Tomorrow, I will conduct a lesson on pumpkins for my garden club students. It is one of my favorite lessons! Pumpkins are a great plant to utilize when explaining an annual life cycle. The fact that they go from seed to seed in one growing season is easily illustrated. Here are my posters: Since I…
Now that school is underway, students seem busier than ever. My youngest is an example. He has a full course load including AP classes, plays a varsity sport, and has a job as well. So far, he’s been juggling it all fairly well with the only side effects being those of tiredness and limited time…
Tonight was senior night for my son’s soccer team. He’s only a junior but it was impossible not to be swept up in the excitement that filled the air near the pitch as the match was about to begin. Their record going into this game was 17-1-1 over with an undefeated record in conference play….
Yesterday, my husband found a Monarch butterfly flailing around on the rain soaked cement of our driveway. It was a cool, wet morning with a temperature in the mid-50’s. After several failed attempts by him to capture the monarch, I was able to gently snatch it up and bring it inside to the container in…
When I was little, I remember hand carrying my report card in a sealed manila envelope home for my parents to open. Since I was a compliant and eager student, I waited with anticipation and pride to share my grades with them. Aside from graded work coming home and the twice a year parent teacher…
I consider myself to be fairly literate with technology. After all, I am completing an online degree, had a child graduate as valedictorian from a virtual high school, write a blog, upload papers to dropboxes, access online grade books, adjust my photography with photoshop, and use a smartphone. Heck, I even learned to use qualtrics…
Road Tripping We just got back from a weekend road trip consisting of 800 miles round-trip. There were fields and fields of soybean and corn, farmers busily harvesting their crops, heavy traffic, and also long lonely stretches of roads. But, along the way we saw some unusual sights. Check them out! From afar there was…
Since I really feel the need to keep my mouth shut today about a lot of different topics, I’ll share some photos with you from my earlier garden clean up this week at North Woods International School. Mind you, this isn’t a photo only post. I’ll let you in on what I saw, cause there…