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New Beginnings
Welcome back to the Fall 2016 semester! One of the things I love about working in education as a teacher, is that every year we get to begin again and build on the lessons of the previous academic year. We enfold into our new classes the good things we want to build on, as well as adjust the things that didn’t quite work as well as we thought. As human beings we appreciate the chance…
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Gearing Up
A New Academic Year Summer? What summer? Can you believe that the new academic year is about to begin here at Maria College on Monday, August 29? As a student and a teacher throughout most…
Read MoreJunk Drawer Treasures
When my husband and I moved into our house about twenty years ago, I did not plan on having a kitchen junk drawer, but one just materialized over time and is now filled with …well,…
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Relax and Color
As I prepared to write a blog entry during the first days of August, I stumbled across the fact that August 2 of each year is National Coloring Book Day. It seems that a company…
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Reading to Children
I am an English teacher who truly believes in the power and importance of language and the value of reading!!! But I am definitely not alone…not by a long shot! The value of reading, no…
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