On Lessons Learned Living Life Fully
Getting ready for school this year has been an unsettling experience. How will this all be sorted out with the uncertainty surrounding Covid 19? Will we be in the classroom or have virtual classes?...
The school year is over, and it is time to evaluate the effectiveness of Distance Learning. Was it successful? Well, the answer is, yes and no. I can only speak for myself and my...
I had noticed lately that some of my students were not being very kind to each other, and without realizing it, they were exhibiting some bullying behaviors. I’m sure most of them never thought...
January has brought many surprises this year, mainly the fact that we have had at least 5 calamity days due to snow and frigid temperatures. All of them in the last two weeks! As...
This is a great class art project for those weeks leading up to the holidays! The stained glass nativity scenes look beautiful when placed on a window (okay, much better than displayed here in...
Teaching and encouraging children to treat others with kindness is a struggle faced every day in the classroom. I see students with poor empathy skills who really don’t care...
It has been a while since I posted anything – I’ve been a little busy. My oldest son, David, got married! It was a whirlwind of activity – planning, list-making, phone calling, slide show...
Mount Rushmore in South Dakota is a fantastic National Monument which should be on everyone’s ‘must see’ bucket list. As my kiddos in fourth grade are studying the Midwest region of the United States,...
A great project my kiddos in fourth grade recently completed was book review dodecahedrons. The first time I did this project I had to practice saying dodecahedron many times – it’s not all that easy!...
in a Snow Globe! This was the recent topic for writing in my fourth grade classroom. Maybe we were just wishing for some snow, which we haven’t had much of this winter (snow days!)....
