Saturday, June 1, 2019

Educational Links 6/2/19


Updating Your Teaching To Something Messier


7 Reasons Your Students Dislike You


MY NEW BAM! RADIO SHOW IS ON “AVOIDING THE BIGGEST MISTAKES SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS MAKE”


How to Coach a Teacher Out


9 Activities to Help Your Child Explore Strengths and Passions


How we turned around our student tardy numbers


Personalized Professional Development


Lesson study helps teachers improve by focusing on collaboratively planning and revising a single lesson.

Friday, May 31, 2019

Educational Links 6/1/19

Teaching Strategies for Important Life Skills


Not Enough Time to Teach Social-Emotional Learning? Try These 4 Easy Steps.

20 Facts About ADHD No One Ever Tells You


Dealing With Dyslexia: 'It's Almost Like It's a Naughty Word'


Principals, teachers prioritize social-emotional skills for students


Most Students With Learning Disabilities Learn in General Ed Classrooms, but Few Teachers Feel Confident in Their Ability to Teach Them


Teaching High Schoolers How Children Learn


Enriching the health curriculum with a robust education in child development — to support future parents.

Kids' Activities For Summer (Warning: Its Gonna Be Wet)


Is that where we'll land, dad?

1. The sky tonight. And it's warm out! 
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/astroskymap/ 
2. This is a teachery type article that can also translate for families and friends. 
 

Water gun only by license.
Web-based Learning Units
Wonderful Water
 http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/angelunits/onehour/waterplay/waterlesson.html

3. It's PBS Kids again. http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/star-gazing/ 

Why does the big kid get the hose?
4.  Easy Water Activities for Kidshttp://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/easy-water-activities-for-kids.htm  
5.  Outdoor Games & Activities Using Water 
http://www.kidactivities.net/category/Games-Outside-Water.aspx  
6. Different kind of tweeting.
 The Great Backyard Bird Count is for kids!
 http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/kids  

My kind of bird watching.
 7. All Activities Issue - Nature: Bird Watchinghttp://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/all-activities-issue-nature-bird-watching  
8. Are you a joiner? How about the Junior Audobon Society?http://web4.audubon.org/educate/kids/  

Summer Activity: Keeping Butterflies, Bees and Hummingbirds Happy



This is a Checkered White Butterfly on my flowering mint today. 
Butterflies, bees and hummingbirds have similar preferences. Flowers! Annual flowers, perennial flowers, vegetable flowers, flowers on fruit trees, herb flowers--you name it.

Catering to the hummingbirds and butterflies.
Though hummingbirds do prefer trumpet-shaped red flowers, like petunias. Butterflies prefer blue flowers, like lobelia.

So we have many baskets full of both flowers hanging or in borders.

The flowers are regularly visited by generations of Anna's hummingbirds that live and nest in our yard. The mom hummingbirds use spider webs to make the nest. They nests are so tiny, a little larger than the size of  a computer key.

Baby hummingbird in our Fruitless Mulberry tree.
We get Painted Lady butterflies, Monarchs, Swallowtails, Umber Skippers and the White Cabbage pictured above I noticed this afternoon. At least, these are the butterflies I have identified. I am a novice.

Dusky Skipper

Painted Lady on Rabbit Brush, grows naturally here.






Our home is in a rural area near Mojave Narrows Regional Park, so I can't take much credit for attracting the birds, bees, and butterflies. But I try to make them happy.

I'm glad to report our bees are very active and productive.
Home
http://www.greatsunflower.org/






 I found this great site today. Maybe you would also like to participate. 







Thank you, Friend Bee, for pollinating the apricot trees. The apricots have been delicious!

This post is an excerpt from my blog:
MzTeachuh's Enjoying Cooking and Gardening http://tayloreducational.blogspot.com/ 

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Educational Links 5/31/19

The Case for More Recess
How Schools Are 'Spirit Murdering' Black and Brown Students


How to get girls into science






5 things to avoid saying to students suffering from anxiety


Here are five things I’ve heard educators say to students with anxiety that are not only unhelpful, but they are also detrimental; removing these statements from our repertoire is a healthy starting point.

Summer Bump Not Slump: Online Resources for Readers

Storyline Online 
http://www.storylineonline.net/













Online Storytime by Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/online-storytime-books-toys/379003588/





International Children’s Digital Library





ABCya!
http://abcya.com




Storynory
Storynory features a collection of original, fairytale, and classic children’s audio stories.  Students can follow along with the story as it is read to them, as the text is also included on the site.  There are also some great features available that give you the option of downloading the audio to your computer, listening to “catch phrase” explanations, translating text into different languages (especially helpful for your ELL students!), and more.