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in the form of the traditional practices of reporting grades the new assessment is too broad and does little to ensure that our children learn to show an appreciation for work ethic and consequence assessment for learning in what career is a person assessed before they start their job certainly when a person is first hired they are assessed to ensure that they meet the requirements for the job but how does one advance once they obtain employment they are assessed based on their performance and should their performance lack they have a consequence either they remain in their current position or they are fired assessment for learning does not teach our children to perform at their best there is no tool to reward a child who works their hardest and no consequence for a child who does very little and more importantly no way for parents to ensure that our children are performing as expected a grading system that is essentially four twenty five percent blocks is far to broad to get an accurate representation of the strengths and weaknesses of our children both are equally important to parents we want to know the areas in which our children excel and the areas that require remediation for example i have a child who is not only gifted but also has adhd based on his intellect his 85 is the average child s 65 due to his adhd however he often misses handing in assignments and does poorly on tests due to a lack of attention and focus in class based on the current model of grading i can easily monitor his grades to ensure that he stays on task and his grades reflect his average of 85 if his percentages start slipping i can evaluate his homework practices and study regimens to ensure that he is learning to develop a good work ethic for the future under the new assessment his average should be a 4 but there is no way for me to ensure that his grade remains at his average he could easily slip to a 3 or even lower before i could step in to ensure that he stays focused and on task i also worry about how this grading system will effect his transition to high school if we consider that his average should be 85 and he struggles to maintain a 4 under the new system does that mean he will suddenly become a student who s average is now 75 who will take responsibility for creating a generation of students who could have been a students but who are now low b students will the cbe let s use another example of how the current grading practices benefit students how about a student who is an average student of 65 a nice solid c student but one who works exceptionally hard under the current system that student can see their hard work pay off in the form of an increasing percentage under the new assessment where is the reward that student can work at their most diligent and still only ever achieve a 3 so why work hard instead of rewarding children for their hard work the new assessment is stifling their ability to excel and stunting their achievements the cbe is removing parents ability to ensure that our children work to their potential at a time in their development when we as parents have the greatest impact how much impact will we have when our sixteen year old high school students emerge from this new assessment model into mediocrity created by the cbe regards a concerned parent for more information on the new assessment and reporting please go to the cbe website here the cbe is removing the existing grading system of percentages and replacing it with the numbers 1 4 sr support required em emerging strengths ev evident strengths and ex exemplary strengths they are also moving away from assessment of learning to assessment for learning ie what should we teach next posted by myrna at 9 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adhd parenting saturday march 1 2014 how to make a cheesecake step 1 check the oven for drippings of previous baking cooking this step can be skipped if smoked whatever the hell that was flavour is desired step 2 use all the ingredients this step can be skipped if a custard like consistency and or bland flavour is desired try eliminating some of the cream cheese or vanilla for example or throw caution to the wind and skip both items wheeeeeee by following these two simple steps you can probably end up with a cheesecake that people will actually eat or you can skip both steps exactly as recommended and end up with whatever will be coming out of my oven shortly or better yet just take the 30 you will spend on ingredients and go buy some yarn everybody wins that way posted by myrna at 4 22 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels baking thursday june 20 2013 annual piano recital post just wanted to post a short and sweet extra sweet cause it s chey s first recital post sharing the kids piano recital videos so without further ado introducing chey in her first recital notice the feet swinging adorable and eli s 2013 piece he told me afterward that his stomach made his fingers jitter posted by myrna at 9 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels concert piano wednesday may 15 2013 conclusion every story must have an ending and so i will write an appropriate goodbye it has been a year since i began our worm composting experiment did you think i was saying goodbye to the blog no such luck people your suffering will continue i m afraid it was a success in some respects but a failure in others i will write a list of pros and cons in case anyone wants to try it pros 1 worm poop makes gardens grow i have to assume this is true as i only planted my garden this week and nothing is growing yet but the internet says that worm poop makes gardens grow and the internet is always right right 2 worms make great pets they are quiet they eat your garbage although to be fair there are plenty of dogs that eat garbage right theressa and they require very little attention plus there is the alleged excreta benefit mentioned above 3 worms make you feel like you are doing a great thing for the environment this must also mean that i can crank up my a c to offset my green footprint or something like that i forget i ll ask chey tomorrow she s been learning all about the environment at school and teaching teaching lecturing in a self righteous manner me how to be greener at home to save the earth worm composting is also great for bragging about my wonderful environment saving skills people really look at me with admiration in their eyes when i start talking about my worms i could be reading them wrong though it could be the glazed looks of people who wish they were on a quiet sandy beach somewhere no i m pretty sure it s admiration or adoration or approbation or aversion 4 you can compost in the winter with worms cons 1 although worms make great pets from an ease of care standpoint they do not make good pets from a mental health standpoint they tend to disappear when you open up their box to observe them i choose to believe that this sudden dive is due to their intense need to escape the light and not an attempt to avoid being cuddled which brings me to my second pet con worms are rather slimy and not at all nice to cuddle with 2 worms need to be fed but not too much they re actually kind of picky little bastards they prefer their food to be cut up into small bits its garbage i don t cut my kids food for them i m certainly not cutting up garbage for worm food and they only eat about half of what our family produces in a week as far as vegetative waste they also like cardboard and newsprint nether of which we seem to have when required darn recycle bins 3 worms actually it s probably the decomposing food but i m not fact checking tonight produce a lot of liquid called leachate turns out this is kind of toxic and is not the same thing as worm tea to get worm tea you soak their poop in water you do not soak the worms in water also the tea part is misleading it is not the latest superfood yet maybe no one has thought of it does this mean that when someone does think of it that they are stealing my idea mark your calendars people i might need additional evidence of my genius so i wouldn t recommend drinking it unless it turns out to be a superfood then fly at it you can not feed leachate to your house plants and expect them to live you can use it to kill your house plants though so if that s what you re going for this could be a pro the other problem with leachate is that it has to be emptied about once per month because there is a lot of it and it starts to make your house smell funky not the good kind after a while in the winter this poses a slight problem solved by the toilet but not without mess and aggravation a little cursing and an extra load of laundry 4 worm composers take up space ok i m stretching with this one but it is true you need a dark space that is convenient to get to and not too cold or hot see picky bastards i used our front hall closet but that space is now being used for something else which i shall share soon i m not sure where they would go should i choose to use worms again conclusions i did like having the worm composter but ultimately found out that it wasn t for me if the worms had been able to handle the amount of vegetative waste our family produces i might feel differently but i found the cons to outweigh the pros now if my garden suddenly produces something phenomenal the pros might still win i ll keep you posted here is the bin just before i dumped it worms and all into my garden my garden helper notice the skirt she s actually wearing one not to worry though those are sharks you see posted by myrna at 10 06 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels garden gardening vermicomposting worms tuesday april 16 2013 a trip into the closet i don t like closets i don t like the messes they contain and no i am not talking about my sexual orientation nothing quite so titillating i m afraid i am talking the literal dark disastrous cupboards that we all have in our homes the catch all the place where we can cram our junk and close the door those closets well i ve had enough and i decided to do something about a couple of mine my craft room to start it started out as one of those doors that one dared not to open for fear of immediate death by crushing at some point it morphed into a undecipherable pile and the door could no longer even be closed plus the damn open door takes up too much room and blocks my bookcase something had to be done firstly i pulled off the door and pulled out the organizer read organizer with intense derision that such a contraption should dare to call itself so rather than paint i decided to make the closet a bit of a focal point with a dramatic wallpaper the result although further organization in the form of pretty baskets is required is such an improvement that i can t wait to start on the next closet on my list i love this wallpaper unfortunately it has been discontinued no skeletons here posted by myrna at 2 37 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels home improvement organization wednesday april 10 2013 i win warning do not allow 6 15 year old video game obsessed boys or girls look at this post a few adult men and women might want to avoid it as well i am currently not accepting applications for new children and or room mates unless you cook clean and pick up dog poo then i might reconsider decorating advice is always free we recently had our entire house painted main living areas the basement was in the worst shape the previous owners did an amazing job when they finished the basement but i suspect they used a paint primer combination directly on the fresh dry wall because oh man did that paint fleck the frack off the basement looked like it had reverse chicken pox here are a few before pictures the colour of the walls was a dark reddish brown it s washed out in the pictures but you can see the damage too dark for a basement blurry picture of what it sort of looked like from a couple of years ago eli is playing full size angry birds that he constructed out of a tent making kit and now the right side of the room will have instruments set up a place to display lego video game collectibles yes those are super mario decals they go around that side of the room and that is why i win totally dad got this for us and it s been in storage ever since it was too large to fit anywhere but we finally decided to cut it down and install it it is 6ft tall and 7ft wide we are lucky to have something so cool i love it down there now it s bright cheery and fun too bad it smells like pre adolescent boys posted by myrna at 1 03 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels decorating home improvement olympics video gaming friday april 5 2013 ta freakin da holy snickerdoodles sorry for the foul language lol i actually have something to post about actually i have several posts to get out in the next few days weeks perhaps the winter silence is finally coming to an end i probably should post an update about our easter extravaganza but that is going to have to wait for another day because guess what i have a new pattern to show you i was asked to design a bathing suit coverup out of a specific type of yarn and i accepted the challenge with alacrity who doesn t need a cute easy to wear swimsuit coverup my original plan was to revamp a design that i had worked on last year but that i wasn t super happy with just needed some tweaking and it would be perfect but while i was thinking about it the design began to morph in my head to something completely different i thought that a swimsuit coverup was a wonderful idea but perhaps a lot of work for something that may not be worn very often particularly when knit from a lace weight yarn how about a swimsuit coverup that you could wear as a light weight tunic perfection eh this is what i ultimately designed a lightweight lace and stockinette striped dress that has a double row of eyelets along each side seam through which a ribbon is woven and used to cinch up the sides shortening the dress into a tunic that can be worn with a tank top underneath genius in my modest cough choke opinion here it is jump into summer ravelry link if you d like to purchase you can always this was my first time hiring a tech editor someone who checks for spelling punctuation and math errors and i must say awesome she totally removed a huge pile of stress surrounding pattern writing i hope that more patterns will be coming soon posted by myrna at 11 52 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels design knitting pattern older posts home subscribe to posts atom everything you didn t need to know about me myrna calgary alberta canada i m a stay at home mom of two children son daughter...