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Wacky Wednesday: Getting Our Kids to Eat Healthy with Books
The subject of getting our kids to eat healthy, especially in the United States, has been on parents’ and educators’ minds for several decades. There are several teachers’ books that talk about...
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Wacky Wednesday: Using Fast Food Info Site in the Classroom and For Yourself!
photo by George Donnelly www.flickr.com While doing research for another article I was writing and thinking about yesterday’s Tuesday Tales book, Fussy Freya, I found this really interesting website:...
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Wacky Wednesday: An Interview with Jennifer and Colin White
Yesterday, I shared with you a really cool book called On the Edge with Coolhead Luke. I also shared with you two of the silly poems and illustrations in the book and compared it to Shel Silverstein...
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Wacky Wednesday: Check out Milk + Bookies Website!
photo by idovermani www.flickr.com First, I want to apologize if this photo from Flickr.com makes you hungry for cookies and milk today if you are on a “healthy eating plan.” (That’s what I like to...
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Wacky Wednesday: National Poetry Month Activities with Young Students
I talked about this book last week, too, for one that is great to share during National Poetry Month 2010 or any poetry unit you do with elementary students. More Pocket Poems edited by Bobbi Katz is...
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Wacky Wednesday: Tween/Teen Writing Contest & National Poetry Month for Teens
photo by pink sherbert www.flickr.com Clara Gillow Clark is holding a writing contest for students in grades six through ten. The contest goes until April 9. To enter the contest, you write a 250-word...
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Wacky Wednesday: Spring Fever
by OakleyOriginals www.flickr.com You and your students (or children if you are home schooling) probably have spring fever. Most parts of the country have been experiencing warmer weather, and you...
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Wacky Wednesday: Character Education Series: Kindness
photo by kissyface www.flickr.com I once wrote an entire article on sportsmanship and how to fit it into daily lessons for Teachers of Vision magazine. We already have so much curriculum to cover in a...
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Wacky Wednesday: Character Education Series–Responsibility
So, how many times have we heard kids say this, “Do I have to?” I think it’s funny that the author, Nancy Loewen, titled her book about responsibility with this question. Responsibility is such a...
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Wacky Wednesday: Missouri Writers’ Guild Flash Fiction Contest
For those of you who are parents and writers or teachers and writers, here’s a contest run by some great folks at the Missouri Writers’ Guild. There’s still plenty of time to enter and win! MISSOURI...
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