This ‘n’ That – June: The Latest from Teachers.Net

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June 15, 2010

Wow!!!!  If you haven’t seen this video about why some schools insist that students tuck in their shirts, take a look. You won’t believe what the demonstration shows can be concealed under a  shirt! Click on this YouTube link: Why Schools Make Students Tuck in Their Shirts

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FLAG THEME!!!

June 12, 2010 – Flags & symbols for younger kids, and a Transcendentalist Society Project for High School students

Understanding the Flag & Other American Symbols – Elementary grades  http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1583.html

Flag Song for young children (to the tune of Yankee Doodle) http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/363.html

Printable, blackline flag http://teachers.net/gazette/JUN08/printables/#five

Transcendentalist Society Project (high school) – After reading “Walden”, “Self-Reliance”, and “Civil Disobedience” and discussing the ideas and concepts prevalent in Transcendentalist pieces of literature, give the following assignment so that students can more deeply understand the concepts and apply them to their own ideas of how they think a society “should” be. Read the complete lesson at http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/813.html

Symbols of Citizenship – Elementary through middle grades – http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1051.html

Flag Snack – http://teachers.net/gazette/FEB02/recipes.html

Patriotic Songs and 2 full color flags to print out http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/musicpatriot.htm

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June 10, 2010

Need ideas for beach or vacation reads that you can get lost in this summer? We’ve compiled suggestions teachers shared on the Book Talk chatboard. Click here to see what teachers are reading and recommending.

June 8, 2010

Now THIS is the way to honor a special Teacher! Longtime member of the Teachers.Net community “Magoo” posted about this very special observance of her retirement from substitute teaching:

As most of you know I ‘retired’ from subbing (after 15 years) this month. (I’ve actually worked in the district for 30 years, but just the past 15 subbing.) Over the years I subbed in all the schools, but ended up  sticking with P— Elementary the last many years for various
reasons.

This morning was the awards assembly for all the kids (about 350, K-6), and I was asked to be there. I figured  I’d maybe get a certificate, maybe a flower.

Well. At the very end the principal asked me to come up on stage. When I got there and turned around, I saw the  entire school, kids and staff and teachers, standing  up, hollering and clapping. For ME. A SUB. The principal said some nice things and told me to open the large  flat object on the table in front of us. When I saw what  it was I nearly fell off the stage.

It is a huge plaque 16″x18″, almost like a sign, and it says, “M—’s (my first name) Book Nook in honor of M. F. our substitute extraordinaire. June 9, 2010″

It has an etched (?) stack of books on one side.

They are going to hang it on the wall in the school library, near where I always sat when reading to the kids!!! I am to go in tomorrow to walk with the library lady about it.

Can you imagine??!!!??? I was nearly speechless. I am sitting here now, 3 hours later, still not quite believing
it.

I plan to go back and read to kids until I fall over dead, on a volunteer basis, but…to have something like that, which will be there till they tear down the building…I am so honored and proud and humbled and shocked, all at the same time.