by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics, General Interest
Every morning, my husband and kids like to have bacon with their breakfast. My husband is usually the one to cook it (I’ve gone veg myself), but usually I get things rolling for him by putting it in the pan. Well, there are undoubtedly those mornings where...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, General Education Topics
In my last post, I mentioned how this year, my students are keeping Sketch-Reflection journals. These are journals that I made with alternating drawing and lined paper so that my students could reflect in words and also create sketches throughout the year. As the...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration
A couple of years back, I started having my students create and keep school reflection journals. I knew from the first week it would prove to be a great thing. They were given time at the end of each day to reflect on what they learned that day and on Friday, they...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics, General Interest
I know the end of the summer is not here, but it sure feels like it! The commercials on TV are all about back to school. I’m getting emails from my principal and our school’s secretary about class lists and sending letters home to parents. And, to top...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
My last post RE-Assigning Work is a tangent thought to the thoughts in this one. There I spoke of how sometimes the assignments we give need to be given back to our students so that they can try again and do better work. (It’s part of the process, after all of...
