Saturday, September 26, 2020
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Many of us can't invite our students' families into our classroom – so let's try creating a virtual space for connection and conversation with our students and their families, a "fireside chat"!
During the "fireside
chat", highlight what has been learned during the week, celebrate points
of pride both at home and at school, and answer questions. Jen
Snyder
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Do you need to teach vocabulary?? You Decide!
Researchers found that 3-year-old vocabulary levels were indicative of their reading success in upper elementary grades and the gap grew wider as children progressed through school.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Save Empty Candle Jars for Halloween Upcycling!
Frankenstein’s Monster
Line a Large Tumbler Candle
jar with green tissue paper, place battery-operated fairy lights inside, and
glue on construction-paper face shapes and hair. The hair is key in making him
come to life — I added the hairpiece to the rim of the lid for a seamless
transition!”
Jack O’
Lantern
“The Original Medium Jar
Candle jar instantly took on the personality of a cute Jack O’ Lantern. Orange
pipe cleaners allow the fairy lights to shine through and gave the jar the
desired color, and the lines of the cleaners mimic the shape and texture of a
pumpkin. Glue black construction paper eyes, mouth, and nose to the jar.”
Ghost
Use regular facial tissue,
then carefully line the interior of an original Large Jar Candle jar with
tissue, added the fairy lights, and added the face using the same technique as
the others: construction paper and glue!”
From Yankee Candles
Friday, August 28, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Friday, July 24, 2020
Teacher Tool Great to Use #Online, #Virtual during the #Pandemic
The Whiteboards allow students to have a whiteboard and the teacher can see the students' WhiteBoards. There's a video on the site that explains more. It's a free site!
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Two civil
rights icons died on 6/17/2020-John Robert Lewis died at age 80 after a battle
with cancer. C.T. Vivian died at age 90 of natural causes.
They were the epitome of "good trouble" -- Lewis' favorite saying and approach to confronting injustices guided by his belief in nonviolence. They worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the forefront of the historic struggle for racial justices in the 1960s. At the time, their bloody beatings during protests shocked the nation and galvanized support that led to key changes in the fight for equality. For their years of arrests, confrontations and unyielding demands for justice, they received the highest civilian honor from the nation's first Black President-Barack Obama.
Lewis, a Democrat who served as the US representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district for more than three decades, was considered a moral conscience of Congress because of his belief in a nonviolent fight for civil rights.
A follower and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., he participated in lunch counter sit-ins, joined the Freedom Riders in challenging segregated buses and -- at the age of 23 -- was a keynote speaker at the historic 1963 March on Washington.
At age 25, he also helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis' skull.
Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 2011, after more than 50 years on the front lines of the civil rights movement, President Barack Obama placed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his neck.
(CNN)
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Saturday, June 13, 2020
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