Saturday, November 28, 2015

The Dichotomy of 2 Neighboring Days: Thanksgiving & Black Friday

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There are memes galore showing the dichotomy of the spending craziness of Black Friday as the follow up to the themes of Thanksgiving: appre...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is a time of appreciation, gratitude, and generosity.  It's about pausing and saying thank your for all the pieces in th...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Get Thee Outside to a No Wifi Zone This Fall!

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Using SparksPeople's article "Why Getting Outside is So Good for You, " this is the word cloud you get. The words that crop up...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Turkey Day is On The Way-

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A week and a day from today is Thanksgiving. I'm not really sure how that happened--this passage of time thing. Didn't school ju...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Diabetes Day: November 14

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Slated half way between Halloween and Thanksgiving, today marks an awareness day:   World Diabetes Day .  In fact, November is Diabetes Awar...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Celebrating 11:11 AM on Veteran's Day

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Picture 5 soldiers, standing straight and tall, in a line, side beside. One tall representative for each branch of the 5 branches of milit...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Sharing Our Planet: Hour of Power

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After attending the OESIS Conference (the Online & Blended Education Symposium for Independent Schools) with five colleagues a month ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Bill Nye's Nat Geo Explorer's "Meltdown"

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This past Sunday night (November 1st), over at the National Geographic Channel, you could find Bill Nye lying on a couch.  He was stretched ...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Halloween Blasts from the Pasts

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Happy Halloween!  In honor of today's day of costumes, trick-or-treating, parties, haunted houses, candy bags and more, I thought it m...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Crash Course Ecology

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You can't beat a good movie....or 12! That's exactly what Crash Course Ecology is all about!! Hank Green, brother of author John ...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Halloween 2015--A Week Away!

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One week to go....the final countdown is on!  Halloween costumes are getting gathered, candy bowls are being stocked and readied for Trick...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Make a Difference Day: October 24, 2015

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  I have this quote magnet in my classroom: This sentiment is at the very heart of Make A Difference Day . An annual event of ...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

S.L.Y.M.I. (Sing Like You Mean It!)

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Music is powerful. Just last night, walking into a restaurant, I heard the classic 1976 Stevie Wonder song "Sir Duke" play...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

A Tech Oasis at OESIS

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Within the past week I was given two really spectacular gifts of personal realignment. My first one was a chance to reunite with nature on a...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

The Chiropractic Realignment of Body & Spirit... By Way of the Great Outdoors

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This week I was reminded of a few things... It was almost as if I went to the "mental chiropractor." I was "realigned" i...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Revisited

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Probably my one "closest to my heart" environmental issues is plastic waste, particularly as it gets blown to the wind and makes i...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

4th Graders: Get Your Free National Parks Pass This School Year

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Judy Blume knew it way back in the '70s when she wrote her book " Tales of the 4th Grade Nothing :" 4th Grade is THE BEST.  It...