Last year, a parent donated 220 Amaryllis Kits to the after school garden club I ran at our local elementary school. It was not the first time she had made such a donation, but the volume this time was much larger! 220 Kits! Wow! I had about 40 students enrolled in garden club and knew…
The following are my postings for Cee’s Photo Challenge: Amaryllis for December 18th, 2017, The amaryllis is a large, colorful flowering bulb that is popular at holiday time. For the last two years, I have had the pleasure of planting 100-200 of these bulbs with individual elementary students at our local schools. If you are…
We are late this year getting the holiday decorations up. Yesterday, we finally got our tree – a live one – bummed off some friends with a tree farm for a bottle of whiskey! Hey, it pays to know people! Right? Most of the tree farms have opened and already closed for the season. Today, I…
When my oldest entered high school, there was no question whether he would take advanced placement classes. He had completed all his high school math in middle school, and thus, was on track to take AP Calculus as a Freshman. So, when the time came we did not contemplate what taking an AP class would…
The Daily Post on WordPress, Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of December 13th is Ascend. Here are my interpretations of the word through my photographs. Inspired by the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend.
What kind of feedback do you offer your students on their writing? Are you red pen crazy? Do you mark up the paragraph, page, or essay with slashes, carots, and circles every where there is an error? Do you do this with another color pen – trying to conceal your zeal for marking the page?…
Snow, Softly Falling White Blankets Sleeping Green Grass Wondrous Winter World Twinkling Lights Shine Bouncing Off Dark Wet Pavement Leads Us Into Night Wrapping, Baking, Fun Music Festively Playing Christmastime is Here Friends Remember Us Told Through Open Greeting Cards Peace, Love, and Kindness
This is a story about my intensity as a person and why I cannot make a run for a seat on the school board. You need to know that I wish I did not notice every little thing or have the intense desire to want change and educational reform. It is a story about letting…
Between yesterday and today I taught five classrooms of students about poinsettias. They ranged from second to fifth grade. What follows is some of what I shared with them. The poinsettia is named after Dr. Joel Poinsett, the first American ambassador to Mexico. Dr. Poinsett, whose hobby was botany, saw the plant while on a…