Celebrate spring with this fun Neighborhood Spirit Month! Each week, there's an easy, at-home activity to do that will keep you connected while apart!

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Understanding your HOA is vital. Learn the basics in this HOA crash course! I'll teach you the who, what, when, where, and why of homeowners' associations.

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Meeting your neighbors after a move can seem daunting and awkward, but it doesn't have to be! Follow these tips to make it easier.

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Calgary is a vibrant city filled with outdoor adventures, cultural, food, and family-friendly fun. Check out our guide to the best things to do in Calgary, and start planning your trip today!

Yesterday a friend posted a photo to her facebook page. She had gone to pick up lunch for her husband from a fast food restaurant and was surprised to see the note attached to her bag when she picked it up. The note read, “in a country so divided, only good and love can overcome […]

Calgary is a vibrant city filled with outdoor adventures, cultural, food, and family-friendly fun. Check out our guide to the best things to do in Calgary, and start planning your trip today!

Calgary is a vibrant city filled with outdoor adventures, cultural, food, and family-friendly fun. Check out our guide to the best things to do in Calgary, and start planning your trip today!

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Spouses upset seeing a random Karen passenger occupying their booked 1st class train seats and simply refusing to move.

Whether you are the grandparent of an out-of-town grandchild or one who lives in the same town or even neighborhood, it can sometimes be challenging to create a bond. You may feel at a loss when it comes to connecting with your grandkids. But there are all kinds of things you can do to remedy that, […]

Calgary is a vibrant city filled with outdoor adventures, cultural, food, and family-friendly fun. Check out our guide to the best things to do in Calgary, and start planning your trip today!

About a year ago now, I wrote a guest post for The Well Studio on how to live missionally in your community. Here is why you need to know your neighbors

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By Presto Plans A few years ago I became a part-time student and enrolled in a master's course called Writing Instruction. The professor took a unique approach by having us, a group of English teachers, write our own poetry and fiction. It was an eye-opener. I realized that somewhere between high school and my first teaching job, I forgot the lonely and uneasy feeling of staring at a blank page, not knowing where to begin. When the professor allowed us to work with another teacher on the next writing piece, there was a sense of comfort in that I had someone to discuss, collaborate, and share ideas with. Collaborative writing not only broke down my reserve and hesitation, but also allowed me to foster a relationship of trust and partnership with my co-author. I wanted to bring this experience into my own classroom, so I made a point to allow more opportunities for students to write creatively with a partner or a group. Try 5 of my favorite engaging, low-prep collaborative writing activities that you can use in your class tomorrow. Snowball writing is an activity that your middle and high school students will always remember. It can be used with almost any writing genre and is highly-engaging for even your most reluctant writers. I use this method for narrative, poetry, descriptive, and essay writing. I even use it as an introductory icebreaker activity during back-to-school or a semester change! How It Works: - One student starts the writing process for a timed period decided by the teacher. - When time is up, the teacher tells students to crumple up their work into a “snowball” and throw it somewhere else in the room. Get ready to see lots of confused faces J. - Students retrieve one of the snowballs, smooth out the paper, and continue the writing process! (Tip: have students use a pen to make the writing easier to read for the next student) This process is repeated as needed. When all parts are completed, the paper goes back to the original writer who creates a final copy. If you want to know more about how I use this for narrative writing, read this detailed blog post that gives the step-by-step process in more detail. Have your students write a descriptive paragraph using vivid imagery with an activity called Shared Sensory Writing. How it works: - Put students into groups of three and give them an object to describe. - As a group, they decide which of the 3 senses they will focus on (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing). Each person is assigned a sense, and they write a short paragraph describing the object based only on the sense they receive. - The group combines elements from each of the paragraphs to create a final descriptive piece. Download this activity for FREE by clicking here: Shared Sensory Writing One of the challenging parts of creative fictional writing is developing the story elements that will form the plot. Use the graffiti fiction brainstorming technique as a way for students to work together to spark fictional writing. How It Works: - Set up 4 chart-paper stations around the room with the following titles: Conflicts, Character Traits, Settings, and Themes. Break the class up into 4 groups and have each group go to one of the stations. - The group members work together to “graffiti” the page with potential conflicts, character traits, settings, and themes that could emerge in a fictional story. I fill in a couple of my own examples to get them started. - Have each group spend 3-4 minutes filling the chart paper up with their ideas. Then, have them all circulate to the next station to repeat the process. - When they are done, have each student select one character trait, conflict, setting, and theme from the graffitied pages to develop a unique narrative. You can choose to have them write independently or with a partner. Tapestry poetry was developed by Avril Meallem (of Israel) and Shernaz Wadia (of India). The two women started writing tapestry poetry collaboratively via email. The form consists of two authors writing a 9-line poem based on the same title, and then working together to meld it into one seamless finished product. How It Works: - Put your students into pairs (or let them choose a partner). - Have one of the students select a title for the poem. This student who selects the title is the only one who has the option of using it in the poem (to avoid repetition). - Both students write a 9-line poem. - When they are done, the pair works together to interlace the poem into one. All 18 lines must be included. Students are permitted to make grammatical changes (singular to plural, verb tenses etc.), and adjustments to adjectives and adverbs, but the majority of the poems should remain the same. Download this activity for FREE by clicking here: Tapestry Poetry Sketch and scribble writing is meant to be used with descriptive/narrative writing and will particularly appeal to those artistic students in your classroom. How It Works: - Have students form a group of three. Give each of the students a picture as a writing prompt. The picture prompts below are the ones I use. The images should allow them to use a narrative voice to describe a scene. They should keep the prompt hidden from the other members of the group. - Once the time is up, each student passes the writing to another student in the group who will read it and draw the scene based on the description (no words allowed). - When the drawings are done, they are given to the final student who must write a paragraph based on the drawing. In the end, have students compare and contrast the drawings to the original picture writing prompt as well as the two pieces of writing. Want even more ideas for collaborative writing? Check out these activities from some of the other Secondary English Coffee Shop bloggers! Tandem Writing from The SuperHERO Teacher Group Writing Challenges from Room 213 Two Truths and a Lie from Secondary Sara Round Robin Writing from Nouvelle ELA Have other ideas for collaborative writing? Click the comment button at the top of the post to join the conversation! SaveSave SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave

Your guide to spending a perfect day in Montmartre in Paris. Discover the best things to do, sights to see and places to eat in Montmartre.

How to Deal With Your Homeowners Association Many folks want to know if you can refuse to join a homeowners association or if a homeowners association can kick you out. These questions are often asked because of an unpleasant experience with an HOA. Knowing how to deal with a homeowners association is probably something most home buyers don't think about before buying into an area with one. However, those who have owned where an HOA exists often have researched whether they can refuse membership or be kicked out. Sometimes in these situations, owners will try to be removed. Unfortunately, for

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