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Back-to-School Drama

As if parents don’t have enough to worry about as back-to-school season gets underway. Apparently, finding ways to pay for a mountain of school supplies, worrying about bullies on the bus, cajoling kids into bed at night and out in the morning, packing lunches, prepping outfits and finding the perfect bag, is not nearly enough for parents to deal with as September rolls around. Of course not. Now, we also have to figure out how to protect our kids from their own backpacks. Thanks to a new report published by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, moms and dads … Continue reading →

Dramatic Play: Aeromax My 1st Career Gear

Children love to role play. Having spent a lot time around children through having my own daycare to having children to teaching Sunday school, I know that once you bring out the dress up boxes or pretend boxes you will have children engaged in play. Children are always trying to be like the adults around them. They see a certain magic in the world of grownups. Being unaware of bills and stress all they see is adults doing very cool things like fixing boo boos, putting out fires, or baking cakes. Meshing these ideas together into a day of dramatic … Continue reading →

Summer Camp Drama

My first grader is acutely aware that she is too young for sleepaway camp; however, that hasn’t stopped her from bemoaning the fact ad nauseam. A few of her friends from church just turned eight, making them eligible to attend overnight Bible camp this year. This milestone has brought out my daughter’s inner green-eyed monster. Dealing with the incessant whining, complaining and tears has not made me a happy camper. Last summer I enrolled my daughter in three day camps, which featured all the fun of overnight camp, minus the drama, hassle and financial burden. In fact, the experience was … Continue reading →

10 Ways Parents Can Help Their Child’s Education

What can you do as a parent to help your child with their education? Here are ten suggestions. 1. The first and one of the most important is to read to them from the time they are born. Don’t stop once they can read for themselves. There’s still something great about being read to. It’s also a great bonding time. Some of my best conversations with my kids have come during that special time after a story. 2. Play counting games and rhymes with them as they get a little older. 3. Teach them basic things like colors, shapes and … Continue reading →

Attitudes and Responses in Education

A teacher’s attitude towards their students can have a serious affect on students and not always for the good. Recently I was talking to a friend and she was telling me how at the opening of a rural high school, the school library had no books. Why? Because the teachers at that school had decided there wasn’t a lot of point. Their view was the students of that area wouldn’t use them. The teachers had already made up their mind about what the students were capable of and what they weren’t. They’d dismissed them as being young people who’d end … Continue reading →

Drama in Education

I’ve always found drama an effective tool when teaching children and adults alike. For some reason drama we have seen or been involved in stick in the mind long after the event. I know lines written in puppet plays written and performed around 20 years ago still come back to my husband and me at various times. That’s the power of drama in education and I saw another example of it recently. Drama, yes I know it’s usually Kyle writing about drama. But this time I want to tell you about how a drama in a church service influenced someone … Continue reading →

Why Drama is Important in Homeschooling

As I mentioned in the last homeschool blog post, Carnival of Educators -Drama Club Edition, I am in the middle of tech week for my kids Drama Club which is an extention of their once a week homeschool program. As a quick refresher, my kids attend Artios Academies which is a once a week homeschool program where kids learn about a different time period each year through the arts. (This post explains the program in more detail. You may notice there was a name change for the “school” my kids attend.) They study visual art, music, drama, dance, etc, of … Continue reading →

Carnival of Educators -Drama Club Edition

Welcome to the November 17, 2009 edition of carnival of educators. This is the fourth edition of the Carnival of Educators. For those new to carnivals, they are basically blog or column posts that include links to tidbits from dozens of other carnivals. Each week the carnival is hosted at a different blog to spread the wealth and the work around. This weeks edition is the Drama Club edition. In the past two weeks, I have been to numerous homeschool and school productions, and my own kids are in the middle of Tech week for a play scheduled for five … Continue reading →

Education Dictionary: Balanced Calendar

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Many school systems have moved from a more traditional school calendar to one that is considered to be balanced. My school system recently moved to a form of a balanced school schedule. A balanced school calendar reorganizes the school days in attempt to create a more continuous flow of teaching and learning. Instead of having one long break, students have more, shorter breaks throughout the school year. The breaks are usually strategically placed at the end of each grading period. During the break, some schools offer remediation and enrichment courses for students. The advantages of a balanced calendar are thought … Continue reading →

Concerns of Public Education: P = Parents

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Yesterday, I discussed parents as being a perk to public education. Today, I would like to move to the opposite end of the spectrum. Parents can also be a concern for education. Some parents actually cause more undesired behaviors than the children do. We have parents at our school, not from my room thankfully, that insist on not following the rules. The rule broken could basically be about anything. Some parents just feel that they are an exception to everything. Some parents will not follow the traffic flow and rules for dropping off and picking up their child. Other parents … Continue reading →