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Education Week in Review: May 12 – May 18

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Summer is growing nearer and I have two weeks left of school. I have many projects to complete in the next couple of months. I will continue educational blogs and offer advice for getting your child academically ready for next school year! Saturday May 12 Leaders, Followers, & Peer Pressure Some children are natural born leaders and some are not. Some children will follow others anywhere and everywhere that they go. This article discusses characteristics of both personalities. Summer Activity Bags While browsing through an education magazine, I found a great idea for summer bags to give to students. In … Continue reading →

Perks of Public Education: M = Music

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My school, along with the previous school at which I taught, both have a music program. I feel that music is an important element to education. Public schools with a good music program and a good music teacher are blessed. Some elementary schools have a chorus and a band. One of our local school’s chorus programs recently sang at a Nashville competition. The music programs at the schools in my area perform Christmas and other special programs for the parents. A good music teacher gets the students out of their desks. She has them moving around the room. The children … Continue reading →

What Can Be Done to Encourage Tolerance?

“Tolerance” has become a buzz word in recent years in regards to children and diversity. But, as parents, there are every day things we can do to help our children learn to be more tolerant people and incorporate tolerance into their very characters. Learning to tolerate and appreciate people who are different than us is important and necessary in this modern, global world. There are natural, developmental stages that children go through where they are just not inclined to appreciate anything or anyone that seems different. The mid-elementary-school years, and again during the middle-school years are prime times when differences … Continue reading →

Attending the Arts Festival

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Yesterday, I discussed what an Arts Festival consists of at my school. Today, I would like to share this year’s Arts Festival experience with you. Our festival began yesterday at 9:00 in the gym with a performance from the Nashville Ballet. I was very worried that a ballet would not hold the attention of my kindergartens. However, I was pleasantly surprised. The ballet was amazing. Introducing the students to this type of art was great. They loved it! The performers used ballet to tell the tales of Aesop’s fables. The ballet was full of excitement and humor. The day was … Continue reading →

Arts Festival

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Today is my school’s Arts Festival. My school is the only school that I know of that has an Arts Festival. Until I transferred to my current teaching position, I was very unfamiliar with an Arts Festival. At my school an Arts Festival is a lot what it sounds like, it is a festival of our students’ and others’ art. Each year a theme is chosen for the festival. The hallways are then completely covered in art reflecting the theme. In addition to displaying the students’ artwork, we reflect the art of others. We invite guests to attend our school … Continue reading →