I love hats! But, since they don’t look good on me, I have found that it is just as much fun to buy hats for my classroom. More specifically, I buy them for my third grade history “lectures.” Throughout history, men and women were sometimes defined by the hats they wore. For example, the minutemen [...]
Monday’s are usually difficult for my students. Typically, they come to class with the remnants of weekend exhaustion and disinterest in the shear fact that it is the beginning of the week. I have to admit, there have been many Monday’s when my feelings are mutual. Last year, I experienced these very sentiments. We just [...]
When thinking about children, what is the happiest place in the world? Their response should be school. After all, it is there that they learn the necessities of life. However, the well-known response is Disneyland! Why do children love Disneyland? They love Disneyland because it is a perfect place geared just for them. In a [...]
Prior to my years as a kindergarten teacher, I was employed at a day care through a local public school. I accepted the job as a means of financial support. I was also excited and hopeful that this work experience would enable me to gain knowledge as a future teacher. I was naïve then, and [...]
Kindergarten graduation is such a special event in the life of a young person. It is a time for students and parents to celebrate the success of their first year of school. The students see it as one step closer to becoming a “big kid,” while parents see it as one step closer to losing their baby. Kindergartners are usually thought of [...]
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; Ecclesiastes 9:10a Let all your things be done with charity. I Corinthians 16:14 Certain jobs have been given a special title, “Labor of Love.” We are told that these tasks are solely accomplished from a heart of love due to their nature. One [...]
I have learned a little bit about planting grass. I have seen some want-to-be landscapers sprinkle a special fertilizer on anemic grass, and instant lush green success. Trouble is that it only promotes top growth and the weeds quickly outgrow the grass. You end up with more trouble than you started with. I don’t plant [...]
Judges 2:10-13 I am presently writing a book entitled And There Arose another Generation, which is based on Judges 2:10. My reason behind this is simple. It is my conviction that there are numerous parallels between this time period in Israel’s history and so-called American “Christianity” today. In the first two chapters of the book [...]
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