Let's start with some answers shall we?
Stephanie D. said...
What's an ARD?
it stands for Admission, Review and Dismissal. In real life it is a big pow wow of all the people working with a kid in the special ed program. (we'd call it a Care Conference in the hospital) Every discipline that works with him is to have a representative there. If the kid is old enough they'll be there along with at least one parent, the class teacher, a school administrator (principal), special ed coordinator, then Sunshine will also have his Occupational Therapist there and the Speech therapy supervisor (his speech teacher has a schedule conflict). We all sit around a table (a round table at this school, no less!) and review where he is, where he was at the last meeting, what was helpful, what wasn't helpful, and to set down on paper (govt!) a list of goals for him to work toward and the things that are going to be done to help him achieve those goals. That list of goals and interventions (what we nurses call a care plan!) is called an IEP, or Individual Education Plan.
This pow-wow starts tomorrow at 12:45pm and I do NOT expect to be passing around a peace pipe with these people.
diana said...
i think the whole experience and the facial expressions are priceless. has he been talking a lot about it ever since?
oh not too bad....only every OTHER sentence.......and it rained today, so Saturday's ride is currently up in the air.
Funny thing, we didn't get 5 miles down the road after his ride last week and he was telling me "Momma, I need a sofa and a blanket!" Riding that horse wore him out.
ON TO OUR GAME!
Real Definitions:
bedight - to deck out; array
bedizen - to dress or adorn gaudily or tastelessly.
Our Silly Goose Winners this week are:
Mary Ellen said...
bedizen: A Buddhist bed
Evansmom said...
bedight - in colonial times, they didn't use box springs - they used ropes that had to be tightened every week or so. These ropes were call bedights.
Congrats ladies...your awards are in my sidebar!
Words for this week:
bellwether
benedict (not a proper noun)
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Yay! That was fun! Thanks for the award, being called a silly goose is much nicer than what my husband calls me...a smart ass. ;-)
Bellwether: A sheep or goat that is designated as the leader in the herd and decked out with a bell so the shepherd can more easily locate him/her.
Also can refer to any early warning system, such as the proverbial canary in the coalmine that warned of dangerous gases by croaking and going claws up on the bottom of his cage. :-/
benedict: I know the benediction refers to the closing of a church service, so I assume benedict has something to do with endings or closings.
Hummmmm.
bellwether: A wind so strong it can ring the bell in the church's bell tower.
benedict: Latin adjective for "excellent detective."
Congratus [Latin :)] to all those Silly Geese :) Cathy
Wow - I must be very silly to get the award again!
bellwether - something that forecast or the first indication
benedict - the act of blessing someone
How did the pow-wow ?
And are you liking your new track?
bellwether--a castrated male sheep with a bell around his neck to lead the rest of the dumb sheep.
benedict--the act of genuflecting. (sp!!~)
Actually I think it has more to do with "bless my poor knees as I genuflect"!!
bellweather, this is an old southern term which implies a temperate day in which the heat is not overwhelming and thus, the belles may take a stroll!
benedict, now used as a verb it is used when ever someone behaves in a way to cause a betrayal.
"Can he benedict or what?" ( The term is often applied to our current President!)
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