It's Great To Be Daddy's Girl (s)

President Barack Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia.

Malia and Sasha Obama Through the Years

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos/malia-sasha-obama-vacation-biking-16716893/image-44771444

Father's Day is June 21.

Black History Month: My Brother's Keeper

History is happening right now.

My Brother's Keeper
http://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper

“That’s what ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ is all about. Helping more of our young people stay on track. Providing the support they need to think more broadly about their future. Building on what works – when it works, in those critical life-changing moments.”
- President Barack Obama, February 27, 2014


My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge
In September 2014, President Obama issued a challenge to cities, towns, counties and tribes across the country to become “MBK Communities.” This challenge represents a call to action for all members of our communities, and mayors in particular, as they often sit at the intersection of many of the vital forces and structural components needed to enact sustainable change through policy, programs, and partnerships.
The MBK Community Challenge encourages communities (cities, rural municipalities, and tribal nations) to implement a coherent cradle-to-college-and-career strategy for improving the life outcomes of all young people to ensure that they can reach their full potential, regardless of who they are, where they come from, or the circumstances into which they are born.
The six goals of the Challenge are:

• Ensuring all children enter school cognitively, physically, socially and emotionally ready
• Ensuring all children read at grade level by 3rd grade
• Ensuring all youth graduate from high school
• Ensuring all youth complete post-secondary education or training
• Ensuring all youth out of school are employed
• Ensuring all youth remain safe from violent crime

Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts for Easter

Now that's the size candy I'm talking about.

Confession is good for the soul, it is said. And I confess I do love the 'chocolate' holiday season from
Halloween to Christmas to Valentine's Day to Easter. Cadbury has the queen of treats, the Creme Egg, appearing only at Easter. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I'm not alone. It is just too much fun decorating baskets with that eternal Easter grass (it never goes away, it's like glitter), and coloring the eggs the old fashioned way with vinegar, etc. The images of bunnies and chicks and ducklings are cute, even better than Santa who has a list and checks it twice. No unconditional love from him! And this is an outside sport, temps in the 70s, with light breezes, egg hunting, spring clothes and bonnets, blooming Easter Lilies. Well, at least here in SoCal.

Here's an article about how to dress your kid for Easter. The tradition began as  symbolic of a new spiritual start. Now what is it?
http://www.womanaroundtown.com/sections/shopping-around/what-the-well-dressed-child-wears-to-an-easter-egg-hunt

I did see a puddy tat!

Not one of Woodstock's, I'm guessing.

The secularization of this holiday makes it acceptable to everyone. Afterall, anthropologists say that all peoples celebrated the return of spring after the difficulties of winter.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/march-equinox-traditions.html

Coaxing a smile from Eeyore.

Familiar pop-culture figures dominate all holidays now, and this is a word that used to mean 'holy-day.' Have we lost anything by this transformation?  Is the concept of the sacred now forbidden? Teachers carefully appreciate the separation of church and state in a public school. But everywhere?

Easter is the most secularized of the holidays in the USA, and ironically, the most important for Christians acknowledging the death and resurrection of Jesus. Question: how can we honor the rights of all and permit our students to express their beliefs in public and private?

This is not a student of mine. He is a model.

Here in SoCal this year it has become a fashion statement for middle school boys to wear rosaries as necklaces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary

 And not only the latino kids. I've asked some of them what it means to them; sometimes they say it means they are Mexican, sometimes they tell me it is about their faith. Some say they just think it looks cool. So far, this practice has not been considered a dress code violation. In other places, it is dress code.

 Neb. School's Ban on Rosary-Style Necklace Touches on Free Speech Issues, Christian News http://www.christianpost.com/news/neb-schools-ban-on-rosary-style-necklace-touches-on-free-speech-issues-57228/

So why so serious, MzTeachuh, and where are the silly Garfield jokes? OK, here we go.

What do you need if your Cadbury Creme Eggs suddenly disappear?

You need an eggsplanation.

How is the Easter Bunny like Kobe Bryant?

They're both famous for stuffing baskets.



Did you hear the one about the fifty-pound jelly bean?

It was pretty hard to swallow

The President and the Easter Egg

Why do we paint Easter eggs?

Because it is too hard to wallpaper them.


What does the White House do when there are too many undiscovered Easter eggs on the South Lawn?

Call an eggsterminator.



I am a huge fan of the Cadbury Creme Egg Bunny, and was charmed when I found one I could buy as an Easter Bunny. A stuffed one that cackles like a chicken, not a real one.

So, enjoy these animal actors. Why is there no Emmy or Oscar for animal actors?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oamnDsxFLyg&feature=related

Black History Month: My Brother's Keeper

History is happening right now.

My Brother's Keeper
http://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper

“That’s what ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ is all about. Helping more of our young people stay on track. Providing the support they need to think more broadly about their future. Building on what works – when it works, in those critical life-changing moments.”
- President Barack Obama, February 27, 2014


My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge
In September 2014, President Obama issued a challenge to cities, towns, counties and tribes across the country to become “MBK Communities.” This challenge represents a call to action for all members of our communities, and mayors in particular, as they often sit at the intersection of many of the vital forces and structural components needed to enact sustainable change through policy, programs, and partnerships.
The MBK Community Challenge encourages communities (cities, rural municipalities, and tribal nations) to implement a coherent cradle-to-college-and-career strategy for improving the life outcomes of all young people to ensure that they can reach their full potential, regardless of who they are, where they come from, or the circumstances into which they are born.
The six goals of the Challenge are:

• Ensuring all children enter school cognitively, physically, socially and emotionally ready
• Ensuring all children read at grade level by 3rd grade
• Ensuring all youth graduate from high school
• Ensuring all youth complete post-secondary education or training
• Ensuring all youth out of school are employed
• Ensuring all youth remain safe from violent crime

Educational Links 12/9/14

ADHD Diagnosis: Your Step-by-Step Guide

 http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/5543.html

The Importance of Straight Talk

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/business/corner-office-the-importance-of-straight-talk.html?ref=education&_r=1 

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/12/09/classroom-instruction-resources-of-the-week-11/ 

Parent program helps kids’ reading, study says

http://edsource.org/2014/parent-program-helps-kids-reading-study-says/71038?utm_source=Erin%27s+daily+email+Dec.+8%2C+2014&utm_campaign=Daily_10-17-14&utm_medium=email#.VIaXKMm87Ix 

The Power of Poetry in the Classroom

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/12/03/13zegers.h34.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

ADHD Guide to the Holidays

http://www.additudemag.com/resource-center/adhd-holiday-guide.html 

If Obama Spends an Hour Coding, So Can You

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-12-08-if-obama-spends-an-hour-coding-so-can-you 

 

Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program http://www.wired.com/2014/12/obama-becomes-first-president-write-computer-program/

Ed Tech and STEM Monday Review 12/1/14

Obama: We Need to 'Yank Our Schools into the 21st Century'

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2014/11/obama-we-need-yank-our-schools-21st-century

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

20+ UK Twitter Users Educators Should Follow

http://www.edudemic.com/20-uk-twitter-users-educators-follow/

 

6 apps to build algebra skills

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/11/26/apps-algebra-skills-022/

Delivering Differentiated Instruction in Your Classroom

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

The Top 10 iPad Apps for Special Education

http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/06/30/the-top-10-ipad-apps-for-special-education.aspx

Assistive Technology: Resource Roundup

http://www.edutopia.org/article/assistive-technology-resources

Teachable Moment: 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act and the Summer of Freedom

President Lyndon Johnson gives Dr. Martin Luther King the pen he used to signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Our democracy has a summer of freedom every year. The dynamic struggles of generation after generation to grow and maintain essential definitions of the rights and privileges of  all Americans will never end. But 1964 was a nuclear detonation of fervor, focus and courage. The nation participated in the most important declaration of democracy in history, even more so than July 4, 1776. This declaration came from the minds and souls of the people of all demographics for the purpose of showing the world and all of history who America truly is.  A declaration of democracy certainly not to avoid taxes, but to solidify the rights of citizenship for Americans in 1964 and the future. The legislation in the year 1964 culminated and also created the efforts previous and imminent for not just African Americans, but for women, the disabled and special needs population and all future citizens who join the American endeavor. Folks from all walks of life laid their lives and fortunes on the line, including President Lyndon Johnson, a long time Civil Rights advocate, who fully realized the southern branch of his party would abandon him. Young northerners of all religions and races came south, some to lose their lives to racism, to participate in the events of democracy. Let's honor these and learn from them as our democratic opportunities for the Summer of 2014 are here. Teach a child, comment on articles on the internet, vote, go to town meetings, volunteer. You are free, you are American. You make a difference.

Civil Rights Act hits 50th anniversary

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/civil-rights-act-hits-50th-anniversary-article-1.1853142 

John Lewis and President Obama.

Statement by the President on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/02/statement-president-50th-anniversary-civil-rights-act-1964 

Congress marks 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/24/civil-rights-act-anniversary/11332243/ 

Many doubt 1964 Civil Rights Act could pass today

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/08/politics/lbj-civil-rights-act-50th-anniversary/ 

Five living presidents meet to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 marks 50th anniversary

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/civil-rights-act-of-1964-marks-50th-anniversary/

 NOLA marks 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://www.fox8live.com/story/25930198/nola-marks-50th-anniversary-of-civil-rights-act-of-1964 

  The 59th Anniversary Mississippi Freedom Summer

http://freedom50.org/

Freedom Summer veterans say rights fight defined themhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/27/freedom-summer-50th-civil-rights/11566365/

‘Freedom Summer’ is not just black history. It is an ongoing American story in black and white – for all of us

 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/30/freedom-summer-black-history-america

Retracing a summer of terror -- and freedom

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/us/freedom-summer-anniversary-documentary/ 

Q&A: Widow of Murdered Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Moves Beyond Hatredhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140625-myrlie-evers-widow-medgar-evers-civil-rights-history/?utm_source=GooglePlus&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_gp20140625news-civlmedgar&utm_campaign=Content

Remembering ‘Freedom Summer,’ the civil rights effort that changed America 50 years ago

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/recalling-freedom-summer-civil-rights-campaign-changed-america-50-years-ago/ 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream 1963  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

 

Teachable Moment: Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary

 

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library  and Museum

http://www.youtube.com/user/PresLincolnMuseum

President Obama Will Be Missed At Gettysburg Address Commemoration

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-nsc-president-obama-will-be-missed-at-gettysburg-20131031,0,763148.story 

Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address

http://www.gettysburgcivilwar150.com/pages/lincoln__the_gettysburg_address.aspx 

Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary 

http://www.illinois.gov/alplm/GettysburgAddress150/Pages/default.aspx 

Gettysburg National Military Park-Schedule Of Events

http://www.nps.gov/gett/planyourvisit/events.htm 

Events planned for Gettysburg Address anniversary

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/11/02/events-planned-for-gettysburg-address-anniversary/a9azkwe/ 

Gettysburg readies for 150th anniversary of battle

 http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Gettysburg-readies-for-150th-anniversary-of-battle-4575614.php

Studying the Battle of Gettysburg, we are stunned by the stubborn hubris of the generals in the face of incomprehensible death. It was such from the beginning of this war, and would continue through to the brutal end. 

 

The Battle of Gettysburg: A Lesson Plan for Middle School History

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1441644043303616609#editor/target=post;postID=2538799774422277699 

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/17525/main.htm 

Gettysburg Battle History

http://www.visit-gettysburg.com/gettysburg-battle-history.html 

Orvis Sweet, of Vermont.

Survived Gettysburg, died 10 months later.

My mother's family has more than one Civil War hero. This is a photo of Orvis Sweet, my great- grandmother's older brother from Vermont, who chose to serve and survived all the major battles, such as Antietam and Gettysburg, to perish in the Second Battle of the Wilderness.  His surviving siblings, from poor farmers of Vermont and upstate New York, later moved out West and became teachers, Congressmen, and ambassadors. 

My father's people from Arkansas, from poor farmers, also, received educations and became teachers and lawyers within one generation. A 'new birth of freedom' for poor white folks, too.

The Civil War: Gettysburg (by Ken Burns)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsszvmuZBR4

The entire series is very worth watching. You could find it on Netflix, for sure. Maybe Youtube, in sections. 

Joshua Chamberlain: Civil War Hero

http://articles.usa-people-search.com/content-joshua-chamberlain-civil-war-hero.aspx 

This scene summarizes the noble cause as viewed by the North. The very North, Maine to be exact. The entire movie does give insight into the motives of both sides in this war.

 2 Scenes from the movie: Gettysburg 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw8Tm550SJ0 

In the movie, Gettyburg, Martin Sheen plays Robert E. Lee. As Lee, Sheen make the statement, "I am a Virginian." Which pretty summarize the South's attitude. 

Lincoln's Gettyburg Address, which dedicated the battle region as a cemetary, occurred in November, 1863. This year's commemoration will include a new documentary by Ken Burns.

 Ken Burns' 'measure of devotion' for Gettysburg Address

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/02/ken-burns-gettysburg-address-documentary-vermont/2124081/ 

 

 At the American Rhetoric site you can choose an actor to deliver the Gettysburg address. I prefer Sam Waterston, but I wish we had one with Daniel Day-Lewis speaking it.

The Gettysburg Address

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gettysburgaddress.htm

Lincoln's First Draft of the Gettysburg Address.

Teachable Moment: The 7 Coolest Presidents

This is the writer's opinion (from NPR) and choices, but it still is kind of fun at this moment when emotions are very high entering the last six weeks of the election campaign just to relax for a minute.

Shades, and is that a Blackberry?

The 7 Coolest Presidents In American History

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/06/160679959/the-7-coolest-presidents-in-american-history  

I am not putting these pics in the order that the writer did; you'll have to read the article. 

President Obama plays basketball, too.

Yep, that's a saxophone.

 

 

Must've beeen the 'stach

President Bill Clinton was the first candidate to go on late night television. Now it is common. At the time (1992), it was considered cool.

 

Teddy Roosevelt was so cool on so many levels, but the 'stache must have really been it.

First TV debates--Kennedy on the left.

 

 

 John F. Kennedy was young, charismatic and many thought handsome like a movie star; especially when standing next to Nixon, who probably would have won the election if not for television.

He chopped his own wood, too.

 

 

 Reagan had actually been a movie star before being elected. It is said he could put anyone at ease in his presence; and had a good sense of humor. The Irish gift of gab.

Thomas Jefferson, you charming fellow.

Jefferson brought ice cream, republicanism, and the democratic style handshakes to the White House, which, apparently, Americans thought all that very cool after stuffed shirts like Adams and Washington. And, from that painting, I'm thinking blue hair wasn't for old ladies at that time.

FDR with friends.

 

And another Roosevelt. The writer has other reasons than I do for including him. To overcome debilitating polio and encourage the world through a major economic depression and then WWII--wow, that's quite a man. And he had to deal with Churchill and Stalin as allies, Hitler as an enemy. That's amazing; and he says, "You have nothing to fear but fear itself." On December 7, be sure to listen to the recording of his address to Congress on American Rhetoric.

The writer had a runner-up, which I now include because this is such a great picture. George Bush.

President George W. Bush dances with members of the KanKouran West African Dance Company during a Rose Garden event to mark Malaria Awareness Day at the White House on April 25, 2007.

Politics, Test Scores and Beautiful Schools Tweets of the Day 8 22 12

 I am not a political person, so to be equitable, here's criticism of both political sides concerning education.

Fill-in your own cause.

1. Obama: Romney, Ryan Cuts 'Unfair' To Kids, Would Cripple Schools 

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/obama-romney-ryan-cuts-un_n_1822666.html?utm_hp_ref=education&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

2. School officials, teachers unions scrutinize Obama's divisive education agenda

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/16/AR2011021602142.html 

 While we're at it, let's bash George Bush...we already did Obama and Romney.

3. No Child Left Behind Worsened Education, 48 Percent Of Americans 'Very Familiar' With The Law Say In Gallup Poll 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/no-child-left-behind-wors_n_1819877.html?utm_hp_ref=education&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 

4. Every reading strategy is worth looking at.

Jigsaws: A Strategy for Understanding Texts

Grades 6-8, ELA, Reading 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/jigsaw-method 

5. Will we flip all classes?

Private Technology Will Fix Education Where Tapped Out Governments Cannot

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/08/20/private-technology-will-fix-education-where-tapped-out-governments-cannot/ 

 I want to teach here!

6. The Most Beautiful and Imaginative Public Schools in the World

May be time to teach in France.

http://www.flavorwire.com/320057/the-most-beautiful-and-imaginative-public-schools-in-the-world?all=1 

Giving kids a clue about what college is like.

7. ACT Results Show 60 Percent Of 2012 High School Graduates Are At Risk Of Struggling In College, Career

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/act-results-show-60-perce_n_1819557.html?1345639375&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

8.  Student Misconceptions About College Life Can Undermine Success

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/college_bound/2012/08/student_misconceptions_about_college_life_add_to_challenge.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2 

 

 

Tweets of the Week: Headstart Evaluations

No cartoon could be as cute as the kids really are.

The Headstart program began through federal funding during the Johnson administration in 1965 (The War on Poverty), to assist low income kids that are under five years old.

The Obama administration (as with others in the past) are seeking to reduce the program's expense by proposing criteria that would close the doors of some of the local programs.

 http://www.npr.org/2012/04/03/149687163/under-scrutiny-some-head-start-programs-in-limbo

I know its unfair of me to put up such adorable pics of the kids....

President Obama has been working on evaluation of 'deficient' sites that may end in closing some sites.

http://swampland.time.com/2011/11/09/why-obamas-plan-to-fix-head-start-is-not-enough/

...when the President's plan may close some Headstart sites.

 Usually politicians don't get so up close and personal with citizens (especially little ones) from whom his administration may take away services. 

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2011/11/09/why-obamas-plan-to-fix-head-start-is-not-enough/#ixzz1rUGl5t98

 What Is Head Start?

Head Start programs offer comprehensive services to low-income children 3 to 5 years old and their families. Specific services vary by site, but they include health care, nutrition, social services and more. More than 30 million children have participated in Head Start programs since 1965.
Health care services: Well-child care including immunizations, vision and hearing screening, dental care, screening for health or developmental problems, and health education for parents.

Breakfast is served.

Child nutrition: Meals and snacks that provide between one-half and two-thirds of a child's daily nutritional needs, depending on the length of the child's program day.
Social services for parents and families: Referrals to community services, including emergency assistance, counseling, literacy education, continuing education and employment training.

Parent at Headstart participating in RIF (Reading Is Fun.)

Early Head Start serves low-income pregnant women and children under 3 years old. Services include prenatal and postpartum care and education, home visits, parent-child activities and health and mental health services.

There has always been lots and lots of discussion about K-12 education, especially since NCLB. Now the focus is going younger.

 David Muhlhausen, a research fellow with the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, says "it's time for new thinking" when it comes to early childhood education.

Similar to the 'Race to the Top' federal money scheme, a series of grants for early childhood education would create competition for federal money, with some serious strings attached by the government concerning ways to measure the success of the programs.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/25/govt-offers-500m-state-grants-preschool/

Will the early childhood programs go through the same torture as the K-12 system is?

When money and the economy is involved, its hard to predict what will happen.

The benefits of early childhood intervention are inestimable. Social skills being a positive result.

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133629477/for-kids-self-control-factors-into-future-success

Opportunities for creativity in early childhood creates later success.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=76838288&ps=rs

Yes, sweeties, you make America happen.

In 1969, a Senate hearing about withdrawing fund from PBS invited Mr. Rogers in for a discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q

We still have PBS--so, you see--the government can do things right!

And, Mr. Rogers, we miss you. Thank you. I believe you liked me just the way I am.

Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts for Easter

Now that's the size candy I'm talking about.

Confession is good for the soul, it is said. And I confess I do love the 'chocolate' holiday season from Halloween to Christmas to Valentine's Day to Easter. Cadbury has the queen of treats, the Creme Egg, appearing only at Easter. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I'm not alone. It is just too much fun decorating baskets with that eternal Easter grass (it never goes away, it's like glitter), and coloring the eggs the old fashioned way with vinegar, etc. The images of bunnies and chicks and ducklings are cute, even better than Santa who has a list and checks it twice. No unconditional love from him! And this is an outside sport, temps in the 70s, with light breezes, egg hunting, spring clothes and bonnets, blooming Easter Lilies. Well, at least here in SoCal.

Here's an article about how to dress your kid for Easter. The tradition began as  symbolic of a new spiritual start. Now what is it?
http://www.womanaroundtown.com/sections/shopping-around/what-the-well-dressed-child-wears-to-an-easter-egg-hunt

I did see a puddy tat!

Not one of Woodstock's, I'm guessing.

The secularization of this holiday makes it acceptable to everyone. Afterall, anthropologists say that all peoples celebrated the return of spring after the difficulties of winter.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/march-equinox-traditions.html

Coaxing a smile from Eeyore.

Familiar pop-culture figures dominate all holidays now, and this is a word that used to mean 'holy-day.' Have we lost anything by this transformation?  Is the concept of the sacred now forbidden? Teachers carefully appreciate the separation of church and state in a public school. But everywhere?

Easter is the most secularized of the holidays in the USA, and ironically, the most important for Christians acknowledging the death and resurrection of Jesus. Question: how can we honor the rights of all and permit our students to express their beliefs in public and private?

This is not a student of mine. He is a model.

Here in SoCal this year it has become a fashion statement for middle school boys to wear rosaries as necklaces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary

 And not only the latino kids. I've asked some of them what it means to them; sometimes they say it means they are Mexican, sometimes they tell me it is about their faith. Some say they just think it looks cool. So far, this practice has not been considered a dress code violation. In other places, it is dress code.

 Neb. School's Ban on Rosary-Style Necklace Touches on Free Speech Issues, Christian News http://www.christianpost.com/news/neb-schools-ban-on-rosary-style-necklace-touches-on-free-speech-issues-57228/

So why so serious, MzTeachuh, and where are the silly Garfield jokes? OK, here we go.

What do you need if your Cadbury Creme Eggs suddenly disappear?

You need an eggsplanation.

How is the Easter Bunny like Kobe Bryant?

They're both famous for stuffing baskets.



Did you hear the one about the fifty-pound jelly bean?

It was pretty hard to swallow

The President and the Easter Egg

Why do we paint Easter eggs?

Because it is too hard to wallpaper them.


What does the White House do when there are too many undiscovered Easter eggs on the South Lawn?

Call an eggsterminator.



I am a huge fan of the Cadbury Creme Egg Bunny, and was charmed when I found one I could buy as an Easter Bunny. A stuffed one that cackles like a chicken, not a real one.

So, enjoy these animal actors. Why is there no Emmy or Oscar for animal actors?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oamnDsxFLyg&feature=related