Summer is time for family fun but take care.  Reading “Healthy Generations Magazine” from Garden City Hospital.  I was reminded of a few things to keep in mind when you’re out and about this summer. Automobile crashes are the number one cause of fatalities and with more people on the roads from June...
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  The 4th of July is coming and there are lots of fun things you can do with children. Family Fun has recipes and crafts you can easily do.  Parent Magazine has the classic decorating kids bikes with streamers for a neighborhood kid-style parade. I have great memories of my son decorating his bike...
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To help my students understand the relationship  between flat shapes like squares, triangles and rectangles and cubes, pyramids and prisms we build them!  Using gum drops, marshmallows and toothpicks they create started with cubes.  Once they were built, it gave us an opportunity to talk about sides, corners and edges and the how they...
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April is poetry month so everyone selected a poem to read to the class.  There were some classics and then there were some that will became new classics!  We had lots of gross ones that made the students laugh.  It was a great way to introduce a variety of poetry to the class. Then...
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We found a fun way to share all of the research the students had learned about the United States.  Instead of doing reports or a worksheet on each state, each student researched two states and then placed all of their information on a poster board they painted to look like a suitcase with post...
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If you want your students or your child to become excited about learning, put a twist on it.  Learning about the history of individual states can be a bit dry but putting all their research in a suitcase was simple yet they had fun with it! Making them was easy, peasy!  Fold a piece...
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To end the year we decided to “travel” around the country.  My students each selected 2 states to research by drawing the name of the state out of a hat.  Randomly drawing the names has proven to work well, no one feels like they didn’t get the state that they wanted and we don’t...
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School’s almost over for the year.  Incredible how fast the school year goes after the January 1, like time gets roller skates.  This year as an end of the year activity I asked my students to help make a list of categories that we could use for our own awards ceremony.  Everyone is good...
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Nina, a parent of one of my students, brought in 4 chrysalis’ for the class to watch and see emerge before we went to the butterfly festival at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum.  Unfortunately only 1 of them emerged and it was on the weekend!  But our trip to the Natural History...
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Whew!  The end of school is coming as fast as a ride on a roller coaster.  Wrapping up the year, writing out reports, making arrangements for field day, putting together the final performance with the students, working on the school garden, playing outside…. and everything else that needs to be done. The reports at...
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