Nov. 17, 2008 Teaching a little boy to read
I am using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, to teach a little boy to read. I had used the book to teach my four-year-old son to read in the early 1990s and now am using it with the six-year-old son of my husband's secretary. He already knows how to read quite well, but we both enjoy doing this together.
My husband and I moved a month ago. We were living near Sheridan, WY, and now live near Buffalo, WY. We like living here. My husband's office is five minutes away, which is a lot closer than the 100 mile round trip he was making since early January. |
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Jun. 4, 2007 My mother's homestead cabin birth place
The Buffalo, WY, museum is having Living History Days on June 22 and 23. The homestead cabin that will be dedicated on the 23rd, on the museum/court house lawn, is the one in which my mother, Pauline Jenkins Oltion, and her older sister, Louise Jenkins Ridley, were born.
Mother's dad, Marshall DeWitt Jenkins, built it sometime around 1916 to 1918, about twelve miles north of Kaycee. He had sold the homestead when Mom was little, before 1925. Kaycee is about 46 miles south of Buffalo.
About 25 years ago, Mother bought the cabin from the owner, James Ullery. My dad, George Oltion, with help from some of the family, took it apart, marking the logs so he would be able to properly reconstruct it, and moved it to their (my parents') yard in Story, about 20 miles north of Buffalo.
Then Mother put old items in it, including the old treadle sewing machine her mother, Sylvia Jenkins, had used. Another item that Mother put in it was the big trunk that her mother had brought out from Illinois to Wyoming in August, 1914, about 2 or 3 months after she and Grandpa were married.
About two years ago, Mother donated the homestead cabin to the museum and they moved it from her yard to the museum/court house lawn, all in one piece, last fall.
Grandma used to call the home a house instead of a cabin. To her, a cabin was smaller, but this is a two-room "house" rather than a cabin. Grandpa had made it using logs from trees he had cut on the southern tip, called The Horn, of the Big Horn Mountains, a few miles west of the homestead.
If you are ever in our area, stop at the Jim Gatchell Museum in Buffalo to see the homestead house exhibit.
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Jun. 3, 2007 Tom is the class valedictorian!
Here's the article from the Sheridan Press:
District 1 marks graduation of the class of 2007
Tongue River valedictorian: 'create our own destinies'
By Sean Thompson
Staff Reporter
Forty students clad in green, gray and black gowns ascended the stage Sunday on the Tongue River High School football field before receiving their diplomas as the class of 2007.
The graduation ceremonies in Dayton took place under clear skies, with the Big Horn Mountains providing a scenic backdrop for family and friends in attendance.
In addressing his fellow students, Valedictorian Tom Pearce said the future was just as frightening as it had been when he was a freshman struggling to make it through his first year at a bigger school.
"To get this far, we've had to toss aside our idea of fate and create our own destinies," said Pearce, who will study computer science and electrical engineering in the fall at the University of Wyoming.
He added: "That's not going to end here. Our lives have only just begun."
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I am skipping the rest of the newspaper article, since it didn't mention Tom again, but it does include a photo of him with these words beneath it:
Tom Pearce
2007 Class
Valedictorian
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That was the article in the paper. Of course, we're all really proud of him. He is one of those students who never had to be urged to get his schoolwork finished. In fact, he would do his research papers in advance of the deadline and didn't have to stay up until the wee hours to finish in time. This is unlike me. In school, and even now, I would always put things off until the last minute.
Tom was this way when I home schooled him, which was kindergarten through third grade while we lived west of the Big Horn Mountains, near Basin, WY. When we moved to Manderson, he started attending public school.
When we moved to the east side of the mountains in 2000, he had finished fifth grade. He then attended a small school called Arvada/Clearmont Elementary, for sixth grade. He did really well in public school, but felt it was difficult to move to a larger high school in the middle of his freshman year, when we moved to a ranch near Dayton, where we rent a house.
No, we aren't ranchers. My mom grew up on a ranch, but I never lived on one, unless you think of the eleven years from 1987 through 1998 as living on a ranch. Those years were spent living in a large house beside the Big Horn River, where all our home schooling was done. The owner of the house and property where we house-sat, had cattle, but I didn't consider it a working ranch, just a place that the owner kept his cattle!  The owner was overseas most of the time.
I'll write about my mom's homestead cabin some day.
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May. 12, 2007 Some of my history
Sat. evening
In the late summer of 1991, I started my home schooling experience. I taught my oldest two sons that first year. Raymond was a seventh grader and Paul a sixth grader.
My husband Don and I have four sons. The youngest, Brian and Tom, were four and two when I started teaching the two older ones at home.
After the first year, Don and I decided to put the two oldest in school again. I then taught Brian during his kindergarten year except for the last ten weeks. We had him go to the school for that time to see if their special education teacher could do good things with him because he was so advanced. I wasn't impressed and knew I could do better than the school was doing.
During Brian's kindergarten year, I was teaching Tom, who turned four in October, 1992, to read by using the book Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons. That was a great way to teach him to read. Brian had learned starting at the age of two, but not by using any particular book.
I taught Brian and Tom for several years. Brian went to school at the beginning of his fifth grade year and Tom started school when he entered fourth grade.
Brian was the salutatorian of his graduating class at Clearmont (WY) High School. Now, he has earned his associate degree from Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyoming. He left today to drive to Alpine, WY, to spend the summer working as a computer programmer for Teton Data Systems in Jackson, which is the same company that Paul has been working for since July, 2003.
Paul is a software engineer. Brian is working toward his B.S. degree from the University of Wyoming, in computer science, so will be attending UW this fall. Paul bought a house in Alpine, south of Jackson, last September.
Brian called a few minutes ago and made the trip from here to Alpine in record time! He got there around 9 p.m. and hadn't left home until 1:30 p.m. It would have taken me about an hour and a half longer than that, at least. He said he stopped for about five minutes during the trip!!
All of our boys are still single. They don't have girlfriends at the time, but I pray they will find the women that God wants for each one.
Raymond works for an oil field company here in this area (northern Wyoming). He turned 29 this spring. He will soon be moving into the house owned by my mother, which is the house Daddy built in 1957 and 1958. That's in Story, WY.
Tom is 18 now and will be graduating from Tongue River High School on the 27th of this month. He is the class valedictorian and wants to write the obligatory speech this weekend. He has no idea what to say in the speech. He has searched the Internet, but what he has found hasn't helped, he says.
A couple of days ago, Thursday, he and the other (four, I think) members of his school physics team, went to Denver for an annual physics competition. The competition lasted two hours. While the results were being tabulated, they enjoyed the free rides at the amusement park where the competition was held. The whole park was closed to the general public during that time.
Around ten p.m., the results were announced, and out of at least 3 states, with many schools' teams from each state competing, Tom's TRHS team won first place!! He said a Nebraska team won second and third places. Or maybe he meant two NE teams, but I think he said one team.
Tom said that this isn't the first year TRHS has won (I think first place) in the same physics competition. This is Tom's first year in it since this is his first year of physics.
When Tom goes to UW in Laramie for the fall semester, he and Brian will be going at the same time. They won't be roommates, though. They will hopefully live in the same dorm. Tom isn't sure what he wants to major in but it appears to be computer science, for now.
That's the University where Don and I met each other. He is a petroleum engineer and I earned my elementary education degree. His parents are retired and live in Manderson, on the western side of the Big Horn Mountains (WY) where Don and I lived until 2000, when we moved to the east side of the mountains, near where I grew up.
I taught in Gillette, WY, for a year before we were married in 1972. Then we lived in Hyattville while I taught in a country school. We bought ten acres outside of Manderson, twenty miles from Hyattville, so I commuted for several months until that school year was over. The next year, I taught in Manderson, about a mile from the property we bought. I taught there until Raymond was born in March, 1978.
We were members of the Assembly of God church in Worland, WY, for quite a few years. Now, I attend the First Christian Church in Sheridan.
Don and I became EMTs in the early 1980s. He helped on the ambulance and was a member of Big Horn County (WY) Search and Rescue and of the local volunteer fire department.
May 13, 2007, Sunday evening
I didn't have time to finish writing this last night, so here is the conclusion.
I never worked on the ambulance, but wanted the knowledge so that I could deal with emergencies, especially in raising my children. I let my two-year EMT certification expire, so a few years later, re-took the course. About three years after that class, I took it a third time, so I was an EMT for six years. The last time was in the early 1990s. Don got his certificate renewed on time for many years, so didn't have to re-take the classes.
During the second or third time I took the class, the instructor recommended that any EMT working on the ambulance have the three doses of the hepatitis B vaccine. He told me, however, that he didn't think it was worth the risk of side effects since I wouldn't be working on the ambulance. Thank goodness (thank the Lord, actually) I took his advice and didn't get the vaccine. Don did, though, and I'm pretty sure his hypothyroidism was caused by those three vaccines, but I wasn't aware of it until the late 1990s.
So in 1998, when Brian was entering sixth grade, the school nurse sent us a letter saying that in order to be accepted into seventh grade the following year, he needed the three doses of the hepatitis B vaccine and a booster shot for tetanus/diphtheria.
I remembered what my EMT instructor had told me, so I called the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), hepatitis branch, asking the man who answered the phone if the vaccine had been improved since the early 1990s. He replied that it hadn't been improved significantly since the recombinant version had been developed in 1986.
Hmmm. That was enough for me to start studying the vaccine subject for myself. I only wish I'd done that before having any children. To make a long story very short, my two youngest sons are exempted (religious waiver) from any further vaccines, and for very good reason.
I welcome any comments.
Susan Pearce
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During the 1990s, I homeschooled my four sons. I started studying vaccination in 1998. Three years later, a friend and I co-founded a group that shares information about vaccination with anyone who is interested in learning the truth about it.
We have some articles about it on the www.vaclib.org web site. The URL of our group's home page is http://www.vaclib.org/chapter/wyhome.htm.
The group's name is Wyoming Vaccine Information Network. Of course, you don't have to be from Wyoming to join me in discussing things.
I wrote about autism yesterday and would like to share my thoughts with you. I am convinced most autism is caused by vaccination.
Thimerosal-containing vaccines are a major source of mercury, which suppresses the immune system. There are other sources, like the Rhogam shot (given to pregnant Rh-negative mothers), sea-food, metal fillings in pregnant mothers' teeth, and coal-fired power-plants. After the initial doses of mercury, then follows the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine, which causes further damage.
This is the way Dr. Carmel Wakefield, Dr. Andrew Wakefield's wife, described the damage done by MMR in October, 2006: "He thought they’d want to rule out any possibility that MMR could cause gut damage, particularly as worrying evidence was starting to emerge that the live mumps and measles viruses in the vaccine could interact to suppress the body’s natural immune response. But no one wanted to know. He met with a complete brick wall."
Mercury and the MMR vaccine work together to cause autism. Dr. Boyd Haley said in 2002, "I have been told that the MMR vaccination is often given at the same time that three thimerosal-containing vaccines are given. Inhibit the immune response with the thimerosal-containing vaccinations, and an infant has less ability to respond to the measles virus in the MMR vaccination that is injected at the same setting. This might explain the presence of measles virus in about 80 percent of autistic children."
In my opinion, a lot of the damage was probably done in the baby's life before the MMR was given. The MMR doesn't have to have been given at the same time as the mercury-containing vaccines were given. The nerve-endings and the immune system were first damaged when the mercury was introduced into the baby. Also, it's interesting that mercury is even more harmful when combined with aluminum, which is in some vaccines.
One popular treatment for autism that works for some autistics is the gluten-free and casein-free diet. Since many autistic people have "leaky guts," or intestinal tracts that have tiny holes, substances are able to leak through into the bloodstream and then possibly through the blood-brain barrier.
In 2002, Mothering magazine interviewed Dr. Stephanie Cave, who gave some fascinating information about autism. The interviewer asked her: "How does mercury specifically affect the immune system and the enzyme system?"
Dr. Cave replied: "Mercury is a neurotoxin; it inhibits brain function in a variety of ways. It also suppresses the immune system to a certain degree. When hepatitis B began to be administered at birth during the 1990s, we started seeing ear infections beginning around two weeks of age, which was almost unheard of before that. We started seeing many more sick children in that first month of life."
Dr. Cave continued, "We also find that these children make antibodies against their own tissue. They have antibodies to the basic myelin protein in brain tissue. These antibodies disappear after the children are treated and the mercury is eliminated.
"In addition, the children combine casein from dairy protein and gluten from wheat, oats, barley, and rye to naturally occurring morphine in the body. These gliadomorphin and casomorphin peptides make the children spacey and irritable. The enzyme DPPIV that would normally break down these peptides and eliminate them is inactivated by mercury and heavy metals. Subsequently, these children have higher levels of morphines in the body."
That helps explain how mercury and other heavy metals do their damage. More later!
Susan Pearce
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