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I will be interning in a kindergarten classroom beginning in a few weeks. I was working in first grade last semester and have zero kindergarten resources…
Please please please link me awesome activities/resources that you have used in a kindergarten classroom.
Thank you!!!
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This is a cross-post from John Spencer’s personal blog You’re Smarter Than McGraw-Hill “This can’t be right,” Joel tells me. “Why?” I ask. “The answer is just there. You don’t have to think about it,” he tells me. “That’s because it’s McGraw-Hill, Joel. You don’t know them and they don’t know you. So, you know what they do? They make easy work like this.” “Oh,” he tells me. “Dad, they did this wrong,” Joel points out. “Why’s that?” I ask. “Look at the picture,” he tells me. “I am.” “See, it can’t be a nap,” he points out. “Why’s that?” “There’s a moon. You don’t take a nap at night.” “Is it possible to see the moon during the day?” I ask. “Yeah, but I think they meant for this to be the nighttime.” I can’t control if my son gets worksheets. I can, however, encourage him to think critically about the worksheets. I’m guessing McGraw-Hill has fact-checkers to double-check their spelling. I’m also guessing they don’t spend enough time reality-checking their work. ———————————————————————- Please click through to the original post to comment. the more comments the merrier! -adventures in Learning
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This is how I remember September 11th. I went on a school field trip with my teachers and students to the ruins of Old Leon, Nicaragua. After the field trip I was exhausted and hungry. I wanted to get home and make tuna casserole. However, my neighbors were adamant that I watch the news on their television. I acquiesced and found them watching a movie. I kept watching and watching, waiting for the credits to roll across the screen. They kept saying that this was real and happening in real life, that this was no movie, that this was a great tragedy in my country and for the world. After we understood what was going on, my teachers and friends came to my house to check on me and my family in the States. I had not felt so much love and concern before that moment. For me, this picture evokes those memories of concern, love, and friendship. I like to remember September 11th as this picture. Peace Corps Volunteer R Diehl, Nicaragua - 2001
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How do we expect to entice the best and brightest to become teachers when we keep tearing the profession down? We take the people who so desperately want to make a difference that they enter a field where they know that they’ll be overworked and underpaid, and we scapegoat them as the cause of a societywide failure.
Charles Blow of the New York Times, In Honor of Teachers. (via wisconsinforward)
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Ran across this gem on Jezebel. A t-shirt intended for girls ages 7-16 stating “I’m too pretty for homework so my brother has to do it for me”!
Dur. I don’t even know what to say because my brain is doing this:
To be fair, JCPenney has discontinued sale of the shirt and replaced it with the much more appropriate “My best subjects: Boys, Shopping, Music, Dancing”
So girls, remember that school is lame, shopping is cool, and boys are better than you. Also, boys don’t like smart girls so you should probably just blow of school altogether.
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Matt Damon Defends Teachers against a cameraman.
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