Pouring Rain Comes Down Dark Drizzling Winter Morning Later Snow Will Fall Desiring Snow Days Give Students a Needed Break To Study or Sleep New Kindness Projects Drawing to Connect with Kids Pride and Happiness A Portrait of You Even Though You Have Nothing Smiling, Laughing, Joy Anxiety Chokes Smiles Disappear, Laughter Gone Paralyzed, You…
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
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…
When my boys were very young, I took their gently used clothes and baby equipment after we were sure we were done having kids to a couple of consignment stores in our area. I was able to receive a few small checks for our items. This turned out to be instead of hosting a garage…
Here are my entries for the Weekly Word Press Photo Challenge for the week of 10/18/17.
Earlier this week I saw a post from the US Fish and WildLife Service about collecting milkweed seeds. Since I have done this before, both as an individual, and a student group facilitator, I believe it is an important thing to do and this is the time of year to do it! The video is…
Some areas across the nation have already started back to school! I know this from listening to the news, reading social media, belonging to a teacher blog-writing community, and talking with friends. Here, in the upper mid-west, our summer is not quite over, but it is close. Most districts have two to three more weeks…