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Hey Mister T any plans for the weekend?

Oh i like that idea very much!

Hum-hmm looks like you need glasses cause my name's right underneath yours sweety

Ugh I can't wait for my doctor appointment tomorrow. Looks like I have a sinusitis especially the part where I'm half deaf from the left ear... oh and I'd like to be able to breath through my nose again ugh

Love your new profile pic @bignick

And I'd buy it ❤️

I love my SIL We were talking about Christmas plans. We're spending the 24th together with my brother, SIL, dad and grandma at home. The 25th will be at my aunt where dad's 🤬 is invited and going so I'm not going and my brother's is going to is in-laws. So my SIL invited me to her mother's to which I said I didn't want to impose. Her answer: "it's Christmas Bitch, it's for family" she's like a wild cat: cute and adorable but can totally be feral

More pics of Nicky in Canada https://www.instagram.com/p/C0UKphzyM07/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Morning Bertie, morning gang

Nicky getting ready to go see Gary https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0hDz-oSGfc/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Thanks for your input Terry The benefit of the simple act of reading books to children very early as definitely been proven and is the cause is many inequalities and what can make a difference. Also, even if troubles such as dyslexia are been taken more seriously now qs a future teacher I'd like to have some kind of solution to help those kids have the better start possible, find a way to make things the easier possible. kids brain is amazing, they're real little sponges. Ah the cursive writing! I guess it's a social/political thing related to the country. In France we start by introducing capital letters. Block letters are introduced then but not for writing, it's reserved to print (paper, classroom displays...). Everything hand written then has to be in cursive and that what the kids are taught around 5-6 years old and it's the mandatory way to go all along primary school (teachers don't say anything about the way a student writes once in middle school). As the years go we take more liberties with our handwriting but the cursive is still very present in us Thanks you all for your answers, it's very interesting to compare the way things are done worldwide. To answer you question: unfortunately no it's not for a research project, it would have been so interesting! I had the chance to witness the method by Celine Alvarez mixed with some of Borel-Maissony during my internship and found it very interesting. Unfortunately those methods are not official in France and are even frown upon by the hierarchy. Same for the Montessori method even though a lot of schools are using it in some ways but we were told to absolutely not mentioned it during the interview part of the hiring contest. Since the internship I took an interest in it, did some readings and it's like opening a magic box! Plus with the latest Pisa results being published last week it brings more questions! What can we change to help kids the best? Clearly the actual method isn't efficient enough so is there another one? What are the best ranking countries doing? So so many questions... But yeah doing a study on the way reading it taught worldwide would be sooo interesting! Maybe if one day I get bored of teaching I'll switch to research

Wow that's really impressive and interesting! Thank you for sharing. As a lefty I also have to turn my book/sheet horizontally and when writing on a board it's hard not to have my writing going down as I write.

Now I want to travel the world to find out...

Thank Pagey. That's also what I've noticed when I was an au pair and from vidéos on the internet. Now I wonder if it's because the prononciation is easier or if it's a method thing...

Dear native english speaking friends (sorry Nicky though you can answer too, it'll still be interesting to know the answer for Spanish speaking people), Around what age do english speaking kids start to read? Not necessarily full words fluently or even sentences but starting to decode words? In France kids start to decode syllabes around 5 and to decode words amd then reading fluently words around 6 years old but lately I've been reading the work of Celine Alvarez about a new, more intuitive method and it's blowing my mind! Kids start decoding words around 3! Now I'm also wondering how Gary, Albert and Terry did to learn to read when books didn't exist yet when they were that age... 🤔

good one Nicky ! excellent! And the twist at the end... all along you had me going for another kind of ring maybe you'll write this story another time

Oh we're going out? Where to?

Saying it was an accusation makes it sounds like it's a bad thing to each their own kink Spikey, we wouldn't judge you if it was true

I meant in your dreams being able to nuke the north pole

I really dont like the way things are going, you and Spikey agreeing is scary I didn't fantasized about gagging Spikey. He spoked about something in his face and I speculated about a ballgag. That it.

In your dreams kiddo

And who are you do make that decision? 🤨 One of Santa's elf? And of course we're not on this year's list, we're permanently on the Nice List our spot is forever

I was not perving I was giving you advice brat