physical activities to maintain children’s health. They are engaged in activities such as sports and play. Besides physical activities, we engage your children in many other curriculums that will develop mental well-being. They learn to make friends, recite poems, interact with each other, draw, etc.
- Emotion Management: Leaps and Bounds School helps your children with emotional support. Children often fear interacting with others, speaking publicly, or performing anything outside their safe place. Leaps and Bounds teach your children that school can be a safe place for them, and they would love to come here.
- Self-care: Self-care is the last stage when your kids finally learn to self-care. They can take care of themselves after going to school and learn to become more independent.
2024.04.20 14:42 hellopriyasharma Fun Father's Day Activities for Preschoolers to Enjoy
 | Father's Day Activities for Preschoolers submitted by hellopriyasharma to preschoolwithpriya [link] [comments] Father's Day is a special occasion that offers a wonderful opportunity for little ones to show their love and appreciation for their dads. Whether it's through a simple gesture or a creative activity, the day is all about making fathers feel valued and loved. For those involved in early childhood education, including preschools in India and users of school parent apps, incorporating Father's Day activities into the curriculum or suggesting them through apps can make the celebration even more special. Here are some fun Father's Day activities designed for preschoolers that are sure to bring smiles and create lasting memories. https://preview.redd.it/q5qrtyryqmvc1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b08d965a0635cfdd94f657614913f17dcfbc270 1. Handmade CardsThere's nothing more heartfelt than a card made by a child. Encourage your preschoolers to use their creativity to make Father's Day cards. Provide them with construction paper, markers, stickers, and even photographs to personalize their cards. This activity not only allows them to express their love but also enhances their fine motor skills and creativity.2. DIY GiftsSimple DIY gifts can be a fun project for preschoolers. Ideas include decorating a mug with paint pens, creating a photo frame with popsicle sticks, or assembling a keychain with beads. These activities not only result in meaningful gifts for dads but also teach children the joy of giving.3. Fun Outdoor GamesOrganize a series of fun outdoor games that fathers and their preschoolers can enjoy together. This can be a mini-sports day with activities like sack races, three-legged races, or a simple game of catch. These activities are great for physical development and foster a strong bond between fathers and their children.4. Storytime SessionsDedicate a special storytime session to books about fathers and their children. Select books that celebrate the relationship between dads and kids, and encourage fathers to participate in the reading session. This can be organized within the classroom or suggested to parents via a school parent app as a home activity.5. Art and Craft ProjectsSet up a craft station where children can create something special for their dads, such as handprint art, bookmarks, or a homemade picture book. Crafts allow children to use their imagination and develop their artistic skills, all while making a personalized gift.6. Cooking TogetherCooking is a delightful way for fathers and preschoolers to bond. Suggest simple recipes that they can make together, like sandwiches, fruit salads, or no-bake cookies. This activity teaches children basic cooking skills and the importance of teamwork.7. Virtual CelebrationFor preschools in India utilizing technology, organizing a virtual Father's Day celebration can be a great way to involve dads who are unable to be physically present. Through a school parent app, preschools can set up a video call where kids can sing songs, show their crafts, or recite poems for their dads.ConclusionFather's Day is an excellent occasion for preschoolers to express their love and gratitude towards their fathers. By engaging in these fun activities, children can develop various skills while also creating unforgettable memories with their dads. Best preschools in India and around the world can facilitate these activities directly or through suggestions on school parent apps, ensuring that both fathers and their preschoolers have a joyful and memorable Father's Day.Originally Published Here. |
2024.04.16 13:56 hellopriyasharma Women Day Craft Ideas for Preschool: Honoring Creativity
 | Women's Day is a special occasion to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women worldwide. For preschoolers, it's an opportunity to learn about the significance of this day and engage in creative activities that honor women's empowerment and creativity. In this article, we'll explore some fun and educational Women Day crafts ideas for preschool, fostering creativity and appreciation for women's roles in society. submitted by hellopriyasharma to preschoolwithpriya [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/jlprkwr1ztuc1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c936b28ba50f1a6d55ff9192e48520ea96d63ce7 Paper Flower Bouquets:Materials Needed: Colored paper, green pipe cleaners, scissors, glue.Instructions:
Handprint Art:Materials Needed: Washable paint, paper, brushes.Instructions:
Empowering Superhero Capes:Materials Needed: Large pieces of fabric or felt, fabric markers, adhesive-backed felt shapes.Instructions:
Inspirational Bookmarks:Materials Needed: Cardstock or sturdy paper, markers, stickers, ribbons.Instructions:
Thank You Cards for Women:Materials Needed: Construction paper, markers, glitter, sequins.Instructions:
Conclusion:Engaging preschoolers in Women's Day craft for preschool provides a meaningful way to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women while nurturing their creativity and empathy. By participating in these craft ideas, children can gain a deeper understanding of the importance of equality, respect, and appreciation for women in society.Originally Published Here. |
2024.04.06 09:12 minecrabt i never imagined it would be this difficult
i (22f) found out i was 8 weeks pregnant for the first time ever with my boyfriend of 6 years (22m) on easter. it was huge surprise and we panicked. i had a MA two days later on april 2nd. i can’t help but feel like we didn’t consider all of our options, or that we rushed into it too quickly. i almost wish i had more time with it, even though i know that would have made it so much harder. i can’t help but feel so empty. we want kids so badly, but we won’t be in the right place for it for at least another four years, as i’m essentially homeless and relying on my boyfriends family to have somewhere to sleep. i have to graduate college and find a better job with insurance before i can think about a child, but it’s a terrible uphill battle due to having depression, autism, adhd, lyme disease, and a math learning disability. realistically i know all of that means i made the right decision to wait, i just can’t help but feel like another chance isn’t guaranteed, and i can’t shake the worry that ive thrown away something that could have been so beautiful. the logic just isn’t winning inside my brain over all of this grief.
to make it all worse, our anniversary was today. the baby’s due date was going to be days between our own birthdays. when we were choosing flowers for it my boyfriend was drawn to these light pink chrysanthemums. i googled it a few hours later to see that he happened to choose the baby’s birth flower. we went to the beach and had a funeral. we found a small tidepool cave and placed one flower into the sand, and surrounded it with some rocks and our handprints in a heart shape. we sat and each read a few poems. it gave some closure in a way, but i’m still in shock. my boyfriend and i love each other so much, and i know we would have loved this baby with everything we have, and it’s breaking my heart that the one thing i have so much of wouldn’t have been enough.
although i barely had time with it, it was one of the only things that has ever felt right in my life. i have no idea how im supposed to just return back to work after this. my mind won’t stop replaying awful things from the day it passed. everything in my life has always felt wrong. except for those hours i knew i was with my baby. but it’s gone now. i have never cried more.
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to make it all worse, our anniversary was today. the baby’s due date was going to be days between our own birthdays. when we were choosing flowers for it my boyfriend was drawn to these light pink chrysanthemums. i googled it a few hours later to see that he happened to choose the baby’s birth flower. we went to the beach and had a funeral. we found a small tidepool cave and placed one flower into the sand, and surrounded it with some rocks and our handprints in a heart shape. we sat and each read a few poems. it gave some closure in a way, but i’m still in shock. my boyfriend and i love each other so much, and i know we would have loved this baby with everything we have, and it’s breaking my heart that the one thing i have so much of wouldn’t have been enough.
although i barely had time with it, it was one of the only things that has ever felt right in my life. i have no idea how im supposed to just return back to work after this. my mind won’t stop replaying awful things from the day it passed. everything in my life has always felt wrong. except for those hours i knew i was with my baby. but it’s gone now. i have never cried more.
2024.03.21 12:10 hellopriyasharma Holi Activities Holi Craft Ideas for Preschool: Beautiful Festivals
| | Holi, the festival of colors, is one of India's most vibrant and joyous celebrations. It's a time when people of all ages come together to revel in the spirit of unity, love, and the play of colors. For preschoolers, Holi can be an incredibly exciting and memorable experience. Introducing them to the festivities and traditions of Holi through a range of activities and craft ideas can create lasting memories and teach valuable lessons about culture, diversity, and creativity. submitted by hellopriyasharma to preschoolwithpriya [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/r95x3yw57opc1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17b58922a474cb0a0e9f9f637517cd953811e67b The Significance of HoliHoli is celebrated with great enthusiasm throughout India and by Indian communities worldwide. It usually falls in March and marks the arrival of spring. The festival is not just about colors but also about the victory of good over evil and the celebration of love and unity.The Legend of HoliOne of the most popular legends associated with Holi is the story of Holika and Prahlad. Prahlad, a young devotee of Lord Vishnu, was protected by the divine when his evil aunt Holika attempted to burn him. This story teaches the triumph of good over evil, and Holi is a time to commemorate this victory.Holi Activities for Preschoolers1. Color Mixing Experiments:Holi is all about colors, and preschoolers can have a blast learning about primary colors and mixing them to create secondary colors. Provide them with safe and washable watercolors, and let them explore the magic of color combinations.2. Water Balloon Painting:Instead of throwing water balloons at each other, preschoolers can use them as paintbrushes. Fill balloons with colored water and let the children create unique and colorful art on sheets of paper.3. Traditional Holi Dance:Teach preschoolers some simple and fun Holi dance steps. Encourage them to dance to traditional Holi songs, fostering an appreciation for Indian culture and music.4. Storytelling:Share age-appropriate stories about the significance of Holi. Stories like the legend of Holika and Prahlad can help preschoolers understand the cultural and historical context of the festival.5. Rangoli Art:Rangoli is a beautiful and intricate art form that involves creating colorful designs on the ground. Preschoolers can try their hand at simplified versions of rangoli using colored sand or chalk.6. Water Play:Since Holi involves water play, set up a safe and supervised water play area for preschoolers. Provide them with buckets, sponges, and water toys to keep them engaged and cool during the festivities.Holi Craft Ideas for Preschool1. Colorful Paper Plate Masks:Best Preschools in India can create vibrant masks using paper plates, colored paper, and craft sticks. These masks can be decorated with bright colors, glitter, and sequins to mimic the spirit of Holi.2. Handprint Holi Cards:Help preschoolers create special Holi greeting cards by making handprint art. They can dip their palms in different colors and press them onto cardstock to create colorful handprint designs.3. Water Gun Art:Incorporate water guns into a creative art activity. Fill the water guns with diluted watercolors and let preschoolers shoot colorful patterns onto large sheets of paper.4. Holi Collage:Provide magazines, colored paper, and glue to the preschoolers. Encourage them to cut out images and create collages that represent the festive and colorful spirit of Holi.5. Flower Art:Explain the tradition of throwing flowers during Holi, and let preschoolers create their own flower art by arranging colorful paper flowers or real flower petals into beautiful designs.The Significance of Holi for PreschoolersWhile engaging in these preschool activities and craft ideas, it's essential to convey the significance of Holi to preschoolers in an age-appropriate manner. Emphasize the themes of love, friendship, and the triumph of good over evil. Encourage them to understand and appreciate the cultural diversity that makes India and the world a colorful and beautiful place.Celebrating Diversity and InclusivityHoli is also a celebration of diversity and inclusivity. It's a time when people of all backgrounds come together to play with colors, forget their differences, and enjoy the festivities. Teaching preschoolers about the importance of accepting and celebrating differences can be an integral part of Holi celebrations.ConclusionHoli is a time for celebration, creativity, and togetherness. By involving preschoolers in Holi activities and craft projects, we not only make the festival more enjoyable for them but also impart valuable lessons about culture, art, and the importance of embracing diversity. These memorable experiences will stay with them, fostering a sense of wonder and appreciation for the world's rich tapestry of traditions and celebrations.As parents, caregivers, and educators, let's come together to ensure that every child's Holi is filled with laughter, color, and the joy of discovery, making it a truly magical and educational celebration. Happy Holi! Originally Published by HelloParent. |
2024.03.19 13:41 hellopriyasharma Amazing Raksha Bandhan Decorations for preschool Classrooms
 | Raksha Bandhan, a significant Indian festival that celebrates the bond of love and protection between siblings, is a wonderful occasion to introduce preschoolers to Indian culture and traditions. By decorating the preschool classroom with a Raksha Bandhan theme, you can make the festival special and educational for young children. In this guide, we'll explore creative Raksha Bandhan decoration ideas suitable for preschool classrooms. submitted by hellopriyasharma to preschoolwithpriya [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/y08ystvodapc1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=799c6a695260020c45c1bcda7e03fa813392bab0 Introduction to Raksha BandhanBefore diving into decoration ideas, it's essential to provide preschoolers with a simple and child-friendly explanation of Raksha Bandhan. You can say:"Raksha Bandhan is a special day when brothers and sisters show their love for each other. Sisters tie colorful bands called 'rakhis' on their brothers' wrists, and brothers promise to protect and take care of their sisters. It's a day to celebrate the wonderful bond between siblings." Creative Raksha Bandhan Decoration IdeasLet's explore a variety of preschool classroom decoration ideas that can transform your preschool classroom into a festive and engaging space for Raksha Bandhan:Rakhi Art and Craft Corner:Set up a designated craft corner with colorful paper, markers, glue, and other craft supplies.Encourage preschoolers to create their own rakhi artwork, which can include rakhi cards or decorative rakhi bands. Display the children's creations around the classroom to add a personalized touch. Rangoli Designs:
Rakhi Wall Display:
Themed Bulletin Board:
Rakhi Garland:
Sibling Handprint Art:
Storytelling Corner:
Rakhi-Making Contest:
Sibling Photo Collage:
Traditional Attire Day:
ConclusionRaksha Bandhan provides a unique opportunity to introduce preschoolers to Indian culture and traditions while fostering a sense of togetherness and love. Decorating the preschool classroom with these creative Raksha Bandhan ideas not only makes the festival memorable but also instills values of love, care, and the significance of sibling relationships in young minds.As you implement these decoration ideas, involve the children in the process to encourage their creativity and engagement. Raksha Bandhan in the best preschools in India can be a heartwarming and joyous occasion for both educators and students, leaving a lasting impression and fostering a sense of cultural appreciation and familial bonds. Originally Published by HelloParent. |
2024.03.13 15:51 night_trouble The Making
Just my second ever poem if anyone decides to look through my page :)
Imagine the hand of creation. We see five gentle fingers. We see a welcome of an open palm We see the weave of the creases, the blue of the veins. The gesture is nothing if not a balm For a wandering mind.
From it we seek love, Guidance, Punishment, A listening ear, Peace after passing…
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What is a worm to a human? Same that a human would be to a god. Would one extend more than A subtle pity? A passing interest perhaps?
But what does it matter? Gods did not create us. We created gods.
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We picked black from white. Gave women a nurturing touch; Men - red-stained might. We scribbled down the dreams of loving hearts, and foolish minds, So we can sack them all up.
We put on a play of the rights and the wrongs, To each their own, And made the Gods our actors. All to pretend We are not alone.
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The vastness of darkness coming in ripples on a forest lake. The Universe did not make us. Out of trembling fingers, and wistful breaths, We made it in numbers and clear frames, To finally grasp The dull ache of the metaphysical dread.
So we look away from distorted reflections, Nursing the hopes of the beating heart not being a mistake.
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I’d look at a lover, a mother, a father, a child. I’d ask myself in an evening quiet. Do you exist? Do I?
I live in the space behind your eyes. A simple reflection of soft earthy tones, The curve of the smile, the mess of locks, The infinite depth of the iris, Within the confines of which, you too, found a home.
I live in the space between your heartbeats. A handprint on a fogged up window, A few sips of coffee left on the bottom of your favorite cup, A string of excited ‘hellos’ and mellow ‘goodbyes’. I live in your blood. And you live inside mine.
I live in the buzz of the thoughts in your head. The other day… a small argument we had. The ramblings, the writings! The stillness of all When you first crack open your skull For the other to see behind your built up walls.
I live on the soft of your skin. A tickling touch right at the nape of my neck, An arm against mine in a crowded place, The feel of a hand in another hand, The melting pot of embrace. You live in me. And I live in you.
Broken shards of one mirror sitting in front of each other. Reflective and reflected by others. A thousand versions of me living in a thousand people's eyes, hearts and minds.
***
The Gods didn't make us. The Universe didn't either. We made each other. In a warm bed. In a car. In a kitchen.
And we keep making each other every day. With ‘have you slept well today?’ With a gifted flower in a vase; A red bloody mark on the cheek. Another war on TV.
We keep making each other every day. So, as sought from a God, Extend love.
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Imagine the hand of creation. We see five gentle fingers. We see a welcome of an open palm We see the weave of the creases, the blue of the veins. The gesture is nothing if not a balm For a wandering mind.
From it we seek love, Guidance, Punishment, A listening ear, Peace after passing…
***
What is a worm to a human? Same that a human would be to a god. Would one extend more than A subtle pity? A passing interest perhaps?
But what does it matter? Gods did not create us. We created gods.
***
We picked black from white. Gave women a nurturing touch; Men - red-stained might. We scribbled down the dreams of loving hearts, and foolish minds, So we can sack them all up.
We put on a play of the rights and the wrongs, To each their own, And made the Gods our actors. All to pretend We are not alone.
***
The vastness of darkness coming in ripples on a forest lake. The Universe did not make us. Out of trembling fingers, and wistful breaths, We made it in numbers and clear frames, To finally grasp The dull ache of the metaphysical dread.
So we look away from distorted reflections, Nursing the hopes of the beating heart not being a mistake.
***
I’d look at a lover, a mother, a father, a child. I’d ask myself in an evening quiet. Do you exist? Do I?
I live in the space behind your eyes. A simple reflection of soft earthy tones, The curve of the smile, the mess of locks, The infinite depth of the iris, Within the confines of which, you too, found a home.
I live in the space between your heartbeats. A handprint on a fogged up window, A few sips of coffee left on the bottom of your favorite cup, A string of excited ‘hellos’ and mellow ‘goodbyes’. I live in your blood. And you live inside mine.
I live in the buzz of the thoughts in your head. The other day… a small argument we had. The ramblings, the writings! The stillness of all When you first crack open your skull For the other to see behind your built up walls.
I live on the soft of your skin. A tickling touch right at the nape of my neck, An arm against mine in a crowded place, The feel of a hand in another hand, The melting pot of embrace. You live in me. And I live in you.
Broken shards of one mirror sitting in front of each other. Reflective and reflected by others. A thousand versions of me living in a thousand people's eyes, hearts and minds.
***
The Gods didn't make us. The Universe didn't either. We made each other. In a warm bed. In a car. In a kitchen.
And we keep making each other every day. With ‘have you slept well today?’ With a gifted flower in a vase; A red bloody mark on the cheek. Another war on TV.
We keep making each other every day. So, as sought from a God, Extend love.
2024.03.07 03:13 Bigbigbigbearbear Mommy Dearest is Such a Good Movie!
The following things were so freaking relatable - the look of hurt on Joan’s face when she’s abusing her child, saying “you love to make me hit you” - constantly asking her husband to make more money to prove himself - the use of religious figures that ask the abused child to repent for her sins - forcing her to cut her hair, I was literally forced to get a bowl cut with shaved hair at 14 because my mother was threatened by my puberty - extreme fear of child being romantically obsessed with someone. - anger when the child flirts - lying then acting angry when you point out they’re lying. -“You’ve always taken everything and you’ve never given anything back, you’ve never wanted to be my daughter.” - telling her child she had a daughter to be loved by someone and “have someone to love” until they get a desire for freedom I guess
-“Why don’t you give me the respect that I’m entitled to.” And why can’t you give me the common kindness of a stranger. lol bc a stranger isn’t abused for life by you. - pretending to be broke but buying a ton of things for herself - the vague letters (outside the movie) she wrote to Christina just shitting all over her character and saying she doesn’t believe she would change - boarding school. My mother, who was the wife of a millionaire, had a maid and a cleaner, sent me to a BOARDNG PRESCHOOL before I turned 6!!!! - the enabling father - the charismatic perfect parent when your child was very little - abusing your child then immediately act crazy and sad and play the victim so she has to comfort YOU right after you hurt her
Here’s the poem - Wake up, old tomcat, then with elaborate yawns and stretchings prepare to pursue love ― Kobayashi Issa
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-“Why don’t you give me the respect that I’m entitled to.” And why can’t you give me the common kindness of a stranger. lol bc a stranger isn’t abused for life by you. - pretending to be broke but buying a ton of things for herself - the vague letters (outside the movie) she wrote to Christina just shitting all over her character and saying she doesn’t believe she would change - boarding school. My mother, who was the wife of a millionaire, had a maid and a cleaner, sent me to a BOARDNG PRESCHOOL before I turned 6!!!! - the enabling father - the charismatic perfect parent when your child was very little - abusing your child then immediately act crazy and sad and play the victim so she has to comfort YOU right after you hurt her
Here’s the poem - Wake up, old tomcat, then with elaborate yawns and stretchings prepare to pursue love ― Kobayashi Issa
2024.03.01 11:04 jollytoons The Top 10 Popular Nursery Rhymes for Kids in English
What is meant by nursery rhymes?
Nursery rhymes are short poems for kids. It contains words that are easy to remember and often have fun sounds or actions.
Are nursery rhymes important for children?
Yes, due to the following reasons, it is important:
Learning Words: Nursery songs help kids learn and pronounce new words.
Remembering power: The catchy tunes and repetitive words make it easy for toddlers to remember the poem.
Listening: Kids try to listen faster and pay attention when they hear nursery songs.
Speaking ability: Singing the song helps kids increase their vocal ability, and they can practice talking and making sounds.
Moving: Many nursery rhymes, such as head, shoulder, knees, and toes, have actions that go with the words, which helps kids learn to do exercises.
The Top 10 Popular Nursery Rhymes for Kids in English
They are a fun way to help kids engage in their activities. Here are the top ten popular nursery rhymes in English:
Video Link:- https://youtu.be/Te7CY2IWhG8
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
This poem is all about the wonder of looking at a sparkling star in the sky.
Video Link:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOq0hx5lMc
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full!
This song talks about a black or brown sheep giving wool to the owner, the dame, and a little boy.
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
It tells the story of Humpty and Dumpty, an egg that falls off a wall and can't be put back together again.
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill.
To fetch a pail of water.
This song is about two children, Jack and Jill, who both go up on the hill to get water but suffer from an accident.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.
It tells us the story of a girl named Mary and her pet lamb, who follows her everywhere.
Old MacDonald had a farm.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on his farm, he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O.
This video song is a fun way to learn about different types of animals and the sounds they make.
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
It's all about a mouse running up and down on a clock, with the clock showing different hours.
The Wheels on the Bus
The wheels on the bus go round and round.
Round and round, round and round.
This rhyme is great for learning about the bus parts and the sounds they make.
London Bridge is falling down.
London Bridge is falling down.
Falling down, falling down.
It's an old-school English nursery rhyme that talks about the attempts to repair the London Bridge.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Row, row, row your boat.
Gently down the stream.
This song is simple, and it is all about rowing a boat gently down a stream.
These rhymes are not only fun to sing but also help kids develop their language skills and memory. They are a great way to engage with toddlers and teach them through music and rhyme.
Nursery rhymes are fun and helpful for preschool children. All the above rhymes help kids learn words, remember things, listen, speak, and move.
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Nursery rhymes are short poems for kids. It contains words that are easy to remember and often have fun sounds or actions.
Are nursery rhymes important for children?
Yes, due to the following reasons, it is important:
Learning Words: Nursery songs help kids learn and pronounce new words.
Remembering power: The catchy tunes and repetitive words make it easy for toddlers to remember the poem.
Listening: Kids try to listen faster and pay attention when they hear nursery songs.
Speaking ability: Singing the song helps kids increase their vocal ability, and they can practice talking and making sounds.
Moving: Many nursery rhymes, such as head, shoulder, knees, and toes, have actions that go with the words, which helps kids learn to do exercises.
The Top 10 Popular Nursery Rhymes for Kids in English
They are a fun way to help kids engage in their activities. Here are the top ten popular nursery rhymes in English:
Video Link:- https://youtu.be/Te7CY2IWhG8
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
This poem is all about the wonder of looking at a sparkling star in the sky.
Video Link:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOq0hx5lMc
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full!
This song talks about a black or brown sheep giving wool to the owner, the dame, and a little boy.
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
It tells the story of Humpty and Dumpty, an egg that falls off a wall and can't be put back together again.
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill.
To fetch a pail of water.
This song is about two children, Jack and Jill, who both go up on the hill to get water but suffer from an accident.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.
It tells us the story of a girl named Mary and her pet lamb, who follows her everywhere.
Old MacDonald had a farm.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on his farm, he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O.
This video song is a fun way to learn about different types of animals and the sounds they make.
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
It's all about a mouse running up and down on a clock, with the clock showing different hours.
The Wheels on the Bus
The wheels on the bus go round and round.
Round and round, round and round.
This rhyme is great for learning about the bus parts and the sounds they make.
London Bridge is falling down.
London Bridge is falling down.
Falling down, falling down.
It's an old-school English nursery rhyme that talks about the attempts to repair the London Bridge.
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Row, row, row your boat.
Gently down the stream.
This song is simple, and it is all about rowing a boat gently down a stream.
These rhymes are not only fun to sing but also help kids develop their language skills and memory. They are a great way to engage with toddlers and teach them through music and rhyme.
Nursery rhymes are fun and helpful for preschool children. All the above rhymes help kids learn words, remember things, listen, speak, and move.
2024.02.08 11:57 hellopriyasharma Creative Crafts for Preschoolers to Celebrate Independence Day
 | Creating Independence Day crafts with preschoolers is a fantastic way to introduce them to the significance of this important national holiday. These craft ideas not only allow children to express their creativity but also help them understand the values of freedom and patriotism. In this article, we'll explore some fun and educational Preschool Independence Day Craft Ideas for preschoolers. submitted by hellopriyasharma to preschoolwithpriya [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/rrg929erechc1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0aade0c87794743b46c89b7b38e9e9c5517f71dd 1. Patriotic Windsocks:Create windsocks using red, white, and blue materials. Let children decorate them with stars, stripes, and other patriotic symbols. Hang these windsocks outside, and explain how they move with the wind, just like flags.2. Handprint American Flag:Help preschoolers make an American flag using their handprints. They can dip their hands in red, white, and blue paint and then stamp them on a large piece of paper to create a flag with stars and stripes.3. Firework Painting:Show children pictures of colorful fireworks. Provide them with black construction paper and colored chalk. Instruct them to create their own fireworks by smudging the chalk on the paper, resembling the bursts of fireworks in the night sky.4. Uncle Sam Hats:Give children white paper plates, blue construction paper, and red ribbon. Help them cut out a blue top hat shape and a red bowtie. Attach these to the paper plate to create their very own Uncle Sam hats.5. Balloon Fireworks:Blow up small balloons and dip them in red, white, and blue paint. Press them onto paper to create firework-like patterns. Children can experiment with different colors and patterns.6. Star Spangled Collage:Provide children with star-shaped stickers or cutouts. Give them blue paper and encourage them to create their own star-spangled collages, arranging the stars as they like.7. Liberty Bell Craft:Teach children about the Liberty Bell and its significance. They can create their own Liberty Bell crafts using paper cups and aluminum foil. Let them decorate the bell with markers or stickers.8. Red, White, and Blue Bracelets:Give children red, white, and blue beads and string. They can make their own patriotic bracelets, which can serve as a reminder of Independence Day.9. American Flag Hand Puppets:Help children create American flag hand puppets using craft sticks, paper, and markers. They can hold these up and wave them as they sing patriotic songs.10. 3D Firework Art:Provide children with empty toilet paper rolls, paint, and glitter. Instruct them to paint the rolls with vibrant colors and then sprinkle them with glitter to create 3D firework art.11. Popsicle Stick Flags:Let children assemble American flags using popsicle sticks as the stripes and blue paper for the stars. They can paint the sticks or use markers to add details.12. Bald Eagle Handprint Craft:Help children make a bald eagle handprint craft by painting their hands brown and stamping them on paper. Then add eyes, a beak, and feathers to complete the bald eagle.13. American Flag Collage:Provide children with red, white, and blue tissue paper or torn pieces of colored paper. They can glue these pieces onto a paper plate to create their own American flag collages.14. Paper Plate Drum:Create simple paper plate drums by decorating paper plates with patriotic colors and attaching a craft stick as the drumstick. Children can use these to make "firework sounds."15. USA Banner:Help children make a "USA" banner by cutting out letters from colored paper. They can then string the letters together to create a festive decoration for Independence Day.Also Check: School Parent app These Independence Day craft ideas for preschoolers are not only fun but also educational. They offer opportunities for children to learn about the history and significance of the holiday while expressing their creativity. Encourage them to proudly display their creations to celebrate the spirit of independence and patriotism. Originally Published by HelloParent. |
2024.01.23 10:58 hellopriyasharma Handmade Charts by Preschoolers to Decorate Classrooms
 | Decorating a preschool classroom is not just about making it visually appealing; it's also about creating an engaging and stimulating environment for young learners. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by using handmade charts. Preschool handmade charts for classroom decoration serve multiple purposes – they make the room vibrant, aid in teaching, and encourage creativity. In this article, we'll explore creative ideas for preschool handmade charts that can transform your classroom into a lively and educational space. submitted by hellopriyasharma to preschoolwithpriya [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/sal3jyxgx5ec1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cdf2708c3e77aec880b5fee7c5bca3a8bc232a5 1. Alphabet Adventure Chart:Materials Needed: Large chart paper, markers, stickers, and images of objects starting with each letter of the alphabet.How to Make: Create a chart with each letter of the alphabet. Place an image or sticker next to each letter, representing an object that starts with that letter. This chart not only helps in teaching the alphabet but also introduces kids to new words. 2. Number Jungle Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, colorful markers, and drawings of animals.How to Make: Design a chart with numbers from 1 to 10. Each number should be associated with a different animal. Add colorful drawings of these animals to make the chart visually appealing. This chart aids in early math skills and animal recognition. 3. Shapes and Colors Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and colored shapes.How to Make: Create a chart with various shapes – circle, square, triangle, and rectangle. Color each shape in different shades and label them. This chart helps children learn about shapes and colors simultaneously. 4. Weather Watch Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and images of different weather conditions.How to Make: Make a chart featuring different weather conditions like sunny, rainy, cloudy, and snowy. Include images or drawings representing each condition. This chart can be used daily to discuss the day's weather, fostering an understanding of the environment. 5. Emotion Exploration Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and images of various facial expressions.How to Make: Create a chart with different emotions like happy, sad, surprised, and angry. Use images of faces displaying these emotions. This chart helps children identify and express their feelings. 6. Story Time Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and space for storytelling.How to Make: Design a chart where you can draw and narrate stories. Use it during storytime to capture the imagination of young minds. This interactive chart encourages creativity and storytelling skills. 7. Daily Schedule Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and images representing daily activities.How to Make: Create a chart that outlines the daily schedule in a preschool classroom. Include images or drawings representing preschool activities like playtime, snack time, and naptime. This chart helps establish routines and transitions smoothly. 8. Good Manners Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and images depicting good manners.How to Make: Design a chart featuring images or drawings that depict good manners, such as saying please and thank you, sharing, and helping others. This chart promotes positive behavior in young children. 9. Seasons Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and images representing each season.How to Make: Create a chart that showcases the four seasons – spring, summer, fall, and winter. Include images or drawings that symbolize activities and changes associated with each season. This chart helps kids understand the concept of seasons. 10. Nature Scavenger Hunt Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and space for a checklist.How to Make: Design a chart with a checklist of items found in nature, like leaves, flowers, or rocks. Use this chart during outdoor activities to engage children in a fun and educational scavenger hunt. 11. Alphabet Train Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and images of objects starting with each letter of the alphabet.How to Make: Create a train-themed chart with each carriage representing a letter of the alphabet. Attach images or drawings of objects that start with each letter to the respective carriage. This chart makes learning the alphabet an exciting journey. 12. Reward Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and stickers.How to Make: Craft a chart that tracks positive behaviors or achievements. Children can earn stickers for good behavior or completing tasks. This chart encourages motivation and self-discipline. 13. My Family Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and space for photos or drawings.How to Make: Design a chart where children can add pictures or drawings of their family members. This chart helps kids feel connected to their families while learning about their relatives. 14. Counting Caterpillar Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and a drawing of a caterpillar.How to Make: Create a caterpillar-themed chart with numbered segments. Children can add dots or stickers to each segment while counting. This chart reinforces counting skills in a fun way. Also Check: Preschools in India 15. Handprint Tree Chart:Materials Needed: Chart paper, markers, and paint.How to Make: Craft a tree chart using children's handprints as leaves. Each child can add their handprint to the tree. This chart celebrates individuality and creates a sense of belonging. These creative handmade charts for preschool classroom decoration not only make the learning environment more vibrant but also enhance educational experiences. Engaging children in the process of making these charts can be an enjoyable and educational activity in itself. So, roll up your sleeves, gather your art supplies, and embark on a journey of creativity and learning with these preschool handmade charts. Originally Published by HelloParent. |
2024.01.20 03:02 libblesdoodles Calls 10, 11, and 12 of my Lennox Mutual Journey: .... Huh... HUH!!!
Well well well... another set of calls with Lennox Mutual have passed. I feel like each call just leaves me just as flabbergasted and confused as I have had from the beginning, but I'm not complaining, it's been great. So as usual, I am gonna be talk about my experiences as always soooooo here we go.
As always, SPOILERS AHEAD BUT I WILL BLOCK OUT STUFF AS WELL!!! To the new callers that decided to pop their head in here, I respectfully say get the hell out because I would like to not spoil stuff for you guys. You've been warned. Anyways LET'S GO!!!
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Call 10: *Deep Breath* Okay, so this first call of 2024 was... a bit rocky. But hey, you just have to take the good with the bad. Anyways, I had Josephine again. I went into Trivia within the promotional offers option, which got me a password hint. I used>! "End of the World" extension, only because I finally wanted to know what happened there. AND GOOD LORD!!! That was a trip and a half. The long and short of it is Josephine read me a poem?... short story?... while I was holding my breath on the other end of the line. And let me tell you, I don't know how I was able to make it through that while short story, but I did, and WOW!!! That was a great 5 minutes to spend with her on that.!< Okay so after that, I went into Hours of Operation, where Josephine read me a recipe for a specific drink, which is where the "downfall" was starting. I think I only wrote down two things in my notebook from the recipe. She asked if I needed anything clarified from the whole recipe she read aloud, and you wanna guess what I said?.... If you guessed no, you would be correct!!!
So then, and I don't why, but my brain was like "hey, let's use that password hint" in Review Documentation. So I Did... and the security question to answer was about the recipe... And it was at this very moment that I knew... I fucked up bad..... really bad.... You see how this led to the downfall of this call?? I felt like such a dumb goober after that that I felt like I didn't want to do anything else in that call since I knew it was going to end soon. (I tried to file a complaint but the timer went off) Thankfully, after the timer went off to end my session, Josephine in a "off the record" moment reassured me and said, "You're not dumb... you just have to take your time." And she gave me what the answer to the security question actually was... tumeric, but unfortunately, since I redeemed that password hint, that I can't reuse it which sucks. So... again, that call had its good moments and bad moments, but sometimes that's life, right?...
Call 11: Surprise!!! It's another Directions Call!!! Also Surprise, I got to meet the Geometer finally!!! And I got Josephine again for Directions!!!
And it was lovely and just pure magic! I finally got to the hatch that goes into the Geometer's obsevatory that is full of trinkets and inventions, as well as open windows that gaze out into different areas of Ilus (I dont remember all the windows, but I remember the citadel, the diamond mountain with its peak gone, and a forest). I go up to the telescope, and a radio starts playing music, there are even some stuff that seems out of place for a kingdom like Ilus, like the cave wall with red handprints, and a marble bust of Lyndon B. Johnson wearing a flower crown. I look through the telescope, and I see the riot happening in front of the black castle... and yet, it's all happening in slow motion.
I try to adjust the lens but the scenery changes as well as the music from the radio mentioned earlier, and every time I adjusted the lens of the telescope, the scenery changes. It goes to this grassy, flat field on a sunny day with no clouds in the sky... and in the distance are two people laying on a picnic blanket of sorts (this is where "End of the World" plays); it then switches to a scene within space, a small "tin can" floats amongst the stars (and I think this is where "Space Oddity" plays); and finally... the telescope shows a white hospital room, someone lays in a soft pink-sheeted hospital bed, asleep with their phone in their hands as a heart montior beeps in the background... and then I am shunt out from the scene and brought back to "reality" as the radio stops playing, and I finally meet the Geometer. We talk about time, how time passes differently when you are close to the castle, and time is all about perspective. When we run out of time to talk, the Geometer gives me a map of the forest (the one I mentioned earlier) with directions taking me to the Alchemist. And that is where directions end. Good lord, this was my girl dinner because the conversation was wonderful. So things went better this time around which was nice.
Call 12: Okay, so I got Sasha again for this call, and let me tell you, this was by far in my top 5 favorite calls I have had that have left me in such an existential state of mind. I should've prefaced by saying Sasha has a male and female voice actor, which is very cool. Before 2023 ended, I talked to female Sasha. Yesterday, I got to talk to male Sasha.
Most of the call was in Hours of Operation, but since this call was yesterday I remembered a very good chunk of that portion of the call. It started with the question I got from "making an appointment", which was if I can see outdoors from where I was, and if there were any trees nearby, and I say yes to both as my car was parked near a tree about 5 or 6 feet away from me. The first 10 minutes or so into the call, we talk about fairness and unfairness because a lot of my responses these past few calls I would reply with a variation of "that's fair." That transitions to the time of day I had that call, which was the afternoon, and if it was a beautiful day... and if I found myself beautiful during the afternoon. I talked about how I am not confident in how I look because I compare myself to other people because of the "demon on my shoulder" kinda thing.
This led to an "off the record" moment with Sasha, asking if this "demon" of mine had a name, to which I said no, and he replies with "sometimes naming things makes them less... powerful." Afterwards, Sasha proceeds to talk about how beautiful it is that we are here, just existing... even if we don't see each other. He then asks if a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?... which I don't want to go deeper into, but it was pleasant conversation about feelings... what's being in an emotional state like, and how it correlates to "peaks and valleys." And it ends with the "somewhere else's" with the tree falling, whether it's making a loud sound or nothing at all... and that's where Hours of Operation ends. That is by far my favorite "Hours of Operation" session.
I knew I didn't have much time left over for anything else, so as usual, I go into promotional offers, and I decide to to try my hand at "Describe and Draw" again since I haven't done that in a while. When I was asked if I wanted to be the brain or the hands, and I am someone who isn't confident in describing things I wanted to be the hands again. Another "off the record" moment happened, where I didn't want to push myself... which I know its after the call now. Maybe next time I go back into "describe and draw," I will choose to be the brain, and hopefully then, I'll have a bit more confidence in myself for that. Because just as we were about to play, the timer goes off. Another great call, and god do I love Sasha too!!!
FINAL THOUGHTS, THEORIES, QUESTIONS (Not in any order):
Alright, my friends. That is it for this round of calls for Lennox Mutual. I have another call scheduled for Valentine's Day, so I cannot wait for that (hopefully I will know what February looks like then so that I can schedule more calls around then before I have to take a small hiatus in March.) If you made this far, thank you as always for reading my utter nonsense when I talk about LM. This show is my hyper fixation right now, and it is literally keeping me from going utterly bonkers.
And at Lennox Mutual: You just have to take your time. :)
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As always, SPOILERS AHEAD BUT I WILL BLOCK OUT STUFF AS WELL!!! To the new callers that decided to pop their head in here, I respectfully say get the hell out because I would like to not spoil stuff for you guys. You've been warned. Anyways LET'S GO!!!
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Call 10: *Deep Breath* Okay, so this first call of 2024 was... a bit rocky. But hey, you just have to take the good with the bad. Anyways, I had Josephine again. I went into Trivia within the promotional offers option, which got me a password hint. I used>! "End of the World" extension, only because I finally wanted to know what happened there. AND GOOD LORD!!! That was a trip and a half. The long and short of it is Josephine read me a poem?... short story?... while I was holding my breath on the other end of the line. And let me tell you, I don't know how I was able to make it through that while short story, but I did, and WOW!!! That was a great 5 minutes to spend with her on that.!< Okay so after that, I went into Hours of Operation, where Josephine read me a recipe for a specific drink, which is where the "downfall" was starting. I think I only wrote down two things in my notebook from the recipe. She asked if I needed anything clarified from the whole recipe she read aloud, and you wanna guess what I said?.... If you guessed no, you would be correct!!!
So then, and I don't why, but my brain was like "hey, let's use that password hint" in Review Documentation. So I Did... and the security question to answer was about the recipe... And it was at this very moment that I knew... I fucked up bad..... really bad.... You see how this led to the downfall of this call?? I felt like such a dumb goober after that that I felt like I didn't want to do anything else in that call since I knew it was going to end soon. (I tried to file a complaint but the timer went off) Thankfully, after the timer went off to end my session, Josephine in a "off the record" moment reassured me and said, "You're not dumb... you just have to take your time." And she gave me what the answer to the security question actually was... tumeric, but unfortunately, since I redeemed that password hint, that I can't reuse it which sucks. So... again, that call had its good moments and bad moments, but sometimes that's life, right?...
Call 11: Surprise!!! It's another Directions Call!!! Also Surprise, I got to meet the Geometer finally!!! And I got Josephine again for Directions!!!
And it was lovely and just pure magic! I finally got to the hatch that goes into the Geometer's obsevatory that is full of trinkets and inventions, as well as open windows that gaze out into different areas of Ilus (I dont remember all the windows, but I remember the citadel, the diamond mountain with its peak gone, and a forest). I go up to the telescope, and a radio starts playing music, there are even some stuff that seems out of place for a kingdom like Ilus, like the cave wall with red handprints, and a marble bust of Lyndon B. Johnson wearing a flower crown. I look through the telescope, and I see the riot happening in front of the black castle... and yet, it's all happening in slow motion.
I try to adjust the lens but the scenery changes as well as the music from the radio mentioned earlier, and every time I adjusted the lens of the telescope, the scenery changes. It goes to this grassy, flat field on a sunny day with no clouds in the sky... and in the distance are two people laying on a picnic blanket of sorts (this is where "End of the World" plays); it then switches to a scene within space, a small "tin can" floats amongst the stars (and I think this is where "Space Oddity" plays); and finally... the telescope shows a white hospital room, someone lays in a soft pink-sheeted hospital bed, asleep with their phone in their hands as a heart montior beeps in the background... and then I am shunt out from the scene and brought back to "reality" as the radio stops playing, and I finally meet the Geometer. We talk about time, how time passes differently when you are close to the castle, and time is all about perspective. When we run out of time to talk, the Geometer gives me a map of the forest (the one I mentioned earlier) with directions taking me to the Alchemist. And that is where directions end. Good lord, this was my girl dinner because the conversation was wonderful. So things went better this time around which was nice.
Call 12: Okay, so I got Sasha again for this call, and let me tell you, this was by far in my top 5 favorite calls I have had that have left me in such an existential state of mind. I should've prefaced by saying Sasha has a male and female voice actor, which is very cool. Before 2023 ended, I talked to female Sasha. Yesterday, I got to talk to male Sasha.
Most of the call was in Hours of Operation, but since this call was yesterday I remembered a very good chunk of that portion of the call. It started with the question I got from "making an appointment", which was if I can see outdoors from where I was, and if there were any trees nearby, and I say yes to both as my car was parked near a tree about 5 or 6 feet away from me. The first 10 minutes or so into the call, we talk about fairness and unfairness because a lot of my responses these past few calls I would reply with a variation of "that's fair." That transitions to the time of day I had that call, which was the afternoon, and if it was a beautiful day... and if I found myself beautiful during the afternoon. I talked about how I am not confident in how I look because I compare myself to other people because of the "demon on my shoulder" kinda thing.
This led to an "off the record" moment with Sasha, asking if this "demon" of mine had a name, to which I said no, and he replies with "sometimes naming things makes them less... powerful." Afterwards, Sasha proceeds to talk about how beautiful it is that we are here, just existing... even if we don't see each other. He then asks if a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?... which I don't want to go deeper into, but it was pleasant conversation about feelings... what's being in an emotional state like, and how it correlates to "peaks and valleys." And it ends with the "somewhere else's" with the tree falling, whether it's making a loud sound or nothing at all... and that's where Hours of Operation ends. That is by far my favorite "Hours of Operation" session.
I knew I didn't have much time left over for anything else, so as usual, I go into promotional offers, and I decide to to try my hand at "Describe and Draw" again since I haven't done that in a while. When I was asked if I wanted to be the brain or the hands, and I am someone who isn't confident in describing things I wanted to be the hands again. Another "off the record" moment happened, where I didn't want to push myself... which I know its after the call now. Maybe next time I go back into "describe and draw," I will choose to be the brain, and hopefully then, I'll have a bit more confidence in myself for that. Because just as we were about to play, the timer goes off. Another great call, and god do I love Sasha too!!!
FINAL THOUGHTS, THEORIES, QUESTIONS (Not in any order):
- I really want to know what the documentation was from that recipe security question HAD I NOT SCREWED THAT UP!!!
- Sasha Sasha SASHAAAAA!!!! Oh my god, the actor that I had yesterday for that call was phenomenal!!! The way he just riffed off of my responses instantly, he called me the hell out with something along the lines of "it sounds like you really care about other people than yourself" GOLLY! THE LAST TIME I WAS CALLED OUT LIKE THAT WAS WHEN I HAD MY CALL WITH HARPER WHEN I STARTED THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE LIKE GODDAMN!!!! I hope I get to have more calls with that version of Sasha in the future. (Josephine and Sasha are fighting to be my favs here)
- Okay so... The whole reason the passage of time changes as we get closer to the black castle depends on someone's perception of time, right? So remember how back in the first calls we had where we went into hours of operation, and the CSR's would have asked how we experience time (faster, slower, or the same as other people?). Well, what if those things are related, right? So I ask to my fellow Legacy friends who have met the Geometer: When you first looked through the telescope to see the riots at the Black Castle, did you also watch it in slow motion, or did you watch it depending on your perception of time? I would actually love to know... BUT HEY, THATS JUST A THEORY! A LENNOX MUTUAL THEORY (yes i did the Matpat thing, that man is retiring soon and I am still in my feels about it okay?)
- And yes... I know why we, as prospective customers, are actually here, at Lennox Mutual. It's because of the founder of Lennox Mutual: Thomas "Tommy" Lennox. He had cancer. And he passed away because of it. And somehow, through the CSR's, we are getting small glimpses into what Tommy's life was like. Think about it, every other call, there would be an "after session" scene playing out with Tommy (I got ones where he was singing "Come as You Are", and telling Josephine he can't just leave the hospital, but relunctantly says okay to go for that plan; so I guess he left without an actual medical discharge from the hospital he was getting treatment there with Josephine.) Also something to think about, the telescope: there were glimpses into Tommy's life. One being he was in the hospital for cancer treatment, and another being him and I assume Josphine staring at the blue sky under a picnic blanket. Tommy and Josephine must've been really good friends I assume. And now it makes me wonder what Gabriel, Sasha, and Harper's relationship with Tommy was like, if they ever even met him.
- During describe and draw yesterday, I got an ad for Live at The Lab, which I just googled that it is a real place in Ohio. I guess that's an answer to a trivia question I assume? Also, I kinda like how LM takes places from the real world and find a way to implement them into the world of LM. Just- *chef's kiss* I love world building.
- There is such a blurred distinction between the real world and Ilus. Ilus the kindgom and Ilus, the sleeping agent that can be taken as pills. Tommy and the Blind King. And many others that almost bleed through between these two realities. I find that so fascinating that as you learn more about what is going on, things click to together as to what/where/who and their counterpart from another reality.
- GOOD LORD AM I GONNA HAVE SOME GOOD FANART TO COOK UP FROM THESE CALLS BECAUSE GODDAMN I HAVE SUCH INSPIRATION AGAIN TO DRAW MORE FANART YAYYYYYY!!!
Alright, my friends. That is it for this round of calls for Lennox Mutual. I have another call scheduled for Valentine's Day, so I cannot wait for that (hopefully I will know what February looks like then so that I can schedule more calls around then before I have to take a small hiatus in March.) If you made this far, thank you as always for reading my utter nonsense when I talk about LM. This show is my hyper fixation right now, and it is literally keeping me from going utterly bonkers.
And at Lennox Mutual: You just have to take your time. :)
2024.01.08 09:16 Federal_Brilliant_49 Hopeful first-gen student with lower GPA but good extracurriculars and essays applies to UCs (HELP!!!!!!!!!! :3)
US citizen
From California
From a slightly smaller STEM-based public school
Female, white & hispanic
Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.): first-gen
Intended Major(s):
Environmental science
Molecular Environmental Biology (for UCB)
Ecology
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores: GPA was the weakest point in my application, I struggled with math classes and ended up with 4 C’s in total on transcript from all 4 yrs.
Unweighted HS GPA: 3.5
Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 3.9
Class Rank: 92/447 (was top 10% in my junior year but no longer)
ACT/SAT Scores: Opted out
Coursework
Since my school only offers ~11 IB/AP courses I ended up taking 4 IB courses total and 1 AP:
IB English HL1/HL2
IB Anthro
IB Enviro
IB Spanish HL1
AP Stats
I took a 0 period (Biotechnology) and a 7th period (Academic Decathlon) for 2 years as well.
Awards
1st place speech in Honors Division academic decathlon
1st place poem in my town’s annual poetry competition
Biotechnoloy CTE Certificate for completing over 300 hours of labs
Extracurriculars
Freshwater ecology internship at UC Berkeley: I was placed at UC Berkeley’s freshwater labs after the American Fisheries Society accepted me into their Hutton Junior Fisheries Program. It was a very selective program but I got to work out in the field and in the lab over the summer. Researched coho salmon return rates and how California drought and damming hurts their populations.
Waksman Student Scholar Program (2 yrs): After school microbiology and bioinformatics research program from Rutgers, really cool opportunity (we were the only public school representing California), research on the use of duckweed, an aquatic plant as biofuel and as a way to recycle atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Tracy Poet Comittee (2 yrs): I was appointed as the youth representative of the Tracy Poet Committee which runs under the non-profit organization, Tracy Friends of the Library. The purpose of the committee is to appoint Tracy’s first poet laureate and to organize events at local schools for poetry workshops and lectures to inspire artistic expression among students.
Interact Club (4 yrs): I have been active in Interact club for 4 years, president for 2 years, I organize events (senior center visits, book donation drives, canned food drives, preschool readings, park clean-ups), and have amassed 150+ volunteer hours yearly.
Artists by Artists: A local artist recruited me to write a collection of essays for her published book which focused on local artists from underrepresented communities connected to my town. I extensively researched Richard Yip, a watercolor artist who dedicated his life to painting coastal and abstract landscapes. The project ignited my passion for creative writing and lead to my involvement in the arts scene of my town!
Poetry Out Loud Program: Co-cordinator of this program under the National Endowment for Arts. My job is to recruit young poets, search for opportunities for them to artistically express themselves, and coach them for competitions.
Link Crew (2 years): Helping freshmen through orientation, getting them familiar with campus life, etc.
Academic Decathlon (2 yrs): Competed in county level competitions, served as the captain for the team from 2022-2023, won around 8 medals for myself individually.
Earth Club (3 yrs): Vice president of environmental activism club, promoting individual sustainability on campus and finding sustainable alternatives to implement in our school (recycling days, clothing donation drives, park clean-ups).
Science camp counselor (2 yrs): I know its not outstanding but for my major I had joined this to educate kids on wildlife conservation and teach them to respect nature and all that super cool awesome stuff. It was special to me!
Book Club (2 yrs): Was secretary of this interest-based club, organized book donation drives at our school.
Cross country (3 yrs): 3-year cross country athlete, formed close team bonds, earned my varsity letter.
Sidenote: I definitely think being overly involved in extracurriculars was my downfall, although they aren’t things I participated in just for looks and mainly were based on my interests, its not all that compared to having a higher GPA.
Essays/LORs/Other(I got help from an ex-UCSB admissions officer which definitely helped my essay writing out)
Gardening pretty flowers and being awesome essay: Wrote about the impact tending to my Nonna’s garden with her had on me, building my own garden from her teachings, and using my gardening hobby towards building my school’s community garden for Earth Club. Sounds like a basic concept to some but I liked it! Would give around a 9/10.
Poetry Essay: Wrote about my work in my town’s literary arts community and how I got involved after being invited to a poetry contest and sharing my notebook full of poems I’d accumulated since 11 years old. Concluded with talking about coaching younger kids for poetry contests and hosting lectures and poetry workshops. 8/10 in my opinion.
Obligatory sob story: Wrote about my mom’s diagnosis of stage 3 cancer and having to step up to the plate to care for her, my family while also juggling school and how that hurt my grades but how I recovered from that. Concluded with talking about how my mother’s survival of cancer inspired me to excel academically to make her proud and her life worth fighting for. Showcased a lot of my personal growth and resilience, 9/10.
The fun fish essay: Wrote about my experience on a field work day during my internship where I finally realized I wanted to commit myself to my passions of conserving nature. More in depth about what the conservation project was about and what I did but I’m not gonna type all that out. Afterwards, camping out with the conservation project crew from Caltrout, Conservation Corps, and those buddies and realizing I wanted to be just like them when I grow up!!! No but I made strong connections with the people of that fieldwork day and their passion inspired me to pursue my dreams no matter the costs!!! (9.5/10)
Schools
Applied to all CSU/UC schools (and UNR)
Safety
UNR (RD) – accepted!
Likely
UC Santa Cruz (RD)- waitlisted
CSU Long Beach (RD)- accepted!
Match
SDSU (RD)- waitlisted
UC Davis (RD)- rejected
Reach
UCSB (RD)- rejected
UCB (RD)- rejected
UCSD (RD)- rejected
UCLA (RD)- rejected
UCI (RD)- rejected
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From California
From a slightly smaller STEM-based public school
Female, white & hispanic
Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.): first-gen
Intended Major(s):
Environmental science
Molecular Environmental Biology (for UCB)
Ecology
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores: GPA was the weakest point in my application, I struggled with math classes and ended up with 4 C’s in total on transcript from all 4 yrs.
Unweighted HS GPA: 3.5
Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 3.9
Class Rank: 92/447 (was top 10% in my junior year but no longer)
ACT/SAT Scores: Opted out
Coursework
Since my school only offers ~11 IB/AP courses I ended up taking 4 IB courses total and 1 AP:
IB English HL1/HL2
IB Anthro
IB Enviro
IB Spanish HL1
AP Stats
I took a 0 period (Biotechnology) and a 7th period (Academic Decathlon) for 2 years as well.
Awards
1st place speech in Honors Division academic decathlon
1st place poem in my town’s annual poetry competition
Biotechnoloy CTE Certificate for completing over 300 hours of labs
Extracurriculars
Freshwater ecology internship at UC Berkeley: I was placed at UC Berkeley’s freshwater labs after the American Fisheries Society accepted me into their Hutton Junior Fisheries Program. It was a very selective program but I got to work out in the field and in the lab over the summer. Researched coho salmon return rates and how California drought and damming hurts their populations.
Waksman Student Scholar Program (2 yrs): After school microbiology and bioinformatics research program from Rutgers, really cool opportunity (we were the only public school representing California), research on the use of duckweed, an aquatic plant as biofuel and as a way to recycle atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Tracy Poet Comittee (2 yrs): I was appointed as the youth representative of the Tracy Poet Committee which runs under the non-profit organization, Tracy Friends of the Library. The purpose of the committee is to appoint Tracy’s first poet laureate and to organize events at local schools for poetry workshops and lectures to inspire artistic expression among students.
Interact Club (4 yrs): I have been active in Interact club for 4 years, president for 2 years, I organize events (senior center visits, book donation drives, canned food drives, preschool readings, park clean-ups), and have amassed 150+ volunteer hours yearly.
Artists by Artists: A local artist recruited me to write a collection of essays for her published book which focused on local artists from underrepresented communities connected to my town. I extensively researched Richard Yip, a watercolor artist who dedicated his life to painting coastal and abstract landscapes. The project ignited my passion for creative writing and lead to my involvement in the arts scene of my town!
Poetry Out Loud Program: Co-cordinator of this program under the National Endowment for Arts. My job is to recruit young poets, search for opportunities for them to artistically express themselves, and coach them for competitions.
Link Crew (2 years): Helping freshmen through orientation, getting them familiar with campus life, etc.
Academic Decathlon (2 yrs): Competed in county level competitions, served as the captain for the team from 2022-2023, won around 8 medals for myself individually.
Earth Club (3 yrs): Vice president of environmental activism club, promoting individual sustainability on campus and finding sustainable alternatives to implement in our school (recycling days, clothing donation drives, park clean-ups).
Science camp counselor (2 yrs): I know its not outstanding but for my major I had joined this to educate kids on wildlife conservation and teach them to respect nature and all that super cool awesome stuff. It was special to me!
Book Club (2 yrs): Was secretary of this interest-based club, organized book donation drives at our school.
Cross country (3 yrs): 3-year cross country athlete, formed close team bonds, earned my varsity letter.
Sidenote: I definitely think being overly involved in extracurriculars was my downfall, although they aren’t things I participated in just for looks and mainly were based on my interests, its not all that compared to having a higher GPA.
Essays/LORs/Other(I got help from an ex-UCSB admissions officer which definitely helped my essay writing out)
Gardening pretty flowers and being awesome essay: Wrote about the impact tending to my Nonna’s garden with her had on me, building my own garden from her teachings, and using my gardening hobby towards building my school’s community garden for Earth Club. Sounds like a basic concept to some but I liked it! Would give around a 9/10.
Poetry Essay: Wrote about my work in my town’s literary arts community and how I got involved after being invited to a poetry contest and sharing my notebook full of poems I’d accumulated since 11 years old. Concluded with talking about coaching younger kids for poetry contests and hosting lectures and poetry workshops. 8/10 in my opinion.
Obligatory sob story: Wrote about my mom’s diagnosis of stage 3 cancer and having to step up to the plate to care for her, my family while also juggling school and how that hurt my grades but how I recovered from that. Concluded with talking about how my mother’s survival of cancer inspired me to excel academically to make her proud and her life worth fighting for. Showcased a lot of my personal growth and resilience, 9/10.
The fun fish essay: Wrote about my experience on a field work day during my internship where I finally realized I wanted to commit myself to my passions of conserving nature. More in depth about what the conservation project was about and what I did but I’m not gonna type all that out. Afterwards, camping out with the conservation project crew from Caltrout, Conservation Corps, and those buddies and realizing I wanted to be just like them when I grow up!!! No but I made strong connections with the people of that fieldwork day and their passion inspired me to pursue my dreams no matter the costs!!! (9.5/10)
Schools
Applied to all CSU/UC schools (and UNR)
Safety
UNR (RD) – accepted!
Likely
UC Santa Cruz (RD)- waitlisted
CSU Long Beach (RD)- accepted!
Match
SDSU (RD)- waitlisted
UC Davis (RD)- rejected
Reach
UCSB (RD)- rejected
UCB (RD)- rejected
UCSD (RD)- rejected
UCLA (RD)- rejected
UCI (RD)- rejected
2023.12.19 14:15 Jealous_Peach1476 🌲 A Personal Take on Using LLMs (ELEANOR KONIK)
 | 🔹 Disclaimer and Acknowledgment: The text I'm sharing here is the insightful work of Eleanor Konik, an author known for her thought-provoking and valuable content. This piece is taken directly from her Substack page, which I highly recommend visiting for more of her writings. submitted by Jealous_Peach1476 to ChatGPT [link] [comments] 🌟 The insights and perspectives in the text are entirely Eleanor's, and I'm sharing this to spread the word about her work and the depth it brings to its readers. If you find this content as enriching as I did, I encourage you to explore more of her work and consider subscribing to her page. Eleanor Konik consistently delivers quality content that is both engaging and informative. A Personal Take on Using LLMsNavigating the ethics -- and effectiveness -- of new AI tools as a writer.ELEANOR KONIK16 DE DEZ. DE 2023One of the most common questions I get asked lately is how I’m using AI and large language models to help with my writing and research. I haven’t said much about it because I’m not leveraging it as much as other folks I see, and I don’t think I’m doing anything particularly revolutionary. Still, I do use various AI tools, and y’all do seem curious, so here goes… Awhile ago, I asked some folks in Discord what the best Obsidian plugin with a ChatGPT integration was, and I got the somewhat cheeky response: “the user.” Frankly, this annoyed me. I understand that there are reasons to object to how LLMs & other contemporary AIs were trained — although the jury’s still out on the legality of it all — but let’s be real here: pretending that people are as efficient as LLMs at the tasks LLMs are good at is roughly equivalent to pointing out how the longbow was more accurate and powerful than a musket, or that trained tailors make the best suits. It’s trivially true, but ignores the extreme usefulness of guns and factories. Everybody has their own use-cases for LLMs, but here are three of my favorites: Whenever I’m not sure whether a source has the answers I need, AI can summarize it for me, so I can judge whether it’s worth the time to dig into it on my own. While I would never rely on a computerized summary enough to cite it — any more than I’d rely on a newspaper headline — this sort of thing is great for quick evaluations, or what I and others sometimes call triage. To that end, Elicit is the best implementation of AI I’ve seen for doing this with scientific papers. All it does is let you ask a plain-language question, then arranges information from scholarly journal articles into a handy table that can include anything from “the year and location this was published” to “a LLM-generated answer to your question based on this article.” You can even select the search results that are most like what you had in mind and then it’ll go find more along those lines. It is so much more useful for answering questions like “but why can’t I spend more than 10 minutes in a hot tub while I’m pregnant?” than boolean searches through resources like the JSTOR database, and unlike most AI does a great job of letting you check the source yourself if it seems to be relevant. But Elicit isn’t the only way to leverage AI for summarization. My favorite prompt is this one:
For example, you can copy a lengthy email to your clipboard, and have it replace the email with a brief summary of its content in whatever format you like, ordered by whatever prioritization you like, so you can quickly figure out if there’s an emergency. With the fancier email software options, you can even leave this summary for yourself a note for when you go back to it later. Technically, I suppose you could feed the LLM several articles, ask them to summarize them and rank them thru a particular lens (for example “read these 3 articles, extract information about how Roman militaries handled recruitment over the course of the republic and empire periods, then rank them according to how relevant they are to that question”, but I’ve never done this. If I did, I could theoretically use it as the basis of an article. A very rough basis, but not a terribly unethical one while AI still sucks at writing prose, because… Whenever I see a really bad AI suggestion, it motivates me to keep writing. I can't stand seeing something wrong and not doing anything about it. I'm hardly unique in this phenomenon; one of the most obnoxious (but true) pieces of advice I've ever seen is that if you want to get a question answered on the internet, and merely asking doesn't get a response, say something on the topic that you know is wrong -- then people will leap to correct you, and you'll get an answer to your original question much easier. I've never quite been able to bring myself to do this — the reputational damage seems like more trouble than an answer is worth, and I'm certainly not going to go through the trouble of making a sockpuppet account in order to get an answer... but it's always on my mind. https://preview.redd.it/z5xx2jeq397c1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=6cc9d67e545d871380e4a89da67dfc721591f280 To be clear, I don't think this happens because people are unhelpful or anything. Often people won't answer your questions because they feel like they are missing information. But if they see that you've said something very wrong, and they know it's wrong, then they feel motivated to point out that you are wrong. So, I think part of the reason people get so irritated by AI suggestions is because they feel like the computer is telling them they're doing something wrong. And in some ways, I think that's true. If you're using a writing tool and the AI keeps suggesting changes, it can feel like the computer is saying your writing is bad. Being constantly nagged about low-stakes things is annoying whether it's a computer doing it, or a spouse, or a child. I can imagine that it feels a bit like when you're talking and somebody interrupts you to finish the sentence. Some people like that, because it makes them feel like the other person is engaged and listening and paying attention and on the same wavelength as you. Other people hate it because it throws off their train of thought and feels a little bit insulting — like the other person didn't want to hear what you had to say. So I imagine that preferences with these tools are, in some way, like conversation preferences. For me, though, it's useful. Motivating, in the same way that some highly successful celebrities report that a big reason they kept pushing past the point of reason was a desire to spite someone who told them they wouldn't make it in their field. It's not really healthy for relationships, but computers don't care if we like them, so they just keep blindly pushing until we turn off the annoying feature. So I think the AI suggestions and drafts can be helpful, even if (because!) they're irritating; they help me to focus and to stay on task, if only because fixing each little problem is an easier task than starting from scratch, even if — as is almost always the case — what I wind up with bears absolutely no resemblance to the original suggestion my computer shoved at me. Overall, tho, using AI for actual longform writing is pretty terrible, with two exceptions: Writing stories for children does not take a lot of originality in terms of prose-writing or insight. ChatGPT is godawful at writing good prose. As a mom, I am here to tell you that so are most children's book authors. The number of unforced errors in board books is just egregious -- a cow is not a "he" ! -- and some of the rhymes are terrible, even before you start getting into things like whether kids books have been ideologically captured by various culture wars factions, much less whether they fit your personal criteria of what is acceptable in a kid's book. Plus finding a kid's book that is perfectly aligned with your particular kid's particular obscure interest of the day is tricky, even with library access, because it's not timely. I personally find the proliferation of talking animals and pure fantasy in books aimed at three year olds annoying, for example. Happily, ChatGPT and DALL-E exist, and I'm also here to tell you together they do a remarkably good job of writing tolerable short stories aimed at children. You can even print them out with generated images for the kids to color themselves if you're feeling crafty, although realistically I just read from my phone. I've used prompts like: “Write a version of oh my darling clementine song where she is not gone forever and is rescued from the mine…” because my son had an existential crisis when he heard me idly singing the original version. “It’s ok honey her daddy rescued her she wasn't really gone forever, he was just scared…” required some quickly amended lyrics, STAT, and ChatGPT came thru for me: Then the miner, forty-niner,Soon began to seek and find,Thought he oughter find his daughter,Now he's with his Clementine.Coming home he still don't want me,She's robed in garments soaked in brine,Though in fear I used to hate him,Now she's here, I'll call him kind How I missed her, how I missed her,How I missed my Clementine,Till I kissed her in front of misterFather of my Clementine.Amazing prose? Nah. Would I ever submit it to a literary magazine? Lol. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t handy to have in my metaphorical back pocket, and stuff like that is the moment where LLMs really shine for me in my life. My son wants to hear the story of Alice in Wonderland but I can’t remember it exactly and don’t want to read the entire book just then? “Hey ChatGPT, write an Irish folk song in the style of the Irish rover with a multitude of verses that use the same musical meter, but retells the story of Alice in Wonderland,” which gets you a surprisingly good poem meter for whatever tale you care to name! In the year of our Lord, eighteen sixty-three,Alice, a lass, so curious and free,Chased a rabbit, in waistcoat so fine,Tumbling headfirst into a land divine.(Chorus) Oh, Alice, dear Alice, in Wonderland so grand,A magical journey, in a strange and myst'ry land,With creatures so peculiar, and wonders untold,She braved through it all, with a heart brave and bold.She met with a cat, with a grin so wide,A Cheshire of sorts, his secrets inside,He spoke in a riddle, and then disappeared,But Alice pressed on, not a bit of her feared.[…]It’s at least as good as the board book version I eventually bought… But of course, there are longer prompts one can use when your kid comes home wanting a story of a particular type and you just don’t have time to get to the library:
…the same way a dishwasher is great. It can’t do everything — do not put your coffee maker into a dishwasher! It’s not as good as doing dishes by hand — it definitely can’t handle whole globs of chicken dip! But it’s a great tool nonetheless, and I’m glad it exists and I’ve got access to one, even if sometimes it’s annoying to clean the filter or replace a busted button or re-learn what the latest context windows are. How about y’all? Are you getting anything out of LLMs these days? |
2023.12.04 10:19 hellopriyasharma Preschool Community Helper Programs
| | Preschool activities that focus on community helpers encourage young learners to develop a deeper appreciation for the individuals in their community who work tirelessly to keep them safe, healthy, well-fed, and educated. These creative ideas can be incorporated into Circle Time, play centers, and small group sessions, making learning both enjoyable and educational. submitted by hellopriyasharma to u/hellopriyasharma [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/ljredxi0x84c1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8920f586e413cad399d8f0a6c07fa405c86570ca Introduction to Community Helpers During Circle TimeIt's important not to overwhelm preschoolers with too much information at once. For the Community Helpers preschool, consider introducing one group of helpers each day (or every other day). This approach allows young students to absorb new information in manageable portions. Here are the groups of community helpers to introduce:
Circle Time Lessons for Safety Community HelpersFor each group of community helpers, you can create a complete Circle Time lesson. Display a poster of the relevant community helpers and encourage students to identify them. Incorporate songs or games that are tailored to each group.Engaging Activities for Learning:Five Little Firefighters Poem: This poem provides a delightful way to practice rhyming, counting sets to 5, and learn more about safety community helpers.Spotty Puppy Carpet Game: Carpet games offer an enjoyable way for young students to practice essential pre-kindergarten skills, such as number and letter recognition. In this firetruck-themed game, the teacher hides a spotty puppy behind one of the firetrucks, and students take turns guessing its location by calling out a number. Tools of the Trade Puzzles: Create "Tools of the Trade" puzzles using adhesive foam sheets to help children associate each community helper with the tools they use. Beginning Sound Clip Cards: Use these cards to work on identifying beginning sounds. Children locate the letter that matches the picture shown and attach a clothespin to the letter. Builders & Fixers at the Science Center: Provide children with real tools like screwdrivers and screws for hands-on learning and exploration. Also Search: Nearest preschool to me Interactive Bulletin BoardsBulletin boards can serve as engaging visual aids for students. Consider creating a "What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?" bulletin board where each student can attach a picture of themselves to a craft stick, allowing them to explore various career possibilities.Community Helper Books and Reading SpacesBooks are an excellent way to explore community helpers further. Create cozy reading spaces with comfortable seating where students can read individually or in groups. Include books related to different community helpers in the block area and dramatic play center.Community Helper Blocks and AccessoriesEnhance the block area with accessories related to community helpers, such as road tape for making roadblocks, community vehicles, wooden community helper figures, and floor puzzles featuring transportation vehicles.Also Read: Top Preschools for 2024 Admissions Community Helper Dramatic Play CentersDramatic play is crucial for preschoolers' development. Set up a Post Office dramatic play center or other themed centers like a grocery store or hospital, where children can engage in imaginative play, encouraging social interaction and language development.Community Helper Word WallReinforce new vocabulary words introduced during Circle Time by adding them to a word wall. Update the word wall as you explore different groups of community helpers.These engaging activities and ideas not only make learning about community helpers fun but also promote essential cognitive and social skills in preschoolers. By offering a variety of hands-on experiences, you can help young learners develop a deeper understanding of the vital roles played by individuals in their community. Frequently Asked Questions 1. What are community helpers for preschoolers?Community helpers for preschoolers are individuals in the community who provide essential services to keep the community safe, healthy, and functioning smoothly. Examples include firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses, teachers, mail carriers, and garbage collectors.2. What is a community helpers for kids 5 sentence?Community helpers are people in our community who have jobs that help others. They include firefighters who save lives, police officers who keep us safe, doctors and nurses who take care of our health, teachers who educate us, and postal workers who deliver our mail.3. How do I teach my child community helpers?Teach children about community helpers through books, videos, and real-life experiences. Discuss the roles of different helpers, visit local fire stations or police stations, and engage in role-playing activities to help them understand and appreciate these roles.4. What is the objective of community helpers for kindergarten?The objective of teaching community helpers in kindergarten is to introduce young children to the various roles people play in their community. It helps them develop an understanding of how these helpers contribute to society and fosters a sense of community awareness and appreciation.5. What is the role of community in preschool?In preschool, the community plays a crucial role in teaching children about their surroundings and the people who make up their community. It helps create a sense of belonging and social awareness among young children.Originally Published by HelloParent |