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(if your child is tardy they will have to sit in the office until the next test begins) Go to bed as early as possible (GET LOTS OF SLEEP!) T Eat a BIG healthy breakfast (not sugar loaded they will have to sit for a long period) Most important! With all of the griping about SAT testing let me remind you why it is the BEST week EVER! 1. 2. ** I have purchased everything needed except 10 bottles of vegetable oil and toilet paper. 3. 4. Have a GREAT week! Love, Mrs. What an AWESOME field Trip! Landform Learning. Our Awesome projects! Finding God newsletter button Stations of the Cross (They will not have a test on these but I am taking a grade on the project we are doing in class) Glory Be Prayer this 9 weeks. Check out Spellingcity.com for fun games and practice tests each week! Six! Skills: Genre: HF words : Oral Vocabulary: Vocabulary Words Sups Begin Chapter 12. 3D geometric figures Sometimes this is a tough lesson because we introduce faces and corners.

Online Course Facilitation. 10 Creative Ways to Introduce Yourself to Your Stu. Web English Teacher. 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. 5 Ways To Be A Better Public Speaker 6.89K Views 0 Likes If you've been asked to speak at a conference or host a seminar, you may be shaking in your boots. Not only is the thought of speaking in public nerve-wracking, but being in charge of a seminar that no one wants to at... New iEARN Collaboration Centre Coming in August! iEARN-USA, which hosts the global iEARN Collaboration Centre, has been working hard to maintain and evolve the platform that serves the iEARN network of educators and youth in over 130 countries.

New iEARN Collaboration Centre Coming in August!

We are excited to announce that we are planning to launch a new iEARN Collaboration Centre in August! iEARN participants are encouraged to take note of these dates, as they relate to access to registration, mailing lists, and posting of content on the current platform. June 25 - Registration page on the current Collaboration Centre (media.iearn.org) will be de-activated. The Collaboration Centre will still be available after this date, but no new registrations can be made on the site. July 27 - Current Collaboration Centre will become "read-only," meaning content will be accessible, but no new posts can be made. iEARN's associated forum mailing lists will be de-activated. The times (for kids) The U.S.

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Open 2012 tennis tournament began with a bang on August 25 at Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day, the annual kickoff event at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, NY. Honoring a Legend The event celebrates the life and legacy of Arthur Ashe, the first African-American male tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, at the U.S. Open, in 1968. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. In his lifetime, Ashe was committed to showing kids what was possible. An Action-Packed Day Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin (left) shows off her gold medal to singer Carly Rae Jepsen (right). In the morning, kids enjoyed a variety of activities, including face-painting, tennis drills, relay races and tennis games played on stilts.

Later, everyone gathered at the Arthur Ashe Stadium for a concert starring Carly Rae Jepsen, The Wanted, Owl City, Rachel Crow, and Mindless Behavior. Game, set, match! The Global Education Conference Network - GlobalEdCon: Connecting Educators and Organizations Worldwide. Edutopia. A Tale of Two Classrooms: Compare & Contrast Image Credit: Krissy Venosdale Just let me start off by saying that the term "21st Century Learning" still drives me crazy.

Edutopia

If you think about it, in the last ten years have we progressed in our thoughts about what learning should look like and could be? What about in the next 50 years? Will "21st Century Learning" be the same, or will we still promote the same skills? Who knows? With that being said, for the sake of discussion, I will call it "21st Century Learning. " Devices Without Direction? I had a great discussion with some educators the other day about the idea of "21st Century Schools vs. 21st Century Learning. " This has really been weighing on my mind since I started seeing a lot of iPads in schools in a 1:1 environment.

Education World: The Educator's Best Friend. Comedy for ELT - The Essay. The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Curriculumbits.com.