Been shopping

[petmoosie]

The sure-fire way to make my three hole punch show up is to buy a new one.

I use a three hole punch and a three ring binder to organize Emily's Kindergarten papers. Actually two three ring binders; one for notes from the school to me, and one for her work that comes home. Kindergarten involves a LOT of paper, in case you didn't know.

I would also like some caffeine, since I haven't had any since Monday. The physical part of the withdrawal was subsumed in vast illness; but the psychological part is beginning to pinch.

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[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I kept A&E's kindergarten (and now first grade) papers for a few days, looked over them with the kids, praised them, then recycled them. There were so many!

we've kept the special/larger project ones, though, but that's perhaps four a year.

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

I look over all of them with her occasionally. It shows her that there is a trend (and for the most part, it's a good trend). She particularly likes to look them over if she has a bad one one day, to remind her that she usually gets it. I think that we will clear out the binders in a back-to-school organization this summer (Depends on how she feel about it).

At her school too many of the special projects are very three-dimensional and/or made with food. (Well, the beans are still growing in our house.) So those go, because they don't work in my system.

BTW, Emily loves the three-hole punch and the binders and those folders that have three fold-over metal bits. She wanted to put papers in there since before pre-school.

Thanks, though, for sharing your system.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Sorry -- I hope it didn't sound advicey-pushy. I was interested that you had a different system so mentioned mine, but I had insufficient explanation with the comment to make that clear.

[petmoosie.livejournal.com]

It's that typical Internet thing. You had a tone in which you wrote it, but the tone doesn't travel with the words. I do that ALL THE TIME, and I often wonder if I should write back with the tone that was meant, because I realize after I hit send how it could be read with a different tone.

BTW, I saw what I thought was the funniest thing on a blog. Someone had gotten off-track and was ranting and raving about a very loosely-related topic. Another commenter said "Hi ____, I remember you from Usenet." I really thought that that was a reference to flaming and Usenet's reputation. However, they really *did* know each other from Usenet.