u/Mesmerotic31

My daughter is taking the 5th grade Stanford 10 online this upcoming week. I'm trying to figure out what is and isn't allowed and not finding the info I need, so if anyone here has experience please share!

1. Is it monitored, like over zoom or video? My child often needs me to read the questions out loud (she's a fantastic reader in general, like when reading books, but she's an audio learner) and often draws blanks when she has to read the question herself. Am I allowed to read the questions out loud to her?

2. Am I allowed to re-state them (without giving any hints) if the wording is confusing or will this disqualify us? We have been going over the practice work book and some of the questions are phrased in ways she finds hinderingly confusing. If I re-state it in a slightly clearer way she gets it and can solve them easily, but I am now becoming aware of the fact that her test question comprehension doesn't match her generally good understanding of the content.

I think I may have messed up along the way by always being available to explain a confusing question to her when we do our home lessons instead of making her figure it out on her own. Additionally, she is in 4th grade by age but we are working a year ahead, so even though she has mastered the content, her test-question reading comprehension is younger than a typical 5th grader taking this test.

Just having some anxiety and feeling like I have done her a disservice. She is super bright and understands everything she has learned easily, but definitely struggles with the wording when left to her own devices, and I'm afraid I've set her up to fail.

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Edit: we have spent the last couple hours with her reading the questions to herself. She has shown some improvement but she gets caught on certain things.

Example question: "Jeremiah has a photograph that measures 5"x7". He wants to frame the photograph using a 3-inch mat. What size picture frame will Jeremiah need to accommodate the photograph and mat?"

She read it over and over and ended up in tears because she didn't understand what "mat" meant in this context, so I had to explain it was a border around a picture, but she still had no real-life context to compare it to so she had a ton of trouble visualizing it.

And then another question assumed life experience that again she didn't have--it asked if the goal lines on a football field were parallel, perpendicular, etc., but she's never seen a game of football in her life and didn't know what a goal line meant or looked like.

Or another question that was like "Maria has 48 acres and wants to place fencing around each quarter acre. How many sections will she need to purchase fencing for?" And she read it several times not understanding until I rephrased it as "Maria has 48 acres. Each acre is split into quarters for fencing. How many quarter acres does she need to purchase fencing for?" and suddenly it clicked, just with the slightest re-wording in a way she found a little more intuitive. Simple things like that which for some reason trip her up.

It was so easy. I got one of those little 5.3oz cups of plain unsweetened yogurt (Ellenos), mixed in a pinch of salt and garlic powder, spooned it into cheesecloth over a strainer, and refrigerated it overnight.

I have been a Laughing Cow Creamy Light girl for years so I stacked them up nutritionally per 150g-- labneh wins out with fewer calories and less fat and sodium, and it *tastes exponentially better*. It's so thick and creamy, like a sliiiightly tangier cream cheese, and felt extremely decadent on my tongue--richer and less plastic-y than Laughing Cow. I honestly think I am never going back. The flavour opportunities are endless.

(The yogurt barely loses any weight after straining, maybe a half a tsp of liquid, and adding salt of course adds sodium, but that difference is still huge!)

You could make it lighter using nonfat yogurt but I imagine it would change the flavour/texture too much. It's absolutely perfect as is.

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Nutritional comparison:

Ellenos yogurt, 150g: 150cal, 7g fat, 13g protein, 95mg sodium

Laughing Cow, 150g: 200cal, 12g fat, 16g protein, 1275mg sodium

Light cream cheese, 150g: 375cal, 32g fat, 11g protein, 650g sodium

Cream cheese, 150g: 525cal, 53.5g fat, 11g protein, 480mg sodium

So since last summer I've been having great success (meaning after years of trying the scale FINALLY started moving lol). I was eating 1200, doing the elliptical for 60 minutes a day, and losing about 3lbs a month. Lost 18lbs over 6 months and I was ecstatic. I was intermittent fasting, eating super high protein and fiber, and never hungry.

Then in March I got two head colds in a row and herniated a disc and then got a stomach bug, all overlapping each other, lasting over a period of six weeks. By that point I had only missed 3 days at the gym since Thanksgiving, so not going to the gym for 6 weeks in a row was devastating.

For the first bit when I couldn't taste anything I lived off of keto toast, soup, and protein cereal. Then my appetite returned and I started feeling ravenously hungry all day long even eating all the same things I used to. This was weird because I was so much more sedentary than I'd been in months.

Needless to say I gained back 7lbs in this time. I have finally gotten mostly better enough to return to the gym, and I've only been able to manage 30-45 minutes at a time with breaks. I can feel my appetite slowly getting back under control and I'm hopeful I will be able to do my usual hour again soon and stop feeling so insatiably hungry.

What is even with that? Why is my appetite smaller and I am more satisfied with less food when I do a ton of cardio than when I'm lying around all day?!?