A professora de inglês da escola da Vivian nos enviou um folder entitulado Summer Tips and Resources for English Learners.
Neste folder ela dá dicas de como a criança pode manter suas habilidades de escrita, fala e leitura em inglês durante as férias de verão.
Tem ótimas dicas desde sites de livrarias que fazem atividades nas férias, até as mais simples como programar uma hora de conversação em casa, que pode ser a hora do lanche, por exemplo.
Mas a mais interessante é a indicaçao de um site em que você pode testar seus conhecimentos em várias áreas, incluindo inglês, e a cada acerto, você indiretamente doa 10 gramas de arroz para pessoas com fome no mundo. O site é: www.freerice.com.
terça-feira, 12 de maio de 2015
Crianças no parquinho
As crianças pedem para ir ao "parquinho da senha" sozinhas.
O parque é praticamente dentro da village, mas precisa atravessar um portão que tem uma senha.
Eles acham isso o máximo, parece que estão sendo autorizados a passar para outro mundo.
Lá tem muitas crianças brincando no "after school program" da escola da Vivian. Tem também uma ou outra mãe que chega mais cedo para buscar o filho.
Antes de saírem peço para sentarem e assistirem ao vídeo em que o rapaz pede permissão às mães para fazer um teste com seus filhos. Neste teste ele chega perto da criança com um filhote de cachorro e depois de uma breve conversa a criança sai do parque de mãos dadas com o rapaz.
O vídeo alerta sobre o grande número de rapto de crianças no mundo.
As crianças entendem, ficam um pouco assustadas, mas explico de novo que não devem chegar perto de estranhos, mesmo aqueles estranhos que parecem conhecidos porque vêem sempre no parquinho.
Eles saem.
Fico nervosa.
Fico nervosa.
Tento relaxar usando a internet. Mas não páro de pensar neles.
Penso que acabaram de chegar lá e começaram a brincar agora.
Começo a escrever esse post. Fico pensando se não deveria ir lá para espiá-los de longe, como já fiz algumas vezes.
Mas não acho isso algo bonito de se fazer; ou seja, dou um pouco de liberdade e responsabilidade, mas não confio neles e fico espiando atrás da árvore... Que feio...
Estou ficando nervosa, o tempo está passando e eu aqui sentada confortavelmente no sofá da sala.
Surge outro pensamento, que sou uma mãe demasiadamente protetora e preciso parar com isso, senão eles não vão crescer nunca.
O mundo é extremamente perigoso... Alguém pode estar agora passando uma conversa neles. Ou no Christian e a Vivian não está vendo porque está envolvida em uma brincadeira com as amigas.
Surge outro pensamento, que sou uma mãe demasiadamente protetora e preciso parar com isso, senão eles não vão crescer nunca.
O mundo é extremamente perigoso... Alguém pode estar agora passando uma conversa neles. Ou no Christian e a Vivian não está vendo porque está envolvida em uma brincadeira com as amigas.
Começo a ficar desesperada. O Christian pode estar sendo levado por um adulto com cara de bonzinho.
Preciso acabar esse post, preciso sair correndo, afinal, são duas crianças sozinhas num parque dos EUA. Fui!
quinta-feira, 7 de maio de 2015
Safer sunscreen
Safer Sunscreen Picks
• Ava Anderson Non-Toxic Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 30+
• Badger Baby Sunscreen Cream, Chamomile & Calendula, SPF 30
• Badger Sport Sunscreen Cream, Unscented, SPF 35
• California Baby Everyday/Year-Round Sunscreen Stick, SPF 30+
• COOLA Suncare Sport Moisturizer Classic Sunscreen, Unscented, SPF 45
• Juice Beauty Oil-Free Moisturizer, SPF 30
• The Honest Company Sunscreen, SPF 30
• Suntegrity Skincare 5-in-1 Natural Moisturizing Face Sunscreen, Tinted
• Suntegrity Skincare Natural Mineral Sunscreen for Body, SPF 30
• Yes to Carrots Nourishing Daily Moisturizer, Fragrance Free, SPF 15
See the entire lists of safer beach and sport sunscreen and sunscreen with moisturizer at EWG's site.
Check out EWG's 2014 Guide to Sunscreens to see a complete list of the safest sunscreens (the lower the number rating, the better) and the most toxic sunscreens (the higher the rating, the more toxic).
• Ava Anderson Non-Toxic Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 30+
• Badger Baby Sunscreen Cream, Chamomile & Calendula, SPF 30
• Badger Sport Sunscreen Cream, Unscented, SPF 35
• California Baby Everyday/Year-Round Sunscreen Stick, SPF 30+
• COOLA Suncare Sport Moisturizer Classic Sunscreen, Unscented, SPF 45
• Juice Beauty Oil-Free Moisturizer, SPF 30
• The Honest Company Sunscreen, SPF 30
• Suntegrity Skincare 5-in-1 Natural Moisturizing Face Sunscreen, Tinted
• Suntegrity Skincare Natural Mineral Sunscreen for Body, SPF 30
• Yes to Carrots Nourishing Daily Moisturizer, Fragrance Free, SPF 15
See the entire lists of safer beach and sport sunscreen and sunscreen with moisturizer at EWG's site.
Check out EWG's 2014 Guide to Sunscreens to see a complete list of the safest sunscreens (the lower the number rating, the better) and the most toxic sunscreens (the higher the rating, the more toxic).
segunda-feira, 4 de maio de 2015
Noticia chocante! (para nao residentes de Berkeley, ou dos EUA)
Alert residents worked together Sunday afternoon to help catch four Oakland teens police say robbed an 18-year-old woman on Brookside Avenue in Berkeley’s Claremont neighborhood.
The dramatic incident occurred May 3 at around 12:30 p.m. and resulted in the arrest of four girls: three 16-year-olds and one 14-year-old, according to the Berkeley Police Department.
It began when a driver on Brookside witnessed a young woman being accosted by two teens on the corner of Brookside and Claremont avenues.
The 18-year-old was approached from behind by two people who grabbed her phone and started to open her backpack, said police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Coats. The woman struggled over the phone with one of the robbers, then another of them struck her, Coats said. During the struggle, one of the teens grabbed a necklace from the woman, and another took her wallet from her backpack. The group fled to a waiting vehicle. One local woman wrote an account of the incident for a neighborhood email list and shared it with Berkeleyside: “The two suspects then jumped into a van as it headed down Brookside,” which dead-ends east of Claremont. “Another woman in a minivan who happened to be driving by and witnessed the scene, pulled onto the street. [The original witness] told her to stop in the middle of the street to block the exit. Thus, the van was now trapped at the end of the street.”
(Berkeleyside has omitted the names of the neighbors involved at their request.)
The woman who wrote the account said she called 911 “after hearing the poor … girl screaming outside.”
She said the people in the van were then idling in a neighbor’s driveway, “I guess trying to figure out what to do about their predicament.”
The neighbor’s account continues: “I was communicating with the 911 operator pleading her to get the police here now. The van then started barreling up the street. I thought it would run crashing into this woman’s minivan (she had two children in [the] back seat). Meanwhile the 911 operator is asking me if they have weapons. I got a little nervous and said I have no idea but they are heading up our street now and we are all standing there, so I hope not!”
The van with the teens inside stopped in front of the minivan, and four girls jumped out of the car, according to the email account. They did not appear to have weapons.
“I was still on the phone with 911, still waiting for the police as they walked/bolted past the five or six of us surrounding the street,” wrote the neighbor. “None of us stopped them… I told the police which direction the girls fled… They had dropped the … girl’s wallet and two nice men returned it to her while we were comforting her in front of our home. She was rather traumatized by the experience, needless to say.”
Once police arrived, the neighbor who had originally spotted the crime was taken out in a patrol car with tinted windows to try to identify the suspects. Other officers questioned witnesses.
The teens were apprehended nearby, at Claremont and Woolsey Street, said Coats, and arrested on suspicion of robbery. Their names will not be released due to privacy laws protecting minors. The woman suffered minor injuries and declined medical attention, and her property was recovered and returned.
According to the neighborhood email list account, the woman’s sister came to pick her up, and the minivan was eventually towed away.
The woman writing about the event said she had been shocked that such an incident could happen in the afternoon in broad daylight. “It was an incredibly brazen act — in the middle of a busy Sunday afternoon on a main street corner. Just crazy,” she wrote.
The local resident who shared her account on the email list and then with Berkeleyside concluded: “Be watchful of your surroundings. Be thankful for our wonderful neighborhood.”
The dramatic incident occurred May 3 at around 12:30 p.m. and resulted in the arrest of four girls: three 16-year-olds and one 14-year-old, according to the Berkeley Police Department.
It began when a driver on Brookside witnessed a young woman being accosted by two teens on the corner of Brookside and Claremont avenues.
The 18-year-old was approached from behind by two people who grabbed her phone and started to open her backpack, said police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Coats. The woman struggled over the phone with one of the robbers, then another of them struck her, Coats said. During the struggle, one of the teens grabbed a necklace from the woman, and another took her wallet from her backpack. The group fled to a waiting vehicle. One local woman wrote an account of the incident for a neighborhood email list and shared it with Berkeleyside: “The two suspects then jumped into a van as it headed down Brookside,” which dead-ends east of Claremont. “Another woman in a minivan who happened to be driving by and witnessed the scene, pulled onto the street. [The original witness] told her to stop in the middle of the street to block the exit. Thus, the van was now trapped at the end of the street.”
(Berkeleyside has omitted the names of the neighbors involved at their request.)
The woman who wrote the account said she called 911 “after hearing the poor … girl screaming outside.”
She said the people in the van were then idling in a neighbor’s driveway, “I guess trying to figure out what to do about their predicament.”
The neighbor’s account continues: “I was communicating with the 911 operator pleading her to get the police here now. The van then started barreling up the street. I thought it would run crashing into this woman’s minivan (she had two children in [the] back seat). Meanwhile the 911 operator is asking me if they have weapons. I got a little nervous and said I have no idea but they are heading up our street now and we are all standing there, so I hope not!”
The van with the teens inside stopped in front of the minivan, and four girls jumped out of the car, according to the email account. They did not appear to have weapons.
“I was still on the phone with 911, still waiting for the police as they walked/bolted past the five or six of us surrounding the street,” wrote the neighbor. “None of us stopped them… I told the police which direction the girls fled… They had dropped the … girl’s wallet and two nice men returned it to her while we were comforting her in front of our home. She was rather traumatized by the experience, needless to say.”
Once police arrived, the neighbor who had originally spotted the crime was taken out in a patrol car with tinted windows to try to identify the suspects. Other officers questioned witnesses.
The teens were apprehended nearby, at Claremont and Woolsey Street, said Coats, and arrested on suspicion of robbery. Their names will not be released due to privacy laws protecting minors. The woman suffered minor injuries and declined medical attention, and her property was recovered and returned.
According to the neighborhood email list account, the woman’s sister came to pick her up, and the minivan was eventually towed away.
The woman writing about the event said she had been shocked that such an incident could happen in the afternoon in broad daylight. “It was an incredibly brazen act — in the middle of a busy Sunday afternoon on a main street corner. Just crazy,” she wrote.
The local resident who shared her account on the email list and then with Berkeleyside concluded: “Be watchful of your surroundings. Be thankful for our wonderful neighborhood.”
Terremotos?
" Yes. Most of California is at high earthquake risk, and the Bay area has more than its share of
active earthquake faults. The San Andreas fault, located less than 20 miles away across the Bay,
produced the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 (a magnitude of 8.3), which destroyed the
city and caused great damage in surrounding areas. It also caused the Loma Prieta earthquake in
1989, which occurred during the World Series baseball championship and registered a magnitude
of 6.9. The Hayward fault, just a couple of miles east of the Village at the base of the Berkeley
Hills, has had two earthquakes in historic times with magnitudes of about 7, in 1836 and 1868.
These faults and others are capable of repeat performances at any time.
Seismologists assert that future large earthquakes are inevitable: It’s a question of when, not if."
Seismologists assert that future large earthquakes are inevitable: It’s a question of when, not if."
Muitas perguntas
O Christian tem perguntado frequentemente "essa história não acaba nunca?"
Que história, filho?
Essa história da gente.
Vivian, sensata, responde "Christian, se terminar, é porque a gente morre!"
As perguntas que mais ouço hoje em dia, em substituiçao aos habituais "porquês" são: como é casa em inglês? Como é flor em inglês? Como é soluço em inglês? E por aí vai. O dia inteiro. Sou um dicionário ambulante. Às veses com a ajuda do bing translator.
Que história, filho?
Essa história da gente.
Vivian, sensata, responde "Christian, se terminar, é porque a gente morre!"
As perguntas que mais ouço hoje em dia, em substituiçao aos habituais "porquês" são: como é casa em inglês? Como é flor em inglês? Como é soluço em inglês? E por aí vai. O dia inteiro. Sou um dicionário ambulante. Às veses com a ajuda do bing translator.
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