Money

Do you remember how you first learned about money? It took a lot of practice in 1st grade. We played with coins then dollars like Monolopy money.

Now I'm teaching the concept to 1st graders and interestingly an 19 y.o. autistic boy. Richard has no more concept of money than the 1st graders. When you ask him how much something costs he says $20.00 his favorite amount. If you asked him for 4 dollars he could give you a one, five, ten or hundred and not know the difference.

Then there is history and English. His Individual Instruction Plan says he will pass both and be able to write to pass the exit exam. I worked all summer with him to get him to be able to do a paragraph.

History is tough. He does not understand what he reads. He can memorize. It's like a picture to him. I get him movies. We talk but he cannot respond verbally to "what were the causes of the great depression"?. However, I make flashcards and he can drill and memorize the facts.

I'm frustrated. How do you get through?

Lord save me from from from 1st graders that break into tears because they don't have their homework or are called bossy and need to go to the office because they scraped their knees or their eyes hurt because of the flower pollen. All day long they tell me about their imagined slights....someone is my friend not hers.....et al.

It's 86 degrees today. No such luck for my East coast people....and here I was wishing I could come earlier and that I'd miss spring...maybe not.

On my trip I'll go from No. VA on Fri. to Williamsburg. Then after the wedding, I'll head to Charleston then Hilton Head and Savannah the next night. Beauford sounds like a nice area to explore so once I finish with the plantations and the gardens I'll head down, then on to St. Simons' Island.

On the return I'll go throughSC, NC to visit my friend Jane in NC, then VA Beach to see a college friend, Mary, and head back Richmond to see my friend Kathy from high school and into Northern VA by Fri. get to visit with family in MD and my friend from high school, Karen.

I want to see the Holocaust museum, I'm rereading Night with Richie, and wander through Alexandria a bit.

I head out Mon at 6.

I'm reviewing for a test on Sunday. I thought my days of having to calculate those word problems of a car draveling x at y speed.

Now, I'm learning radio jargon and terminology. Greek to me.