I didn’t think it would suck me in like that…but here I just spent 15 minutes filling a rice bowl.
I guess it was more of a virtual filling of a real bowl…er, I virtually filled the bowl with rice…?
Anyway, http://freerice.com is the spot. My principal showed it to me today.
here’s a link to a screenshot:
With the beginning of a new quarter comes a new unit to study. In this case, we are going to be working on a program from Lutheran Social Services called Asset-Building for young people. Apparently, studies indicate that students who have more assets have more success in life. Well, I’m hoping that a few months honing my students’ assets will do just that.
Sometimes this stuff seems kind of canned, but I’m hoping we can relate it to the kids’ lives enough that they get some immediate benefit from it. I’m thinking it’ll be an easy segue from our “Extra-Curricular Documentary” unit that we are finishing Monday.
I would like to upload the videos that students created for the aforementioned project, but I did not get many permission forms for Internet publishing that I hoped…so we are limited to a local audience rather than seeing what the whole world thinks of our work.
Since I’ve chosen to take several weeks out of the school year to focus on an activty requiring students to look closely at an extra-curricular activity, I was wondering: is there any data out there that would suggest a correlation between increased participation in extra-curricular activities and success in academics?
Students are required to interview advisors and members of specific extra-curricular activities and then report on them. The hope is that, given a little knowledge about activities that are out there, students may be more inclined to participate in them (and then maybe have a greater bond with school and subsequently more success). Maybe it’s a stretch.
Here are some sources for your research on the history of money.
http://www.moneysmartwi.org/resources/index.aspx?search=True
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/on2/money/history.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/28718/history.html
Wondering where SALES TAX goes??
go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States
More fun with Photoshop.
Below is a link to a .pdf file of the parent letter that will be sent home today (Friday, September 7th). If you think you should have received this letter, please feel free to download, print, sign, and return (you could scan and e-mail as attachment if you prefer).
Wow…seems weird to write 07-08.
This marks the beginning of the section dedicated to the 07-08 school year. Everything below this post is “old news” (last year’s work). Feel free to check all that out to see the work from last year and get a feel for how this blog works.
It would really be great to hear feedback on this blog as the year goes on – the kids (and I) really like to get comments on our work – so don’t hold back!
- Here’s to a great school year -
Since a blog is useless if it’s never updated, I thought I’d share my summer fun on here…
Here’s my first project of the summer:
Though I’m a couple days late (sorry kids), I’ve finished the End of the Year Review Video that was created by my social studies students and edited by me.
It is uploaded to www.TeacherTube.com, a really nice (and school-safe) site for videos.
