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Preschool and Recyclable Materials
I shared this post on Facebook this afternoon in a group for teachers who works with children age 3-5 just like I have been doing nowadays. I wrote: "I called this panel as "Itinerant Panel". It was made by recycled tubes.
The purpose were let children get some experience with recyclable materials and also to show their activities all over the school instead keep them only inside the class. We can move the panel from one place to another easily. Children cleaned the tubes up, they put the tubes together and also made the decoration on it. This was our cultural week and the book read was " The Little Mouse, The Red Mature Strawberry and The Big Starving Bear".
The mice on the panel was made by steel wool by children and their families".
October 17, 2016
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DST. Why does it matter?
Today when my son asked me “Mom, do you know that The Daylight Saving Time is going to start on next Sunday?”. I was shocked and I said “Oh no! Don´t tell me that…”. Then I realized that I hate DST. Well, I can’t say I really hate it, but I don´t like it very much. It causes me a double feeling. When I have to wake up early in the morning and I see the darkness I feel angry, but when I leave the job and the sun is shining I feel so happy. The sensation is that I have such long time ahead to do everything I need to. Well, When I fall in my bed I realize that it's late and I say to myself “Oh, now I have little time to rest and I will wake up so early”. During the first month I usually feel confused like that. Then the time goes on and things comes back to normal routine. When I am feeling very comfortable again, the "amazing" DST is ending up. This is a cycle….
I was reading about the origin of DST and I read this idea was launched by Benjamin Franklin, American politic and inventor. But the first country which adopted DST for the first time was Germany in 1916 during the First War aiming to save costs with coal.
Here in Brazil, the first DST was between 1931-1932 by President Getúlio Vargas. DST took 5 months. DST has been adopted without interruptions since 1985.
Well, DST starts on October here in Brazil and ends up on February. The days are longer than usual and the lights can be turned on later. At this period we have to put our watches one hour ahead. According to researchers the country has positive results and the economy has significant benefits with it. However, older people suffer with some effects in their biological time.
Everything has its positive and negative points.
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Let's review our concepts and help each other!
Hello everybody!
I would like to express something that makes me feel really uncomfortable now. I've been navigating on this website after long period since the last time I was here, I guess one year or more, anyway, the fact is I am really disappointed about the way some people here are supposed to help each other, and I mean people here in Brazil, my country are responding penpals like "brigadão", "tamo ai" and other wrong words like that. How can people learn a foreing language with that? Obviously people learn slangs and expressions which them are not grammatically correct, but when you intend to correct an exercise let's bear in mind on the other side there is someone waiting for the best. This means respect. I feel sorry for that because there is no much websites like that and we should take advantage of it. Let's review our concepts and take the slangs only whatsapp and so on. Feel free to correct my mistakes. I'll really appreciate it. Thanks.
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Let's review our concepts and help each other!
Hello everybody!
I would like to express something that makes me feel really uncomfortable now. I've been navigating on this website after long period since the last time I was here, I guess one year or more, anyway, the fact is I am really disappointed about the way some people here are supposed to help each other, and I mean people here in Brazil, my country are responding penpals like "brigadão", "tamo ai" and other wrong words like that. How can people learn a foreing language with that? Obviously people learn slangs and expressions which them are not grammatically correct, but when you intend to correct an exercise let's bear in mind on the other side there is someone waiting for the best. This means respect. I feel sorry for that because there is no much websites like that and we should take advantage of it. Let's review our concepts and take the slangs only whatsapp and so on. Feel free to correct my mistakes. I'll really appreciate it. Thanks.
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May I say this way?
Who else can you rely on besides yourself?
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Data breach! What to do?
What to do when we have our personal data breached? According to the news, Target - American retailing company had thousands credit and debit encrypted information from its clients stolen. It scares me to much.
Despite to be aware of all problems with rackers, I still believe in security websites and I am used to buying stuff online. In this case, we always have to use credit card. How can we protect our data? In your opinion, what is the impact in your life after that news?
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What is correct?
He never says anything | They never know anything
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he never says nothing | They never know nothing.
I am asking this because I don´t know if the word "never" is considered negative, once we cannot have double negative in a same sentence ( He doesn´t say anything, He says nothing).
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YellowStone National Park
It is always nice to rescue memories from nice periods of our lives, and I was listening to an
audio about YellowStone National Park, and instantly I remembered when I was a child (not so far…) the time that I really had fun watching Yogi Bear´s JellowStone Park – Yogi Bear - and his friend Boo-Boo Bear (who was always trying to keep Yogi Bear out of trouble and he was not always well succeeded). Here in Brazil this famous cartoon was named as “Zé Colméia” in which Yogi Bear was called as Zé Colméia and Boo-Boo Bear was named as Catatau. I can hear “ohhhh Catatau” with his hoarse voice.
I became curious about the YellowStone National Park because I´ve heard it was the first
National Park in the world established in 1872, and I did a research about it. It is really fantastic.
The original site where I found information about it is http://www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm.
August 26, 2013
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