@Saltssaltgirl I was in a very serious wreck in 1st grade. The school wanted me to repeat 1st grade because I had missed a good deal of time being in the hospital and then at home in a hospital bed, and I would need to miss more time moving forward from there due to doctor visits and therapy.
My teacher refused to sign that form and declared that she would come to my house after school and tutor me personally so I would not lose ground.
When I was getting my degree, she let me work in her classroom for some of my assignments and practicums. She was an honored guest at my wedding.
Now as a teacher myself, I look to her example for advice - what would she do or say? how would she approach a student in this situation or that?
Bonnie was an amazing teacher. It is a shame in some ways that she is retired now. Those kids are missing out.
@Saltssaltgirl I was smart, but I struggled with spelling. This was in the mid-1970s in a small rural school. Maybe today I'd be diagnoses with some disorder, but I was just a bad speller then. In 5th grade (+/-) our regular teacher was sick and the substitute, who lived in town and was known to us kids, took me aside one day and said, "you can learn how to spell these words we're studying, I'm sure of it," or words to that effect. I could and I did. I still remember her confidence in me.
Hooray, #wishlistWednesday! The Crimson Diamond is launching this year! It's a cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s northern Ontario. I'm almost finished updating all of the art!
First, I created a Niagara ribbon, which takes an array of vectors from the trajectory, then added another particle to the final position, and after turning on the physics simulation and mass, I realized that I can break glass
I came up with a concept for collecting ore, a molecular collector. Install it on a stone, then heat the stone with a laser so that the collector absorbs the ore molecules
It is #wishlistWednesday! I made a dungeon keeper game in #pico8:
⛏️ Mine sweet gold!
🏗️ Build powerful upgrades!
🔮 Protect the Orb!
🗓️Release this weekend!