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Tag Archives: Early Childhood
Please, Please Flush the Toilet!
There are skills that just need to be taught at home before a child enters kindergarten! These are the be “nice to others skills” that are just common sense lessons in life. My top 5 skills a child needs to … Continue reading
A Guide For A Kindergarten Parent’s First Day of School
Your child’s first day of kindergarten is bitter sweet. Happiness with some sadness sprinkled in. It’s a milestone, not just for your child but for you too. The first day can be stressful for you, your child and also your … Continue reading
Google Lit Trips
Our first grade reader has the story Lost! by David McPhail as one of the selections. During the 1st year of reading it I realized that it was set in Boston (Swan Boats was the trigger) and would be a perfect … Continue reading
Posted in Notes from the teacher's desk
Tagged Boston, Boston Common, Boston Public Library, Brewers Fountain, David McPhail, DeLuca Market, Dinosaur Babies, Early Childhood, Google Earth, Google Lit Trips, Hancock Tower, kindergarten, Learning, lesson plans, Lost!, Lost! by David McPhail lesson plans, Make Way For Ducklings, Mystic Rock Minis, Notes from the teacher's desk, Public Garden, Swan Boats, Trinity Church, YouTube
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Report Card Day in the Paperless World
Top 5 reasons I hate digital report cards: 1. Children aren’t handed a report card…..what is the fun in that? Report card day used to be an important day. The anticipation of receiving it, the anticipation of opening it and … Continue reading
Don’t Go Paperless
It’s 2012 and I am asking you, in the dawn of the world of digital storage, not to not go paperless. I am asking you, in the age of reduce, reuse, recycle, and repurpose, not to go paperless. I am … Continue reading
Stop, Look and Listen
Back in the day when I was a kindergarten teacher, parents of young children would want to know what skills their child should have before going to kindergarten. They were always a bit surprised at my answer. The number one … Continue reading
Chatter Box
Constant chatter can be quite annoying especially if you are you are trying to accomplish something that requires concentration. Then, chatter just gets on your nerves! But if you’re a young child, chatter is a good thing and its never … Continue reading
Got Milk?
A few years back, my friend Edvique, started collecting Got Milk? ads. I don’t know if her initial reason behind the idea was to encourage one of her children to drink milk but whatever the reason, they ended up with … Continue reading
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Tagged celebrity milk ads, class created books, Early Childhood, Fair Oaks Dairy Farm, family, Got Milk?, Got Milk? Ads, health, kindergarten, lesson plans, miking cows, milk, milk mustache, Notes from the teacher's desk, parenting, Sean M. Whalen, Why Milk?
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The Soapbox Speech
Ok, where is it? My soapbox, the high one, where is it? It is time for my annual soapbox speech and I need to be prepared! The new school year is about to begin. Back to School Night is here. … Continue reading
EarthKeeping 101
This week I will teach my class how to help keep the earth healthy. Not surprised? Of course you aren’t ……Friday is Earth Day. It hit me last weekend… Earth Day is next week…..don’t forget to get out the Earth … Continue reading
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