KIDLANDIA MomWow!
Happy Mother’s Day to all my fellow mothers out there. I really must share a classroom story I heard about the most wonderful mom on the planet. Like all mothers think their own kids are the best,...
View ArticleKIDLANDIA: Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
Our last Core Knowledge Domain (2nd Grade) is Civil Rights. We’ve been reading, viewing, listening, and learning all about the people who made a difference. We’ve been comparing and contrasting the...
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KIDLANDIA: Talent, Talent, Talent!
I am not too proud to brag! Yes, the students at Bryant A&I have got talent. Our poetry contest has garnered a pile of poems to be proud of (okay, you can tell I teach second grade with that...
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KIDLANDIA: Summer’s Here!
With a hoot and a holler the students from room 10 bounded out of the door as the bell rang for the last time (well, at least for the 2013-2014 school year). They were full of summer plans and...
View ArticleKIDLANDIA: “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
As I sit in my living room, calming our nervous labrador who suffers from anxiety every time there are “bombs bursting in air,” I think about all the sacrifices that were made (and are still being...
View ArticleKIDLANDIA: Heavenly Rain and Toes Deep in the Sand
If you read last week’s post you’ll remember that we had our 11-year-old niece with us for eight days. The days were action packed, just as promised, but sometimes we had to “go with the flow.”...
View ArticleKIDLANDIA: Toes in the sand really works! Now there’s proof!
Have you ever just needed to get those shoes off? One of the after-school rituals that I started when my kids were little was taking their shoes off, standing in the grass, and letting me run the water...
View ArticleKIDLANDIA: Honoring and Remembering Our Loved Ones
It’s a stormy day, here in Riverside, and memories of my Mother-In-Law came streaming in as we set out to buy Marigolds. 30 years ago, during the first week in November, we had a storm pass through...
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KIDLANDIA: Giving Gifts of Meaning
I hope that everyone is able to find that perfect gift for their loved ones this holiday season, but as I say that it reminds me that there is really no way to wrap the gifts that are at the top of my...
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Fire On the Mojave: Stories of Fire in the Deserts and Mountains of Inland...
“Fire up Thunder Creek and the mountain / troy’s burning ! / The cloud mutters / The mountains are your mind…” — Gary Snyder On a 110 degree June day in 1983, I was on a bus heading towards the San...
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