MzTeachuh: Mary, Did You Know?

MzTeachuh: Mary, Did You Know?: Madonna and Child (Madonna Litta) Leonardo da Vinci ...

Mary, Did You Know?

Madonna and Child (Madonna Litta) Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

Pope Francis Supports Breastfeeding Enough To Know It Needs To Happen In Public 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/pope-francis-supports-breastfeeding-moms_n_4467719.html 

 

Mary did you know - Reba McEntire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyYv80hibTw 

MzTeachuh: It's A Beautiful Morning

MzTeachuh: It's A Beautiful Morning: Beautiful Morning by Elizabeth Coats Thanks to Youtube, I'm having a renewed appreciation for the Young Rascals.  I espec...

It's A Beautiful Morning

Beautiful Morning by Elizabeth Coats

Thanks to Youtube, I'm having a renewed appreciation for the Young Rascals.  I especially like the windchimes at the beginning. Around here, there are no robins, but just a few birds that stay for the winter.This music is one reason its nice to have grown up in the sixties.

 

A Beautiful Morning-The Rascals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwhfhncPfM

 

 It's A Beautiful Morning 

Felix Cavaliere Eddie Briganti

 

It's a beautiful mornin', Ahhh,
I think I'll go outside a while,
An jus' smile.
Just take in some clean fresh air, boy!
Ain't no sense in stayin' inside
If the weather's fine an' you got the time.
It's your chance to wake up and plan another brand new day.
Either way,
It's a beautiful mornin', Ahhh,
Each bird keeps singin' his own song.
So long!
I've got to be on my way, now.
Ain't no fun just hangin' around,
I've got to cover ground, you couldn't keep me down.
It just ain't no good if the sun shines
When you're still inside,
Shouldn't hide, still inside, shouldn't hide,
Ahhhh..Oh! (shouldn't hide) Ah, ah, Oh.....
(Do, do, Waaa) (Do, do, Waaa)
There will be children with robins and flowers;
Sunshine caresses each new waking hour.
Seems to me that the people keep seeing
More and more each day, gotta say, lead the way,
It's okay, wednesday, thursday, it's okay,
(Ahhh) monday, wednesday, friday, weekday, Ah, Ah, Ohhh.
(Do, do, Waaa)
Ah, Ah, Oh, Oh, (Do, Do - Aaaa)
Wooooo oo oo oh, oh, oh, Ah wo, do, waa
Ohhhhhhh.....Oh, Oh, Oh, .....

MzTeachuh: Read! Classic Adventure, Romance, Mystery

MzTeachuh: Read! Classic Adventure, Romance, Mystery: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Illustration by N.C. Wyeth Classics! These are still around because they&#...

Read! Classic Adventure, Romance, Mystery

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Illustration by N.C. Wyeth

Classics! These are still around because they're compelling, fascinating, and fun. Kids have sophisticated tastes when it comes to their stories because they are exposed to a large variety due to improved tech--games have extended plots, there is a plethora of television and film options, some are actually of good quality. Let's get them into the classic books for truly profound experiences.

Kids aren't afraid to seek complicated thought processes--offer a smorgasbord of classic stories for them to consume.

1. Adventure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth

Wonder what Jane's thinking? Read the book.

You may as well start with the best adventure ever! And outstanding illustrations. Stevenson tells a compelling, on-the-edge-of-your-seat story. Kids love it. Don't worry about vocabulary or archaic language, this story moves. And if you don't get a word occasionally, Google it.

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

This is better than Twilight. A grand gothic novel with a hint of feminism, Jane doesn't wilt like Bella. The character creates empathy as she goes through tragic circumstances, and the reader can make judgments as to her decisions. Jane goes from one trauma to another, dragging your heart with it.

3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Poor Pip. What a doofus. Dickens perfected the twisted plot, personable characters, and strange happy endings.

Don't know if that's White Fang, Kiche or One-Eye.

4. White Fang by Jack London

A dog (wolf) story with a happy ending. This is another extreme adventure story--from the animal's perspective. Along with The Call of the Wild, you truly have lived in the Yukon. Great summer read, Jack London is so effective, it doesn't matter what the temperature is, the book is like an airconditioner in its imagery. Still wonder what happened to Kiche.


5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

This child is caught in such a quandary--but with a voice of clarity he proclaims the truth about the society in which he lives--the ante-bellum South. Humor and truth, Mark Twain's forte. 

Get in that canoe and glide along the Glimmerglass.

6. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper, illustrations by N. C. Wyeth

There is an entire series about Nathaniel Bumppo, starting with his teen years before the American Revolution. This is the most famous of the series. The writing is so compelling, you will have had the experience of camping with Nattie and having hatchets whiz by your head. You really can't miss this.



And don't you dare just watch a film or mini-series and think you know the story! A reader's imagination is the best production crew.

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Making Sure You Have Their Attention

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Making Sure You Have Their Attention: 1. Keeping Kids Focused A Few Tips From the Pros on Maximizing Class Attention   http://www.yout...

Teaching Is Making Sure You Have Their Attention

1. Keeping Kids Focused

A Few Tips From the Pros on Maximizing Class Attention

 http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/teaching/techniques/keeping-kids-focused/keeping-kids-focused 

2. How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class

Strategies to Help Children Pay Attention in Class

Read more: Strategies to Help Children Pay Attention in Class | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5759141_strategies-children-pay-attention-class.html#ixzz2DRbWS1PT2. How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class

http://www.edutopia.org/classroom-student-participation-tips 

3. 25 Ways to Obtain Children's Attention in a School Setting

http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip54.html 

4. Teaching tips: How to gain kids' attention

http://www.helium.com/knowledge/45078-teaching-tips-how-to-gain-kids-attention 

 5. Gaining Attention

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/management/gainingattention.htm 

Strategies to Help Children Pay Attention in Class

Read more: Strategies to Help Children Pay Attention in Class | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5759141_strategies-children-pay-attention-class.html#ixzz2DRbWS1PT

 

6.  Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class

http://blog.simplek12.com/education/top-10-ways-to-wake-up-students/ 

7.  50 Actions that Will Grab Your Students’ Attention

http://teaching.monster.com/training/articles/122-50-actions-that-will-grab-your-students-attention 

Strategies to Help Children Pay Attention in Class

Read more: Strategies to Help Children Pay Attention in Class | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5759141_strategies-children-pay-attention-class.html#ixzz2DRbWS1PT

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me.

 

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 11/29/14

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 11/29/14:  I wish to highlight Understood ,which is a sleek, brilliant and easy to use resource for educators as well as parents for the support of...

Educational Links 11/29/14

 I wish to highlight Understood  http://www.understood.org/en/about, which is a sleek, brilliant and easy to use resource for educators as well as parents for the support of kids with learning and attention issues.

Signs & symptoms

http://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/signs-symptoms 

Tips and Tools for Teaching about Ferguson

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-11-29-tips-and-tools-for-teaching-about-ferguson 

Habits of Heart: Helping Students Reflect and Act on Gratitude

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/heart-habits-gratitude-students-reflect-act-on-maurice-elias

5 Weird Things About Writing That Actually Work 

http://justenglish.me/2014/11/27/5-weird-things-about-writing-that-actually-work/ 

Low-Income High School Students Get Less Time to Learn, Calif. Study Shows

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/time_and_learning/2014/11/low-income_students_get_time_to_learn_in_california.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS3 

Step by Step: Designing Personalized Learning Experiences For Students

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/11/step-by-step-designing-personalized-learning-experiences-for-students/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

7 Good Resources for Avoiding, Preventing, and Detecting Plagiarism 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/11/7-good-resources-for-avoiding.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=freetech4teachers#.VHnou8np__Y 

Easy Tools and Simple Tips for Differentiating Instruction  

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2168:easy-tools-and-simple-tips-for-differentiating-instruction-&catid=91:every-classroom-matters&Itemid=259 

4 Ideas For Motivating Adolescent Male Readers

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/4-ideas-for-motivating-adolescent-male-readers/ 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Differentiating Instruction

MzTeachuh: Differentiating Instruction: Differentiated Instruction http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/differentiated-instruction   Delivering Differentiated Instruction in Yo...

Differentiating Instruction

Differentiated Instruction

http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/differentiated-instruction 

Delivering Differentiated Instruction in Your Classroom

http://www.edudemic.com/delivering-differentiated-instruction/ 

What Is Differentiated Instruction?

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/what-differentiated-instruction

A Teacher's Guide to Differentiating Instruction

 http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Teacher_s_Guide/

Differentiating Instruction: Meeting Students Where They Are

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/di_meeting.phtml 

A Teacher's Guide to Differentiating Instruction 

http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Teacher_s_Guide/ 

What Is Differentiated Instruction?

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/what-differentiated-instruction 

10 Examples & Non-Examples Of Differentiated Instruction

http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/what-is-differentiated-instruction/ 

 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Vivaldi and Vincent: Winter

MzTeachuh: Vivaldi and Vincent: Winter: Winter Landscape (Memories of the North) Vincent Van Gogh Who knows how Vivaldi made music sound cold. Listen to this with a ...

Vivaldi and Vincent: Winter

Winter Landscape (Memories of the North) Vincent Van Gogh

Who knows how Vivaldi made music sound cold. Listen to this with a cup of hot cocoa.

Antonio Vivaldi.Four seasons.Winter. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCLpqkIDlXs

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 11/28/14

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 11/28/14:  Helpful Hints for When Teacher Is Overwhelmed  http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/helpful-hints-for-when-teacher-is.html   Thanks...

MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 11/28/14

 Helpful Hints for When Teacher Is Overwhelmed 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/helpful-hints-for-when-teacher-is.html 

Thanksgiving Quotes 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/thanksgiving-quotes.html 

What Is Up With That Kid? 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/what-is-up-with-that-kid.html?spref=bl 

When GenEd and SpecEd Collaboration Really Works: Differentiating Instruction 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/when-gened-and-speced-collaboration_21.html?spref=bl 

An Autumn 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-autumn.html 

Red Onions (Matisse) Now We Need A Recipe 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/red-onions-matisse-now-we-need-recipe.html 

MLK Quotes: Voice of Reason, Voice of Hope 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/mlk-quotes-voice-of-reason-voice-of-hope.html

Teachable Moment: About Ferguson 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/teachable-moment-about-ferguson.html 

Educational Links 11/26/14 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/11/educational-links-112614.html 

 Much appreciation to my international readers. It is a privilege to serve you. USA, France, Ukraine, German, India, Poland, Canada, Bulgaria, China, UK.

 

MzTeachuh: Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts About Christmas

MzTeachuh: Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts About Christmas:     What has four legs, a red nose and flies?   Rudolf the Red-Nosed Roadkill. What is Frosty's favorite dinner?...

Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts About Christmas

    What has four legs, a red nose and flies?   Rudolf the Red-Nosed Roadkill.

What is Frosty's favorite dinner?

Spaghetti and snowballs.

                                          Where doe Santa keep his red suit?    In his Santa Clauset.

 Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Earl.

Earl who?

Earl I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.

                                                     Why does Santa use reindeer to pull his sleigh?

                                Because the elephants kept crashing through the roof.

What is the best Christmas carol in the Twilight movies?

I'm Dreaming of a Bite Christmas.

What has a red suit, a white beard and rows of razor sharp teeth? Santa Jaws.

What would you call your wedding anniversary if it was December 25th?

A Marry Christmas.

Who had a beard, webbed feet and wrote "A Christmas Carol?"

Charles Duckens.

What do you call being caught in a chimney with a fat man?

Santa Claustrophobia.

 What happened when the family cat swallowed some tinsel?

He needed a tinselectomy.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Anna. 

Anna who?

Anna partridge in a pear tree.

 

Question: Why was Santa's little helper depressed?
Because he had low elf esteem.

What is Santa's favorite American state?
Idaho-ho-ho.

Question: What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite.

Where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
In the dictionary.

This is for English teachers.
Q: What do you call Santa's Helpers?
A: Subordinate Clauses

What is the snowman’s breakfast?
Answer: Frosted flakes!

How do snowmen greet each other?
Answer : Ice to meet you!

You just had to know eventually I would get to the funny cat pics.

Now for the serious talk. Christmas is a full on holiday--it smells good (catch that scent from the cinnamon pine cones?), looks sparkly and cute (lights up again), feels cozy  (snuggly blankets in front of the fire with hot cocoa or wassail), tastes yummy (yeah, bite the head off that gingerbread man!), sounds great (all types of music singing cheer and closeness and holiday, etc.) It is entertaining with endless gifts,  movies and music and fun.

Except for that annoying bell the Salvation Army persists in ringing at the front of stores. That is so annoying to be bugged to give to the less fortunate. The homeless, or impaired, or orphaned--is that my business? 

Shouldn't we have a right not to have them bug us? Isn't that the separation of church and state? I don't need all that Jesus stuff at this holiday, like giving to the poor, or kindness to strangers if I don't wish to. Peace and forgiveness. That's my business. Condemnation for behavior that's nobody's business but mine. And I shouldn't have to be reminded on a public street. At school Jesus and all that radical Christian stuff has been eradicated. When can I finally have a secular holiday?

Well, first of all the very word holiday is rooted from holyday.  A day to meditate on the spiritual side of life. Christmas means Christ worship in the old days. He is still memorialized as the greatest teacher who ever lived, the proclaimer of brotherhood, kindness and conscience. All the major religions admire him. Why is he considered so irritating to some Americans?

He was an all or nothing sort of person. You were with him or not. He was who he said he was or not. No in between. Forgiveness, purity, mercy. Very, very hard precepts. It is hard to hang with Jesus. Its all or nothing with Christ.

Students in public schools who profess Christianity are in danger of having their civil rights violated by some administrators and staff who find the message of Christ to be very irritating--not only those horrendous ten commandments, but that part about not lusting or lying  and giving to the poor and such. These leaders will nail kids for even saying, 'Merry Christmas.' 

Not much holiday spirit there. Or tolerance. I've observed it first hand towards kids and staff. I was told even playing Handel's Messiah was against the separation of church and state. So, I chose to play it anyway, thinking you have to take a stand sometimes. Might as well be Handel. No problems arose. No lawsuits.

It is our obligation as a democracy to extend tolerance to all. Even the annoying, I-Am-The-Only-Way Jesus, and his followers.

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Analyzing the Data

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is Analyzing the Data:   1. Three Ways Student Data Can Inform Your Teaching http://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-student-data-inform-teaching-rebecca...

Teaching Is Analyzing the Data

 

1. Three Ways Student Data Can Inform Your Teaching

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-student-data-inform-teaching-rebecca-alber 

2. How A First Year Teacher Uses Data to Drive Instruction

http://www.mbae.org/how-i-use-data-to-drive-instruction/ 

3. One Teacher Talks About Using Data to Drive Instruction in the Classroom 

http://usingdata.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/819/ 

4. By the Numbers - How Data Use Is Transforming the Classroomhttp://educationnorthwest.org/resource/1642

5.  Improving Teaching and Learning with Data-Based Decisions:
Asking the Right Questions and Acting on the Answers

http://santacruzmonterey.edleadersforequityandexcellence.com/docs/f09/improving_teaching_and_learning_with_databased_decisions.pdf 

6. Using Data to Plan Differentiated Instruction

 http://reports.success-ode-state-oh-us.info/newDevelopment/section4/1B.html

7.  5 Innovative Ways to Differentiate Instruction as Witnessed During My Visit to the School of One 

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/5-innovative-ways-to-differentiate.html 

 

MzTeachuh: Thanksgiving Art

MzTeachuh: Thanksgiving Art: Happy Thanksgiving by Megan Miller Pilgrims N C Wyeth Norman Rockwell Cousin Reginald Catches the Thanksgiving Turkey Home F...

Thanksgiving Art

Happy Thanksgiving by Megan Miller

Pilgrims N C Wyeth

Norman Rockwell
Cousin Reginald Catches the Thanksgiving Turkey

Home For Thanksgiving by Medana Gabbard

Artist unknown

Macy's Parade by Kathy Jakobsen

John Currin – Thanksgiving, 2003

Micahael Andryc, The Weird Thanksgiving

MzTeachuh: Empowering Kids to Kindness

MzTeachuh: Empowering Kids to Kindness: Teaching Kindness: More Than a Random Act http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-kindness-the-kind-campaign-lisa-dabbs   Why Teachin...

Empowering Kids to Kindness

Teaching Kindness: More Than a Random Act

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-kindness-the-kind-campaign-lisa-dabbs 

Why Teaching Kindness in Schools Is Essential to Reduce Bullying

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-kindness-essential-reduce-bullying-lisa-currie 

The Golden Rule Across Cultures (World Religions Series)

http://kidworldcitizen.org/2014/05/20/world-religions-golden-rule-across-cultures/ 

Help Others

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/help-others 

GUIDE TO IMPLEMENTING PAY IT FORWARD DAY IN SCHOOLS

http://payitforwardday.com/get-involved/schools-universities/sample-lesson-plans/ 

Lessons and Activities for Teaching Respect

Random Acts of Kindness: How can our lesson plans make a difference in your classroom?

http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/lesson-plans-pilot-program 

Teaching Kindness

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/be-kind

Teaching Is...Soothing the Soul (SEL) 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/08/teaching-issoothing-soul-sel.html?spref=bl 

  Maybe It’s Time To Stop Talking About Bullying, And Talk Kindness Instead

http://www.teachthought.com/culture/maybe-time-stop-talking-bullying-talk-kindness-instead/