Preventing the Summer Slide

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Hey there, welcome back to The Education Connection

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where we bridge the gap between learning and

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life. I'm your host, Robin Wilson, and today

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we're diving into a super important topic for

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parents and teachers alike, preventing that summer

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slide. That's the learning loss that can happen

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over these long summer months when school is

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out. But before we begin, I want you to listen

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All right, so back to the podcast you're listening

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to right now. We're gonna be talking about preventing

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the summer side. That's the learning loss that

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can happen over those long summer months when

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school is out. But the good news is with just

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a few simple strategies, you can keep your child

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skills sharp and still enjoy every minute. of

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summer fun. So I have covered this subject before,

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but I'm going to go over a few more tips tonight

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that will help you stay in the loop with those

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summer skills. So we work so hard during the

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school year, teachers, parents, homeschool parents,

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public school. private school to help kids grow.

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And it's tough to think of losing some of that

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progress just because summer gets a little too

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relaxed. And listen, I need summer as just as

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much as you do and your kids. We've got to have

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that summertime. But we need to also just think

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about a few minutes a day, making some fun educational

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decisions so that our kiddos are ready to go

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when it's all over. And summer should be fun,

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but with few easy ideas, you can keep learning

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woven into the summer without feeling like you're

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running a classroom at home. So tip number one,

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keep reading fun, and I can't express it enough.

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Your child should be reading just 15 to 20 minutes

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a day. Now if they take off and go longer, I'm

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happy about that and I know you are too but if

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we can read with them listen to them read or

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they can read independently just 15 to 20 minutes

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a day that's going to make a huge difference

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in that summer slide and not sliding so much.

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Ways to do that, visit your local library, let

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your child pick out whatever interests them.

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Maybe you could even start a little neighborhood

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library where there's a little mailbox that you

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have set up. I've seen these little houses on

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like post, like a bird house except that it's

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a book house and then maybe you can even start

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one of those in your neighborhood that after

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a child reads a book you can put it in there

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and then other people in the neighborhood can

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put books in there that your child may enjoy

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reading. You can start a casual family reading

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challenge with little prizes. Now I know our

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local library always has a summer reading challenge

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for adults and for children alike. So if they

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read so many books they get stickers and at the

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end they can win some pretty big prizes. I've

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seen scooters and bicycles and iPads, Kindles

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and some pretty pretty great things that you

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can win at your local library and that time is

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coming soon we are just about 24 school days

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away from summer we are just one month away we

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have the month of may right now and that is it

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so it's time to start planning your june and

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getting your june lined up for those prizes Number

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two, you can make math a real life. So math does

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not have to come from a worksheet. Bake together

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and double a recipe. Set up a lemonade stand,

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track profits, or plan a trip and calculate the

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gas mileage or budgets. Real world math shows

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kids the why behind the numbers. Tip number three

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keep writing casual so you can encourage your

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child to keep a summer journal Make it light

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and fun. I know a lot of times Not to be stereotypical

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But sometimes girls love to keep those little

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diaries buy them a diary that has a lock and

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key and they can keep their Their daily things

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in that I remember as a little girl myself I

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used to write dear diary and I would write about

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my day I have no idea where that diary is. I

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would love to find that and read through some

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of my journaling that I did as a little girl.

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But your child can do that. Or if you want to

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start writing a letter to someone that is...

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family member that might be far away maybe they

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can start writing if their grandparents are not

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in town or even if they are they can start writing

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letters and I guarantee you those grandparents

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will write them back family members doesn't have

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to be grandparents could be aunt uncle Even you,

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mom and dad, you can write notes back and forth

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to each other around the house. Authentic writing

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builds a strong language skill without feeling

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like homework. So maybe they could even have

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a friend that they would write to. Tip number

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four, build routines. Well, it's tempting to

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let routines slide, but a simple morning or evening

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routine that includes a little reading thinking

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or writing keeps those academic muscles strong.

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I don't know if you subscribe to the paper but

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if you do if you don't maybe it'd be fun to do

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that during the summer to where you get the comic

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strip and your child reads that every morning

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with breakfast. You might start a tradition that

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you did not have before that encourages a little

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bit of morning reading. That's fun. It doesn't

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have to be fancy just a little consistency goes

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a long way or if you were to get a comic book

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at the library maybe they can read one every

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morning or a joke book every morning that would

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help them going a long way and it wouldn't feel

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like work to them. Tip number five, use ready

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to go resources. So if you're feeling overwhelmed,

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you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I've created

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get ready resources that are low prep, easy to

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use, and packed with activities to keep your

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child's skills sharp over the summer without

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the stress. I believe my kindergarten one has

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like a hundred pages in it so you could pick

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and choose or you could do a couple a day or

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you could just pick I know there's about 60 days

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in the summer so you could you know pick 60 out

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of those the most fun ones maybe or my first

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grade one I'm guessing it's got 70 ish pages

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and I am excited to tell you that I am in the

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middle of upgrading updating my second my get

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ready for second with the science of reading

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um skills that are the latest greatest research

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out right now if you haven't heard of science

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of reading it's the new buzzword in education

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and i'm in the process of updating my products

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with those um and so the first one i'm starting

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with is get ready for second grade and i've been

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going through the list that needed for science

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of reading for second grade so that is going

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to be updated soon and I'm looking to have 70

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to 80 pages in that one as well and you can pick

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just some pages that do over this summer some

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fun ones and there there are things that are

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going to be fun to do. Now if you're tutoring

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your child that they're great for that too or

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if you're tutoring other children they would

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also be great for that. So you can find those

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at my store and I'll link them in the show notes,

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too You can find them on my TPT Store, but you

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can also find them on my web page coming soon

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So I want to speak of getting ready And one of

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the things, if you know me personally, you know

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that I have newish glasses. I say newish. It's

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probably been about a year now that I've had

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these. I think I got them last summer. And they

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are Pair I Wear. And I have about 12 toppers.

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got just plain red. I've got plain colors. I

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have some sunglass toppers So and if they have

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I'll have all the details linked for you. So

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one of the things I want to tell you about the...

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pair eyewear is the thing that I was surprised

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about is we have an HSA so a health savings account

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and I'm not sure if you have that so my health

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savings account actually covered my base pair

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even though it wasn't like an online it wasn't

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at the doctor's I went to my doctor got my prescription

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took my prescription uploaded it to pair eyewear

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and the glasses that I currently have the base

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frames, the one that I chose are called the Wanda.

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And so they were 199, which I talked to somebody

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recently and they're cheaper than Wally World,

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if you know what I'm talking about. So they're

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cheaper than them. And because I think they said

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they paid like 285 for theirs at Wally World.

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And they had some toppers too. And so these were

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199 plus I got $25 off. and I think I got an

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additional $50 off because you get like $50 off

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your first order. So I mean some really cool

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things and then you can get different colors

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of toppers. So I just wanted to share with that

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with you because I thought that was so cool and

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my favorite pair. They're just my favorite pair

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of glasses. So well listen thanks so much for

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hanging out with me today. I hope these simple

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tips help you and your family enjoy a summer

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that's full of fun adventure and learning. I

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do want to keep coming back to preventing that

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summer slide. That's something that we need to

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keep on our minds. We need to keep it ready to

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go, and I want to provide tips to help you with

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that so that stays in the forefront of your mind.

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time, keep connected. Keep learning and keep

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loving the journey. Have a wonderful week.