Tag: Student Activities

Taking the Common Core standards outside.

Doing Outdoor Ed (and Everything Else) Indoors

Doing Outdoor Ed (and Everything Else) Indoors

When this whole Coronavirus thing was just getting started our schools closed early. I had to run to the pharmacy where I encountered a bit of foreshadowing on how this quarantine business was going to play out. A family stood in the checkout line, kids clutching drug store toys. Everyone had dyed his or her […]

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Opportunity Roundup

Opportunity Roundup

This past Monday I heard about another teacher whose band played in downtown Sacramento over the weekend. Then our school psychologist mentioned he was heading out to sign books (his own) at a pop-up bookstore one of our school counselors had created with his wife.  Me? I was sleepily plodding through my Monday after staying […]

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Candy, planting, and vacation planning

Candy, planting, and vacation planning

Happy Halloween! Lots of teachers dread this time of the year as they fight to keep kids focused on lessons and, on the morning after Halloween, deal with students who stay up too late and then decide to cart their entire bag of treats into the classroom for non-stop snacking.  I, however, look forward to […]

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Preserving Foods with Kids

Preserving Foods with Kids

Food preservation – freezing, canning, drying, pickling, and such – always seemed a daunting task to me; certainly, too intimidating to take into a classroom of kids. Those food safety fears recently led me straight into a California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom workshop where we learned CFAITC is developing a unit for teachers […]

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