For those who don't know, today is World Book Day! Well actually, it's the first of two World Book Days this year. The other is on April 23rd, so make a note in your diary. Why two? Well, it doesn't really matter why. After all, EVERY day should be World Book Day!
Magical thinking is a normal phase in childhood in which we think that our thoughts - or totally random, unrelated events - can change the future. Lots of us
What is one thing that is common among Albert Einstein, John Dewy, and Abraham Lincoln? It is their critical and rational thought process. Along with their unique personalities, their unique thinking pattern and view toward the world make these individuals creative and different. Critical thinking is the ability of
The Magic of Thinking Big: The True Secret of Success [Schwartz, David J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Magic of Thinking Big: The True Secret of Success
Carles is an artist from Girona, Spain. His style is very cool and after I got back into comics and manga I just can't stop looking at his art. The pieces feel complete and I appreciate that a lot, I know how much time it takes to even just think about the background, to imagine little details that aren't really vital to the story. Yet all the posts you'll find on IG look to me like a ready to print artwork.
As your daughter gets off the bus, you notice her flushed face and her eyes are filled with tears. You ask what’s wrong, and the words come flooding out. “Julia said she won’t play with me at recess anymore. I don’t understand why she’s mad. I was just telling her the right way to play!”
The days have been so gorgeous lately! We haven’t been encumbered by triple digit temps. Yay!! Glorious sunny days that beg to be played outsi…
Don’t we always say this every year? I can’t believe that the year is almost over. And that means it’s almost Christmas. I’ve done several posts about Christmas. You can see them here, here, here, here, here and here. And if you’re looking for sources and even more ideas please check out the new […]
A Love Binding spell will make your lover commit to you and only you. This spell will make him/her addicted to you.
I like to break my lessons into chunks. I think this chunking method helps students attend to the lesson better and is brain friendly. A typical lesson for me usually has three to four parts. I have an essential question, such as, what is a transformation? After that, I would engage with the Transformation Hustle. (See the video for the instructions.) I would further explain with the Transformation video. (Let me know if you need instructions on how to save YouTube videos to a flash drive.) Then the students would explore with the transformation craftivity. Click HERE or on the picture for a free copy. I apologize for having a zillion versions, but I was trying to cover a wide grade range. I teach my students the SLide and FLip trick for remembering what a reflection and translation are, so I made some with SL and FL capitalized in the middle. Finally, I would give my students examples of transformations and let them answer on their whiteboards. I jot down the names of students that are still struggling. Sometimes I have them answer the EQ in their math journals. I would love to have you as a follower. Either way I wish you luck as you continue to create magic in your classroom.
Artist Laura Moriarty makes process-driven 2D and 3D works with encaustic whose forms, colors, textures, and patterns result from processes similar to those that shape and reshape the earth: heating and cooling, erosion, subduction, friction, enfolding, weathering, slippage.
The Magical Yet book by Angela DiTerlizzi was a huge hit with my younger elementary students. We've been learning about Growth Mindset and dreaming about all of the things that we cannot do...yet... but want to work hard to accomplish someday! This follow up activity had my students' minds beaming w...
Since my grandson is into video games with tanks and planes and battles, he’s got me thinking in terms of weapons and fire power, too. The Scrap Wars in my studio are going to be facing a new…
Today, I wanted to take a minute to share one of my FAVORITE higher order thinking math tasks for first grade. Fix it cards! WHAT ARE FIX IT CARDS? Fix it cards are great questions to pose to your students to promote HIGHER ORDER thinking!These fix it cards pose typical questions in a […]
¿Qué famosa escultura esconde este estereograma?
When you think of a tattoo, you'll almost certainly imagine it made up of either black or colored inks. However, there some tattoo designs that contain nothing but a single white ink, and their delicate and subtle nature is becoming more and more popular.
Made at Viget Labs