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Puggle Update
I am Puggle ( Read more... ) -
Books
Does anyone have some of the classic Hebrew children's stories? I'm thinking of Eliezer vhagezer, ma'aseh bchamisha ballonim, aryeh sheahav toot etc
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Parents, Children, and the New York City public school system
I have now figured out the one major difference between pre-k and first grade: pre-k is advised, but not mandatory- first grade is mandatory. This means that parents have to bother to sign their children up for pre-k and would therefore seem to have some interest in their child's education. If children don't show up for first grade the police get ( Read more... ) -
Annals of graduate school: reprise
So, I'm back at Bank Street in the Early Childhood General/Special Education program. This means that when I finish I'll be able to teach anything from infants to second grade either general ed. or special ed. Its a 54 credit program, and hopefully I'll be able to finish in three years. Starting in September I'll be able to work full-time teaching ( Read more... ) -
A rant on the subject of stupidity
Dear Parents ( Read more... ) -
grr, arg and other words of apology
I'm back after a long hiatus in the world of busy-ness ( Read more... ) -
random silliness
From the mixed up files of the Lemur/Qat houshold:
"Can you make a wish on nose hairs?"
"sigh" (laughs and buries head under the blanket)
"And what about ear hairs?"
"Rabbi Yosi says he cannot wish on them because of the wax. Rabbi Eliezer says unless he intended to use the wax for shabbos candles. Rabbi Hanina says if he cleans off the wax he ( Read more... ) -
the bureaucratic nature of hospitals
In the U.S. most (if not all) hospitals are driven by the bottom line --patient care is determined by how much it will cost, rather than its therapeutic value. I had been told this was heavily related to the type of health care system we have in the U.S., especially the way insurance companies operate. Israel has socialized medicine, which ( Read more... ) -
When asking for volunteers...
I have Talmud shiur (class discussion where one person reads and explains the text while the rest of us follow along and the teacher tries to explain what we don't understand) 4 days a week. And every class, my teacher asks for volunteers and sometimes he gets them and sometimes he doesn't. Today, he didn't, so he volunteered someone. Whats the ( Read more... ) -
mostly random musings
So I finally bowed to the not so subtle pressure of actually keeping in touch with everyone while 7000 miles away. Hence an update on my life: having survived the chaggim, I am spending my mornings at the CY learning Talmud, and my afternoons at Alyn (Israel's only pediatric rehab hospital). At Alyn I am spending two days a week working with ( Read more... )