Taking the Common Core standards outside.
The Sacramento County Office of Education transformed one wall of its lobby into this chalkboard. Drawing space is available below the chalk tray as well, all the way to the floor, for smaller visitors.
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I’m still sifting through all the amazing brochures and packets that I brought home from the state California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom conference. Finals Week at school delayed me a bit, but I have finally unpacked the suitcase and put it away. Here are some of the gems I discovered in the process, […]
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Just the week before last I wrote about a food preservation curriculum the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom is creating. Last weekend my daughter and I ran into women from the University of California Master Food Preserver Program at the Elk Grove Pumpkin Festival. I haven’t thought about preserving food this much since […]
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Now that school is back in full-swing, weekend schedules are getting crowded. This past weekend I planned to attend the annual Electricity Fair in Folsom and California’s Day of Preparedness in Old Sacramento and didn’t get to either one thanks to family errands that ate up our time. I did scratch out time to sift […]
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