u/GlitteringArt5149

I'm a pre-k teacher. By December I can usually tell which kids will enter K reading ready. The predictor is whether the family does any structured phonemic awareness work at home. Just letter sounds and oral blending, 5 to 10 minutes a day.

Kids whose families don't engage (and there are real reasons many can't) start K significantly behind and the gap widens fast. By second semester K it's hard to close even with intervention.

How do you communicate this at conferences without sounding preachy? The honest answer is even casual home practice produces dramatically better outcomes than what we can do in 10 min small group rotations.

So many of you are mentioning phonics apps and I want to know which ones are the best and are worth paying for and if they are free, even better. The ones that I found are Khan Academy, Reading Eggs, Reading. com, ABC Mouse, Teach your Monster, Starfall.

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I started a small cleaning product company, we make three concentrated surface cleaners from relatively simple formulations, plant-based surfactants plus fragrances plus a mild solvent, nothing exotic.

Amazon is requiring an SDS before they'll approve our listings and I've been going back and forth between just writing them myself, paying a consultant, or getting some kind of SDS authoring software, the problem is I don't know what I don't know.

I understand the basic chemistry behind my formulations but I've never formally classified anything under GHS, I don't know what UN number my products need for shipping, and I'm not sure whether my products even qualify as hazardous under WHMIS since I also want to sell in Canada eventually.

The consultant quotes I've gotten range from about 500 to 1000 per sheet, which is meaningful money for a startup. The software options seem cheaper long term but I'm worried I'll make classification errors that come back to haunt me.

Has anyone here gone through the Amazon SDS requirement process for cleaning products, and what route did you take?