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3 Bags Full: Literacy and learning with a local-global impact
...prise in one of my shipments. I put them on the display table with the other Bolivian handicrafts and was delighted by the warm reception they received. It was one thing to recognize the potential of this fair trade product; it was another to find the people who need it. So, I began searching for those individuals. The first significant discovery I made was my encounter with early literacy profe...
Children's global literacy project takes "flat" learning to new heights
...t, the Flat Stanley Project web site invites children or classrooms of children to register to become part of the project. The children can print out and color their own flat characters (there’s a variety to select from) and then choose from a global list of where to send their character on an adventure that is the ultimate learning experience for the kids. Either mail him, or email him, with o...
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Teaching Takes Courage
...fail, will I try again or will I give up. It takes courage to have my students observe my behavior and learn from it. It takes courage to not always be in control. Sometimes it is good for students to learn control but have me there as a safety net in case something goes wrong. I remember when I had my first student teacher in my class and how hard it was to let him have control. I wanted to j...
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Frederick Douglass
...inist Elizabeth Cady Stanton congratulated the two.[2] The new couple traveled to England, France, Italy, Egypt and Greece from 1886 to 1887. In later life, Douglass was determined to ascertain his birthday. He was born in February of 1816 by his own calculations, but historians have found a record indicating his birth in February of 1818. In 1892 the Haitian government appointed...
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Leapster Explorer: A Great Travel Toy for Kids
...re educational and which ones are good to take on long trips like plane rides. Well, the LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Learning Experience is a teaching tool that encourages children to discover something new every day. My daughter had a dance performance a few weeks ago and had to wait backstage for over an hour until it was her time to perform. I was thankful for the Leapster becau...
TOS Crew Review: Celestial Almanack
...lmanack, I thought it looked like something the girls would enjoy that and that we could all learn about together. This is SUCH a cool product!!! I had NO idea that 2012 is a year when there will be at least 3 rare sky events. 1) the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on March 15 (once every 24 years); 2) the annular solar eclipse on May 20 (once every 18 years); and 3) the transit of Venus on June...
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Love Dissolves Hierarchy
...ain, to Father Robert Barron's fantastic Catholicism video series. For anyone interested either in learning about the Catholic faith, or deepening one's own experience of the faith, I suggest this series strongly. There is a scene when Father Barron is discussing the dynamism behind Mother Theresa of Calcutta's work. Asked once by a Dominican priest what animated her ministry, she asked him...
Tuesday, 14 Dec – Short-Sightedness
...when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death. Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers: it is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. By his own choice he made us his children by the message of the truth so that we should ...
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Is Obedience the Goal?
...hat a child who does not consistently obey his parent will be unable to obey God, and the whole question instantly becomes a non-issue. Of course the Christian parent wants his or her child to be able to obey God! But for me, to have obedience as my goal is to have everything entirely backwards. Obedience is not my parenting goal. Training a child to respond only to an external source ...
Alternative Education
... is semi closed to non-Malays), public schooling doesn't seem to be doing very much good... Global instruction is available these days; and many are top notched too. We've not been very successful in inculcating a love for learning in our kids or independence required for lifelong learning. Alternative education.... these days, mainstream seems to be fraught with more problems. Or perhaps this is...
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This One's for Me
...control over: *My feelings, thoughts, and opinions.*My choices That's about it, really. And yet, how enormous are those things over which I do have control! I told my therapist about my crazy, yelling, irrational day (I posted about it here) and she told me three good things that came out of it:1. I realized what was going on --I was having a breakdown.2. I stopped myself and removed myself from t...
Is Homeschool Best For The Kids?
... it is then needed that these standards needs to be considered continually. If you want more valuable information on maths tutor Melbourne, visit their site. Parents decision whether or not to regard homeschool for their child is among the most most important decision-making they could pursue, perhaps it is frustrating in the beginning, but when you got the complete idea of the system, it can rea...
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Who, Why, What, Where and Why of Susan
... to my post or comment feeds from this page.Find me on FacebookFind me on TwitterFind me over at AussieHomeschoolWho are the HomeGrownKids? It might help you to know the members of our family. There is me-Susan, and John (my husband and father of my children). There children are: Chops will be 28 yo in 2012Graceful will be 21 in 2012 (Miss Graceful is now Mrs. Graceful – married in 2011)Joyous c...
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Bring back the cardboard box, please?
... bands and the like? Instead of these wonderful outlets for kids let's replace it by putting a daycare in the school and letting them know we ALL believe it's okay to demonstrate the fact that they had a baby so fucking young and now they want the school to be responsible for their baby as well as them! Sorry, but that's bullshit. Now I'm no fool, I know that kids will have sex. It's been happenin...
Day 19 Devotional Reading – February 19
...8: But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. 19: But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by by a foolish nation I will anger you. 20: But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. 21: But...
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the path (iii)
... a 760 (out of 1600) on the SATs. The score might have been lower, if not for the fact that they give you 200 points just for filling in your name. Nonetheless, it took me 18 years before I understood the concept of studying. It struck me my freshman year. I was taking a sociology class and I made a 27 on my first exam. (Yes, that'd be 27 out of a possible 100 points.) But the next exam, I mad...
6 Years (and Holding)
...es to hurt more. But I also take some insensible pride in it. I think for myself. If God didn't want me to think for myself, I wouldn't have the capacity to doubt or to question. I am rather thankful for that ability. I think we are meant to question and doubt. It's just when the whole thing comes tumbling down, it is really hard to see how to put it back together. The hell of it is that once it...
Operation 10,000 - Charbel's Story
...ett, who assisted him on a journey towards learning to swim and be safe in the water. Witness the impact this journey has had on Charbel, and those around him. Swim and Survive lessons have been provided by Royal Life Saving-Australia with the support of UNCLE TOBYS. Our aim is to provide FREE Swim and Survive courses (1 Term) in 2012 to 10,000 kids like Charbel --who otherwise would miss out. UNC...
A Simple Woman's Daybook~February 20, 2012
...w shower glass enclosure, new sink and john and floor. OK, so pretty much the whole thing but it is small so that might help?? Some photos and thoughts I'm sharing this week...I stopped in at a local thrift shop last week and look what I found for $8.99. A brand new pair of Born clogs in red patent leather. Serendipity. The car just urged me to stop while passing by. For every fifty times I g...
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Lift the veil of illusion.
...ith people. * Willingness to accept that you cannot change or control a person, place or thing. * Developing and maintaining of a safe, emotional distance from someone whom you have previously given a lot of power to affect your emotional outlook on life. * Establishing of emotional boundaries between you and those people you have become overly enmeshed or dependent with in order that all of you m...