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As a teacher of the other end of the spectrum and a parent on this end there is a reason for that whole 2 standard deviation thing. Our kids aren't supposed to answer like the rest. They work their own paradigm just like my low functioning students do. There's a little word called diffentiated instruction, works as well for the high end as the low.

How could they use something like this on a state test?!? I mean what are the kids SUPPOSED to answer??? LOL

Sorry you are stuck with another teacher like that.

ETA: Wolf (5) said he'd get a ladder and Bear (2.8) parroted him...

Wolf and Bear? Okay, those are awesome names.

And they can absolutely use that on a state test. The objective of state tests, after all, is to guage students' ability to give expected, unoriginal answers.

Can someone recommend a good Calvin and Hobbes for DS9 for Christmas?

Thanks,
Dazey

they are all good. I would suggest you buy one your library system doesn't carry. Here's one we liked

The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book / by Bill Watterson

I'd suggest one of the earlier square-shaped books; the later ones were giant and rectangular (maybe 16x10 inches) and I remember finding them difficult to hold when I was a kid. "Scientific Progress Goes Boink" includes a couple of my favorite series.

Thanks! Online we are Wyldkat, Wolf, Bear and Dragon. LOL I got tired of typing DS5 and remembered the people who identified their kids in some other way, so this is what happened!

But, I just can't see how any group of children is going to give similar answers to a question like this. How can it be used when the possible answers are endless?

Oh, that's disappointing, I thought those were their REAL names. Would be very Alaskan (I taught up there for a semester and we did have a kid in the school called Wolf - short for Wolfgang - and a family with the last name Bear).

Sorry to disappoint. I would have gone with Sylvan or possibly Raven, but it didn't work out that way!

Although Bear is actually called that more than his actual name and responds to it just as well if not better...