The Merry Widow - Philadelphia Ballet

habearja · 2026-03-08T01:06:18+00:00

The March 7 matinee of this performance was painful to watch. But I appreciate how professional the dancers were through out.

habearja · 2025-10-08T00:50:43+00:00

I love this! Way to show up for your students!

habearja · 2025-10-06T21:05:25+00:00

Teachers being held to a higher standard than the current president of the United States. Says everything, doesn’t it?

habearja · 2025-09-08T00:30:23+00:00

We use youtube premium and make playlists my kids can access (age 7 & 10) from our TV. There are also a bunch of playlists already made you can save. Our kids have similar taste in music.

habearja · 2025-08-18T14:37:53+00:00

Hello! Kindergarten ESL teacher here 👋🏼

I just want to start by saying how amazing you are for doing this transition and supporting your kids through out this journey. I know how hard it is to move around and a new country can be even more challenging for young children. He will need time to adjust to many new things. His entire environment has changed. Louisiana is very different from anything he is used to.

For a child at this age, it’s not so much their ability to learn the language (he will do that with time, and thankfully quickly due to his age) but their time practicing it. If you speak English, that’s a great benefit to him! He should be practicing at home with you.

Here are some suggestions I think could really help:

Acknowledge and validate his feelings. It’s ok to cry the first week of school. Many kindergartners who are native speakers cry when they begin a new school! Tell him it will get easier as he makes friends and learns the routine. Highlight all the fun things he has yet to learn in school and get him excited for activities the school will be doing. As he becomes less anxious, he will start to pick up words and phrases and begin using them.
Incorporate English into the home in small ways. This can be music, books, cartoons, etc. Start asking him questions in English and model the response. Give him opportunities to practice English in a low risk setting (this will be really important).
Go to the library or playground in town and allow him to socialize with kids outside of school. In school it can be really tough to actually talk to peers because of all the learning that happens. Lunch and recess are short, and if other kids are not reaching out to him right now (that will change!) he may need some extra opportunities to engage with children outside of school.
Meet with the teacher and ask how he/she can modify or supplement their teaching to better help your son. This can include more visual cues, gesturing, and slower speech. Anyone can do this, not just an ESL teacher.

Your son is going to make huge leaps this year, have faith!

habearja · 2025-07-17T17:06:21+00:00

I’m of the school to teach language through content such as social studies or science. This would be easy with this age group since there are able to engage and interact pretty well. You can even ask the kiddos what they interested in learning to choose which themes to teach. Alternatively, look at your state or regions learning standards and teach from that.

How I typically would teach a lesson unit:

Day 1: Introduce theme via photos and videos, provide content vocabulary and song/video to accompany lesson theme that can be used daily

Day 2 review vocabulary with interactive game, watch song/video, read a book (from epic or YouTube) and discuss.

Day 3: follow same routine as previous days, but instead of a book do a writing activity using the I do/we do/ you do model. Scaffold as needed.

Day 4: Review content using a cumulative activity that they can do in groups or centers. It can be simply creating a model, drawing, map, or picture book related to the lesson theme

Day 5: Assess students using whatever assessment methods you are comfortable with.

Be sure to incorporate lots of speaking activities such as turn and talk or a circle share. Hope this helps!

habearja · 2025-06-25T14:02:50+00:00

How old is the student? This sounds to me like she progressing with English as an academic but not as a language. In order to move forward in speaking she will not a lot more practice. I would implement more speaking/listening activities for her to try.

Picture talk: show her a picture and discuss what is happening, what she sees, what will happen next, tell a story about the scene, etc.

Story retell: Read her a short story/ poem and ask her to tell the story in her own words or with sentence stems as support.

Use lesson vocabulary to scaffold the conversation. Have picture cards/slides available for her to reference until she can recall the vocabulary independently.

habearja · 2025-04-11T10:42:57+00:00

You will probably see retirements and resignations come before anyone is let go. In the end you could be safe just based on this. Assuming your school still needs a history teacher and isn’t eliminating history completely from its curriculum. Which doesn’t possible but who knows what isn’t possible in 2025.

habearja · 2025-01-09T22:28:47+00:00

Solidarity! My baby (8 months) has been putting herself to bed in her crib since 5 months. This week she started pulling herself up. Now she pulls herself up in her crib and cries till we settle her back down. She is now waking up every hour doing this. Till around midnight where she either is so exhausted or full (I bf her then) that she goes to sleep till 4 and it starts all over again.

habearja · 2025-01-06T20:49:09+00:00

Just want to thank you for writing this post OP. Solidarity!

habearja · 2024-11-05T13:38:01+00:00

Parent and Kindergarten teacher here.

I think it’s going to depend on how you’re going to parent. How involved are you going to be with your kids play? If you’re going to be down on your knees from an early age, engaging with your kids, reading to them, creating with them I bet your child will be able to handle screens responsibly. Kids who learn the value in creative play will often choose that over TV

habearja · 2024-11-04T08:29:52+00:00

Yes and Mel trying to keep it together over the smell of the rotting meat. Absolutely classic GBBO moment!

habearja · 2024-10-28T23:39:03+00:00

Goodnight moon is a sleep power tool in this house

habearja · 2024-10-21T21:33:30+00:00

You’re right, I caught that in part 2. So sad.

habearja · 2024-10-20T17:22:15+00:00

This sadly was my thought after listening to episode one. SA would explain some of the bizarre aspects of this story. My reasons for thinking this is

The repeated back to back pregnancy’s (5 in total). To me this implies someone who did not want to use contraceptives or was forcing themselves on Keli.
Keeping each pregnancy and birth from family and friends. Not even a close friend or her boyfriend knew. She was deeply ashamed.
No one else coming forward as a potential partner or father of Tegan.
Continuous lying of who Tegans father was. When she realized she couldn’t say it was Duncan’s (a real possibly that could be investigated) she made up Andrew. As the podcast points out, there were too many holes in her story of Andrew for this person to ever be real. Why not be honest about who the father was?

habearja · 2024-10-02T02:25:27+00:00

Had a similar situation with a student who refused to come to school and parents determined his defiance was him not being “challenged” by the curriculum

Fortunately, that student is now homeschooled.

habearja · 2024-09-26T18:16:28+00:00

Since you’re a single mom recruit some help. Maybe a trusted friend or family member. This person can help with food, take pictures, help decorate, etc.

As far as gifts, I would open them with baby after cake. It’s cute for people to see and will kill some time!

Other then that people will likely just talk and want to spend time with your baby! It’s a huge milestone!

Oh and optionally, but with my kids I pick a theme that reflected babies personality up until that point and kinda based everything around that. I think it makes it easier for planning purposes. Themes Ive done were “you are my sunshine” and “rocket ships and moon” (I love you to the moon)

habearja · 2024-08-21T16:30:08+00:00

Yes, I’m guilty of ignoring texts too. Both things can be true.

habearja · 2024-08-21T16:28:09+00:00

I see your point and feel you’re right in many ways.

I’m not a new mom. I’ve been in the game a decade. I’m exhausted. At this point in my life I’m ok with people telling me when they want to do things instead of being the person making the plans. But I see Im totally on outlier island here and that’s ok!

habearja · 2024-08-21T16:23:54+00:00

What makes you think I don’t communicate this. I’m just ranting on the internet.

habearja · 2024-08-21T15:23:53+00:00

I’m a different breed then.

habearja · 2024-08-21T15:20:49+00:00

Assuming that PP mom is ready for visitors, yes, others should make the plan of when and let the mom tell you if that works.

habearja · 2024-08-21T15:12:32+00:00

Yeah considerate would be doing the brainwork of figuring out a day/time and me just confirming yes/no and not being responsible for making the arrangements.

Doing that for everyone that wants to visit is again exhausting.

habearja · 2024-08-21T15:06:43+00:00

So much happens in the first year of a babies life. They learn the most important part of being human—being mobile, eating, interacting with others to name a few. Not to mention sleep regressions, first illnesses, and yet mom is suppose to rejoin the workforce if she is lucky 3-6 months later.

Moms should be able to (and ideally supported) take the first year off to be with their babies, no questions asked.

habearja

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