Brand New Oak Meadow First Grade Curriculum from 2005, unused

Posted by Jennifer on Feb 3, 2010 in Education, General | 76610 commentshttp://quirkymom.com/2010/02/03/brand-new-oak-meadow-first-grade-curriculum-from-2005-unusedBrand+New+Oak+Meadow+First+Grade+Curriculum+from+2005%2C+unused2010-02-03+15%3A35%3A16Jennifer

https://www.oakmeadow.com/store/orderitem.cfm?rec_no=17

This curriculum continues the imaginative mood set in Kindergarten, but expands to include the lower case alphabet, phonetic studies, and beginning reading. Stories are used to learn the numbers to 100 and the four processes of math. Children explore the world of nature through experiential activities. Throughout are fairy tales, poetry, songs, recorder playing, knitting, painting, and drawing.

The First Grade Curriculum requires a set of two teacher manuals: The Heart of Learning and Home Teacher’s Process Manual.*

Includes:
Oak Meadow First Grade Syllabus
Oak Meadow Beginning Recorder Book
Oak Meadow Songbook
Oak Meadow First Grade Music CD <- I am missing this item
Oak Meadow First Grade Fairy Tales
Oak Meadow Word Families Reader
Little Bear
Little Bear’s Visit
A Kiss for Little Bear
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Frog and Toad Together
Mouse Soup
Mouse Tales

This sells for 280$ now, I think I paid in the 250$ range a few years ago. The books are unopened – no creases, no pen/pencil marks, no damage of any kind.

*I am not offering the teachers manuals or the health manual. You can find them on ebay for pretty cheap. Hell, even new, considering you can get 8 years out of them, they are pretty cheap *laughs* I still use the as reference, or I’d include them.

Asking 200$, or make me a reasonable offer. I am willing to barter depending on what the barter is.

83

Posted by Jennifer on Feb 2, 2010 in General | 76600 commentshttp://quirkymom.com/2010/02/02/83832010-02-02+23%3A01%3A40Jennifer

I just called my gram to wish her a happy birthday. 83. Long run, hm? I wish she could be around for 83 more. I call every year, and every year for the past few she’s alluded to this or that. Most phone calls (I call at least once a week) allude to “only so much longer” or the like.

Somehow I call her up for happy, and wind up realizing sooner than I like it will be one less Happy Birthday call to make in the year. There are already too few.

Happy Imbolc everyone who celebrates it. Sorry to precede yearly wishes with morose thoughts. It’s how my brain works. Five years ago today I was in labour. I was miserable. Labour stopped. That child stayed in eight more days. She’s still stubborn, like her mama. I’ll probably ramble on about that later though.

Dental Drama

Posted by Jennifer on Jan 26, 2010 in General | 76470 commentshttp://quirkymom.com/2010/01/26/dental-dramaDental+Drama2010-01-26+17%3A35%3A39Jennifer

No, not really. Just got back from the periodontist (looking for one in Coral Springs? Check out Dr. Richard Morrow @ 954-345-4748. No I don’t get paid for that, he was just awesome.) and while overall my gums are healthy enough, the area in front of my bottom front teeth is thin. I’m looking at a soft tissue transplant to build it up a few millimeters so I can get braces. While he’s in there, I’ll be the proud recipient of a frenulectomy (sp?) so my lip doesn’t wear my gums down over the next 50-some years. Yay!

Sometimes in seeking, we don’t always find

Posted by Jennifer on Jan 22, 2010 in General | 76461 commenthttp://quirkymom.com/2010/01/22/sometimes-in-seeking-we-dont-always-findSometimes+in+seeking%2C+we+don%27t+always+find2010-01-22+16%3A24%3A07Jennifer

Sometimes I go looking for my mom, because I’ve forgotten she isn’t there, and I am surprised when I can’t find her.

Last week Sara was talking downstairs and I swore it was mom. I don’t hear her in my own voice, although I hear her in my words. I was pleasantly surprised to find her in Sara’s.

just so I remember to look at it later

Posted by Jennifer on Jan 16, 2010 in General | 76380 commentshttp://quirkymom.com/2010/01/16/just-so-i-remember-to-look-at-it-laterjust+so+I+remember+to+look+at+it+later2010-01-16+15%3A53%3A04Jennifer

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A clarification

Posted by Jennifer on Jan 15, 2010 in General | 76370 commentshttp://quirkymom.com/2010/01/15/a-clarificationA+clarification2010-01-15+14%3A07%3A27Jennifer

Like I said, it makes me feel like a complete asshole. We have a HUGE Haitian population here. Most of our forms have English, Spanish and Creole on them. Trust me, I know most of Haiti lives in, and below, poverty.

It isn’t even just Haiti that pisses me off. I have nothing against Haiti. I get my feathers ruffled about this every time something happens somewhere else in the world and it becomes the “Raison D’Etre” for all of five minutes before it’s forgotten. Why not focus that attention inwards and heal ourselves before we pretend like we can heal the world? A new mother cannot take care of her infant if she isn’t well herself. Same concept here.

My Turn!

Posted by Jennifer on Jan 14, 2010 in General | 76360 commentshttp://quirkymom.com/2010/01/14/my-turnMy+Turn%212010-01-14+22%3A14%3A27Jennifer

From Wednesday:

I went to the orthodontist today. The tooth I went to the dentist about last May? The one they said was fine, but we have to fill these four other cavities in these other teeth? Yah, it’s got potential bone loss, gum loss, etc… and she can’t start my orthodontia until I either get the go ahead from another dentist (I have a referral) or get it fixed, because if she starts moving teeth around it could abscess. :shake_fist: