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Today, my garden club for third, forth, and fifth graders will meet after school. We have two meetings in the month of May, instead of our usual single monthly meeting.…
For the last 18 years, we’ve had a home fruit orchard. I can’t call it a backyard orchard as it was at our first home in the mid-west, as our…
This morning I got some great news! Thirteen students who attend enrichment opportunities I offer at one of local elementary schools will have their Haiku poetry published in the Young…
Yesterday. Friday was Arbor Day. Friday, April 28th, yesterday, was Environmental Day at our school. Approximately 24 hours ago, 375 students visited with me in K-5 grade level groups for…
via Daily Prompt: Roots At one time in my life, the word roots meant where you came from or what your ancestry happened to be. This was probably driven by…
via Daily Prompt: Gray I worked on Color Poems with my Third Grade Writer’s Circle this March. No one picked to write about Gray, so here is what I did…
This semester I have learned a little about procrastination. Never considering myself to be one in the past, I can now claim the title of Procrastinator! Since this is…
Yesterday I drove I -35, otherwise known as The Great River Road that runs parallel to the Mighty Mississippi and divides the state borders of Minnesota and Iowa with Wisconsin.…
