That's sounds interesting! Thanks Mia, I'll be inviting both my sisters. :) Alexis

I feel certain it came about because math textbook series about 10 -15 years ago started doing what was called calendar math. It was a way of introducing concepts and revisiting them on a daily basis, usually done at the beginning of the day. One of the big things to do was to count the number of days in school. Everyday, a straw or something used that would visually count that day would be put in a cup (usually part of the calendar display). There would be 3 cups: one for the units or ones (1-9), another for the 10's (10-90) and a third for the hundreds. For example on the 10th day of school, you would already have 9 straws in the units cup. On the 10th day you would add another but now you would band the 10 straws into one group of ten and move it to the tens cup. Ten means "1 ten and 0 units. As the year progresses, you would have say for the 75th day, 7groups in the 10's cup and 5 in the units. On the 100th day, you would already have 99 days in school; 9 groups of 10 in the 10s cup and 9 in the units cup. When you add the 1 straw for the 100th day, you would have 9 groups of 10 in the 10's cup and now 10 straws in the units cup. That means you move the 10 units into a group of 10. Now you have 10 groups in the 10s cup but that makes 100 straws so you band them and move it over to the 100's cup. So now there is one big group of 100, 0 ten's and 0 units. Schools would plan big celebrations about the 100th day of school, all centered around math, like measuring and comparing the length of 100 new crayons to 100 new pencils. Really it all was about math concepts and in this case PLACE VALUE. I loved calendar math in my kindergarten class. It really helped the children. One year I had an average student raise his hand on the 100th day of school when we were talking about what "100" means and he said "if there are 10 tens in 100 then there must be 100 tens in 1000. WOW! Sorry this is probably way more than you wanted to know!

Why Uniforms should be banned Why? Why should we the children of Calderstone (or any other school) endure this torment! For doing nothing but just practicing our constitutional rights as a citizen or our independence as people. Is our error that we wish to communicate our selves through our outfits? If uniforms are going to be placed then you are removing our free will of expression. I demand a stop I will give three logical justifications on why we shouldnt have uniforms. The foremost reason concentration within the classroom, the second reason the cost of placing this/purchasing this "so-called helpful rule", to finish I would want to state the behavior inside the school as well as outside. Firstly I would want to clearly state my first reason which is concentration within the classrooms. How does concentration increase due to wearing a school uniform compared to a normal outfit? There is no research testifying in favor of higher levels of concentration but there was a research conducted by David.L from the University of Alabama which was a experiment of concretion and the relationship of clothing the result of the experiment was a fail that uniform didnt raise concentration or raise academic levels. Research aside many Principles of schools assume wearing a uniform increase concentration because a child doesnt have to worry what to wear etc. This is bunch of rubbish, children focus better in a comfortable environment and also a comfortable outfit which they will have a decision too. In addition concentration is a choice of a person its a persons own will to concentrate and focus clothes dont make decision people do. It is already hard to for a child to keep his concentration does wearing uniform have a special power that makes kids in to obedient robot? Lastly I would want to say uniforms will only make a child more aggravated and really getting them mad to due the fact of wearing the same thing every day. Secondly I would like to discuss about the money wasted on something so useless. From a finical point of view the argument in favor of having school uniform doesnt make sense either. Believe it or not to make a custom made uniforms cost a lot of money due to the fact that they are produce in limited numbers and that they are made by polycotton and not by cotton. Also many parents are saying that because their childs school has uniform they dont need to buy as much clothes. Well they are wrong because not only does the parent have to purchase the school uniform for winter, summer, and sports but has to buy other clothes for social gathering and going to the mall etc. So you are spending more money rather than saving it! Plus school also tries to make a profit out of the sale it creates. So therefore from a consumers point of view it a huge loss. Lastly I would want to state that the behavior issue with some people say has been resolved with uniforms. Many teachers as well parents say that bulling issues have been solved well they are wrong like I stated in my first paragraph clothes do not control what a person does it is the person own will to decide what to do. In addition many school have uniform to stop kid from showing gang colors or any other misconduct well I would like to say again they are fully wrong it is proven that kid are more often to join a gang due to represent a school, or a city they are from. Furthermore to my argument kids will try to rebel against this act and will try rebel until they get it their way. I can agree if a stranger were to come in the school you can easily tell if he was a stranger because he isnt wearing a uniform. But with all the staff and janitors in the school dont they need to wear a uniform too. It really seems unfair that the staff doesnt have a uniform and we do. I would like to conclude that have a school with uniform would have huge disadvantages. If you want all kids to have the same clothes why dont you make our hair color the same to. They way I would descirbe a school uniform is a disciplinary fashion. Thank you for you time on reading my essay im only 13 and i strongly disagree on uniforms.

Hey, Jayvee, I live in the tropics too. Although I'm quite new at trying to keep my succulents growing happily, I've learned some (hard) lessons. Watering is indeed a case to case basis, but on general I'm watering my plants once a week to avoid overwatering. I learned this the hard way after my somewhat more sensitive echeverias rotted due to too much water. The nursery guy in fact told me to water them twice a week, but then that happened. So now I cut back on the frequency and the more hardy ones seems okay with the schedule. Others might need more watering though, like every 3 days or so. I look for signs of wrinkly leaves and check that the soil is dry before watering. The toothpick method works well for me, just stick it in the soil and if it comes out clean, then it's time to water. I put my plants indoor (to keep from strong winds or curious little hands of nephews or neighbour's wandering cats) on the windowsills behind tinted windows (I only open my windows when I'm home, usually on weekends), since the light and heat could be harsh sometimes. These are east facing windows, so it would get roughly 6 hours of bright (direct, if the windows are open) light, and still quite bright indirect light for the rest of the day (approximately 6 hours more). I think it's enough amount of light for my succulents so far.