How to Avoid the Summer Slide! Summer is right around the corner! We all LOVE our summer vacation, but not the "Summer Slide!" According to Oxford
The procession of the months: the verses by Beatrice Crane; the designs by Walter Crane, [1889]. Typ 8302.89.10 Houghton Library, Harvard University
How to Avoid the Summer Slide! Summer is right around the corner! We all LOVE our summer vacation, but not the "Summer Slide!" According to Oxford
In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.
Have fun discussing the 2018 Winter Olympics with this nonfiction reading comprehension and vocabulary pack. Includes 14 pages of black and white printable worksheets. Each page contains high-quality images for younger students to color. The reading passages discuss the history/origin of the Olympi...
Olympic activities for kids - Gentry moved home before her Rice University internship, so I made homemade donuts - Olympic Rings donuts.
Things to do and places to go during May with seniors and the elderly. Celebrate May Day and Mother's Day, be a bird watcher, visit antique stores, and more!
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Are you all ready for summer sewing!? I have a bunch of fun sewing projects lined up to work on this month. Hopefully I can get some of them done before ... Read More
How interoceptive awareness works, the impact on self-regulation, signs of modulation challenges, and activities to gain IA.
Explore the topic of honesty for kids with the Family Dinner Book Club.
Back To School is here! I'm not gonna lie, I have tons of mixed emotions. Some thoughts that run through my head are below: *Oooo...I love decorating my classroom *Ugh that is too high for me to reach *Hubby, I need you *Yes I can hot glue that there *No not there *Do I have too many owls? *Haha, I can never have too many owls *I love my new stapler *Oh look, an empty space...the possiblities are endless *To have a desk or not have a desk...that is the question *Bye bye desk *Should I get rid of the student desks too? *No, that is too much change for one year *THEY CHANGED THE CURRICULUM AGAIN *WHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY *NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *That doesn't even make sense *Oh the materials in the new curriculum won't be here until the 3d week of school. GREAT IDEA *Ok...focus....on....lesson....plans... Ok, so I can go on and on and on. Want to see my whole classroom? Check out my video tour below. Need some ideas for the first few weeks of school? I've got you covered as well! I hope you have a great 2015-2016 school year. Remember you are somebody's whole world!
Start your young entrepreneur on the right track by letting her imagine her own business. What would she sell? Who would be her business partners?
Step by step instructions for how to make a pencil catapult for a fun and hands-on STEM activity. What are you going to launch?
Agenda Students were given the first 20 minutes to prepare their presentations to the class. For section 3, Groups discussing parallelism and names will go at the beginning of the hour on Monday. Students were also to turn in found poems. Most were not completed. Late work will be accepted. Posted below are samples of Found poems: http://chippedteacup.hubpages.com/hub/visual-and-found-poetry By Carrie Arizona (www.deviantART.com) http://chippedteacup.hubpages.com/hub/poem-charming-imperfection kirstyes.co.uk kirstyes.co.uk http://piccsy.com/2011/05/night-overtakes/ http://www.gwarlingo.com/2012/the-sunday-poem-mary-ruefle/ Homework: 1. Read Chapter 3 to review for a short quiz. 2. Read the following article on Euthanasia. Especially read the pro and anti euthansia arguments. Then comment below. What is your personal response to Euthansia after having read both sides of the argument? Refer back to the article in your response. Do you believe it an act of good will to allow Curly's dog to die as he is suffering a less than dignified existance and is in a great deal of pain? Or do you believe it to diminish the sanctity of life by putting Curly's dog down? Is Carlson wrong to suggest the notion in chapter 2 of OMAM? 3. Read over the Found Poems above for reference in class next week. 4. Section 3: Turn in chart with 5 points that extend both the argument that George is a good or bad friend.
It’s never a bad time to think about your big-picture goals for the upcoming year. Especially now, many educators are taking this time to get organized and make plans for next year to be their best year yet. When we start planning our year, it’s a great idea to start with a broad overview of each
This STEM Bucket Towers Challenge is all about a tower that involves some great problem-solving. The design must also include a reason a tower would need a bucket! Check this post for more!
I have joined Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory on the Bruins bandwagon as they play in the Stanley Cup. You can read his great column, Jumping on the Zamboni, in today's Globe. I was a huge hockey fan as a teenager but my interest waned when I went to college. It was hard to get my girls dorm mates to watch hockey on the shared TV. Plus the league had doubled in size a few years before and I had trouble adjusting. Growing up in New Jersey, I was a Rangers fan. My parents owned a luncheonette/corner store with my aunt and uncle. We sold magazines and the rule was that if I read them very carefully, I could bring home magazines and then return them. I read two hockey magazines a month. With only six teams in the league and two magazines a month, I knew the players well. In choosing my favorite Ranger, I went for the best looking one—Rod Gilbert who was also an excellent player. And if he weren't a Bruin, my favorite would have been Bobby Orr. And now here I am loving the 2010-2011 Bruins. And what better way of jumping on a bandwagon than by making a book? In this case a Who Am I? Book about one of the Bruins players. I usually use a grocery bag panel for the Who Am I? Book but I wanted this book to be smaller. I used two sheets of used copy paper with the writing sides glued together and a coffee filter box. I found the Bruins logos and photo online. Directions for a Who Am I? Book in Spanish
Read about how to design an effective summer school curriculum for secondary ELA. Engage students in meaningful content that they missed during the school year.
Have you ever heard kids complain that there isn't a holiday just for kids? Learn about koinobori with this fun holiday worksheet.
Visiting Cologne with kids is a great idea! There is so much for families to do in Cologne like these best things to do in Cologne for kids. Enjoy!
June activities for elders and caregivers.
With only three days to go in June, I’m FINALLY getting this month’s art journaling page up! Forgive the tardiness… this is definitely going to be a long-term project, as I’…
Lammas - Pagan / Wiccan holiday information page
Today, I’m sharing my First Grade Readiness Weekly Summer Checklist printable with you! The School of These Average Parents is now closed for summer! That’s right–we made it to the end of Kindergarten, during a pandemic, and lived to tell the tale! All kidding aside though, homeschooling our daughter did shed a lot of light […]
'Do you think you can fit through this index card?' My daughter looked at me like I was crazy as I asked her this question and held up a 3x5 index card. She emphatically answered no, and was very curious when I told her that I could show her how she could very easily fit through an index card. What followed was one our favorite science experiments for kids as we learned how to make an index card chain. Why this experiment is fun for kids With this science experiment, kids will learn about how physical objects change. As a bonus,
Try out this famous foamy experiment for yourself with Science Bob's easy step-by-step instructions.
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notes from today’s performance studies lecture on phenomenology.
