Sunday, March 12, 2023

 Sunday, March 12, 2023  

I gained more weight. Could my mix of one banana, one apple, a handful of blueberries, a few tablespoons of cashew yogurt, and a topping of granola be the explanation? Besides that, I added a prepackaged soup with some noodles. Could that be doing it? Otherwise, my diet is mostly the same. The Hersey’s milk chocolate kisses or nuggets with almonds can’t be helping, but neither can it be the cause of the problem. If it were, the weight increase would have started long ago. It drove Mike nuts that I could eat chocolate and not pack on the pounds. Ha! Ha! Is this his revenge?

  I was having problems with my right hip and inner thigh. Is this because my leg is adjusting to its new reality since the total hip replacement? It doesn’t have to do all the work anymore. Does it feel neglected? Katie, my PT, said to do side steps. I’m not sure what the objective is. I started doing side stretches while Elsa pooped and pulled me to a stop to smell something most intriguing. I will have to ask Katie what her objective is.

  Second grade M’s mom texted me to ask if we could not meet this week, canceling our two weekly sessions. They had another funeral to attend. I’ve worked with these folks for two years; they’ve had at least three funerals. One was for the dad’s dad, the girls’ grandfather. 

 I met with third-grade Kps for reading. She usually reads accurately. Today, she read cot as coat. The original phrase was, “He got up from the cot.” She changed it to, ”He got out of his coat.” Her change didn’t fit too well in the story. It looks like she changes words to suit a meaning she can understand. She does not listen to language. This may be because this is what she’s been taught to do. This is the objective of the Reading Recovery program, which has been dominant for the last forty years.

   She also needed help with math. She said she needed help with three-digit division. What? Three digits in third grade? I asked if she could do three-digit multiplication. I gave her a problem. 123 x436=. She told me she could do it in her head. Oh, boy. Some kids can. One student could do complicated math in her head but not on paper. She couldn’t show her work. This was not the case for third-grade Kps. Her answer was something in the four hundreds. It suggests she has poor number sense. I had to speak to her grandmother to see what she thought was going on.