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Promoting the Unboxing of Students
Today is Slice of Life Tuesday and since many participants in this weekly forum hosted by TwoWritingTeachers.org are educators, my blog today focuses on an educational topic. It is also a post that applies to parents and offers encouragement to allow your student to find their strengths, whether or not those strengths fall within the…
Place & Practice Can Get One Lost
Today, I was driving to an event sponsored by my place of employment. It was a foraging hike about 80 miles away from where I live. It’s been a busy week, so last night I finally got around to writing the introduction I was going to say prior to hiking. As I drove, I was…
Ten+ Years of Jewelry Making
Today, I made a decision to close my Etsy shop, Carol’s Jewelry Orchard. It’s been open for ten years! Ten Years! Wow! I seriously do not know where the time has gone. During the ten years of making affordable, handcrafted jewelry, I progressed as an artist. What started as a need to have something of…
Seedlings
Unfortunately, I had a 24 hour period of illness this week….vomiting, and malaise. It might have been an ocular migraine due to a visual disturbance that occured prior to being nauseated or perhaps it was food poisoning. But, no matter what the cause, it was the pits! Like most people, I hate being ill. It…
Silent Sunday: Spring Flowers
All Photographs are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta with all rights reserved. © Carol Labuzzetta, 2019
Planning the School Garden
It’s that time again! Time to think about gardening! I am excited to once again be planning to plant a school garden with the entire student body of an elementary school. I like to do have a theme in the gardens I plant with school aged children. The reason is that this gives me and…
Garden Club Lessons: Making Seed Bombs
My second garden club group is coming to an end. I have mixed feelings about letting it go. Last week, I turned in my resignation to the principal at a local elementary school where I have served as a co-curricular advisor for their garden club. I started in the fall of 2017 and will end…
Thoughts on Educational Reform Series: Reversal of Knowledge, From Needed to Wanted!
The following was written after in December of 2012, following a Garden Club unit on Conifers. I recently came across this saved piece of writing and decided to share. I found something this morning that caused me to have an “aha” moment! It was a recent copy of National Geographic Magazine with a story about…
Piles: How do you deal with them?
My husband and I have a joke about piles. It’s a clean joke but also kind of gross. Sometimes, our conversations degenerate into a specialized kind of medical-speak that only those in the medical professions can appreciate. Neither one of us enjoy piles. I especially get irritated when too many of them exist. The piles that…