Poetry Friday: Consumption
For the past month, I have been consumed by poetry. Constantly, I am thinking about it, writing with words that rhyme or follow a cadence in my head. Poetry. The…
Category: teaching style
Slice of Life Tuesday: That’s Called Hope!
Last Friday, I did something today I hadn’t planned to do. After receiving an email, I ordered instructional materials for lessons on some conservation topics! Why I did this, I…
Slice of Life Tuesday: Getting the Itch
It’s been about six months since I’ve had any teaching engagements for which I need to prepare. The COVID pandemic wiped out all of my spring and summer opportunities to…
Slice of Life Tuesday: Enrichment Learning through Experiential Lessons
When I started Evergreen Garden Club in the fall of 2004, its main purpose was to provide student enrichment through hands-on activities using an outdoor environment such as the school…
Working for Resolutions: A Call to Action
What are you doing, personally, to make living during the COVID pandemic better for others? Anything? Or, are you just complaining? Be honest here. Are you actively trying to make…
Learning Digitally, #SOL Day 28/Year 3
Recent weeks have been especially hard on educators as teaching and learning took on a new form. Digital learning. Online classes. E-Learning. There are many names for it. As I’ve…
Everyone is Disappointed About Something Right Now, #SOL20: Day 14/Year 3.
The gauntlet was thrown late yesterday afternoon on the immediate plan to close public schools in Wisconsin due to slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Governor Evers issued a…
Getting Creative in the Shower
This morning was great! Once again I experienced creative juices flowing while I took my morning shower! Ha! I got you with the title, didn’t I? Well, although this post…
