Raise your hand if you are feeling stressed these days. Can you see me raising my hand? We are all being pushed to our max lately and as much as we don't like it, learning how to acknowledge and move past stress is a key component of life. When thinking about how to...
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“Creativity is contagious, pass it on” – Albert Eistein
Dec 11, 2021 | Integrated Subjects
In this past period, I have heard students so many times saying: “she is copying me, he is copying me”, to which I say: “this is not copying from you. This is taking inspiration from you.” When somebody creates art, meaningful art, others find inspiration from it, and...
Life is all about obstacles!
Dec 2, 2021 | 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Integrated Subjects, Kindergarten, Middle School, Preschool, Uncategorized
Who doesn't love a good obstacle course? Obstacles courses have been around for years, they are nothing new, but always exciting. The cool thing about them is that anything can be used to make one, but all good courses involve climbing, running, jumping and maybe even...
Got Reading?
Nov 11, 2021 | Integrated Subjects
Linguist Stephen Krashen was one of the first researchers to demonstrate clearly that reading massive amounts of written, comprehensible input is one of the most effective ways to acquire language. We...
Learning Through Play – Music
Nov 7, 2021 | 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, Integrated Subjects, Preschool
One of the reasons why I am still teaching is that I am having still having fun. Teaching is a lot of work, don’t get me wrong, but if it was all work and no fun I probably would not still be a teacher. My goal is to make learning fun so it does not feel like work...
Wilderness First Aid
Nov 5, 2021 | 5th Grade, Integrated Subjects, Middle School, Uncategorized
Teaching Health class is always fun and interesting because it's finally a chance for me to see students in their classroom. Usually, I see them either out on the field or in the gym in the element of being challenged physically, but Health class is more of a demand...
“Creativity Takes Courage.” -Henry Matisse
Oct 30, 2021 | 1st Grade, Integrated Subjects, Middle School
Creativity is everything, and children have it expressed so much. Anytime I give them a topic, they pour out all of their imagination into their artworks that I am always blown away by the enthusiasm they have, which makes it even better. October is the month of...
Mountain Biking in the Elements
Oct 16, 2021 | Integrated Subjects, Middle School, Uncategorized
Middle School has a wonderful block of time every Friday for a few hours and we've already done a variety of worthwhile activities. We call it "Fun Friday," and the possibilities are endless (within our time block of course). In the first few weeks we focused on team...
Movement in Language Class
Oct 14, 2021 | Integrated Subjects
A recent Edutopia article shared research about how important it is to include movement during lessons, and offered several ways to do so, including linking movement or gestures to vocabulary structures during language lessons. The idea of including movement in...
“In every work of art, the artist himself/herself is present” -C. Morgenstern.
Oct 2, 2021 | Integrated Subjects
The 1st graders began with their class teacher to research the procedure of recycling trash: after talking and understanding the topic, we collected some paper bags and boxes to be used in our art projects. With creativity and fantasy in profusion, artists of 1st...