December 2005 Newsletter
edited by teacher, speaker and author Marjan Glavac.
Saint Nicolas December 6
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 7
Winter Solstice December 21
Christmas December 25
Chanukah starts on December 25th at sunset to January 2, 2006
Kwanza Begins December 26
Boxing Day (Canada, UK, Australia, NZ) December 26
New Year’s Eve December 31
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In This Issue:
* FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY, THE LEGACY (TEACHERS)
* AL BECK BEYOND THE SCARS & GRIPES (TEACHERS)
* LETTER GENERATOR (GR. 4-6)
* SAVE READING RAINBOW (PARENTS AND TEACHERS)
* THE FREE DICTIONARY.COM (GR. 4-UNIVERSITY)
* MRS. PACKER’S KINDERGARTEN CLASS
* UPDATE RUN/WALK ACROSS AMERICA (TEACHERS, GR. 4-8)
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Classroom Management with Harry and Rosemary Wong
http://www.ClassroomManagement.com
This course is:
- Interactive – the teacher will have assignments to produce a workable management plan
- Reflective – hundreds of strategies and practices will be provided from which the teacher must reflect and develop a plan suitable for a particular classroom
- Purposeful – the goal is to produce effective teachers who will improve student learning
This program is designed so the user will create a Classroom Management Action Plan Binder. An empty binder is sent to each person enrolled in the course. At the end of the
course, the binder will be filled with pages of plans for organization and management and
will become the learner’s personal guide for success in the classroom.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY, THE LEGACY (TEACHERS)
http://www.teachers.net/wong/DEC05/
December 1 was the 50th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks was arrested. Harry and Rosemary Wong invite you to access an article they wrote about Rosa Parks.
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AL BECK BEYOND THE SCARS & GRIPES (TEACHERS)
abeck@marktwain.net
Al Beck, longtime subscriber and supporter of The Busy Educator Newsletter, has written
his 11th book BEYOND THE SCARS & GRIPES. After a long week at school, crack
open Al’s book and read one of his uplifting poems or stories. You’ll be glad you didE-mail Al at: abeck@marktwain.net for more information or send him some snail mail at:
Al Beck, Professor Emeritus
Art Department
Culver-Stockton College
College Hill
Canton, Missouri
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LETTER GENERATOR (GR. 4-6)
http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/
Learn all the parts of a letter and how to write one by filling in the blanks.
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SAVE READING RAINBOW (PARENTS AND TEACHERS)
http://savereadingrainbow.org/petition/
Every week, over 4.3 million children, teachers, parents and grandparents enjoy and learn
from Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow is the #1-most-watched PBS program in the
classroom.
This PBS program is one I’ve personally used in my classroom for years.
Unfortunately there is a real danger of Reading Rainbow being taken off the air because
of a lack of sponsorship funding. The initial goal is to collect 10,000 signatures by the
end of the 2005 year. Within one month, the website has collected over 8,000 online petitions!
Please add your name to the petition at: http://savereadingrainbow.org/petition/
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THE FREE DICTIONARY.COM (GR. 4-UNIVERSITY)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
In addition to features like “This Day in History,” “Word of the Day,” and “Today’s
Birthday,” there is also an archive of history events and about 2,000,000 articles and
definitions from leading dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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MRS. PACKER’S KINDERGARTEN CLASS
http://www.mrspacker.com/
Shelby Packer is a kindergarten teacher at Harmony Elementary school in Goshen,
Kentucky U.S.A. Her site is filled with activities for students, teachers and parents.
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UPDATE RUN/WALK ACROSS AMERICA (TEACHERS, GR. 4-8)
http://www.ontrackdesigns.com/seeusrun/index.htm
Currently, the 4th grade class is slightly ahead of the 5th grade class and has completed 946 miles. The 5th grade class has completed 935 miles. Both classes are about 40 miles
behind the pace needed to complete the trek by the end of the school year. In order for
either class to be successful, each student must run or walk a total of 2 miles per week
during every week of the school year. That is certainly not much, but it does take
perseverance! Our research has shown that no individual elementary class has
successfully completed the entire trek in one school year.
Although our web site receives hundreds of visitors each week from across the U.S.,
Europe, Africa and elsewhere, the students did not receive any notes of encouragement last week. Vicki and I have been their cheerleaders and coaches for the past three
months, but we are in need of some people to visit our web site (www.seeusrun.com) and to click on the "Encourage" link to send the kids a word of encouragement. The
temperatures here have gotten colder, and the snow is piling up. This week we will drop
below zero for our low temps. The kids need encouragement, and we are at a turning
point in this curriculum. If they can get through the holidays on pace, they stand a good
chance of completing the trek! Encouraging words are like fuel that keep them going.
Please consider visiting our site and sending a word of encouragement. It doesn't need to be long, and you don't need to know any of the kids to send a note of encouragement.
You would be helping to motivate 95 kids in a very challenging task.
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"How You Can BECOME THE TEACHER YOU’VE ALWAYS
DREAMED ABOUT BECOMING"
http://www.howtomakeadifference.com/ebook.htm
Do you want to take your teaching to the next level?
Do you find yourself prevented by:
1. Being completely exhausted from constantly disciplining students?
2. Allowing fear, lack of knowledge and procrastination control you and
keep you from becoming the teacher you’ve always wanted to become?
It’s time to Say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" and put control and power back in
your hands!
Finally an eBook that reveals breakthrough strategies to reveal YOUR expertise.
So powerful are these strategies...they will effortlessly compel YOU to become
the teacher you’ve always dreamed of becoming! Guaranteed.
http://www.howtomakeadifference.com/ebook.htm
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