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[waday]

I had ice cream last night too. Must have been something in the air. I'm dieting so I had the Halo brand Salted Caramel flavor. Not as good as the Cookie Dough but still at only 240 calories per pint for ICE CREAM! that tastes good, you really can't go wrong. Of course I didn't eat a whole pint. Had to share with the Princess.

I threw caution to the wind last night. Put a slice of angel food cake in a bowl, then topped it with Häagen-Dazs Chocolate.

The words sharing and ice cream don't belong in the same sentence, unless phrased as, "I don't like sharing my ice cream".

 

[vintagesnaps]

David, I'm getting film ready to send out this afternoon to Dwayne's in Kansas. It's $5 per roll for developing only; $9 per roll for developing + scan to a CD. (Add'l. cost for prints.) Return handling & shipping by way of the post office costs $5 first roll + .50 each additional roll for them to get it back to you.

You could check out their website at A trusted name in photo processing for over 50 years - Dwayne's Photo. I just printed out forms so I could toss some blank forms in an envelope and mail them to you if you don't have a way to print.

 

[JonA_CT]

@JonA_CT Does your school have a website that posts grades and assignments online? My daughter's school uses Aspen/Follett and I have an id to sign in and check on progress and homework etc. Also have an app that alerts me whenever a new grade is posted (poor kids these days are so screwed, lol). Anyway, during Middle school the teachers were great at keeping up the website but it's a whole other story with the High School. Yesterday progress reports came out for Q2. On Sunday night, Princess had only 1 grade listed for Science class, a 97. Sometime Sunday night after dinner, all of a sudden 5 additional grades popped up bringing her average down to a B. Now how am I supposed to stay involved and keep her on track if I don't get timely feedback on her progress? Same thing happened the night before Q1 report cards were due. One of her grades went from an A- to a B- overnight with no time to discuss the slide with her and find out if there's a problem. Just wondering how they do things at your fancy CT private school...[/QUOTE]

Maybe a little fancy, but not private (yet!) haha.

We have a similar system, although ours is called Powerschool. Most places I've worked have a policy about grade reporting, where grades should be returned and posted within two weeks of assignments being collected. My current school does not, although I've continued to do things the way I always have.

It's definitely not "best practice" to wait until the term date is up to post new assignments, as it defeats the purpose (allowing students and parents to be actively involved) of using the resource in the first place. The other thing that teachers do sometimes that is really annoying is that they won't put a "0" for assignments that were due but haven't been turned in. Then parents don't necessarily know that their student isn't doing what they are supposed to.


If I were you, I'd send the teacher a quick e-mail to ask about it, and to let them know that you can't support your daughter's work when that occurs. Sometimes a quick reminder that you are paying attention is enough to get them to be more consistent with putting assignments in.

 

[vintagesnaps]

O, I'm so glad to be early retired! It wasn't the kids, or the parents, it never is...

Do you think there was one that got a grade in early if all of a sudden a bunch more came in? Teachers may enter data differently; some might go thru and enter all for one grade, or all of one subject at a time, so the times might vary somewhat that the info. is online and available. Do they have mid semester conferences? By the time grades are getting posted it's too late to do anything, isn't it?

How much by high school do they expect the students to keep their parents informed of how their classes are going? The last I taught school age was jr. high and we just expected them to try to not bounce off the walls too much! But by high school I don't know... I'd think by then I'd expect they could tell their parents how they're doing in their classes (not that they necessarily would, but could...). If you have concerns about how she's doing I'd check with the teachers periodically so you know while there's time to do something about it.

 

[Gary A.]

Speaking of baseball two things.... Trammell and Morris , finally get into the Hall of Fame, GO TIGERS.

Second, report came out today that Darvish was tipping his pitches in the WS. I think I mentioned this to @Gary A. Via text during the WS. It was exactly how I saw it too, arm to the side, regrips ball, slider, blammo, runs, runs, runs.... Sorry @limr, I know you just let out a big sigh and your eyes kind of glazed over.....[emoji12]

Speaking of baseball. Gary contributed greatly to his grandson's baseball camp. And Gary also sent his grandson a ton of Topps 2016 season.

 

[Gary A.]

The guy from a local ice cream place who was on a feature on the noon news is named - Chip?? Yes, their chip ice creams are quite good, especially raspberry chip. But today he was making a sundae with peppermint ice cream with marshmallow cream and chocolate sauce - and I just ordered from them last night. Did get some of their lower sugar, but got a couple of holiday flavors too. It's never too cold for ice cream!

But silver sprinkles are bad for us? NOW they tell us we shouldn't eat those little silver balls (dragees, had to look up what the heck those things were called anyway!)? So why did our parents put them on Christmas cookies and feed them to us?? after a summer of sending us outside to roller skate with no helmets and throw lawn darts at each other? I don't know how we made it thru childhood!

Which reminds Gary that he has to craft up some ice cream today.

 

[Gary A.]

@vintagesnaps, I just had ice cream last night. Agree, never ever too cold for ice cream.

I had ice cream last night too. Must have been something in the air. I'm dieting so I had the Halo brand Salted Caramel flavor. Not as good as the Cookie Dough but still at only 240 calories per pint for ICE CREAM! that tastes good, you really can't go wrong. Of course I didn't eat a whole pint. Had to share with the Princess.

@JonA_CT Does your school have a website that posts grades and assignments online? My daughter's school uses Aspen/Follett and I have an id to sign in and check on progress and homework etc. Also have an app that alerts me whenever a new grade is posted (poor kids these days are so screwed, lol). Anyway, during Middle school the teachers were great at keeping up the website but it's a whole other story with the High School. Yesterday progress reports came out for Q2. On Sunday night, Princess had only 1 grade listed for Science class, a 97. Sometime Sunday night after dinner, all of a sudden 5 additional grades popped up bringing her average down to a B. Now how am I supposed to stay involved and keep her on track if I don't get timely feedback on her progress? Same thing happened the night before Q1 report cards were due. One of her grades went from an A- to a B- overnight with no time to discuss the slide with her and find out if there's a problem. Just wondering how they do things at your fancy CT private school...

Gary makes his ice cream with coconut milk.

 

[davidharmier60]

Vintagesnaps, I do not have a computer and so the printer that ran out of ink a few years ago is useless. If you are serious send me a PM and I'll tell you where to send.

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[davidharmier60]

By the way once I could have done it at the library but it's closed for no telling how long.

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[JonA_CT]

O, I'm so glad to be early retired! It wasn't the kids, or the parents, it never is...

Do you think there was one that got a grade in early if all of a sudden a bunch more came in? Teachers may enter data differently; some might go thru and enter all for one grade, or all of one subject at a time, so the times might vary somewhat that the info. is online and available. Do they have mid semester conferences? By the time grades are getting posted it's too late to do anything, isn't it?

How much by high school do they expect the students to keep their parents informed of how their classes are going? The last I taught school age was jr. high and we just expected them to try to not bounce off the walls too much! But by high school I don't know... I'd think by then I'd expect they could tell their parents how they're doing in their classes (not that they necessarily would, but could...). If you have concerns about how she's doing I'd check with the teachers periodically so you know while there's time to do something about it.

Things are so different now -- parents can get updates real-time now. I wasn't paying attention once and put in a bunch of what I thought were 10/10 assignments, but it was really worth 30 points so it posted as a 33%. A student told an hour or so later that she noticed that I had done it incorrectly, and by the time I got back to fix it after school, I had 3 parent e-mails about the grade.

I think, for the most part, it makes it much easier to communicate with parents about a student's performance, though. Parents have no excuse for not knowing.

 

[SquarePeg36 6]

O, I'm so glad to be early retired! It wasn't the kids, or the parents, it never is...

Do you think there was one that got a grade in early if all of a sudden a bunch more came in? Teachers may enter data differently; some might go thru and enter all for one grade, or all of one subject at a time, so the times might vary somewhat that the info. is online and available. Do they have mid semester conferences? By the time grades are getting posted it's too late to do anything, isn't it?

How much by high school do they expect the students to keep their parents informed of how their classes are going? The last I taught school age was jr. high and we just expected them to try to not bounce off the walls too much! But by high school I don't know... I'd think by then I'd expect they could tell their parents how they're doing in their classes (not that they necessarily would, but could...). If you have concerns about how she's doing I'd check with the teachers periodically so you know while there's time to do something about it.

Back in the "good old days" kids would just lie about how they were doing and then parents would get a nasty surprise on report card day or at a p/t conference - not exactly a great system for anyone other than the kids who would probably do well in any environment. Some kids need more help staying on track than others. My daughter is an honors student but teenagers don't always have the best priorities. High School starts at age 14 and that's not necessarily mature enough to prioritize school over friends, tv, sports, phone time, boys...

I do check in with the teachers periodically - if I see missing assignments or below average grades on the website. For the classes where she is doing well, and I can see that on the website, there should be no need for me to take up the teacher's time with a conference. But if I can't trust the website because it's not being updated, then I am forced to take up the teacher's time with a conference and then they have even less time to update the website...

Parents have no excuse for not knowing.

I'm shocked at how many parents don't even know about the app and rarely look on the website. Was at a party with some other moms recently and mentioned the app and out of 6 there was just one other who had heard of it but she didn't have it on her phone.

 

[pixmedic]

 

[SquarePeg36 6]

He's got bony legs

 

[pixmedic]

He's got bony legs

SHE'S just a puppy. still a little lanky.
she wasn't on a particularly great dog food when we got her. were in the process of switching her to a grain free kibble now.

 

[waday]

Cute. I love it when dogs sploot.