Saturday, July 4, 2015
MzTeachuh: What Fools These Mortals Be
MzTeachuh: What Fools These Mortals Be: Midsummer Night's Dream, P.D. White Looks like Puck's been working out on the stairstep machine. Overture from A Midsummer Ni...
What Fools These Mortals Be
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| Midsummer Night's Dream, P.D. White |
Overture from A Midsummer Night's Dream--Felix Mendelssohn was only 17 when he composed this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3RX8FfOyxg&feature=related
Again, thank you William.
MzTeachuh: Educational Links 7/5/15
MzTeachuh: Educational Links 7/5/15: More educators embrace social and emotional learning, national survey says http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/more-educators-em...
Educational Links 7/5/15
More educators embrace social and emotional learning, national survey says
http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/more-educators-embrace-social-and-emotional-learning-national-survey-says/
Social and Emotional Learning
http://www.edutopia.org/social-emotional-learning
Make the Most of Your Summer Planning for Next School Year
http://lessonplanspage.com/make-the-most-of-your-summer-planning-for-next-school-year/
Schools leave poor white families 'abandoned' – weekly news review
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/jul/03/schools-leave-poor-white-families-abandoned-weekly-news-review
What NOT to Say to the Parent of an ADHD Child
http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/98/slide-1.html
The Teacher’s Guides To Technology And Learning
http://www.edudemic.com/guides/
Why We Call Them Learning and Attention Issues
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/getting-started/what-you-need-to-know/why-we-call-them-learning-and-attention-issues
Serious Play School
https://edtechdigest.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/serious-play-school/
Common Core or Something Else? A Map of State Academic Standards
http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/map-states-academic-standards-common-core-or.html
MzTeachuh: America the Beautiful: Rosie the Riveter
MzTeachuh: America the Beautiful: Rosie the Riveter: " We Can Do It! " by J. Howard Miller Who knows where the misinformation began that women were not intelligent, capable or re...
America the Beautiful: Rosie the Riveter
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| "We Can Do It!" by J. Howard Miller |
The
image of Rose the Riveter is just the girl next door to most of us,
though the poster was designed during World War II to validate women
joining the workplace as young men joined the war. My mom, aunt, and
grandmother worked as telephone operators rather than in factories, but
that was still rather progressive. My father's sister, Aunt Maxine,
joined the WAVES, as he joined the Navy.
Rosie the Riveterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter
Rosie even had music. This includes shots of the assembly lines and aircraft.
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| Maj. Shawna R. Kimbre, USAF |
News: Inspiring Change: Air Force female mavericks
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/121405/inspiring-change-air-force-female-mavericks#.VP9LZuHQMo0
MzTeachuh: Lincoln and the Fourth of July and the Gettysburg...
MzTeachuh: Lincoln and the Fourth of July and the Gettysburg...: Only Lincoln photo after the Gettysburg Address. Abe Lincoln made more than one speech about the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fough...
Lincoln and the Fourth of July and the Gettysburg Address
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| Only Lincoln photo after the Gettysburg Address. |
1,2,and 3 in the year 1863. The battle ended on July 4, 1863. One year later, Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on the field of battle in Pennsylvania, November 19, 1864.
Lincoln's background made him the ultimate outsider in Washington; he
was from the pioneer West, Illinois. Surely not a person of privilege or
social connections. His grandfather had immigrated to Pennsylvania from
England around 1740, then after the Revolutionary War the Lincolns
moved through the Cumberland Gap (as did my ancestors, one being a
German immigrant Jacob Link, also from Pennsylvania.) Abraham was born
in Kentucky, where they settled briefly (as did Jacob Link) but the
Lincolns moved to Indiana, then Illinois. My Links moved to St. Louis,
Missouri, around the time Lewis and Clark left to explore.
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| Lincoln the Illinois lawyer 1846 |
The Lincolns were really poor, but with the stubbornness of the pioneer,
they survived and prospered until Abraham was an up-and-coming lawyer.
At this time in US history, the West was wide open. The Civil War was
destined to explode over greed (the South wanting to expand the
plantation system into the West) and the abolitionists' moral indignity
over slavery.
So here we are on the Fourth of July. It is impossible to adequately
described the horrors of the Civil War. Here are Lincoln's public
comments few days after the Battle of Gettysburg, on July 7, 1863. One
year later, Lincoln will give the Gettysburg Address. You can see this
speech as a precurser to the profound, eloquent speech that Lincoln
cogitated over for a year.
"On July 7th 1863, President Lincoln delivered an
impromptu Independence Day address to a group of hundreds who gathered
outside the White House in celebration of the July 4th victory at
Vicksburg. They caught Lincoln off-guard sometime past 8pm, yet he
nonetheless stepped outside and delivered this address:
Fellow-citizens: I am very glad to see you to-night. But yet I will not say I thank you for this call. But I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called. [Cheers.]
How long ago is it? Eighty odd years since, upon the Fourth day of July, for the first time in the world, a union body of representatives was assembled to declare as a self-evident truth that all men were created equal. [Cheers.]
I think in not naming a single man, Lincoln honored all of them. With that sentiment in mind, I post his remarks for all those brave men and women fighting for our nation today, and everyday."That was the birthday of the United States of America. Since then the fourth day of July has had several very peculiar recognitions. The two most distinguished men who framed and supported that paper, including the particular declaration I have mentioned, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the one having framed it, and the other sustained it most ably in debate, the only two of the fifty-five or fifty-six who signed it, I believe, who were ever President of the United States, precisely fifty years after they put their hands to that paper it pleased the Almighty God to take away from this stage of action on the Fourth of July. This extraordinary coincidence we can understand to be a dispensation of the Almighty Ruler of Events.Another of our Presidents, five years afterwards, was called from this stage of existence on the same day of the month, and now on this Fourth of July just past, when a gigantic rebellion has risen in the land, precisely at the bottom of which is an effort to overthrow that principle "that all men are created equal," we have a surrender of one of their most powerful positions and powerful armies forced upon them on that very day. [Cheers.]And I see in the succession of battles in Pennsylvania, which continued three days, so rapidly following each other as to be justly called one great battle, fought on the first, second and third of July; on the fourth the enemies of the declaration that all men are created equal had to turn tail and run. [Laughter and applause.]Gentlemen, this is a glorious theme and a glorious occasion for a speech, but I am not prepared to make one worthy of the theme and worthy of the occasion. [Cries of "go on," and applause.] I would like to speak in all praise that is due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the Union and liberties of this country from the beginning of this war, not on occasions of success, but upon the more trying occasions of the want of success. I say I would like to speak in praise of these men, particularizing their deeds, but I am unprepared. I should dislike to mention the name of a single officer, lest in doing so I wrong some other one whose name may not occur to me. [Cheers.]Recent events bring up certain names, gallantly prominent, but I do not want to particularly name them at the expense of others, who are as justly entitled to our gratitude as they. I therefore do not upon this occasion name a single man. And now I have said about as much as I ought to say in this impromptu manner, and if you please, I'll take the music. [Tremendous cheering, and calls for the President to reappear.]
[Gregory S. McNeal]
This is the Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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| Lincoln is also among the honored dead. |
Friday, July 3, 2015
MzTeachuh: Cool Off, Man!
MzTeachuh: Cool Off, Man!: You need ice cubes for your tea, eh mate? New, innovative music with a violinist who dances. The coolest for a hot summer's day. ...
Cool Off, Man!
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| You need ice cubes for your tea, eh mate? |
New, innovative music with a violinist who dances. The coolest for a hot summer's day.
Dubstep Violin- Lindsey Stirling- Crystallize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI
MzTeachuh: Mom, I'm Bored--What Can I Do?
MzTeachuh: Mom, I'm Bored--What Can I Do?: 1. Reading Quest http://www.education.com/slideshow/reading-quest/rock-alphabet/?cid=80. 2. Summer Science Projects http://www.ho...
Mom, I'm Bored--What Can I Do?
1. Reading Quest
http://www.education.com/slideshow/reading-quest/rock-alphabet/?cid=80.
2. Summer Science Projects
http://www.hometrainingtools.com/summer-science-projects/a/1406/
3. Summer Games
http://spoonful.com/summer/summer-games
4. Summer Stargazing
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/science-nature-activities/summer-stargazing
5. International Space Station Spot The Stationhttp://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/#.UcMpZ5yXJWo
6. 5 Ways to Prevent Idle Kids This Summer
7. Summer Reading Recommendations 2013
http://www.hbook.com/2013/05/choosing-books/recommended-books/summer-reading-2013/?utm_source=ReadingRockets.org&utm_medium=Twitter
MzTeachuh: Educational Links 7/4/15
MzTeachuh: Educational Links 7/4/15: Strengthening Parent Partnerships http://www.edutopia.org/blog/strengthening-parent-partnerships-shira-loewenstein A leader’s guide...
Educational Links 7/4/15
Strengthening Parent Partnerships
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/strengthening-parent-partnerships-shira-loewenstein
A leader’s guide to technology implementations
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/07/02/technology-leadership-success-487/
Dyslexia: Strategies You Can Try at Home
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/dyslexia-strategies-you-can-try-at-home
Lower-income students to top colleges: A little help here!
http://hechingerreport.org/lower-income-students-to-top-colleges-a-little-help-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HechingerReport+%28Hechinger+Report%29
8 Sensory-Motor Benefits of Swimming
http://special-ism.com/8-sensory-motor-benefits-of-swimming/
The Power of Learning Through Music
http://www.bamradionetwork.com/discovery-educator-network-radio/1909-the-power-of-learning-through-music
Your Advocacy Game Plan – Week 1
Your Advocacy Game Plane Week 1http://www.wrightslaw.com/blog/?p=12821&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheWrightslawWay+%28The+Wrightslaw+Way%29
Will States Really Reduce Testing?
http://dianeravitch.net/2015/07/03/will-states-really-reduce-testing/
MzTeachuh: What Happens When You Help A Little Kid?
MzTeachuh: What Happens When You Help A Little Kid?: George Washington Carver (January 1864– January 5, 1943) You may help another George Washington Carver work in God's Little Worksho...
What Happens When You Help A Little Kid?
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| George Washington Carver (January 1864– January 5, 1943) |
Here are some links to the life of George Washington Carver:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
2. National Park Services George Washington Carver National Monument Missouri
http://www.nps.gov/gwca/index.htm
A Pocketful of Goobers: A Story About George Washington Carver
by Barbara Mitchell
A Pocketful of Goobers: A Story About George Washington Carver
MzTeachuh: Happy Birthday, Rube Goldberg
MzTeachuh: Happy Birthday, Rube Goldberg: Why KISS (keep it simple stupid) when you can KICS (keep it complicate, smartie)? Rube Goldberg's birthday is July 4.. He was a real...
Happy Birthday, Rube Goldberg
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| Why KISS (keep it simple stupid) when you can KICS (keep it complicate, smartie)? |
Kids are also fascinated with these diagrams, and its fun to have them create their own. It's the cause and effect thing, like the Acme Products in Looney Tunes. Even musicians are interested, hence the following video with over 36 million hits.
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w&feature=player_embedded
Want to know know more about Rube Goldberg who was born on the fourth?
An article on the NPR site.
When It Comes To Invention, This Guy Was No Rube
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/04/156203905/when-it-comes-to-invention-this-guy-was-no-rube
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| Rube Goldberg (1883-1870) |
And a biography of the clever lad, from his own website.
http://www.rubegoldberg.com/?page=bio
MzTeachuh: The Summer Wind
MzTeachuh: The Summer Wind: Tree in the Wind, Van Gogh Sirocco? çƒé£Ž--首页? Santa Ana? (SoCal reference to hot winds.) Frank Sinatra -Summer Wind (1966)Arrangem...
The Summer Wind
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| Tree in the Wind, Van Gogh |
Frank Sinatra -Summer Wind (1966)Arrangement by Nelson Riddle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8cBIbxDaY&feature=related
The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind
Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by
The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
Then softer than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind
The autumn wind and the winter winds, they have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days, they go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the summer wind
The summer wind
Warm summer wind
Mmm, the summer wind
MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 7/3/115
MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 7/3/115: All American Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/06/all-american-cheesy-jokes-and-serious.html ...
MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 7/3/115
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/06/all-american-cheesy-jokes-and-serious.html
Tonight at Sunset: See the Star of Bethlehem
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/06/star-light-star-bright-tuesday-63015.html
Update! Educational Link 6/20/15 http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/06/update-educational-links-63015.html
Are You Your School's Grumpy Cat?
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2014/12/are-you-your-schools-grumpy-cat.html
Summer Activity: How Does Your Garden Taste?
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/06/summer-activity-how-does-your-garden.html
Educational Links 6/28/15
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/06/educational-links-62815.html
Teaching Is Expecting Good Results from Your Hard Work
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/07/teaching-is-expecting-good-results-from.html
Tia Melanie's Cheesy Mexican Omelet http://auntiemelanie.blogspot.com/2012/11/tia-melanies-cheesy-mexican-omelet.html
Kids and the Garden: Projects for Summer
http://mztnature.blogspot.com/2015/05/kids-and-garden-projects-for-summer.html?spref=bl
Nocturne Just Before Dawn
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/07/nocturne-just-before-dawn.html
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
MzTeachuh: Educational Links 7/3/15
MzTeachuh: Educational Links 7/3/15: A Phys Ed Teacher Battles Tight Budgets And Childhood Obesity http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/07/01/412288186/a-phys-ed-teacher-bat...
Educational Links 7/3/15
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/07/01/412288186/a-phys-ed-teacher-battles-tight-budgets-and-childhood-obesity
Instructional strategies
https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies
Forecasting K-12 Edtech Adoption, 2015 Edition
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-06-30-forecasting-k-12-edtech-adoption-2015-edition
BBC News: Schools face new legal duties to tackle extremism
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-33328377
We're All Teaching the Common Core Math Standards
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-common-core-math-standards-alice-keeler?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29
Can Peer Accountability Groups Help Students Achieve Their Goals?
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/02/can-peer-groups-help-students-achieve-their-goals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29
Common Core: Oregon students smash expectations in reading, writing
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2015/07/common_core_test_scores_oregon.html
Ohio dumps the PARCC Common Core tests after woeful first year
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/06/ohio_dumps_the_parcc_common_core_tests_after_woeful_first_year.html
State releases a first look at Common Core test results
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/07/01/3877580_state-releases-a-first-look-at.html?rh=1
MzTeachuh: Free Cool Websites For Kids
MzTeachuh: Free Cool Websites For Kids: Oh, where shall we begin? 10 Best Educational Websites for Kids (that are free!) http://www.parenting.com/blogs/mom-congr...
Free Cool Websites For Kids
Oh, where shall we begin?
10 Best Educational Websites for Kids (that are free!)
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| http://www.whyville.net/smmk/nice |
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| http://kids.yahoo.com/
Oh, where shall we begin?
10 Best Educational Websites for Kids (that are free!)
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MzTeachuh: Well Rounded Summer Resources: Reading, Art, STEM...
MzTeachuh: Well Rounded Summer Resources: Reading, Art, STEM...: Parks and Recreation Centers have great outdoor activities, too. With a school break, there is time to read, do arts and crafts, h...
Well Rounded Summer Resources: Reading, Art, STEM, Nature
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| Parks and Recreation Centers have great outdoor activities, too. |
With
a school break, there is time to read, do arts and crafts, hang around
outside checking out nature--summertime, what a great gift. (And just
for a little while of relaxing math, don't forget
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| http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ |
Backyard Birding
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/
Nature Activities & Nature Experiments
http://www.education.com/activity/nature-activities/
eButterflyhttp://www.e-butterfly.org/contents/?portal=ebutterfly
Bumble Bee Watch
Project Budburst
Community Collaborative Rain , Hail, and Snow
eBird
Outdoor Activities:Taking Science Outside
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/outdoor-activitiestaking-science-outside
Birding with Children
http://www.birdwatching.com/tips/kids_birding.html
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| The sky is cheap entertainment. |
SUMMERTIME: ONLINE AND OUTSIDE
Kids Astronomyhttp://www.kidsastronomy.com/index.htmature-activities/
Nature Activities & Nature Experimentshttp://www.education.com/activity/nature-activities/
Community Collaborative Rain , Hail, and Snow
eBird
Outdoor Activities:Taking Science Outside
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/outdoor-activitiestaking-science-outside
SCIENCE AT HOME |
| Flowers, like these verbena in my yard, will cross-pollinate creating blended colors. How cool is that? |
Kids can also identify insects and their habitats, which is important for safety reasons. The critters become like family, and kids learn to respect their lives in the garden, rather then hunt and squish them.
Mojave lizard, eater of Black Widow Spiders. Bon appetit, dude.
Knowing native plants and birds, how to use water wisely. Kids are easily recruited from an early age to be assistant gardeners and landscapers.
Checking out the weather by looking at the sky, feeling the humidity, temperature, and the wind patterns are also safety points. Plus, chatting about the weather is just a necessary social skill globally.
And realistically, the sky is cheap entertainment.
1. Go on a Backyard Botany Hunt
2. What’s Up in the Sky this Month http://liebacklookup.com/whats-up-in-the-sky-this-month/
3. Weather Wiz Kids
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
4. Summer Science Projects
http://www.hometrainingtools.com/summer-science-projects/a/1406/
5. Summer Birding Tips
http://birding.about.com/od/birdingbasics/a/summerbirdingtips.htm
ARTS AND CRAFTS
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| I want to make some chalk! |
This site is great for little kids on up.
http://crafts.kaboose.com/holidays/seasons/summer/
This site has listed a number of other sites with links.
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| One of a kind tie dye. |
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| Got my backpack, let's go on a picnic. |
Fun sewing will teach kids about needle and thread and maybe buttons. This site has more than this one project, but this looked the cutest to me.
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/crafts-by-type/sewing-fabric-projects/sewing-projects/backpack-shirt-922871/
More sewing. Lots of choices.
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| Its a softie! |
This is just the beginning of a creative summer.
READING
This is Scholastic's program online. Looks like fun.
http://www.scholastic.com/summer/
Barnes & Noble Summer Reading
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/summer-reading/379003570
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| Best sellers for kids of the last 100 years. |
This would be worth some research. And Chuck E. Cheese, too.
A List of Summer Reading Programs for Kids That Give Free Books, Money and More
http://freebies.about.com/od/familyfreestuff/tp/summer-reading.htm
Have a Do-It-Yourself with your kids' friends. Sounds like fun to me (doh! I said it again.)
I used to have a reading party with my tutoring students at the end of the summer--we'd dress up as favorite characters. Not too original, but really cool since they kids had just fallen in love with reading for the first time.
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