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1️⃣ Move with power ✨ • When you walk into a room, the first thing people read from you is your body language. • Don't be afraid to take up space and claim territory with your body - stand up...
Are you a psychopath with maleficent traits or simply an ordinary person? Get ready for a captivating quiz inspired by Jon Ronson's "Psychopath Test."
Every single year I set myself a few goals for my blogging and reading throughout the year. I always try to make them easy to achieve but also fun to work towards. Then, I enjoy looking back on the…
Say & Play Story Kit Goodnight Moon! Mini objects to go with some of children’s favorite books! Manipulative objects that children can interact with while listening to or reading the story. Great to use when asking questions about the story. Effectively engage a child when retelling the story with the mini objects. FEATURES:~25 corresponding mini objects.~Compsct case ~Laminated story card * It’s one thing to listen to a story, talk about a story and see the pictures. But to engage in the story with mini objects makes the story more meaningful for a child. Very helpful to support comprehension of the story. Book not included and is an option add on. ***Warning small parts and not intended for children under the age of three unless directly supervised. Thank you for checking out the Speech and Smile Shop!
The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting darker. What better way to spend those dark nights, than binge-watching some great thrillers? Here are 5 shows on Netflix that will help you get your “chill” on right in time for Halloween! Side note: I love foreign movies and TV, as you will see from my list below. Most of these shows have subtitles, although with some you can choose the dubbed English version in your Netflix settings. If you are not used to subtitles, don’t worry! These shows are so good, you will forget you are reading the dialogue and just get lost in the stories. Tabula Rasa – 9 episodes (Belgium) As the story opens, the main character, Mie, is in an asylum because she can’t remember anything that happened after her accident. Her husband, Benoit, is as supportive as he can be but Mie can’t help but feel that something is wrong. On top of that, a detective keeps visiting her at the asylum asking her about the disappearance of Peter vanGeest. Mie has no recollection of him at all, except for a portrait that she drew of him in her diary. This story takes us […]
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Next time your kids say "I'm bored!" hand them this list with over 105 ideas! Or create a boredom jar by cutting the ideas into strips.
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Allow me to ask you a simple question. Have you ever thought about death? Go ahead, take a moment and really think about it. Picture yourself laying on a hospital bed, knowing that you only have a few more days…
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Every year, our school participates in the South Kettle Moraine Interpretive Reading Contest. Students are encouraged to read 3-5 minutes from a text of their choice and are judged on their eye contact, diction (pronunciation & enunciation), vocal volume and rate, vocal variety and expression (pleasant & interesting voice), posture and overall appearance, facial expression (appropriate and not distracting), poise (seems well practiced, minimizes errors, not memorized), understanding (conveys main ideas of selection), and audience appeal. Two students are selected from each class to advance to the school-wide competition, and then one student from each grade level moves on to the finals. To help prepare for the Interpretive Reading Contest, we spent a lot of last month learning about fluency. We studied the different dimensions of fluency: pausing, phrasing, intonation, stress, pace/rate, and integration. Between teacher modeling, shared reading, and independent practice, students worked to adopt all the dimensions of fluency while reading. I kept my fingers crossed that with our month-long study of fluency, we'd have some kids sign up to do the Interpretive Reading Contest, and lo and behold....we had nine kids sign up to participate! (We had one missing today who was sick. He'll read tomorrow!) Today we held our classroom competition. Here are the brave students who got up in front of their class to get judged as they read. Our two finalists who will move on to the school-wide competition will be announced tomorrow! It is definitely going to be a TOUGH decision. We had a lot of excellent candidates read today. Here is Nina who read a section from The Dog Who Cried Wolf by Keiko Kasza. Here is Cyndi who read Silverlicious by Victoria Kann. Elie read a section from Word After Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan. Summer read a section from The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman. Cody read a section from Miss Alaineus by Debra Frasier. Tyler's selection came from The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups by David Wisniewski. Katie read Nice Try, Tooth Fairy by Mary W. Olson and Katherine Tillotson. Elisa's book was My School's A Zoo by Stu Smith. Yesterday we had a chance to go visit the Science Fair at the Hoard Museum. On display were all the science projects and essays of students (K-12) who participated. Here are some of the K-2 projects. It's proof that you can be a scientist no matter how old or young you are! There was an essay contest for the older kids. We only had 3 brave fourth graders submit science fair projects. Here Teagan stands proudly next to her 'Perfect Polish' project in which she tested how long cheap, middle-ranged, and expensive nail polish lasted on both her and her mom's nails! Her results: Expensive nail polish really DOES last longer! Here is Seeger standing next to his science fair project. And Megan stands proudly next to her project! While we were at the Hoard Museum, we asked if we could take our exit route through the Mysteries of the Mounds exhibit, which is exactly what we are studying in Social Studies right now! In Social Studies today, I put students into 'tribes'. These small groups will be participating in a fur trade with me (the European) next week. To help build community among their tribes and to unify each tribe, I had students create necklaces with the other members of their tribe. Group members got the same color yarn but each of them could design their necklaces using any of the picture symbols they wanted. Teams made decisions as to which colored beads they would all put on their necklaces too. This was the first step to working together, problem-solving, and cooperating, which they will need to do next week during our fur trade. Here's our orange tribe. Here's the blue tribe (minus a member who was sick today!) Here's a close-up of the maroon tribe. The yellow tribe working diligently! As Social Studies came to a close, several students asked if we could make a new seating arrangement to allow tribes to sit together every day. They claimed it would help them continue to problem solve throughout the day and build unity. I definitely couldn't argue with that, and because I believe in a democratic classroom, I told them I honored their voices, and we'd give it a try, as long as they could problem-solve as a whole class, get the desks where they needed to go, and could continue to earn the privilege. Below is the seating arrangement they came up with. :) I guess only time will tell as to how well this will go over. I'm hoping that because they took ownership for the idea, they'll be more invested in making sure they keep each other in check! In Writer's Workshop today, we continued on with our animal research. In my last blog posting (Part 6), we organized our diet notes so they were in the best order. Today we organized our defense mechanism notes so they were in the best order. We will begin drafting our paragraphs next week! Here is Tyson as he organizes his notes on an alligator's defense mechanisms. This is another student's order for his notes on an alligator's defense mechanisms. To see pictures and footage from the next lesson in this animal research unit, visit this blog posting (Part 8). Visit my TpT site if you're interested in getting all the student sheets used in this animal research unit.
This is an excerpt from my anxiety workbook Breathe which includes tons of self-care tips for anxiety. I have had anxiety for almost as far back as I can remember. In 6th grade, I vaguely remember my mom taking me to the doctor for the stomach aches that would, without fail, occur every morning before
It would seem logical that we’d be the ones to know ourselves the best. Yet, life has a peculiar way of springing surprises on us. Every now and then, we stumble upon unknown aspects of our character, taking us by complete surprise. Now, we’ve prepared a fun, visual test for you. Who knows? You might just uncover new facets of yourself that were hidden until now. Enjoy this journey of self-discovery!
Reading and conversation are crucial for language development in children. Technology has also become a near-ubiquitous part of modern life. Unfortunately, a poll from 2018 released by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and Read Aloud 15 MINUTES showed that more than one-third of parents report that popular technology use by their children routinely takes away
What happens when you mix street photography and facilitation together? Very cool things! You become a better observer, a key skill for facilitators.
