Djinn – Welcome everyone! The subject is “What to do with those left over Christmas Cards and calendars.” I know how creative you all are and I’m sure we
will get some wonderful ideas from everyone.

Djinn – Does anyone…

Photo ornaments made from walnut shell halves.

1. Spray paint the shell front and inside. Gold is pretty; I used white because we had no gold paint on hand.

2. Add contrasting color trim around opening of shell. Optional: Add …

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According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while
both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer
each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning
of winter, usually late November to mid-December. Female
reindeer retain …

Clayton State University’s Hollowell Publishes ‘The Forgotten Room – Inside a Public Alternative School for At-Risk Youth‘

Legislation Introduced to Protect Children from Misuse of Seclusion

Dr. Mary Hollowell, an associate professor of Teacher Education at Clayton State …

On the wall above my desk are two pieces of precious spontaneous play/art that inspire me every day. One is a crazy confusion of wooden scraps that my son Spencer glued up from pieces of baseboard molding, construction scraps and dowels. The other is his wooden helicopter made in his third grade shop class. Both are pieces of genius: covered in gloppy, pointillist paint jobs; fully working rotors, and carefully thought-out appendages—antennae, guns, fishing rods? I have no idea. But both convey hours of imaginative use of humble materials….

To correct students’ mistakes has always been, and will always be the concern of most teachers. To begin with, it is crucial to emphasize that no one is above knowledge, including teachers. Mistakes are part of our life; we all make mistakes now and then. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes as long as we learn from them and avoid repeating them over and over.

MATHFROG is a free mathematics site of Fun Resources and Online Games for parents, teachers and students in grades 4, 5 and 6. Great games and activities are available here to teach patterning, probability, geoboard, geometer’s sketchpad, pie charts, fractions, tangrams and more.

An annotated list of 50 web tools to help teachers with lesson planning, research and productivity! By Rasmussen College.

NEW! Poetry Corner! Enjoy this month’s poetic offerings!