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Free Graduation Diploma - This year just flew by. We are already at the end. I know that many of you are probably packing a few things and trying to get organized for next year. But we still need to finish up about two more weeks. One of our last events is graduation day. On a previous post I wrote about ideas for graduation. I hope that you were able to order and receive y... - 2012/05/15

USING POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM – Part 4 -- GRAMMAR - It's about time, teachers, to explore more possibilities for using poetry in the classroom. One of the chief reasons I like to use poetry for grammar lessons is that the subject of t he lesson is usually quite obvious in the poem.   For example, the following poem practically begs you to teach punctuation .   How many punctuation marks y... - 2012/05/15

A Series of Educational Sites: "E"...The Problem Site! - I landed on another fun site you may/may not know about... The Problem Site! Students will jump all over extra computer time to play  free online educational games ! They can also engage in lots of other fun interactive skill-polishing activities on The Problem Site ! Just to give you an idea, here are a few games offered on the site: Pi... - 2012/05/14

Protect your Tech - Technology has changed the way I teach.  However this means that I must bring my laptop to school.  When I first purchased my laptop I had a very difficult time finding a bag that was stylish and offered protection against the elements and protection against banging it into something or worse yet, dropping it.  Sure it was easy to f... - 2012/05/13

USING POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM – Part 3 – PHONICS INSTRUCTION - It's about time, teachers , to describe more ways I use poetry in the classroom . . . Poetry is absolutely wonderful for phonics instruction.    Consider the following poem: By drawing your students’ attention to the rhyming words at the end of the lines, you can quickly establish an understanding of rimes.  For example,   dr... - 2012/05/13

For My Mom, the Biology Teacher - My mom passed away in 2001, but not a day goes by that I don't think of her.  My mom was a biology teacher, and now I am a biology teacher, too.  My mom was an inspiration to so many people.  We grew up in a very small, rural town in the deep south.  Many of her students never dreamed they could attend college and have a differ... - 2012/05/13