Kindergartners Share Thanksgiving Recipes
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their teacher
You buy some bananas and crust. Then you mash them up and put them in the pie. Then you eat it.
You cut the turkey up and put it in the oven for ten minutes and 300 degrees. You put gravy on it and eat it...
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We Get What We Get
The Bottom Line On Parent Accountability
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Bill Page
Following is a somewhat blunt, but quite definitive answer to the questions so often asked by frustrated teachers:
What should be the parent's level of accountability in their children's education?...
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Don't Forget the Little People:
A Vision for an Online Learning Community for Kindergarten
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Jaclyn Scott
A child's first year in a formal education program sets the foundation and precedent for the years to follow. A kindergarten classroom's setup, procedure, and curriculum provides students with a balance of rigorous academic standards and appropriate developmental experiences...
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60 Ways to Practice Spelling
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Michele McCoy
1. Paint with water- Dip a Q-tip in water and practice spelling the words on a chalkboard. The words will disappear like magic, leaving the chalkboard clean!...
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The Very Busy Museum
A conversation with
Eric Carle
Eric Carle flung out his arms as if to hug a beloved but invisible friend. "When I talk to groups of children I ask them to tell me about their friends and they talk away and throw their arms around each other."...
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Greetings from the Coast Guard Cutter POLAR SEA!
Project update
On October 28th, two Dolphin helicopters and the flight crew departed Mobile, Alabama for Seattle, Washington to meet the ship at the pier...
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Bill Page
A Remarkable Program For At-Risk, Middle Level Students
My perspective is that of a classroom teacher. I am not a researcher, or a remediation specialist, or a learning disabilities teacher. I am a teacher of undiagnosed, unlabeled, 7th graders; "kids who cause trouble in class," or "kids they kick out of other classes," and my concern is here and now...
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Peggy Chauncey Cramer
More Than Just "Reading Buddies"
An Overview of School-based Mentor Programming
What is Mentoring?
Mentoring connects adults and students with younger students to help develop relationships to provide general social/emotional and academic guidance. People of all ages can be empowered to help and mentor others...
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Learning the Continents Through Songs & Poems
Compiled by
Karen/PA/Rdg
CONTINENTS
(Tune: Pop Goes the Weasel)
Asia, Africa, Antarctica
Australia, Europe, too
North America
South America
Seven continents for you! ...
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Kathy Roberson
A View on Holiday Art
When I was an undergraduate majoring in Art Education, I was told repeatedly, "No Holiday Art!" by my Professors. The idea seemed to be that the Fine Arts had no business being adulterated by the pettiness of a mere holiday art project...
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William Voors
How to Deal With Bullying in Your Classroom
On average, 160,000 American children miss school every day to avoid being harassed, teased, gossiped about, "dissed," or physically assaulted...
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Greg Pospiel
Child Safety Tips and Free CD
According to the latest statistics, 840,270 persons were reported missing in 2001. Of that number, 651,209 were juveniles. Of these, 119,237 juveniles are listed as "endangered"...
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