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Hm cool I realised today that there are indeed online diary sites. I wonder how long I'd last here. Ahwell.
The weekend has been pretty meh. Last week we had to think of what we wanted to do with our lives. I have no idea. I feel so lost. Everyone else seems to have some aim or goal. Maybe I need a bucket list. I just feel like I've been wandering aimlessly. What to do?
Today I skipped what was supposed to be dance practice. I don't even know who went. Handover is less than a week and…? I don't really know what to feel. Lately everything has just been murky shades of brown. Not grey/gray because that colour I find pleasant and I want to describe something… meh.
Last week was kinda bad maybe? Not absolutely horrible but I actually considered the fact that I might need a psychologist. Idk. But please, give me that money and I'd spend it on something better like ballet lessons or art supplies or something. Or just save up for a rainy day. I hate feeling so poor. I say "feel" because I'm not sure if I can really call myself poor. Sure, relative poverty, maybe along those lines if the criteria is loosened, but just thinking absolute poverty, doesn't that just make me a spoilt ungrateful brat?? "First world problems", people like to say. But that doesn't mean they aren't problems right?
I was actually considering going back to PenPalWorld today. But nah, writing a diary for yourself is better than relying on others to fulfil your emotional needs and being disappointed when your expectations are not met. Is this the end of my FutureMe though?


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We start out by having each student grab their motor room visual. This allows our kids the opportunity to be "independent" in the motor room. It is also a great mini-schedule for your students who need to know exactly what is going to be done in the motor room. The kids also have access to dry erase marker to cross off the activities once they have completed them. Each group of my students spends 30 minutes of structured time in the motor room a day.
Here are the gross motor activities we have prepared for the students this year:
Yoga Ball:
-Sit on the ball with or without support. Bounce.
-Sit on the ball with or without support. Lean side to side, front to back and try to keep balance.
-Sit on the ball with or without support. Try to reach for different items on the floor and toss into a bin.
-Sit on the ball with or without support. March legs up and down. Tap opposite hand on knee when it is raised.
-Sit on ball with or without support. Play catch.
-Roll on belly on ball with arms extended to floor. Walk hands forward and back trying to keep balance. May need support. Roll back to knees.
-Keep balance on ball on belly with arms extended on the floor. Try to pick up items to put in a bin.
-Dribble ball. 2 hands, one hand, dribble in a pattern
-Play catch with the ball rolling or bouncing it between people
-Scatter things around swing and have child move the swing on belly to retrieve or look for certain items and throw or place in bin.
-Try to swing back and forth, side to side, diagonally
-Stand and try to rotate around hips (standard hula hooping)
-Hold hoop on side and have kids crawl through (bear or crab)
-Use hoop like a jump rope and rotate around head and step through.
-Place on floor and hop in each hoop. Use 2 feet together or one foot.
Medicine Ball
-Hold ball and move in a circle close to body (both directions)
-Pick up ball and throw to ground
-Move on belly or seated around the room. Go to called out items to pick up.
-Jump on 2 feet (with or without support)
-Jump on 1 foot and then the other.
-Jump with a pattern, (2 left jumps, then 2 right jumps)
-Clap hands while jumping.
-March on tramp (high knees)
-March on tramp and touch opposite knee with each hand (crossover march)
Ribbon Sticks
-Make letters, words, names, numbers in the air (use both hands)
-Pick up scarves off the ground and toss into air
-Pick up scarves and when they are floating down catch them on a called out body part. (Left elbow, right knee, right shoulder, left toe, head etc)
Balance Board (2 sizes, lower one is easier)
-Stand on board to balance (with or without support)
-Stand on board (with or without support) and rock side to side and balance.
-Play catch while standing on board
-Have kids hold parachute and lift and lower sitting or standing
-Put a ball on parachute and try to keep it on
-While lifting and lowering parachute as a group, have kids take turns going under it.
Half Ball balance game
-Set out half balls and have kids try to stand on them one one foot or two with or without support
-Make a line of half balls and have kids walk over them with or without support
Moon Shoes
-Put on moon shoes and walk around, with or without support.
-Put on moon shoes and bounce in place, with or without support.
Animal Walks
-Have kids try to walk like different animals (bear, elephant with arms clasped like a trunk, crab, snake, etc) Can go on mats all the way around swing. Can try to go backwards.
Obstacle Courses
-Line up a few activities for kids to go through. Ex: jump on tramp 10 times, walk like a bear, climb through hoop, do the "try this" activity, 10 jumping jacks, then walk over half balls, repeat...
(5 minutes) Now that the kids have warmed up their bodies it's time to have them warm up their hands. Just like the gross motor station, we have a weekly visual for our fine motor activities too.
Here are some of the fine motor activities we have prepared for our students:
Tweezers/tongs with puff balls
-Use tweezers to pick up pom pons and place in a bucket
-Use the twisty dropper to suck up and squeeze out water
-Use the twisty dropper and have a "puff ball race". Squeeze the dropper to have it blow air
Nuts and bolts
-Screw the nuts on and off the bolts
-Match the colors of the nuts and bolts before putting them together
-Squeeze the clothespin to open and close it 10 times
-Pick up items with the clothespin and transfer them to a new place
Rubber bands
-Group spoons together and wrap a rubber band around them.
-Use rubber band to make shapes on the Geoboard
-Collate notecardsand secure with a paperclip
-Open paperclip box, dump out paperclips, put them back in the box and close it
-Smash it like a pancake
-Roll it like a snake
-Spell your name by rolling out the letters
-Build a tower
-Make uppercase and lowercase letters. (Check these visuals out for FREE)
-Deal the cards
-Flip the cards
-Hold 5 cards in your hand and spread them out so you can see them (like you're playing)
Stacking coins
-Stack coins to make a tower
-Line them up
-Stack them
Stringing Beads
-String them to make a necklace
-Pick them up with: tweezers or clothespins
-Tear it
-Hole punch it
-Make letters, numbers, shapes
(15 minutes) Now that their bodies and hands are warmed up they are ready to work. This is where the students will complete those fine motor goal work activities. We have created folders for the students that have papers to match their goals.
Here are somethings the students work on:
-Writing their name
-Writing the alphabet (upper and lowercase)
-Copying sentences
-Cutting (lines, shapes)
-We even have some students complete their writing assignments from their general education teachers.
(5 minutes) Now come on, after all that work your kids deserve to have some time to do what they choose to do. We have so many fun gadgets in our motor room that we don't utilize during our other activities and this is when the kids can choose to use them. Now, some kids do choose to pick gross/fine motor activities that we did from previous weeks....of course we allow this.
Here are some choice time activities we have:
-Hide in the tent
-Play in the ball pit
-Crawl through the tunnel
-Play in the body sock
-Turn off the lights and plug in the disco ball
-Blow bubbles
-Jump from the trampoline on to the crash mat
Before the kids leave they are expected to clean up the room and make sure it is set up for the next group. They also clean off their schedule cards and put them in the basket.
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I hope I was able to give you some new ideas. What fun activities do you do in your motor room? Do you structure your motor room or is it a free for all?

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Sunday, 28 June 2009
Visiting Grandma's / Mummilareissulta
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Gorgeous, goregous, gorgeous. It is just like a fairytale and how lush those trees look!ReplyDelete
Gray & white, so relaxing. What a wonderful place to visit. And how lucky for those who call it home.ReplyDelete
Viimeisen kuvan pöytä on upea.ReplyDelete
Kiitos tästä kauniista kierroksesta!
- Carole29 June 2009 at 13:57
it all looks so lovely - i want to go to grandmas too!ReplyDelete
Julie@beingRUBY - These small, quaint towns can have such dreamy corners! It seemed to rain solid for so many weeks that everything is really green now!ReplyDelete
I'm Julia - I love the combination of grey and white, too - would be perfect colours for a dream home!
Ilona - Ei kestä! Tuoleja ja pöytää piti tosissaan ihastella, kerrassaan ihanat kaikessa ruostuneisuudessaan.
Carole - No place like Grandma's :)
Carole -
Yes, please let's all go to grandma!ReplyDelete
Beautiful words paired with gorgeous photos!ReplyDelete
I love the first and last pic so much!
Your kids are lucky!ReplyDelete


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Maryland prosecutors alleged that Jarrod Ramos, 38, was the one who opened fire on the Capital Gazette newsroom June 28, killing five.
The indictment also charges that Ramos attempted to kill a sixth staffer, photographer Paul Gillespie, who stated he believes Ramos shot at him as he was attempting to flee the newsroom.
"When I ran, I didn't look back, but I did hear him chase me," Gillespie told the Baltimore Sun. "I did hear a gunshot. I did feel a breeze blow past my right side."
Four journalists with the newspaper — Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters, Gerald Fischman, and John McNamara — were killed, as was one sales associate, Rebecca Smith.
Ramos had a long-standing grudge with the Capital Gazette, dating back to a 2011 column the paper ran that detailed a criminal harassment charge against him. Ramos unsuccessfully sued the paper and the columnist for defamation.
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Experts vs. Checklists: Can algorithms improve investment decision-making?
We reviewed in an earlier article Daniel Kahnemann's Prospect Theory, his latest book "Thinking Fast and Slow" and some of the key findings of Behavioural Finance and we'll be discussing a number of the implications for investors in a subsequent piece...
However, in this article, we'd like to dwell in one interesting discussion in Chapter 21 of the book- "Intuition vs Formulas". This discusses in some detail the efficacy and value of checklists & algorithms in addressing some of the predictable flaws in human decision-making -users of Stockopedia will already know that these kinds of tools are a key part of our feature set.
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Kahnemann writes that a key source of inspiration for his work was the book, Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence by Paul Meehl. Meehl was an American psychologist who studied the successes and failures of predictions in many different settings in the 1940s. He found overwhelming evidence that predictions based on mechanical (formal, algorithmic) methods of data combination outperformed clinical (e.g., subjective, informal, "in the head") methods based on expert judgement.
A famous example confirming Meehl's conclusion is the "Apgar score," invented by the anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar in 1953 to guide the treatment of newborn babies. The Apgar score is a simple formula based on five vital signs that can be measured quickly: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity,Respiration. It does better than the average doctor in deciding whether the baby needs immediate help. It is now used everywhere and saves the lives of thousands of babies.
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Are there any articles on how to develop and evaluate quant algorithms?
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I personally like to combine numerical screening factors and judgement. The Guru and Stockrank screens are effectively checklists and semi-automated algorithms and have become a more important part of my share selection criteria. Those companies than pass well give me a small bunch of, "high probability of gain" stocks.
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