Tag: education
member name: elizabeth e.
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January 21, 2009 07:04 PM EST --
Today in school when my kindergardeners arrived they were bubbling over with excitement when they came to circle time.
"We have a new President. Obama"
"It's Barack Obama . . .
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June 03, 2008 07:24 AM EDT --
Oh, Spring, it comes every year in kindergarten. And like the irises now blooming in my garden, my children open up and express their own individuality, by self selecting a piece of literature that . . .
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March 01, 2009 04:44 PM EST --
This week in Bhawana's group, Zoomit, "R" is the favored letter. RB suggested that images of "reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic would more then fill the prompt. It . . .
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June 16, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
Young bodies are full of kinetic energy. They need to jump, leap, run, skip and slide into new beginnings. Over the years, I have used a sandhill near the school for just this very purpose. . . .
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December 06, 2007 07:47 AM EST --
In these politically correct times in the schools across America, celebrating Christmas is causing some controversy. I know in our own school, we no longer have Christmas pageants or singalongs. . . .
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June 01, 2008 06:46 AM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago, Lena and I were sitting outside on my porch and she mentioned that she had a collection of instruments that she thought might be fun to bring into class. The kids might really . . .
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September 28, 2008 08:02 AM EDT --
In class we read the book, Red Day, Green Day by Edith Kunhardt. It is an effective variation on the idea of a color concept book. In the book, Mrs. Halsey, the kindergarten teacher, conducts . . .
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September 17, 2008 11:02 PM EDT --
" Patience and perseverance have
a magical effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish."
John Quincy Adams
Today was "Wacky Wednesday" at our school. . . .
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May 17, 2009 10:24 AM EDT --
I am often taken back with the reaction of visitors from other schools who come into my classroom and observe the writing behaviors of my kindergarten children. "They are actually writing and . . .
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June 09, 2009 07:31 PM EDT --
School is winding down...only seven more days till summer vacation. Last week we finished our last unit in reading and took the unit test. Yesterday we finished our Math book. Assessments . . .
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June 13, 2009 08:42 AM EDT --
Out in the woods, down at the bogs
A wildlife habitat in our backyard.
Exploring, Inquiring, hands on science
Bodies in motion, minds engaged.
Our last . . .
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October 31, 2007 10:07 PM EDT --
When I look back on my early school days, celebrating holidays were certainly some of my fondest memories. I loved those old Halloween school parties where the mothers would bake the most delicious . . .
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March 18, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
In June I received an email from my good friend Harry (Ann Harrington), my room-mate from the year I spent in a Jesuit mission in a Yu'pik community. She wrote that our fellow volunteer, Mary . . .
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October 07, 2007 11:47 PM EDT --
"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue..."
As many of you know on Gather, I am a true . . .
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November 09, 2007 07:43 AM EST --
"Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives...in childhood all books are books of divination, telling us about the future, and like the fortune-teller who sees . . .
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November 10, 2007 06:16 AM EST --
As adults it is our role in this world to model behaviors which we think are important to teach the next generation that compassion and empathy are desired attributes. Words alone will not suffice, . . .
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December 01, 2007 06:08 AM EST --
In the past, I have introduced journal writing on one of the first days of kindergarten. The children are given bound books with their pictures on the front. In the beginning, their journal . . .
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May 16, 2008 08:19 PM EDT --
As many of you know on Gather, each day I teach two sessions of kindergarten. Recently, we received a grant from the state and next year, all day kindergarten will be intoduced in my town. . . .
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September 18, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
Yesterday a package arrived in the mail from Gather. It was a large carton that was addressed to me. Inside the box were Teddy Grahams. Several weeks ago, Stefanie Plum had written the . . .
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September 30, 2008 10:29 PM EDT --
This week in our kindergarten class we are learning the letter Mm and the sound /m/ at the beginning of words. On our walkabout to the cranberry bogs I asked the children to find as many things . . .
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