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it’s my story, and i’m sticking to it
returning to school this week for a bit of professional development. gearing up for the return of my kinders in just a couple of weeks. had a case of ‘mistaken identity’ this morning that made it clear...
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* ‘when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.’
s, age 4, has taught himself to read. here, he has a teaching moment, when he reads a challenging non-fiction book, about the amazing story of two unlikely animals who became the best of friends. the...
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it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick...
it was building day in kindergarten and all kinds of things were being built. both those one could easily see and proudly carry home, and those one could carry inside forever. I personally believe we...
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Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates
it was camping day. we went outside and hiked and looked at lots of stuff and touched it and found all sorts of things. we tried to catch a frog to see him up close. and if we did we promised we would...
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the teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true...
the first year that i became a teacher i challenged my multi-age third-fifth grade class to find the longest word in the english language antidisestablishmentarianism to learn how to spell it to...
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touch a scientist and you touch a child. – ray bradbury
science day today and parents shared their science with the children who were in awe of all of it and loved the discovery and hands-on exploration and so many questions and trying to make some sense of...
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just learning and laughing and sharing stories.
ready for round two today of parent teacher conferences last night when we shared our stories and they shared their stories we really learned a lot about their children and they really learned a lot...
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the bee whisperer.
f visits the garden by the lake kneels down to talk to the bumblebees to see them up close then befriends them as they learn more about each other full of calm and peace without fear and after they...
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enchanted.
bee whisperer’s mom, my daughter, on our late summer walk by the river. bee whisperer, my grandson/ her son, on our early summer trip by the lake. —- genetics, gentle compassion, curiosity and nature...
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doing.
“for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― aristotleFiled under: Life Tagged: art, children, kindergarten, learning, learning by doing, sketching, teaching
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giant.
kinders size up the leaves that are like nothing they’ve seen before much bigger than their heads with a color like shiny crayons they must be leftover from the time of the dinosaurs. — the world is a...
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bats.
we met the bats learned about all the good they do micro bats mega bats brown bats fruit bats how important they are to our world and we will try to do our part to help save the bats. —...
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men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ~ralph waldo emerson
it was science day we made solutions and color swirls learned about buoyancy floated and sunk things then we met two big horses a baby cow from scotland a ball python and came back to our room where...
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never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun. – randy pausch
sad i wasn’t able to take them up on this invite. i didn’t even know curious george drank coffee. you always learn something at a conference.Filed under: Life Tagged: conference, curious george,...
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“i’m right and you’re wrong, i’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing...
“oh, yeah. just watch me, i’m taking notes!’Filed under: Life Tagged: children, kindergarten, learning, nature, science, size, strength, teaching
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books, the children of the brain. – jonathan swift
behold the golden tower. whoever enters shall do so at the risk and joy of gaining something they may never have imagined.Filed under: books, Life, reading Tagged: books, children, golden books,...
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making sense.
— credits: gretchen owoki, let the children playFiled under: Life Tagged: children, imagination, learning, making sense, play, playing
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